Three board members for the APAG Union have filed a lawsuit against OnlyFans and Meta (Facebook and Instagram’s parent company).

Alana Evans, Kelly Pierce, and Ruby have filed a civil lawsuit, using the same lawyer who is representing FanCentro in their lawsuit against OnlyFans and Meta.

Like the FanCentro lawsuit, the complaint filed this week by the APAG board members claims that “up until late 2018 or early 2019, the online adult entertainment industry was a vibrant, competitive market” but that sometime after Leo purchase of OnlyFans, performers who “had promoted competitors of OnlyFans suddenly began to experience a drop-off in traffic and user engagement on social media platforms.”

In their lawsuit, Alana Evans alleges that before 2019, she had over 100,000 followers on Instagram, but beginning in March 2019, she “noticed that her followers were receiving many fewer of her posts than they had previously received. She made inquiries on behalf of herself, as well as on behalf of other members of APAG, but did not receive any clear explanation of why this was happening.”

“On Jan. 24, 2020, Instagram deleted Alana Evans’ account, so that none of the content in her account could be seen, and she could not log in to make new posts. She had received no explanation for why this occurred. Following complaints to Instagram from Alana Evans and from followers, as well as coverage in the adult entertainment trade press, the account was reinstated, but her reach was vastly reduced.

Although Instagram never owned up to shadowbanning Alana Evans or other porn stars, the numbers are hard to explain.

As the lawsuit points out, “there is no statistical or other benign explanation for the disproportionate classification/filtering treatment of and effects on both (i) OnlyFans’ competitors on social media platforms and (ii) providers who had ever promoted or affiliated with OnlyFans’ competitors, leaving the conclusion that it was caused by a manipulation of one or more of the individual databases (or sets of training data) that were then shared in part or in full among multiple companies,” including a database targeting terrorist organizations and affiliated individuals.

Alana Evans took to Twitter to state that she feels she is now being unfairly targetted by OnlyFans, who are making unreasonable and unrealistic demands on her Onlyfans account.

In one incident, they violated a video of Alana Evans who was fully clothed, standing in front of a tent while camping explaining that she is taking off for the weekend. She is fully clothed in the video. Nobody else is featured in the video. There is no sexual activity whatsoever.

In another incident, Alana Evans posted a video she licensed from a content broker featuring her and two other performers. Since the other two performers did not have an OnlyFans account she was asked to provide documentation that the models were over 18. She provided a model release, as well as three forms of ID for each of the two performers, showing that one performer was over 30, while the other was in their early 20s.

OnlyFans rejected this documentation stating the three forms of ID weren’t enough. Two days later, they took down another one of her videos for the same reason.

It’s hard to say if she’s being targetted by OnlyFans but it does seem unusual that her account who has never had a single problem for years, all of the sudden on the day the lawsuit was filed received 16 account violations. Yes, you read that right, sixteen.