LOS ANGELES—The cam girl known MayaBum says she always wanted something like Camgirl Vacation to be a reality.
So in 2017—about three years after she first logged onto MyFreeCams—the enterprising model launched her passion project.
“I would say that my greatest achievement in my cam career is making Camgirl Vacation happen,” MayaBum says. “I just always wanted to create an opportunity for models to get together and get creative, whatever that means for them on an individual basis.
“Just because we want to get together doesn’t mean we want to do full-on sexually explicit things. I am proud to be providing an atmosphere where the models can choose to do whatever it is they’re comfortable with. To make this become a reality is a really big achievement, and I am incredibly proud of Camgirl Vacation.”
MayaBum, who is the June 2019 AVN CAMStar, and her co-host Amandarox are currently on the latest Camgirl Vacation in Miami with plans to do another one in Denver later this year and then Las Vegas in January 2020.
“Colorado is a favorite of ours. We’ve done two in Colorado—that’s always fun because the girls are able to get wintery kind of vibes in their content,” MayaBum says. "We did a retreat last December called Happy HO-lidays. We provided Christmasy backdrops, costumes and props so the girls could make holiday-themed content—and this year our Colorado retreat is in December so we will kind of combine those two ideas.
“Happy HO-lidays was great because so many of us can become so isolated. The holiday blues are so real, especially for us. Thanksgiving can really suck for people in the adult industry, so a retreat around the beginning of December is a really awesome way to break up the holidays. We love providing the CamFam feels for everybody around this time of year.”
MayaBum says when it comes to the number of models, “the more the merrier” on any given Camgirl Vacation.
“A dozen is the most we’ve had and we always start our planning hoping we can fill a larger number but that doesn’t always happen,” she continues. “We have had smaller groups, like seven plus myself, up to a dozen—anywhere in that range is a good-size group with infinite possibilities for wild fun to emerge.
“It’s an experience that I hope all cam models participate in at some time, whether it’s with Camgirl Vacation or another group of models. When you’ve been together in this environment with other models it gives you a different perspective of this career. It changes a model in so many positive ways.”
In this exclusive Q&A for CAMStar accompanied by 12 pages of photography by Keith Ryan, MayaBum discusses her former career in health care, her MFC persona, her favorite memoir and her loyal crew known as Maya’s Militia, among other things.
To see the full interview in CAMStar, click here.
For some bonus questions, see below:
How did you get into camming—August 4, 2014?
That was my first day on MFC. I actually dabbled in it a little before that. I found camming from a Craigslist post. I was having car problems and I was like shoot, I’m going to have to buy a new car. I need to make some extra money.
I answered an ad that was basically for webcam models. It linked to this guy’s website. He ran a studio. When you’re brand new you don’t know that you don’t have to work for a studio. So I signed up under his studio. I worked under him for a while but it was a nightmare.
What is ‘Theory Thursday’ in your chatroom?
It is an open discussion night in my chat that I intended to be about conspiracy theories and myth-buster-type stuff, but it usually turned into political discussions. Most cam models don’t talk about politics in their chatrooms, but a few of us do and I don’t mind it. I no longer host Theory Thursday every week, but I do bring it back a couple times a year because there are things we need to talk about and I believe encouraging people to be involved in current events is important.
I was raised by my grandfather who was a Vietnam veteran. I have pride for our country; it’s sort of engrained in me and I’m not afraid to talk about it. It gets tricky, I’m not gonna lie. Sometimes it gets wild. At the very least it takes a certain amount of control. Sometimes things get passionate and heated. I have a way in which I moderate the conversation to keep it civil because there is a fine line between a passionate, constructive debate and chaos.
Theory Thursday went away leading up to Trump’s election because that summer prior, things got crazy. People would come in and start yelling about things ranging all across the board. It was hard on me because I do try to remain relatively neutral. I consider myself a true independent; I refuse to identify as Republican, Democrat or even Libertarian. I don’t believe any party actually represents the priorities or needs of the large majority of citizens in our country. I have this platform and I intend to always use it for more than showing off my bum, which on some Thursdays includes politics between spanks and flashes.
