As part of the hype surrounding last month’s release of the Resident Evil 4 remake, someone jokingly posted a link to a YouTube review by Sasha Grey. That is a name I had not heard in a long time. As a brief refresher, this woman was built up by the porn peddlers in order to popularize rough anal sex and some depravity involving feces. She was infamous for doing anything on camera. I have never watched any of her videos, but judging from her not particularly attractive face it is probably no surprise that she did not focus on POV BJs.
Sasha Grey’s period of peak popularity was about 15 years ago, when she got a role in the movie The Girlfriend Experience. Her acting in this movie is dogshit, in case you are wondering. She has gained further mainstream exposure in other roles. Perhaps her second most well-known acting role was in the TV series Entourage, which used to be very popular among PUA types back in the days. Given how incredibly poor her acting is, I am wondering if she got those roles as some kind of a reward for the utter on-screen depravity she was involved in as part of her porn career. There are probably some connections between the people running the porn industry and Hollywood, or perhaps it is all a total coincidence.
The problem of selling your body is that you eventually will get older and your looks will fade. Sasha Grey was never much of a looker, not even in her early 20s. Now, in her mid-30s, porn roles are probably no longer so easy to get for her. This must be a pretty tough life, if you think about it. Surely, she got only paid between $0.5k to $2k per scene back in the days, and she’d have to take a whole lot of dick to make a decent income this way. Her big paydays were probably her Hollywood gigs anyway. According to online sources, her net worth is in the low seven figures, by the way.
The porn gravy train will run out eventually, and what does a porn star do then? A lot of them are trying to make it as e-thots nowadays but they just cannot compete in this area. There are many thousands of women far better looking that any washed-up porn star, and every day there is a new batch of women who turn 16 or 18 or whatever the age limit for e-thotting may be. This is a race to the bottom where only very few will manage to remain relevant for long. On a related note, when was the last time you have heard of Belle Delphine, the chick who was all over the mainstream a few years ago for selling her bathwater? Thought so.
In case you are wondering, Sasha Grey’s YouTube channel has about 450k subscribers and she gets about 20 to 30k views per video, with some going as low as 10k, and some outliers. This is a pretty low audience engagement. There are countless YouTuber focusing on gaming that completely blow that chick out of the water, and why wouldn’t they? I surely don’t want to get my gaming news from a washed up porn whore.
If you want to go down a rabbit hole, have fun looking up what other ex-porn stars are up to. I recall coming across a post some weeks ago where someone made fun of Mia Khalifa for stating that nobody wants to date her anymore. I am sure nobody wanted to properly date her in the past either. I wonder if she is also into reviewing vidya. Perhaps woman like her or Sasha Grey should have looked for a husband instead of going into porn. That window is closed for them, and so are almost all other venues for economic success. After the peak in popularity early in their supposed career, the remaining six decades of their life will be a long and slow descent into hell.
Riley Reid apparently ended up marrying a pretty high status guy. There was an interview with him where he was talking about how she’d call up other girls and they’d have threesomes. She definitely leveraged her talents to land the guy.
I was not aware of this so I looked into it. Her husband is Pasha Petkuns. They married within months of meeting, which makes me wonder how thoroughly he has vetted her. Also, he is not conventionally successful. It seems that he makes money off being a hot guy on Instagram, which is quite comparable to her line of work. Both will have the problem that they can only pursue their careers for a small part of their adult life.
When she was active in her porn career, I never heard of Sasha Grey. But then suddenly she was all over main stream media: appearing in movies/tv shows and newspaper articles (even for non US newspapers).
As you said Aaron, she can’t act and is not really pretty. I wonder whether the porn industry paid or convinced in other ways the main stream media to „make her big“. The porn industry would basically use her as a marketing device to trick young women: „see you can start in porn as a launch pad to become a famous tv actress“. Probably a lot of women fell for this
Exactly. Could be another devious shtick of social engineering by the porn ilk and their puppet masters in the background…
This is an interesting angle that is completely plausible. We have seen the same play out on a much bigger scale with OnlyFans in recent years, where women get told that they only need to demean themselves in front of a webcam to make a lot of money. This works for a very small number of women. Yet, due to female solipsism even the typical 6/10 signs up, shows her flabby tits, and expects to make six figures per month.