Fucking Asked for it : How compliance, theft, big tech and ignorance led to the demise of the modern porn industry.
Fucking Asked For it – In the 1970s, the porn scene was like a middle finger to both the Hollywood elite and the moral watchdogs of American society. It was raw, sleazy, and offensive, mostly simply because of the subject matter, but often by design. Roy Karch had once said, the porn industry started when some greedy people hooked up with a group of rebels and criminals. These became the early pioneers of adult films and they didn’t give a shit about acceptance or legality.
They shot in secret locations, made fake educational sex films, spliced together loops and dared authorities to stop them. They operated outside the social norms and laws. Regardless if their efforts were intentional or not, they became champions of free speech. Because of them consenting adults have the right to make and sell porn, while other adults have the right watch it.
But what passes for the porn industry today? A pale, neutered shadow of the past. Today’s so called creators and platforms are not rebels. They are compliant, safe, brand-conscious opportunists who took the aesthetics of exploitation, but none of the ethos. They bent over for the government and knelt before corporate overlords in the hope of being accepted, only to find themselves with their heads in the guillotine. Frankly, they fucking asked for it.
The cat always eats the mouse it plays with – Alex Haley
Over the past two decades, we’ve watched webmasters and big tech platforms try to label themselves as pornographers. While content creators and cam models replaced pornstars. All of them, in their own way, have begged for mainstream society’s loving embrace. They lobbied for verification badges, courted streaming deals, and accepted restrictions in the name of “platform policy.” When like their predecessors, they should have been telling regulators to kiss their asses.
Instead they adjusted content to fit social guidelines and corporate and government speech codes, hoping to attain the revenues of popstars, and other celebrities on these platforms. They buried controversial scenes, self-censored scripts, and sanitized marketing just to avoid being deplatformed or demonitized. Deluding themselves that the lines between porn and mainstream were blurring, adult content creators are now drowning in a crowded, muddy cesspool. While poolside, the widely advertised influencers and celebrities are collecting millions for a bikini picture.
Today’s porn industry distributors and creators lied themselves, and virtue signaled about how well behaved they were to the establishment and society. Now Governments and their banking allies have finally rolled out rules specifically attacking adult video producers and platforms. Their censorship legislation and policies disguised as “harm prevention,” bank surveillance justified by “public safety,” licensing labeled as “compliance standard.” To the old school producers and pornstars, the only surprise was how long this backlash took to happen. To the modern porn industry, they’re just waking up to the fact that their alone, without true allies and they’re now being thrown under the bus by the people they believed were their friends.
Porn should have always been behind a paywall.
Now that most of the original pornographers are gone, governments are clamping down on multiple levels. Finally they want distributors to verify that all the necessary paperwork is complete (18 USC 2257 – Rules that existed prior to big techs takeover but were never enforced.) This could possibly end the rampant proliferation of stolen content, revenge porn and CSAM. But governmental overreach is also hitting the consumer, by demanding age verification of viewers which is also involves built-in personal data harvesting.
Ironically, these fake pornographers aren’t bitching about revenge porn, CSAM or copyright infringement.
They’re complaining about age verification laws. (https://pornbiz.com/post/17/the_scam_of_age_verification)
Someone might want to tell these people that by arguing against age verification they have just admitted that a large part of their business model and profits depends on putting porn in the hands of children. On the best days, the vast majority of people are neither your allies nor enemies; porn could disappear tomorrow and they wouldn’t care. But give the general public a reason to believe that you’re somehow exploiting children and they’ll demand your crucifixion.
The government, banks, feminist and religious activists want porn to die. Today’s porn purveyors are surrounded by enemies who are far more powerful than those who attempted to shut down the industry in the 1970s. All they require is public opinion to be in their favor and that’s something the porn industry has never had. In 2025, prevailing attitudes towards sex and porn are, in many ways, even more puritan than they were 50 years ago. – Today, even mainstream Hollywood has to be careful of how the public views them, and the movie studios are failing at it. So what chance is there for smut pushers? Especially, smut pushers without a backbone.
Financial Suicide
Perhaps the most baffling aspect of modern porn is their refusal to embrace new technologies. Prior to now, the adoption of new tech was in no small part fueled by the public’s desire to see porn. The VHS revolution, Dvds and even home internet services were all adopted largely by people to enjoy porn in the privacy of their homes. So when the credit card companies started dictating the terms of what was acceptable content, porn suppliers should have made the changes, not to censor, but to shift exclusively towards crypto as a means to accept payments.
