Name: How "Free" P*rn Sites Really Work (and Who Runs Them)
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How "Free" P*rn Sites Really Work (and Who Runs Them)' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-05. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How "Free" P*rn Sites Really Work (and Who Runs Them)' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-05. Transcript available.

so it's not just Pornhub right Pornhub is owned by a parent company that all of
this kind of I
learned over the last five years so called MindGeek okay now MindGeek has a
monopoly on the
global big porn industry so we call it big porn because there's big porn just
like there's big
tobacco there's big pharma there's big porn and it's dominated by one company
that company was
was called MindGeek they rebranded to ILO to try to escape their reputation as
peddlers of crime
but they so with a 362 million dollar loan from a hedge fund called Colbert
Capital and 125 secret
investors who were outed as including JP Morgan Chase and Cornell University
they had basically
rolled up the entire global porn industry under one company so they owned it
MindGeek yes so they
owned you know they were managing Playboy digital playground Wicked Pictures
browsers
reality kings pay sites subscription sites and then the tube site so they so Pornhub
and its sister
site so Pornhub you porn red tube tube bait gay tube x tube you know all I
could go on and on yeah
they own the most popular tube site so vegan tube is that one that's no time
for jokes
um and who owns MindGeek so MindGeek was owned by a secret share majority shareholder
so nobody knew
who the owner of MindGeek was when all of this began and were they in America
no we found out so we found
them you know through the course of this there was a an investigation called
hunt for the porn king
so they're they're not an American company so you start on the hunt for the
porn king right so we
discovered who was the secret majority shareholder of the company and his name
was burned burg mayor and
he was in Austria and he lived part-time in Hong Kong and burn burg mayor let's
bring a picture of him
up yeah you can I just want people to know yeah burn burg mayor yeah and let's
look at his wikipedia I
just want to get a little he grew up as a son of farmers and ends Felden
attended grammar school in
Linz transferred to he studied University of Linz wherever that is he worked at
Goldman Sachs in New York
he became the owner of porn site red tube in 2013 he sold to the site man when
now known as alio he was a
former majority owner of Pornhub and MindGeek okay yep want to make sure we see
he was yeah he was the
majority and then Feroz Antun and David DiCillo were the CEO and the COO and
they were the minority
shareholders and they had kind of hidden themselves from the public as well for
a really long time
okay and are these guys all from Austria are they all from a specific place so
Canadian so the company
is an international corporation they are headquartered in Canada so they have
most of their employees in
Canada but they have offices in now they have an office in Texas they had one
LA Cyprus Romania
MindGeek has offices everywhere everywhere yeah so they are a multinational
corporation
huge corporation hundreds of millions of dollars a year multi-billion dollar
corporation with a
monopoly on the global big porn industry and how much money was that was it
bringing in a year do is
yeah they're estimated about half a billion per year it's the value of the
company is multiple billions
of dollars and you know Pornhub was the flagship site so this was the cash cow
of the company this is
how not only are they making money on 4.6 billion ad impressions every day and
all the traffic they're
getting but they're advertising their pay sites on the free sites right so they
kind of have this ecosystem
where they advertise browsers on Pornhub and drive traffic to all the other
websites that they own
I thought it was browsers which is crazy but also
I don't care I mean it's either way it's bad yeah content is king for the porn
tube sites you have to understand this that
it's about getting unrestricted massive amounts of content so that they could
get picked up in Google search results so that they can drive massive amounts
of traffic so they can sell all those ad impressions and make hundreds of
millions of dollars a year on free porn okay
worst thing they could do is take content down from this site but they started
to delete millions of videos they deleted 10 million videos and over 30 million
images
basically in 24 hours um and what financial times called probably the biggest
takedown of content in internet history they deleted all of their unverified
videos because they had no idea who was a child and like who was 16 and who was
18 right who was uh what was rough sex and what was rape they had no idea what
was consensually recorded and non-consensually uploaded right and so they took
down that much content
that much content because they're worried about the money yeah they wanted to
woo the credit card companies back right as they said okay we have to we have
to do this they basically deleted their site uh they uh well 80 percent of it
at the time they had 30 moderators 30 moderators moderating the millions of
videos on porn hub
now compare that now compare that with facebook's 15 000 moderators and they
still don't have enough
these moderators they were viewing between 800 and 2 000 videos per shift
clicking through those videos with
the sound off just clicking through them guessing like i call it the underage
guessing game like this is a game
of russian roulette with people's lives they're trying to guess who's 15 and
who's 18 who's 16 and who's 19.
