spacepirate Obviously "huge" is a relative term, but this got me curious so I did some digging. It's much bigger than I realized.
Trans porn is now one of the most popular categories on Pornhub.
According to the annual Pornhub Year in Review report, the platform's "transgender" category experienced a huge boost in searches over the past 12 months, growing by over 75% to become the 7th most popular section in the world.
Source: https://www.papermag.com/trans-porn-pornhub-2022-2658991934.html
spacepirate trans isnt huge
Well, what does the largest porn site in the world have to say about it...
https://www.them.us/story/trans-porns-pornhub-popularity
https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2022-year-in-review
BML5768
There is little paid trans stuff out there so people look for it on pornhub. Nothing special about it. Also nobody searches for "straight" porn, people search for various categories or even single pornstars within the whole world of straight porn.
Search terms on pornhub have actually little to no significance at all without further context. That's typical bullshit bingo with statistics.
BML5768 It really irritates me when I make an analogy and people dispute it literally.
Regardless, those 3 JAV videos and 4 Passthrough videos have taken up slots from the SLR Originals release schedule that I signed up for. I'm sure that they have their fans, but especially in the case of JAV - there are other sites for that. I didn't subscribe to those other sites because I don't want that content. If you want that content, you are also free to subscribe to those sites. I subscibed to THIS SITE on the basis of the promised release schedule of the content, production quality, and style at the time I subscribed. You are also free to do that on sites that provide content you enjoy. Do you see me on the JAV site forums arguing that they really need more American teens, MILFs, and non-POV stuff? Of course not - that isnt what they do, and it isn't what they sold their customers. Similarly, If I subscibe to the Wall Street Journal, I'd be pretty annoyed if they started sending me comics, graphic novels, and poetry - and then had their new producer tell me that the problem is that I just haven't seen those mediums done right.
I think there is a HUGE disconnect between the customers who subscribed to SLR for the Netfix-style variety and low-quality studios with niche appeal, and the customers who subscribed to SLR for the high-quality, high-production value, GFE, intimate POV Nash-style SLRO studio they were producing a year or two ago. The argument isn't that SLR shouldn't do the other stuff you want, but that they are neglecting and replacing the stuff that the SLRO subscribers want at the same time. Its not an addition to their lineup, its coming at the expense of the thing I subscribed to. As in the example of Netflix, lots of people subbed to Netflix in the early days because they got high quality releases and series. I have a lot of streaming services now, and I can't even remeber the last time I watched Netflix. Why? They watered down their brand with dreck, and let the good quality content go. If they kept good quality stuff, but added dreck, I'd still be watching and just avoiding the dreck. But when the other stuff REPLACES what you signed up for? Then we quit.
To be fair, the change is subtle, and the numbers you quote are correct. But the point has been made ad infinitum about the declining quality of SLRO - warehouses, bad rigs, snarky responses to feedback, new directors trying out their "vision", etc etc etc. People who subbed for quality SLRO are about out of patience.
Mutiny According to the annual Pornhub Year in Review report, the platform's "transgender" category experienced a huge boost in searches over the past 12 months, growing by over 75%
This means nothing without the base rate, whih was not included. If 10 percent of users search for trans porn, and that increases by 75%, it means that 17.5 percent of people now search for trans porn.
Will65
When I signed up SLR Originals produced one video a week. Now its 3-4, soon to be 5 or more according to recent announcements, with one of them (on average) being for a specialty genre. I think that's a very fair balance and I think its absurd that you think it unreasonable that other peoples money goes into producing something they want too.
Also, unless you are a very recent subscriber, SLR had been releasing 2 videos per week. So one a week shouldn't take away anything you signed up for.
"This means nothing without the base rate, whih was not included. If 10 percent of users search for trans porn, and that increases by 75%, it means that 17.5 percent of people now search for trans porn."
If you read the report its not just searches, its one of the top most viewed categories and its rapidly growing.
If you read the report its not just searches, its one of the top most viewed categories and its rapidly growing.
If it's one of the most viewed categories, why is it so low in "most searched for terms"
Going by the logic it's probably because straight porn have million of categories while trans is category by itself.
Edit: And i was right, there is hundred categories for straight porn on pornhub, white there is only one category for trans.
mirdumar If it's one of the most viewed categories, why is it so low in "most searched for terms"
From the report... Literally in the first section.
The Searches that Defined 2022
Will65 was SLR not always a Netflix style site with lots of content from other studios? I’ve probably been here for 18 months and it’s always been a site with a huge library of content in that time. I’m guessing that is what most people sign up for (everything under one roof) rather than the very specific thing you mentioned.
As with all things, doing the same type of scenes over and over won’t get you any new subscribers and grow the site. The balance you have to tread is how to attract new people without losing those you already have. If they’re now doing 20 scenes a month, they should be able to mix things up a bit and still release the 3 or 4 scenes a month you want as well as some stuff other people want.
By mix things up though, I don’t mean doing the same vanilla stuff with the same girls just in different formats (passthrough, non-POV). I mean mix up the storylines, mix up the sex acts, mix up the intensity levels, mix up the type of models you shoot with. Let’s have some big tit pornstar types as well as all the flat chested girl next door teen looking models.
BML5768 you got a source for that "3rd most popular in the united states"? everything I'm seeing in datasets it's far from the third most popular. You actually helped make your data worse by showing this as well, brazil culturally being trans oriented is a skew in the data, and if you remove that single country the trans popularity would dramatically fall in rankings. In most data analytics that entire country would be removed on account of large data bias.
Also an idea, if there are 5 studios, why not make them all different and brand them accordingly.
If Alex Nash is your prestige scenes (as most seem to think) call his scenes SLR Nash. If another is passthrough then call their studio SLR In Your House (or something snappier). You could have an SLR Europe, an SLR Milf, an SLR Anal (you knew it was coming!). Instead of just producing the same stuff across 5 studios, make a conscious decision to produce varied content.
bobbytables You actually helped make your data worse by showing this as well
That's not my data, lol, its what Pornhub shared in their annual report. Just to clarify, I don't own or run Pornhub and I didn't create that report.
petermc 5 studios, why not make them all different and brand them accordingly
get ready for some intense pushback on that concept. If I could get SLR Multi-Girl/Harem and pay a premium $200/yr knowing I’ll get nothing but one guaranteed Dream Team style scene and three quality bgg or bggg’s every month, and not have to look at all this other stuff believe me I’d do that in a heartbeat — not a second thought. But you have the folks that are interested in lots of variety and all manner of content that will be upset that they now have to pay for all the niches separately. The truth of the matter is someone is always going to find something to bitch about. I’m just hoping the upcoming Sultans Harem nails the genre and I can disappear into that for a couple months and ignore all this other drama filled bullshit.
And this is coming from someone who already paid lifetime. I realize now that the value I got from that one time fee was at its maximum from mid-2021 to mid 2022 once that awful Canon camera came online. Now it is being and seems will be even more diluted by what to me (as someone above put it) is just a bunch of dreck. Is what it is - I’m still pretty happy with the content from that golden period though and continue to revisit it often. The Philip Casting era. I already miss you Philip.
