Not registering on the site, so I can’t read the article, but the reason seems obvious enough. For most people, just looking to watch sex, it really doesn’t matter if one of the actors starts a scene by saying, “Step brother, what are you doing?” For people who are into incest stuff, for whatever reason, they’re going to be happy about it. It’s a situation that doesn’t cost extra money, all they need is a regular room in a regular house. So there’s little downside for the porn studios, with likely bigger upsides.
I can tell you this: they know what people click - if it wasn’t selling, they wouldn’t do it.
You’re welcome.
Okay, that article is bullshit. It’s popular because it appeals to the loses in our meritocracy and liberal democracy. How does he know this? He doesn’t, there’s zero data to back it up.
Not my jam, but it probably has to do with it being taboo but not illegal or violent. That or whoever is in charge of the scene is into that type of thing.
I think everybody is overthinking it, honestly. This is probably a UX problem. At some point some of these taboo reasons led to a relatively minor trend of roleplaying that situation, that made “step” a SEO bonus, and since you can claim any porn fits the genre, even retroactively, it also became the default way to label a porn video in algorithmically served free porn sites. And now it’s probably just convention, or tradition or whatever.
Yea. Bringing up meritocracy and incels to it, was way overthinking everything.
It’s one of the few narrative devices left in porn nowadays. It doesn’t take as long to setup, like all of the old porn narratives. The cable/TV/plumber has been crowed about for so long it breaks the mood.
Plus you can fit a quick taboo in small 8-10 minutes that works for online porn. It’s less about some big zeitgeist moment that shows some secret about our society, and more about how it is a lot easier to produce.
It’s both corporatism and enshitification all in one.
I know a lot of it is getting made, but I’m not sure it’s actually popular. It’s porn so a lot of people probably mute it and ignore the weird storylines
I would bet money that it’s popular enough that it is worth adding those stupid, unrelated titles to videos. I bet pornhub models see increased views, and then title every video that way. You gotta play the game, and unfortunately the game is step sibs now.
I’m not doubting you can get more views, but I am doubting that many people specifically seek that out. It’s kind of like an “add on feature” that you can ignore if it’s not your thing. These are just people having sex, and the story is made up so it’s ignorable
I watch is but only because it is literally in almost everything. I don’t want to watch it but I am basically forced to at this point.
How many people actually watch it for the plot?
Most probably just look for something with good camera angles, nice looking people, and the specific kink they want.
Everyone knows those two are not actually related. And the terrible acting certainly doesn’t help to sell the theme.
I think it is due to it being a easy/lazy setup for writing the story. First locational and setup, you can use a house or apartment easily and explain why these two people are in proximity of each other in this setting. Second the taboo-ness gives a reason why these attractive people have not acted on their basic impulses yet, thus creating conflict (storywise) that they have to resolve, que the banging. It is taboo-ish socially wise but not legally wise, like many other genres.