Rightwing pundit claims popular adult website is “converting” straight men with secret messages

The far-right’s not-so-secret obsession with pornography was bared in full this week as the Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles pushed a new conspiracy theory claiming the adult content site PornHub is actively trying to turn cisgender, straight men gay and trans.

It sounds like the plot of a PornHub video.

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In a five-star, cherry-picked headline, Knowles assembled this amuse-bouche of facts to make his claim: “EXCLUSIVE: Top PornHub staff admits to inserting ‘gay’ and ‘trans’ themes into mainstream porn to ‘convert’ straight men.”

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Use of the transitive verb “inserting” was particularly inspired.

The conspiracy theory does not extend to women perhaps because straight men find that kind of content entertaining.

Knowles based his assertion on the work of Arden Young, an undercover “journalist” behind a newly released video from Sound Investigations.

“Protecting children is not a concern, maximizing profits is their concern, and they don’t seem to care who they hurt in the process,” Young told Knowles in an interview, because turning straight adult men gay is all about grooming children.

And according to some of the responses on X, it’s apparently also about Jewish people making a buck.

“Stop looking at porn, if for no other reason than the senior writers here are saying they want to make you gay and trans,” Knowles warned his rabid porn-obsessed fans, as if.

In undercover videos recorded by Sound Investigations without the subjects’ knowledge, three employees of PornHub’s parent company, Aylo, talk about the presence of gay and trans actors in some of the “straight” content on the site.

One employee acknowledged that while some platforms are “primarily for straight men,” Aylo tries to “push the envelope as much as you can and be like, can I hint at bi content here, what if we brought a trans talent onto the site… you kinda take those risks to broaden it a little more.”

The employee added, “You’re always trying to push a little further.”

In Knowles’ version, this content will send straight men to a gender clinic.

According to the same employee, PornHub’s parent company is constantly measuring their videos’ performance based on metrics that define the content.

Referencing a trans content site, he says, “It’s female-presenting trans women and they sell that to straight men, so I think the next big step is doing something that’s counter-culture, maybe doing like a trans man in a scene, like having a guy f**k a male-presenting trans man with a vagina and see how that does.”

According to Knowles, this metrics-based business model isn’t capitalism, but indoctrination.

“The takeaways here for me,” Knowles concludes, are that “this is as clear-cut a case for proper political action as I have ever seen. If you are in elected office, wield the power of the state. What they are doing is illegal in so many ways.”

EXCLUSIVE: Top PornHub staff admits to inserting “gay” and “trans” themes into mainstream porn to “convert” straight men pic.twitter.com/w8otDNm4Du

— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) December 6, 2023

In April, Knowles revealed the existence of “hypnosis porn” that can turn cisgender men into transgender women.

He acknowledged that he was afraid to even research this kind of porn while preparing for his show, lest he himself be hypnotized and turned into a trans woman.