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Zara Dar’s six-minute explainer video “So what are Integrals?” has a little over half a million views with 450 likes and an 87 percent positive “thumbs up” review rate. Commenters have said the video, which is a short introduction to one of the fundamental operations of calculus, is “educational,” “great,” and “just incredible.”
“I have to say, as an aerospace engineering student, that you have explained the usefulness of integrals better than my university professor,” one commenter said.
Only a few commenters complained or demanded that Dar take her clothes off, which is impressive because the video and comments were posted to her Pornhub channel, where Dar has been posting educational videos like “What is a neural network?” and “Intuitive Approach to Understanding Probability” for the last year.
When I asked her why she thinks her videos are gaining traction on a porn site, Dar said “I’m not entirely sure, but it could be because my SFW videos stand out against the typical NSFW content on the platform. That contrast might make them more intriguing or refreshing to viewers. But that’s just my speculation.”
Dar, who dropped out of grad school to be a content creator full-time (she also has a Pornhub video about that choice), also posts the same videos to YouTube and has an OnlyFans where she posts adult content, where she says she’s made over a million dollars.
On Wednesday, while the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case challenging a law in Texas that requires age verification for people to view porn sites, Justice Samuel Alito asked if Pornhub was “like the old Playboy magazines,” meaning does the site just offer pornography or content that is not pornographic as well. The answer is that it doesn’t have much in terms of written articles, b there’s a long history of posting non pornographic content to Pornhub. As I wrote almost a decade ago, some people do it as a goof, but it’s also not the worst place to monetize one’s videos, even if they’re not porn. In fact, I learned about Dar’s channel via a post she made on Linkedin, in which she explained that the same educational videos she shares on YouTube make more money per million views on Pornhub because Pornhub offers better rates—$1,000 per million views on Pornhub versus YouTube’s $340 per million views.
For reasons she doesn’t understand, Dar’s Linkedin account was banned after that Linkedin post started going viral.
“My account was banned, seemingly because of this post,” Dar told me. “I received an email stating, ‘We recently removed your profile photo because it does not appear to be a photo of you,’ which was confusing since LinkedIn has never requested ID verification from me. When I tried to log in to update my photo, I discovered my account was banned.”
Dar tried contacting Linkedin support but did not receive a response and she’s still unable to access her account. Linkedin also did not respond to my request for comment.
“I have no issue providing LinkedIn with my ID for verification (as I have done so for many other platforms), but I was under the impression that it’s optional,” Dar told me. “It’s frustrating that verification isn’t required for other users, yet my account was banned for sharing a straightforward fact about my content creation career. I was engaging professionally, but LinkedIn’s strict handling of this situation feels counterproductive to its purpose.”
In the message sent to her by Linkedin asking her to change her profile photo, Linkedin said that profile photos can get flagged for a variety of reasons, including for “being considered offensive.” There was no nudity in Dar’s profile photo.
Ironically, being removed from social media with little explanation or recourse is another good reason for people to share their content on Pornhub. We don’t know exactly why Dar’s Linkedin account was removed because Linkedin won’t explain, but it’s possible it was reported because it was reported by users after going viral on the LinkedinLunatics subreddit, where people share Linkedin posts they feel don’t belong on the professional networking platform. As we’ve reported over the years, this is something that happens to sex workers and adult content creators on other social media sites all the time.
Dar said she makes more money on YouTube overall because that’s where she gets more views, but in addition to higher rates, an added benefit of posting to Pornhub is that Pornhub is not likely to ban her for sharing adult content elsewhere on the web.
“I can't believe this website is banned in Texas!” one commenter said on Dar’s Pornhub video on pi. “They're trying to hinder our education.”
If you’re reading this, you purchased a Snapple manufactured in Jully of last year. During that time, our computers were down. Since we’re not Dr. Pepper (or Diet Dr. Pepper), we have to rely on fun facts on the undersides of our bottle caps to get people to buy our products. And without computers, our writers had to come up with facts they knew to be true without the ability to fact-check them.
While all the facts printed were true, we must retract the following Snapple Facts as they are not quite interesting enough to live up to the standard we set for ourselves:
- One time, Queen Elizabeth was twelve.
- An alive person’s heart beats more than nine times a day.
- There is a frog in my backyard that responds to the name Dennis.
- Other animals besides cats probably land on their feet; we just haven’t thrown them off stuff enough to know for sure.
- I might be overstating how much the frog responds to the name Dennis. My stepson, who hates my guts despite my efforts to connect with him, is named Dennis, and it’s just nice to have something respond when I say “Hello, Dennis.”
- Despite being the First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden is far from being the first woman.
- The word “tiramisu” comes from the Italian word for coffee-, ladyfinger-, mascarpone-, and cocoa-based dessert.
- Frog Dennis and Stepson Dennis have answered my phone calls the same number of times, and neither said thank you when I bought Stepson Dennis a new computer.
- Gorillas are just one of several types of animals.
- The average person has 1.5 X chromosomes.
- Helena, Dennis is using the computer I bought him to make pictures of me where my head is really small and my torso is really long (something he knows I’m sensitive about), and he tells his friends it’s a real picture of me. I’ve asked him to stop, but he won’t.
- Bigfoot’s real name could be Chris.
- The Bible has a book called “Numbers” but all the other books also have little numbers in them every sentence or so.
- Snapple makes its fact writers stay all day until they’ve written enough facts, no matter what.
