Marcel Winatschek

Porn Stars Tweet

Twitter somehow became the place where everyone just broadcasts everything. Millions of people glued to screens, sharing every random thought, and yeah, I’m as bad as anyone. But one thing that’s kind of funny—porn stars are on there too. Just posting like everyone else. Some of the most famous adult performers have huge followings, and people engage with them like any other celebrity, because that’s what they’ve become.

It shouldn’t surprise anyone. Adult content was always going to be everywhere on the internet. The people who make it aren’t in some hidden corner anymore; they’re just part of the timeline, tweeting, building careers, doing their job. The whole normalization happened so quietly that nobody even talked about it.

The crude observation—the one that sparked this whole thing—is pretty obvious: nerds love computers, nerds love porn, so of course they follow porn stars. It’s dumb and true. But the less funny reality is just that these are people working, existing online like the rest of us. The normalcy of it is what gets me.