[quote] Some people get way too attached to porn and porn stars. It's performance and it's entertainment. Even if the performers are gay or bi, it's highly unlikely that they would hang around, or have sex, with members of the audience for free (unless they are high on meth).
People do this naturally with all celebrities. I don't understand it at all. It seems human beings are programmed to identify idol figures and worship them anywhere they can find them.
Tori Amos has been my favorite artist since the 90s and I have such a deep appreciation for her music and her words, and yet I don't get the worship thing. Just like with any megastar like Taylor Swift et al., many of her fans follow her around the country, but every bit of merchandise her management sells, get those things autographed, wait outside all day to cry in front of her and tell her they love her, and away from her presence they basically stalk her and have strong opinions about her husband, her daughter, her parents. I find it bizarre and creepy, and yet it is 'normal' human behavior that groups of people do to those they choose to worship.
There's a reason they're called fans (fanatics).
With porn, I agree with the first part of the comment I quoted above.
Since I have learned from DataLounge over and over and over for years that countless gay porn stars are convicted violent criminals and they probably do porn because they have to make money to live and can't get hired to do other work with their criminal histories, it's really made me wince when I see gay guys giving gay porn stars the idol treatment. It's not good for anyone.
I think OnlyFans has been a good development for sex workers so that they can control more of their careers, make more money, and even learn digital marketing as entrepreneurs who sell themselves and learn what drives people to open up their wallets and what doesn't.
But OnlyFans hasn't been good for my porn consumption. Because of the reasons I note above about learning how awful so many porn stars are, I am disinclined from following any individual person and their account. I also don't like most of the content. Video from a shaky handheld iPhone camera or an iPhone on a stationary tripod just watching people on a bed hump like dogs, change position, and unnervingly keep glancing at the video camera is not a turnon to me at all. It's almost totally uninteresting to me.
I really never realized there is any kind of creative merit to pornography, but OnlyFans-type homemade porn demonstrates how better lighting, editing and directing makes for better sex videos. And even the 'scripting' to the extent porn is scripted, it turns out, makes a major difference to me. The narrative setup of porn scenes can add dramatic tension, romantic tension, sometimes comical interest, that basically sets up the people we watch on camera to be seen as human beings in a human context, whatever that context is; whereas, watching two or three guys set up a camera, scoot over to a bed, get in position, stick it in, and go through the motions for their next porn post is really depressing to watch, at least for me.
So I don't want to know anything about porn stars individually.
I'm not inclined to subscribe to their self-made narcissistic OnlyFans accounts and watch their low-quality videos and stalk them and feel like I have some kind of relationship with them. I figure most who choose to work in the gay porn industry have countless psychological and probably behavioral and legal problems, and it's disappointing.