Sex blogger Alvin Tan speaks to us approximately porn, religion, cryptocurrency, and his future plans

You’ve possibly heard or study about him. You would possibly even have visible films of him in motion. Alvin Tan Jye Yee is an uncouth sex blogger and an insolent critic of Islam for many Malaysians. He has been criticized for posting sex videos of himself and his lady friend on his non-public weblog while poking fun at Malaysia’s biggest faith through Facebook. However, to the rest, he is the real deal about the freedom of self-expression without residing in worry of repercussions. It’s been five years since he left Malaysia to seek asylum inside the US, and Mashable Southeast Asia stuck up with the 30-yr-antique to look how an awful lot has changed in his life.

Hey Alvin, how has life been because you left Malaysia? How did you adapt to lifestyles within the US?

Basically, I arrived in the US in 2014, and it’s been nearly 5 years. It was a protracted adventure. The first couple of years had been just in simple terms, me looking to get on my toes, constructing a community, getting a job using hook or crook because you don’t want to emerge as homeless. I started out getting lively within the person movie industry in 2016 however it took a backseat in 2017 when the cryptocurrency bull run befell and I turned into that. But in 2018, I shot apiece. I’m still doing the crypto component, and I shoot a bit of pornography right here and there. But right now, I’m mainly working on my software program commercial enterprise.

Could you proportion extra about your commercial enterprise?

It’s a Software as a Service (SaaS) commercial enterprise, which I’ve usually wanted to do. I basically code business software programs for small to medium corporations. Not many understand this, but I started this commercial enterprise again in 2012, and it turned into my source of profits between 2012 and 2013. back then, I made quite desirable earnings due to the fact it’s far mainly passive. When you run a software enterprise, a whole lot of things of its miles are automated. So I changed from making around US$900 to US$1200 (RM4,000 – RM5,000) a month.

So the humorous element changed into upon arrival inside the US, I became inside the immigration jail for four months because I didn’t have a valid visa. Now, in case you don’t attend your enterprise for that lengthy, it dies. That changed into the quiet of my business so proper now I’m starting it again. It is but to be released, so the revenue is still 0, but I’m confident it’ll exercise session because I’ve completed it earlier. The most effective task this time is the currency trading price. Because jogging a SaaS business from Malaysia is a lot cheaper. The exchange price allows if your clients are from the United States. Right now, I’m residing in Los Angeles, one of the maximum pricey cities inside the globe. So we’re going to see how this goes.

How do you sustain yourself financially then?

I’m operating on numerous matters right now. In the crypto aspect, I shoot porn, and I also bartend approximately 3 nights per week. I’m all around the location, genuinely. But you understand what, you can not just do one aspect by yourself within the twenty-first century.

How’s the dabbling in pornography coming along? Would this be an extended-term element?

First of all, I’ve in no way visible my career within the grownup film enterprise as a protracted-time period component. In fact, many don’t see it as a protracted-term aspect as many see it as a transitional segment. I type of started out taking pictures of porn in 2016. Most of it was self-produced and then after that, I began taking pictures extra for some small organizations right here and there. Of route, when I was taking pictures of my personal productions, I had those content material that I’m sitting on. So I added them to my website.