Kekesi empathized with the performers. It's part of her job. As vice president of brand and community at Pornhub, she puts in plenty of face time with creators, as well as fans of the platform, the press, and critics. Sometimes "that involves taking flack from them," she told me over Zoom recently from her home office in Montreal. And there has been a lot of "flack" the past few years, even as she downplays Pornhub's persistent troubles.
On some level, Pornhub has always been controversial. It comes with the territory-but the problems of the platform in recent years represented an existential threat. Rumblings began in 2019, when the owners of the GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys websites were charged in a sex trafficking conspiracy for deceiving and forcing women to perform in adult films, which they then uploaded online, including to platforms like Pornhub.
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