like nobody can do that on a like even a pediatrician can't do that yeah and
what happens to your brain at
a certain point after seeing so much traumatic stuff that you were even like
that should be a crime and
putting a employee through that well i and i've spoken to those and some of
those employees i call
friends today because they really have they said that they've seen some it's
been really intense was pricked
oh i'm sure they came forward and i've spent hours and hours in person and you
know online and on the
phone speaking to them trying to understand how all of this worked and one of
them um is especially dear
to me and he told me that it was so hard on him to do this job but he needed
the money um and he was
abused as a child he was sexually abused as a child wow so it was especially
hard for him to do this
but i think you almost wonder why he went and did it it's like you could find
something else to do
probably i mean not calling him out but it's like maybe there's some weird
thing that's created there
too that like i don't know but i appreciate what he did in coming forward so
this is the company this
is the this is who we're kind of coming up against right and so all of this
started to take off and go
viral and victims are coming forward whistleblowers i told you about um the
former owner who came
forward his name is fabian tillman and he was called the zuckerberg of porn he's
the one let's bring him
up i just want to get a lot i want to put a face to these guys fabian tillman
he looks dangerous huh th y yeah there you go
yep fabian thilman he's the one that put pornhub on the map you know he kind of
had this vision for
the german entrepreneur who once built the biggest adult entertainment company
in the world
let's see him that's him uh fabian okay so he is he's one of the guys schlepping
it so he yeah so
he's the one who actually revealed to me who the secret majority shareholder
was that he sold the
company to yeah he reached out in summer 2020 to say he wanted to help and so
one of the things that he
did was he exposed the secret majority shareholders name and he said go after
the credit card companies
as the as the former owner he said if you want to make a difference here you go
after the credit card
companies to cut ties um and so that was now what what i didn't realize at the
time i was suspicious
right why is he wanting to help and i kind of later found out that he had
intention to try to buy back the
company so he kind of wanted to make a killing again so i think he wanted to
help take it down buy it
then find a way to do it back probably with crypto or something on a different
chain i don't know what
he was thinking but he wanted to buy it back which i found out later on but the
ceo and the ceo coo and
the ceo were forced to resign as well and today they're being sued by nearly
300 victims in 25 lawsuits
including multiple class actions on behalf of tens of thousands of child
victims and they're doing
amazing in the courts uh so much more evidence has been uncovered in legal
discovery so discovery is
this amazing tool when you engage in a civil lawsuit the the court gives you
permission to get behind
your opponents so you can get their text messages you can get their emails you
can get and so much has come
out of the complicity like you just couldn't believe the site is still online
you know it's been purchased
now they're trying to do this whole rebrand so it was sold as a distressed
asset okay to a company
that they created themselves to buy pornhub okay and they are called ethical
capital partners wow what a
name ethical capital partners and who is the who are the main bigwigs in that
company do we know yes we
do they have themselves online you know the the guy that's out there kind of
trying to do this whole
rebrand of pornhub like we're ethical capital partners um his name is solomon
friedman and he
is a criminal defense attorney so is he really a jewish guy from where where's
he from uh canada
he's from canada yeah um so he wants to rebrand just make it more ethical well
i mean that's what
they're saying right they're saying they call themselves ethical capital yet at
the same time
you know they do so ethical capital partners there's still there's still stuff
out there that's not
supposed to be there yes they still haven't actually implemented their preventative
policies
what's ethical about it it's just a farce i mean it's just uh you know and that's
why i think it's so
important to sound the alarm on this rebrand because from a victim's
perspective like this is also a
miscarriage of justice for them to go out there and try to resuscitate pornhub's
brand to say oh
we're ethical capital listen the men who made that decision to have 30 moderators
just guessing what's
rough sex and rape guessing and they guess wrong all the time they were
skipping through 2000 you know
thousands of videos per shift and they're still running pornhub today so they're
still on the sixth floor
aquamarine montreal tower of that corporation running pornhub today yes the ceo
and the ceo
were forced to resign but they have the same cfo they have the same clo who's
the cfo let's see
eddie de santo eddie de santo bring him up i don't know if you'll find him they
try to they try to hide
his face they try to but some of them i mean you can find ryan hogan matt kalichi
so you can look up
kareem almirazi he is the cpo and he's running it today kareem almirazi so
there he is so and so he's
there today right yeah about him from canada as an integral part of the mobile
broadband team
telecommunication engineering went to university of montreal
uh-huh so they're still running they're just trying to rebuild this company and
still make money well
so i mean what i'm saying is like ethical capital right if they were coming in
and saying like we're
gonna rebrand we're gonna do this new thing why would you still have the same
men responsible for
the decisions that destroy the lives of countless victims just running the site
today that's why
it's like right it's just a farce like it's not real yeah
Thank you.