The Adult Industry Is Changing. Here’s What You Need to Know If You Want to Keep Supporting the Creators You Actually Care About.
This is a post about the adult industry changes happening right now, written for the people who pay for content. The people who actually support the creators they like. The people who, if their favorite creator disappeared from every platform tomorrow, would want to know how to find her again.
If that’s you, the next twelve months are going to be a strange time. I want to walk you through what’s happening, why it matters for you specifically, and what you can do right now to make sure you don’t lose access to the creators you’ve built relationships with over the years.
I’m writing this in plain language. No drama, no doom-mongering, just the facts of what’s shifting and the practical steps that will keep your access intact regardless of what the platforms decide to do.
What’s Actually Happening
Three adult industry changes are converging at once, and they’re going to reshape how adult content works for the next several years.
The first is age verification. The legal framework requiring ID verification before accessing adult sites has expanded significantly. Multiple US states have passed age verification laws. The UK’s Online Safety Act is in full effect. The EU is moving in the same direction. Major sites like Pornhub have already pulled out of entire states rather than comply. The era of being able to land on any adult site without identifying yourself is ending.
The second is platform consolidation and uncertainty. OnlyFans, which has been the dominant home for direct creator-to-fan relationships for years, recently had a major ownership change with portions of the company being sold off. Whether the new ownership will tighten content rules, change payout structures, or shift the platform’s positioning is genuinely unknown. Creators don’t know. Subscribers don’t know. The platform that you may have used to follow your favorites for years may not look the same in twelve months.
The third is social media censorship. The mainstream social platforms have been openly removing adult creators from their platforms even when those creators don’t post explicit content on the platform itself. The mere fact of being an adult creator is enough to get accounts banned or shadowbanned. The platforms have decided that adult content workers don’t get to use their services to communicate with their audiences, period.
Put those three things together and you get a situation where the connections you’ve built with creators over time are increasingly fragile. The platforms you found them on are restricting them. The accounts they use to communicate are being removed. The age verification gates are making casual discovery harder. And the platform you may rely on for direct content access may not be the same platform in a year.
What These Adult Industry Changes Mean for You
If you’ve been a casual follower who just opens an app and scrolls, your experience over the next year is going to get noticeably worse. You’ll see less of the creators you like. Their accounts will disappear and reappear. New accounts will have fewer followers and you’ll have to find them again. Discovery will get harder. The platforms will push you toward AI-generated content and away from real humans, because real humans have rights and AI doesn’t.
If you’re someone who actually values the creators you support and wants to maintain those connections, the next year is when you take a few small steps to protect your access. Most of those steps cost nothing and take less than half an hour total. But if you don’t take them, you risk losing track of creators you genuinely appreciate, not because they went anywhere, but because the platforms decided you couldn’t easily find them anymore.
What You Can Do Right Now
Here are the practical moves, in order of importance.
Get on the email lists of your favorite creators. Email is the only communication channel that no platform can take away. When your favorite creator’s Instagram gets banned, her email list still works. When her TikTok disappears, her email list still works. When the next platform decides adult workers aren’t welcome, her email list still works. Email is owned infrastructure. If you only do one thing from this list, do this one. Find the email signup on the websites of the creators you care about and put your email in.
Set up a separate email address for adult content. If you’re hesitant to use your main email for adult creator newsletters because of work, relationships, or general privacy preferences, that’s a completely reasonable concern. Take ten minutes and set up a free secondary email account dedicated to this purpose. Proton Mail, Tutanota, or even a simple Gmail account that you only use for this purpose all work. Use that email when you sign up for creator newsletters and adult site memberships. This solves the discretion problem permanently, and once you have it set up, every signup from that point forward is friction-free.
Bookmark the actual websites of the creators you support. Not their social media profiles. Their actual personal websites. If they have multiple sites, bookmark all of them. The websites are the most stable thing about a creator’s online presence. Social media accounts vanish. Platforms shut down. But a personal website on a domain the creator owns is durable. Even if it changes hosts or undergoes a redesign, the URL usually stays consistent. Your bookmark survives even when the platforms don’t.
Follow them on every platform where they exist, not just one. I know this seems like the opposite of consolidating. But the reality is that no single platform is reliable right now. If you follow a creator on five platforms, the odds of all five disappearing simultaneously are very low. The odds of any one of them disappearing in the next year are not low at all. Multiple platforms create redundancy, which is the same principle behind why you back up your computer to more than one place.
Support them through direct channels when you can. Clip stores, their own websites, their own membership sites, direct purchases. The reason this matters is that every direct purchase reinforces the creator’s ability to maintain that direct channel, while every purchase through a third-party platform reinforces the platform instead. If you want to ensure your favorite creators continue to exist as independent businesses rather than gig workers on someone else’s platform, direct support is the most meaningful contribution you can make.
Email is owned infrastructure.
Where the Adult Industry Changes Are Heading
I want to give you my honest read on where these adult industry changes are heading, because I think you deserve the full picture if you’re going to make decisions about how to engage with it.
The era of free, frictionless, anonymous adult content consumption is ending. That was actually a relatively brief period in the history of the industry, maybe fifteen years total, from the rise of tube sites in the mid-2000s through the peak of the OnlyFans era. Before that, the industry operated on different infrastructure: direct sales, paid memberships, clip stores, email lists, physical media, websites you actually had to find and visit. That older model is coming back, and not by choice. It’s coming back because the platforms and the legal environment are pushing the industry away from the consolidated, advertiser-friendly, easy-discovery model and back toward the distributed, direct-relationship, owned-infrastructure model.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing for fans who actually value the creators they support. The new-old model rewards loyalty and direct relationships. It punishes casual scrolling. The creators who survive this transition will be the ones with strong direct relationships with their actual fans, not the ones with the largest passive follower counts on platforms.
Which means the people who take a few small steps now, get on the email lists, bookmark the websites, support through direct channels, will end up in a better position than the people who keep relying on the platforms to deliver content to them. The platforms aren’t going to keep delivering. The direct channels will.
A Note from Me Specifically
If you’ve been a supporter of mine, the most important thing you can do in the face of these adult industry changes is make sure I have your email address. The creators you actually care about are doing the work to maintain direct channels with their fans because we know the platforms aren’t reliable. Email is how I’ll reach you no matter what happens to any of the platforms. Get on the list. That’s the one thing.
I’m not going anywhere. I’ve been doing this for over twenty years and I plan to keep doing it. The infrastructure I’ve built behind the scenes is designed to weather exactly this kind of industry shift. But the only way to make sure you’re still connected to me through that infrastructure is to make sure I have a way to reach you that doesn’t depend on a platform.
The link is at the bottom of this page, and on every page of this site. Sign up. I’ll send you updates when things change. I’ll send you new content announcements. I’ll send you the occasional behind-the-scenes note. I won’t spam you and I won’t sell your email, because I know exactly how annoying that is and because the whole point of an email list is to maintain trust with the people who actually want to hear from me.
The adult industry changes are real, and the creators worth following are the ones who’ve prepared for them. Make sure you’ve prepared too. Take the ten minutes. Get on the list. Bookmark the site. You’ll be glad you did.
If something in this landed, stay close. The list is where the rest of it lives.