First, The New York Times published an expose on victims of child abuse that had their rape videos uploaded to the site.
Pornhub hasn’t released the official breakdown yet, but according to Vice, the number of searchable videos in the adult entertainment site went from 13.5 million to 4.7 million.
It may seem like a drastic move to some fans of the site, but it was a change needed for a long time and it came as the site finds itself under intense scrutiny.
It’s an absolute drastic reduction, and it affects a lot of the service’s most popular amateur videos.