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ABSTRACT
This article investigates a transforming zeitgeist around DIY pornography, which is defined as diverse online pornographies and erotica that are made and distributed by amateurs or independent producers. DIY pornography embraces, according to Attwood, ‘an ethos that extends across new and alternative sexual cultures, subcultural sexualities, kink communities, and the amateur pornographies that are part of a broader contemporary and participatory culture’. Since there has been an upsurge of deepfake porn and other hate media on digital platforms, how can we understand these porn cultures and how are they appropriating the ethos of DIY porn?
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Notes
1 NerdPron is located at www.nerdpron.com, Beautiful Agony is located at https://beautifulagony.com, and OMGYes is located at https://omgyes.com. Accessed 1 November 2023.
2 See Katrien Jacobs interview with Jurgen Brüning at https://afterglowproject.tumblr.com/JrgenBrning. Accessed 29 October 2023.
3 The 2006 Cum2cut mission statement can be found at https://www.cum2cut.net/en/index.php?sect=pron. Accessed 29 October 2023.
4 See Katrien Jacobs interview with Tatiana Bazzichelli at https://afterglowproject.tumblr.com/Tatiana%20Bazzichelli. Accessed 29 October 2023.
5 See CBS News, ‘Doctored Nancy Pelosi Video Highlights Threat of “Deepfake” Tech’, 26 May 2019, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doctored-nancy-pelosi-video-highlights-threat-of-deepfake-tech-2019-05-25/. Accessed 29 October 2023.
6 Johannsen quoted in Drew Harwell, ‘Fake-porn Videos are Being Weaponized to Harass and Humiliate Women: “Everybody is a Potential Target”’, The Washington Post, 30 December 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/30/fake-porn-videos-are-being-weaponized-harass-humiliate-women-everybody-is-potential-target
7 See the report published by the organization Kifkif at https://kifkif.be/cnt/artikel/onderzoek-online-haat-racisme-seksisme-en-queerfobie-mogen-geen-politiek-wapen. Accessed 1 November 2023.
8 Movies are available at https://mrdeepfakes.com/video/96896/it-s-not-greta-thunberg-casting-not-protesting and https://mrdeepfakes.com/search/feminist-activist. Accessed 1 November 2023.
9 The movie is available at https://mrdeepfakes.com/video/13669/greta-thunberg-world-premiere-every-hole and https://sexcelebrity.net/search/greta-thunberg-world-premiere-every/. Accessed 1 November 2023.
10 See Tom Simonite, ‘The Deepfake Voice That Can Help Trans Gamers’, Wired, 21 September 2021, https://www.wired.com/story/deepfake-voices-help-trans-gamers. Accessed 1 November 2023.