Everything Old Is New Again: The “Emergence” Of Altporn

Despite our conviction that altporn is dead (kidding! Sort of!), it was still nice to see the San Francisco Bay Guardian doing a piece on one of our favorite porn trends.

Or would have been, had they managed to get any of the facts right. Some of our favorite fuck ups:

In a weird porn-imitating-life-imitating-porn switch, two big stars of altporn, Sasha Grey and Charlotte Stokely, currently star in campaigns for American Apparel.

Someone please transport us to the world in which Sasha Grey and Charlotte Stokely are altporn stars. No, seriously—we would have loved to have, ahem, worked with them during our own altporn days.

What's the next big thing in altporn? Hipsters.

Also, while you're at it, please transport us to the world where Terry Richardson never existed.

It seems like everything is getting hipstered out these days. From clothing to music to even the rebranding of the Pepsi logo, everything is getting a hipster makeover. Porn is no exception. If you look at the logo for Vivid Alt, you'll notice that it's tricked out to resemble an Urban Outfitters catalog. In the videos, the actresses are decked out in American Apparel. Hipster culture subsumes and dismantles the aesthetics of popular culture, appropriates its sincerity, and transforms it into a pastiche of irony. Likewise, hipster porn subsumes and dismantles the aesthetics of hipster culture, appropriates its irony, and transforms it into something utterly sincere: porn.

We refuse to offer comment on this. It can stand on its own.

And on that note, we now return you to your regularly scheduled smut.

· Isn't it ironic? (sfbg.com)
· Thumbnail mindfuck: Apathy creates hipster altporn three years before its "emergence" (suicidegirls.com)