> I wonder if there's a feedback loop in the viewer metrics. Most people are probably not interested in searching around for what they want, so they click on wh

> I wonder if there's a feedback loop in the viewer metrics. Most people are probably not interested in searching around for what they want, so they click on whatever is on the front page. I recall reading something years ago that said some porn site that started to do data-driven analytics and found that even though "step-sibling/parent fantasy" stuff wasn't generally popular, but it was particularly good at attracting paying subscribers. I kinda wonder if that effect was overstated, but all the porn sites started cargo-culting that finding as "conventional wisdom" and made the genre a thing. > So much porn is perfectly normal-looking based on the thumbnail/preview other than the creepy title, so maybe people just watch it anyway if it looks good, even if the plot premise is offputting. I think of lot of that particular genre isn't normal-looking, for instance by casting size differences to creepily create the impression of an illegal age difference: https://www.vice.com/en/article/aeygae/porns-latest-trend-is-scrawny-young-men-who-look-like-pre-teens https://www.vice.com/en/article/aeygae/porns-latest-trend-is...