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Professional gameshow host @interiormotivesshow please stop asking me where I am based. not gonna answer

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You show us your bed and we guess who’s been in it. Find the full episode on YouTube

Contestants: @courtneylove @wolkmindvirus2

Host: @benmoraa by @benmoraa

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Go watch the full episode on YouTube! 📺

Contestants: @staramerasu & @angelmoneymafia

Host: @benmoraa by @benmoraa

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You show us your bed and we guess who’s been in it. Find the full International Episode on YouTube!

Contestants: @harinef & @julianahuxtable

Host: @benmoraa by @benmoraa

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Marlizzle is the “Ken Jennings of Interior Motives” 💡

After winning 8 games in a row on the member-only Patreon livestreams, she has cemented herself as one of @interiormotivesshow’s most discerning fans and become a niche internet microcelebrity in her own right.

🔗patreon.com/interiormotives by @benmoraa

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Hungover and locked out! Lost my keys after staying out too late. my gay friend has them but I can’t track him down which is fine because I’m at my co working space and despite the cold brew keg being MISSING 😡 I’m not panicking because it’s technically open here 24/7 and I have a lot of work to catch up on taken in Upper East Side, Manhattan by @benmoraa

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“You show us your bed and we guess who’s been in it.” — 𝗕𝗲𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮

@interiormotivesshow began as an unserious YouTube game show, but has become one of the sharpest studies of domestic life online. Host @benmoraa and his guests — from downtown dolls to comedians and personalities like Cakes da Killa, John Early, Hari Nef, and Courtney Love — read photos of strangers’ bedrooms from around the world for clues about age, sexuality, location, politics, and personality.

@whitneymallett talks to Mora about queer domesticity, internet taste, and the generational divide in bedroom style. Read the full conversation at 𝗽𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗽𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗲.𝗼𝗿𝗴

Photography @davidbrandongeeting  Styling @ms.carriestacks  Grooming @kentoutsubo Location @editionnewyork Production Kassidy Miller

#InteriorMotives #BenMora #PINUPMagazine #ArchitecturalEntertainment by @benmoraa

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Ben Mora arrived in New York this summer with nothing more than a carry-on, and he has no plans to decorate his sublet: a monklike cell with a full-size bed, a fan, and bare white walls. But Mora thinks that if you look close enough, you can tell this is the room of a 31-year-old gay man in the city. “You get male immediately. Cis male,” he says. The tells are no hangers in the closet, balled-up socks shoved into a corner, and a suit thrown over a floating shelf. As for gay: “The beauty products would probably give it away,” he says, pointing to serums on a closet shelf.

This is Mora’s shtick, a bit he turned into the celebrity-studded online game show Interior Motives, which debuted last summer on YouTube. It now has 120,000 subscribers on that platform, more than 5 million views, an international version, and a Patreon, where fans pay $7 per month for extra, R-rated episodes and the chance to play against one another live. Contestants join Mora on a recorded remote call to look at photos of three bedrooms and try to guess an owner’s gender identity, sexuality, age, and location.

The idea that our objects are actually legible in this way, Mora says, “is fundamentally stupid.” But certain guessers are surprisingly astute in ways that are mesmerizing to watch and occasionally informative. A poster of Zendaya may seem femme but actually suggests masculinity to the artist Juliana Huxtable, who notes that the actress has “really intense futch energy.” In a messy, mattress-on-the-floor room with a Swans poster, actress Ivy Wolk doesn’t spot enough books for an incel, and Courtney Love agrees.

At the link in our bio, read our full interview with Mora on how the show has grown, since launching from his childhood bedroom in Iowa.

Video: @interiormotivesshow by @benmoraa

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Summer trend alert: getting an award for being a gameshow host in the middle of officiating your sisters wedding. Exactly 🏃‍♂️💨 by @benmoraa

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Happy birthday to my amazing father!! by @benmoraa

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Continuing my locked out/locked in series. Los Angeles(🤮) this time. Randomly locked in this bathroom with a really wonky door (I was locked OUT of the bathroom earlier.) now I’m locked in. Really getting sick of stuff like this happening to me. Anyways don’t worry I have someone coming to let me out by @benmoraa

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How it feels to subscribe to the interior motives Patreon!!

Become a member and get weekly bonus episodes, plus access to livestreams where YOU can play the game 😁

Link in bio by @benmoraa

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So I do love the barbershop I went to in La that was covered in cholo clown graffiti 🙏 #PMA by @benmoraa

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