Pornography merged with mainstream influencer culture in the counter-counterculture.

Evidence

With its revanchist views on masculinity and power, the extended Zynternet had a natural synergy with pornography. Joe Rogan’s first major sponsor was the Fleshlight masturbatory aid. In the early 2000s, Paris Hilton had fought to distance herself from the humiliation of her leaked sex tape, and Kim Kardashian still denies engineering her own leak. But porn found a seat at the table in the counter-counterculture. David Choe, who made hundreds of millions from painting an office mural for a pre-IPO Facebook, ran a podcast with adult film actress Asa Akira. Others straddled street culture and the adult industry, like face-tattooed BMX blogger turned podcast mogul Adam Grandmaison, a.k.a. Adam22. He first built an influential music platform that helped launch SoundCloud rappers like 6ix9ine. Then, he pivoted: He and his wife, adult film actress Lena the Plug, filmed their own pornographic videos and cohosted Plug Talk, a sex videocast that fused influencer marketing with the mechanics of adult entertainment. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 822

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: The inversion of shame — from Paris Hilton hiding her leak to Adam22 and wife marketing their own porn as a business — is a usable plot arc about the commodification of humiliation.
• XREF: connects to: Mass culture has absorbed the erotic outsiders who once provided irregular bliss