Popular porn actress Eva Elfi spoke about the work of Pornhub and filming in porn how PornHub's algorithms influenced its success. In a big interview with “Lente.ru” as part of a large-scale special project “Algorithm. Who controls you? ” she explained the principle of the algorithms of the site for adults, which bring actresses to the top of the resource.
According to the porn star, the porn site's algorithms have had a profound effect on her popularity. “PornHub decides on what days and at what time it is better to publish videos, which tags are popular at the moment,” explained the actress.
According to Elfi's experience, videos that are published on the weekend or on Wednesday get to the top of PornHub. The worst day to post content is Monday. The actress explains this by the fact that users of the resource “are in a working rhythm and are busy with their own business.” The videos that are posted on Friday also have little chance of a high rating, she said.
According to Elfi, the popularity of adult videos is influenced by the tags that accompany them on PornHub. “The popularity of the tag suggests that many are looking for videos in this genre, which means that more people are likely to see your video with the tag,” the actress shared her experience.
She also clarified that, according to its information, the content on the main page of the site is generated manually. The rest of the automatic video selection system is similar to YouTube.
Elfi was born in Omsk and later moved to Moscow. She starred in commercials for adults with her lover, they later got married in Las Vegas, USA. In November 2020, the Russian woman was included in the list of the five most popular porn actresses according to PornHub, taking fourth place in it.
“Algorithm. Who controls you? ” – a large-scale special project-study of the influence of the algorithms of the world's most popular services on a person, society, politics and global world processes. In six parts of the project, it is analyzed in detail how the content ranking system in social networks affects the real life of millions of people: it imperceptibly changes a person's attitude to love, family, friendship, society, and affects the intellectual abilities of people. In addition, within the framework of the project “Lenta.ru” publishes a three-part documentary film. It explores who and how manipulates humanity with the help of algorithms, how they change reality, what dangers they pose for the world and how humanity is confronting these challenges.