The decentralized, censorship resistant payment systems that crypto offers would have been embraced by diehard porn users just like every other technology was in the past. But crypto doesn’t offer reoccurring billing, so the greedy tech companies decided to offer a watered down reversion of porn to the publc, so they could keep their hands in the punters pockets.
Fake Pornographers
These Internet based pornographers never truly pushed for full crypto integration and continued to route all revenue through traditional banks. Instead of building trust with their customers, they stole from them, fully aware of the fact that subscription based services are often forgotten. (Reoccuring billing) Get the customer to pay once and they’ll continue to bill them for months or some cases years.
They also used platforms like PayPal and Stripe, institutions with well-documented histories of freezing funds and terminating accounts based on vague accusations or changing policies. It is easier for big tech to humor the credit card processors than to stand up for Freedom of Speech. Being able to continue to auto-bill a subscriber, takes priority over innovation and diverse content .
Government, banks and even Karens now dictate which videos can be monetized and what themes can be explored. The blind dependence on credit cards wasn’t just foolish; it’s proving to be suicidal. Their failure to embrace crypto monetization has made them vulnerable to financial annihilation. – ie: Do as your masters tell you or they’ll cut off your money. The situation would be sadly comical if it weren’t for how dystopian it also is.
The Lost Spirit of Rebellion
The pornographers of the 1970s weren’t looking to be liked. They didn’t ask for permits. They didn’t beg for YouTube partnerships or cry about being misunderstood. They shot on weekends, edited in basements, and sold reels from the back of vans. They had no expectation of safety or support, and that’s what made them dangerous to the establishment.
They were hated by censors, ignored by critics, and loved by audiences, precisely because they didn’t seek approval. Many had criminal records, some where shady investors, and they knew they were pissing people off. And somehow in their embrace of the vulgar, they created a genre that defined a generation of underground cinema.
By contrast, today’s adult content creators are fragile, brand-conscious, copycats, desperate for inclusion. They neutered their own product, destroyed the legacy industry through free access, and failed to future-proof their businesses. Now they act shocked when regulators have come for their heads.
Today’s Porn Distributors Are Not Victims
We shouldn’t pretend today’s porn platforms are victims. These aren’t artists who struggled to survive. They are digital squatters who built entire video empires on stolen material. During the 2000s and 2010s, hundreds of pornographic-adjacent websites sprouted up online offering thousands of hours of copyrighted content without paying a dime to the original creators. Pornhub, Xhamster, Xvideos are the among the largest of of them.
They hid behind user generated content and DMCA compliance but in reality, it was monetized piracy. Ad revenue, data harvesting and yes, even money laundering, all rode on the backs of work they didn’t produce and didn’t own. In the process, they destroyed the legacy video industry. Producers, performers, and even brick-and-mortar shops couldn’t compete with free. They burglarized a healthy industry and destroyed the livelihoods of millions while screaming at us “Adapt or Die!”
Politicians and law enforcement happily looked the opposite way, pretended 2257 laws no longer applied and refused to enforce copyright laws. They laughed as big tech forced legacy industry rebels to accept retirement, while Gen X and older Millennials pornstars put their heads down, and took on dead-end jobs. The fake pornographers eliminated their only threat, those who actually believed in Freedom of Speech and the rights of consenting adults to have and watch sex the way they like it.
You Fucking Asked For It !
The new rules targeting porn platforms and adult video creators aren’t a betrayal, they’re a consequence. Bootlickers put themselves in the best position to be easily stomped on. Pornography’s legends were never compliant cowards. They took risks, challenged laws, and accidentally became free-speech warriors, who carved out a space through hard work, not favors.
Today’s porn distributors and creators deserve what they’re getting. They’ve been arrogant and spineless from the beginning. With sneers they spat on the old school porn legends by labeling them “criminals from a dark past.” They stole from the legacy industry and at the same time embracing censorship, foolishly believing that if they kissed enough political and mainstream ass, they would eventually be allowed to join their exclusive club.
If there’s any future left for Internet porn platforms, they should remember this bit of truth. You earn a living from the work of whores and therefore mainstream society doesn’t respect you. The only people who might watch your back are sex workers but not when you continuously fuck us over.
In conclusion : “ADAPT OR DIE” (Ironic isn’t it?)
Also Read : Only Fans and Child Porn
