Verification makes users eligible to join the ModelHub program which allows them to monetize their videos.Ī lot of unverified videos on Pornhub aren’t even porn. Pornhub told Motherboard that this process will be more thorough in the new year, but didn’t provide specifics about what that will involve. Verified users, according to the site, are those who have submitted a selfie of themselves holding a piece of paper with their username and (or the Mindgeek site they're signing up for) handwritten on it. That number briefly went back up to 7.2 million, so at the moment it’s unclear how many videos will be removed. On Monday morning as of 9 a.m., that search bar is showing only 4.7 million videos, meaning Pornhub removed most of the videos on its site, including the most-viewed non-verified amateur video, which had more than 29 million views. Before the content purge on Sunday evening, Pornhub hosted around 13.5 million videos according to the number displayed on the site's search bar, a large number of them from unverified accounts.
