The only incentive here is financial.

Pornhub exists because by making 0.00016 cents per view through whatever pathetic CPM they're charging, they pull in $300m a year in revenue. They pay out some pathetic amount like $3/1000 views or some shit which means if you aren't uploading beaver shots like a fur trapper with a gatling gun you will never make enough to buy a pizza. But when there's a million of you and one of pornhub they earn half a million pizzas.

My loser roommate in LA is a "content moderator." He makes a whopping $16 an hour after 4 years on the job. He started at $12 and that's in LA. Mindgeek is in Montreal but fukkit let's shoot the moon. $16x40x52x80=$2.6m, tops, on content moderation. Presume Mindgeek charges $20 an hour to provide moderators to Pornhub and we're at $3.25m. Hey maybe it's the most lucrative gig in Montreal and Pornhub is paying a thousand an hour. Each and every one of those videos represents a two dollars and forty cents investment to make sure that content is kosher.

But they're not paying a thousand an hour. They're paying an order or two of magnitude less.

ALL this pearl-clutching is over a company that can't afford more than a few nickels per video to make sure they aren't exploiting children. And I'm sorry but if your business model can't afford to spend more than a few nickels to make sure it isn't a toxic minefield custom-designed to exploit the powerless?

GO OUT OF FUCKING BUSINESS.

Porn used to be expensive. There were tapes. They came in the mail. And by "expensive" I mean "you could get 200 of them for $50 shipped." 2 hours of John Holmes fucking a girl in the ass who legitimately passes out in the middle of it she's so fucking high was yours for a goddamn postcard.

Her autobiography, Traci Lords: Underneath It All, was published during July 2003 by HarperCollins. In the book, Lords chronicled her childhood, career, and two-year stint in the x-rated industry. The book received positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success, making The New York Times Best Seller list. It was criticized by pornographers, who claim they were the victims. In the book, Lords revealed that she received about $35,000 as total compensation for all her porno movies, including the $5,000 for her underage appearance in Penthouse. Lords continued to use the now-famous stage name that she had given herself as a minor and ultimately made it her legal name. She explained, "I chose to stop running from it. Instead, I won it, legally changing my name to Traci Elizabeth Lords. That's who I was, and that's who I was going to be." In her interview with Oprah Winfrey she stated: "I found you can run, but you cannot hide."

But we aren't even there anymore. Not even Vivid can make a living. Instead we've got Youporn paying teenaged boys seventeen cents to upload videos of the shy girl in chemistry class.

And it should fucking burn.