 After leaving the porn industry, one of the actresses in his films, Keiko, referred to McKai as "edgy as a butterknife".Others, such as porn reviewers Roger Pipe and Scott McGowan, denounced McKai for what they see as his artistic pretensions, with McGowan stating "If people jack off to your art, you're not the artist you think you are".McKai's namesake commented that “the whole punk-porn thing is really just about fashion.