If you're interested, you should find Jon Ronson's podcast on the topic. It's a finite series of shows called "The Butterfly Effect", and it covers what happene

If you're interested, you should find Jon Ronson's podcast on the topic. It's a finite series of shows called "The Butterfly Effect", and it covers what happened to the porn industry as it was overrun by Mindgeek. If I remember correctly, the gist is that the consolidation of the industry drove down rates for production and pushed a lot of participants into independent projects like custom videos.