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This theory is for all the nerds in the house.

If they didn't intentionally remove videos (see: why would you keep all but two of a model's videos instead of just getting rid of all of them outright) either the file storage for the videos went down (which is weird since you might still be able to see the records of the videos) or someone made a bad database query that deleted certain parts of the scene data (no discernible pattern though).
 
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I think the videos will be back up in time. The site has had a variety of glitches the last few months. At one point you couldn’t even click on model's names to see their portfolios and another time you couldn’t download anything in 1080p. You'd just get an error message.
 

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Well now that VISA and Mastercard have decided to ban purchases from PornHub and all MindGeek companies, it is quite possible that it happens.

Huh. I see that was literally just a few days ago. I subbed to SC at the end of November, so I might have got in just in time.
 

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I'm subbed, so I did a support chat to see what's up and got these messages:

The site is undergoing maintenance currently, where plenty of videos, especially older ones are temporarily unavailable
Maintenance should not be much longer and we expect to have all content back within a few weeks
10:15 AM
 
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Maintenance that goes on for weeks? That seems... Unlikely.

I'm guessing that Visa/MC is doing a full content audit of all their associated sites since presumably the same weak compliance efforts that were made on Pornhub are being applied to their other sites. They probably got a bit of grace on card acceptance since the risk of similar content violations is slimmer on these sites, but they aren't going to just wholesale approve that without an audit.
 

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Maintenance that goes on for weeks? That seems... Unlikely.

I'm guessing that Visa/MC is doing a full content audit of all their associated sites since presumably the same weak compliance efforts that were made on Pornhub are being applied to their other sites. They probably got a bit of grace on card acceptance since the risk of similar content violations is slimmer on these sites, but they aren't going to just wholesale approve that without an audit.

I don't think so. Most of the missing videos are from pre-acquisition when SC himself was running it. Why would they have Stu-Blake pop-up, but not the regular Stu-Blake scene?
 

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I don't think so. Most of the missing videos are from pre-acquisition when SC himself was running it. Why would they have Stu-Blake pop-up, but not the regular Stu-Blake scene?

I'm not suggesting specific scenes were pulled for specific reasons, just saying it seems to indicate there's some sort of review happening behind the scenes. Given that we know MG as a whole is under the microscope, it's a reasonable assumption.
 

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"Maintenance" is code for they don't know what they're doing. Good maintenance is done swiftly with no interruption. Some shit went down and now they're scrambling, is the most likely scenario.
 

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Maintenance that goes on for weeks? That seems... Unlikely.

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I agree, but I think the problem isn't the ability, but lack of subscribers. Even prior to Covid, the industry as a whole was struggling and SC seems to be having it worse than most of the rest. Other than solos, most of the vids uploaded the past eight months have been pop-ups, repost or compilations, so I'm guessing "Maintenance" is code for grab all the money you can before the site goes down for good.
 

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I just wish the real SC will buy it back.

He's happily retired in his 40s, I believe, off the money he made from selling to Mindgeek.

I can't think that anyone would get into producing porn anymore, there's no money in it.

I wonder how much money there really even is in directly producing content, like OnlyFans, unless you're one of the top few content producers.

The golden era of internet porn is gone, amazing how brief it was and how we didn't even notice it when we were in it.