- Cox’s Hardware, which is owned by Stepson Dennis’s real father, whom he respects, burned down. The arsonist was never caught even though he stopped by during the fire pretending to want to buy nails.
- Despite being known for their height, giraffes can be smaller than koala bears if the giraffe is really far away and the koala is close.
- The frog in my yard kind of responded to the name “Kevin” this morning, so I don’t know what’s happening anymore.
- Snapple will let employees go home for the day if the building mysteriously catches fire.
If any of these facts were on the underside of your cap, please take it back to your point of purchase (provided you did not buy it at Cox’s Hardware) and exchange it for a cap that says, THE POPE IS NOT ALLOWED TO BE AN ORGAN DONOR.
California sober: No alcohol or drugs except marijuana
New York sober: No alcohol or drugs except cocaine
Kentucky sober: No alcohol or drugs except a cool, tall mint julep on a sweltering July afternoon
Oregon sober: No alcohol if it’s not an IPA
Texas sober: No alcohol except empty beer cans to shoot
Maine sober: No addictive drugs except lobster rolls
Maryland sober: No addictive drugs except crab cakes
Georgia sober: No addictive drugs except whatever Marjorie Taylor Greene is on
Oklahoma sober: No drugs, but I suspect we’d grow amazing pot
Arkansas sober: No alcohol except moonshine
Massachusetts sober: No alcohol, but I still act like an asshole
Illinois sober: Liquor? Ya got it all wrong, copper. This here’s an honest Chicago church hall, see?
Kansas sober: I just eat BBQ until I feel drunk
Missouri sober: No alcohol or drugs, but you know we were high when we decided to build our big-ass arch
Louisiana sober: No drugs or alcohol unless I’m a tourist turning a historic city into a hellhole
Idaho sober: It’s called DT-alpha, a new designer rave drug from Berlin that combines the euphoria of molly with the dissociation of a psilocybin and nitrous gas combination. Its street name is “Boise.”
Nevada sober: You’re kidding, right?
West Virginia sober: No alcohol unless I’m in a bar singing John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads”
Ohio sober: Whatever drugs JD Vance says is keeping me lazy and dumb
North Carolina sober: No alcohol or drugs except 150 billion cigarettes a year
New Hampshire sober: Our liquor laws are so confusing it’s impossible to drink here anyway
Washington: Adrenachrome
Rhode Island sober: Why? You holdin’?
Colorado sober: California already took ours
Iowa sober: You try sitting through a caucus without drinking!
Virginia sober: No alcohol or drugs until the next Whiskey Rebellion
Indiana sober: Addicted to basketball
Alabama sober: Addicted to football
Washington, D.C. sober: Addicted to any sport unless I have to change a team name to be less racist
Mississippi sober: No alcohol or drugs, but I abuse the letter “i”
Hawaii sober: I told your family I’m checking into rehab, but I’m really checking into Sandals
Pennsylvania sober: No alcohol or drugs except on Election Day, apparently
Wyoming sober: I wish I knew how to quit you (you = alcohol and drugs)
Delaware sober: No alcohol or drugs, but when Joe Biden comes home, I’m buying him a shot
Utah sober: Bitch, we invented this shit
New Mexico sober: Magic mushrooms
Connecticut sober: Cremini mushrooms
Alaska sober: No drugs or alcohol except at night (which lasts six months)
Michigan sober: Some years I lean toward drinking, some years I don’t. I’m hard to predict.
Nebraska sober: No alcohol or drugs except the high I get when I leave Nebraska
Wisconsin sober: Does anyone really consider Pabst Blue Ribbon “beer?”
Vermont sober: No drugs or alcohol with an ABV above one percent of the top one percent of the top one percent
Tennessee sober: Not sure, but “Tennessee Sober” is an amazing title for a country song
New Jersey sober: What are you, my fucking doctor?
Montana sober: No cigarettes unless I’m rolling my own, hombre
Minnesota sober: No alcohol or drugs except the steroids Jesse Ventura legalized
North Dakota sober: No alcohol or drugs, but if I’m caught I blame it on South Dakota
South Dakota sober: No alcohol or drugs, but if I’m caught I blame it on North Dakota
Arizona sober: No alcohol or drugs, but if I’m caught I blame it on immigration
South Carolina sober: No alcohol or drugs unless I’m riding a Sea-Doo
Florida sober: Not sober
Bed: A group of tired women.
Coalition: Women who are tired of hearing about their reproductive rights getting trampled on.
Guys: Actually, a group of women.
Girls: Actually, a group of fully grown women.
Old Bats: A group of women who used to be goths in high school and still listen to The Cure.
Brood: A bunch of women talking about raising backyard chickens.
Swarm: Women who hate Sting for some reason.
Clowder: A group of childless cat ladies.
Band: Any three women who are successful solo artists and get together to form a supergroup, like the Highwomen or Boygenius.
Herd: A bunch of women who love border collies.
Susans: A group of women who vote.
Shrewdness: A group of women who are mad at men who voted for Trump.
Drove: Women who are discussing carpooling in a group text.
Charm: A bunch of women who dress like Stevie Nicks.
Ladies: A group of women at a restaurant.
Flock: A group of women who would like to move to Florida, except for the flooding and the politics.
Team: Women who work together to achieve a common goal without any men involved.
Exaltation: A bunch of women who loved their book club book.
Pack: A group of women who are commiserating about their lack of storage space.
Murmuration: Women who are tired of being told to speak up in meetings.
Labor: A group of women who have performed uncompensated labor (emotional or physical).
