MindGeek sells ad space through “TrafficJunky,” its advertising platform. MindGeek and Visa moved to dismiss the case, but Judge Cormac Carney was scathing in his decision to reject that motion and allow discovery to proceed: And let’s just pause to acknowledge Serena’s courage in talking to me, in allowing herself to be photographed, and in proceeding with this lawsuit. When I interviewed her, she was living in a car with her dogs - and it all started with that Pornhub video.Īfter my article, readers helped Serena get housing, education and legal help, and she also sued MindGeek, the company that owns Pornhub and other porn websites, along with Visa, which MindGeek depends on to make money. The upshot was that Serena quit school, attempted suicide, self-medicated with heroin and became homeless. “People were texting me, if I didn’t send them a video, they were going to send them to my mom,” she said. It’s tough enough to be 14 without having your classmates entertain themselves by looking at you naked, and then mocking you as a slut.
He had shared the videos with other boys, and someone posted them on Pornhub.įleites’s world imploded. “That’s when I started getting strange looks in school,” she remembered. He asked for another, then another she was nervous but flattered. She sent it to him, and this changed her life. But in the eighth grade she developed a crush on a boy a year older, and he asked her to take a naked video of herself. Fleites was an A student in Bakersfield, Calif., who had never made out with a boy. Here’s how I introduced her then:Īt 14, Serena K. The plaintiff is Serena Fleites, who was the central figure of a long article I wrote about Pornhub in December 2020. A federal judge in California has issued a landmark decision to allow a lawsuit to proceed against Pornhub and against Visa for together monetizing videos of child rapes.
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