![]() Laila Mickelwait continues to lead the Traffickinghub movement today and is determined to do so until its goals are accomplished. By January 2021, Pornhub deleted 80% of the site totaling 10 million videos, lost all payment processing (MasterCard, Visa, Discover and PayPal), upended its business model and is now a global pariah-facing 7 major lawsuits and under investigation by multiple governments for child sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and other illegal activity. In January 2020, Pornhub was the largest and most popular porn website in the world, the 10th most visited website across the Internet (more than Netflix, Amazon, or Yahoo), and the third most influential tech company on society only surpassed by Facebook and Google. In a relatively short amount of time Traffickinghub has made enormous progress thanks to the work and participation of all involved. Over 600 organizations have joined forces to call for criminal accountability for Pornhub and its parent company MindGeek, along with over 200 survivors, and over two million people from 192 countries have signed the Traffickinghub movement petition. Traffickinghub has been endorsed by over 300 anti-trafficking, women’s rights, and child protection organizations around the world. Keep reading for a roundup of some of the (many) strong opinions that attendees have shared around the web.Traffickinghub was founded by Laila Mickelwait in February 2020 and advanced in conjunction with Exodus Cry, quickly becoming a global movement of individuals and organizations across a broad spectrum of political, faith and non-faith, economic, and ideological backgrounds, uniting together for the single purpose of holding Pornhub accountable for enabling, distributing and profiting from real mass sexual crime. ![]() “The Idol” premieres Sunday, June 4 on HBO. But the online reactions that began to flow in painted a much more divisive picture. While some of the sexual content was shocking (even by HBO standards), the premiere received an overwhelmingly enthusiastic response from the crowd in the room. The mysterious show has been surrounded by plenty of question marks, but Cannes attendees got some answers when first two episodes of “The Idol” screened out of competition at the festival on Monday night. I’m definitely trying to shed that skin and be reborn.” I’ll still make music, maybe as Abel, maybe as The Weeknd. “It’s getting to a place and a time where I’m getting ready to close the Weeknd chapter. “I’m going through a cathartic path right now,” he said. Tesfaye went on to say that he sees the show as an opportunity to put his pop star persona to rest and begin making more art under his real identity. Lily-Rose Depp Says ‘Nobody Lost Their Minds’ Going Method on ‘The Idol’ That was the germ of the idea for ‘The Idol’: what happens when a pop star falls for the wrong guy and no one speaks up.” “He said something that I’ll always remember: ‘If I wanted to start a cult, I could.’ What he meant is that his fans were so loyal and devoted that they would follow him anywhere. “Abel came to us with a pitch,” Levinson said. In a recent interview, Levinson and Tesfaye explained that the show was inspired by the dark side of celebrity that Tesfaye had experienced when he rose to prominence as The Weeknd. ![]() The series stars Lily Rose-Depp as the world’s biggest pop star whose relationship with a sleazy guru (Tesfaye) leads her down a dark, cult-like path. ![]() ![]() Few new TV shows in recent memory have generated more mystique than “ The Idol.” The music industry drama from Sam Levinson and The Weeknd (working under his real name Abel Tesfaye) attracted plenty of attention for its expensive reshoots and reported creative clashes, but its creators have always stood by their vision and insisted that the extra work was worth it. ![]()
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