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And they came to me and expressed confusion as to why my first film with them was selling so well.
They were like, how do people know who you are?
And I'm like, well, you know, I've got my little MySpace page with like a couple thousand people.
And there's this video of me with my tampon string hanging out, destroying an enormous teddy bear while naked.
And people on these tube site things just like really like that video.
That was the first effect that the tube sites had on my career.
And it was positive.
This may be the only time that it was positive.
He told me that we had been purchased by Manwin.
And I was like, oh, I am now tied to a company that is literally named Manwin.
This is awful.
I have a reputation for being pedantic and difficult in interviews.
every interview i'm like yeah manwin bought us yeah the people who own porn hub and browsers yeah think about that what's happening they're buying up all these properties it's weird tube sites had broken the old studio model for porn and now the main owner of tube signs manwin was buying up everything that was left like the conqueror of a vanquished land
Did I mention they're called ManWin?
Can someone explain this to me?
Is it like a German thing where the word is like completely different and it just sounds ominous to me?
And it's been a long and complicated relationship since.
They gave the general porn-watching public an immense sense of entitlement, and when there are more hours of free pornography available than one person could ever watch in their lifetime, it becomes much more difficult to get them to pay for pornographic work.
The next thing was that when you have people who have stolen your content and illegally uploaded it to a tube site, you can imagine what the descriptions sound like.
They're not very nice, creepy things.