If something happens… if there’s a shooting or something really important, I give my community a place to talk about it. It’s great that cam-model chatrooms are an escape for people, but pushing things aside can be an unhealthy thing to do. When something really serious happens, we will talk about it in my chatroom. I’m not afraid of what anybody thinks and don’t try to micromanage what people want to say. Everybody’s opinion is important.
What was your experience with nude modeling—if any—before you found camming?
I had not been naked on the internet before MFC. I had dabbled in modeling. I had done some pageant stuff. I did dance for about 10 years when I was young. I do not have a fear of public speaking or stage fright—I’m very outgoing in that way. I had worked for a couple different liquor companies while I was in school doing promotional modeling—like Jagermeister Girls.
The way [the Craigslist ad] was written it sounded like it was only a slightly adult modeling gig— like the promotional modeling I was doing. It was marketed like, ‘Hey, flirt and tease and flash a little and earn $10,000 an hour.’ So I checked it out and found out pretty quickly that people want more than that and it’s nowhere near $10,000 an hour, haha. It’s definitely important to set your boundaries early on so potential clients have the right expectations when interacting with you.
What have been some of your more popular MFC Share video clips and why?
My most popular videos I would say are my panty fetish videos. I have always sold my panties. A large part of my following are people that buy panties from me and I make videos to go with that theme for my Panty of the Month Club. Aside from that, sometimes I delve into more complicated videos. Like “Fragile” is my porn parody of the leg lamp from A Christmas Story. That’s one of my more elaborate videos.
I made the costume, so the gold skirt would have the fringe on the bottom. I built a box and printed huge ‘FRAGILE’ letters to cut out every single letter and attach to the side. It took forever to build that box. The video itself is a storyline, like if the leg lamp has evolved into a sex-doll type scenario. The whole video probably took 30 hours between planning, building, filming and editing.
What’s one album that you went all out ‘obsessed’ about?
I have done that most recently with Simon & Garfunkel. Anybody who has not truly listened to Simon & Garfunkel and only knows “Mrs. Robinson” or “America” needs to listen to their album Bookends from start to finish right this minute! Also Billy Joel’s The Stranger is one of my favorites. It is so underrated by people my age and younger. In fact, I sing “Piano Man” to my members regularly and joke, ‘Leo knows that it’s me they’ve been coming to see. To forget about life for a while.’ Ms. Bum, the modern day piano man, haha. In my adult years I have grown to love The Band, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, and Led Zeppelin … but as a kid, I was raised on ACDC, The Beatles, Guns N’ Roses, etc. I listen to all of this type of music with my chatroom.
What were you doing on cam when you got your all-time top tip of 60,000 tokens?
That tipper has been with me since just shy of my one-year camiversary. He’s been around for kind of the whole shebang and I don’t think I was doing anything special at that exact time. He just likes to support me and surprise me. He’s a really wonderful, generous person who likes to win all the things. It keeps the show going, whether or not he actually gets anything out of it other than knowing he made me smile. He is my No. 1 fan.
What’s your favorite animated movie?
Minions, I love the Minions. And any of the Despicable Me’s. I especially enjoy Minions because the soundtrack is introducing some of the greatest music that’s ever been written to the teeny tiny’s of today. There are so many great songs on that soundtrack!
I saw that Friday night is your Movie Night (Netflix & Chill) — how do you choose the movies you’ll watch?
Generally speaking we choose something that’s on Netflix because almost everybody has Netflix… So I put whatever we pick together on the TV behind me. I tell them put it on their TV and it creates a doing the same thing at the same time atmosphere. I kind of transport into their living room. It makes it feel really personal. We have watched literally everything. I’m always down for an animated movie. … We watched Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy a couple times, Pirates of the Caribbean, action stuff like Salt or the Bourne movies. Those are always good. Guys love those movies. I do similarly at Christmas time with the holiday classics.
What’s next for you—how do you see the rest of 2019 and beyond?
I am a cam girl at heart—here for the long haul—so I am constantly trying to keep things fresh for my members. I plan new things I haven’t done before and improve on things that have been successful. My members are very supportive of my CamCation adventures so that’s always a fun change of scenery for them. On a personal note I have a goal to purchase my first home. That’s something I have been working toward that will be a huge achievement. I am looking forward to being a home owner. Oh, and running for president in 2024, backed by Maya’s Militia and MFC SuperPac lol you know, just little goals one at a time...
