CEO and COO of Mindgeek (Pornhub, Youporn, redtube) resign
I get the feeling this is a “fuck it” exit. They don’t appear to have fallen out with the rest of management, since the two would basically control the corporate direction, and if they were disagreeing with each other then why would both leave since the company would likely side with one and the other would leave.<p>I can imagine they got sick of fighting for their company against the ongoing campaign to make them
Pay for their past transgressions. It’s kinda hard to really sum up the whole situation now, you have spineless credit card processing companies, duopolistic credit card companies, religious anti-porn activists, feminist anti-porn activists, porn industry advocates, individual porn performers (“amateurs” ), the traditional porn studios, the end user customers, and the news media … all in one huge pot stewing over complex issues that most people don’t really bother digging into. Yes they did bad things, but they also weren’t as bad as some were painting them, and they also destroyed a chunk of the entire porn industry in one fell swoop as a knee jerk reaction to frantically damage control an issue that was primarily pushed by a smear campaign by a religiously funded group that wants to end all porn… they were an easy target due to social stigmas and they basically had a near lethal blow dealt to them, which had knock on effects to the entire industry they were the dominant player in.<p>It’s not a great situation and I don’t blame them for want the hell out of it. I’d probably have burned out too.