Belle Knox is hardly the first University student to do porn in order to pay tuition, but she’s the first whose outing by a fellow student caused a national firestorm of media coverage. In case you haven’t caught wind of this story yet, here’s the low down. Belle Knox (a.k.a. The Duke University Pornstar), a freshman at Duke University, was outed when a classmate of hers recognized her from one of her videos.
News of Belle’s part time porn work took off like a firestorm, starting mid-February in Durham (where Duke University is located), then across North Carolina, the United States and Worldwide. Pornhub’s statisticians analyzed the data in these key regions to see how interest in her videos compared to the international media coverage her story received.
By mid-March nearly 3% of all Pornhub searches in Durham were seeking Belle’s videos, plus 1.6% in North Carolina and 0.8% across the United States. And although 0.4% of worldwide searches might not sound like a lot, when you compare that to Pornhub’s average of 35 million daily visitors, that’s over 1.3 million people looking for Belle each day.
Belle states that she began staring in adult films to help pay for her college tuition. The Pornhub team took notice of her popularity among users, and also her ability to handle the media surrounding her story. She was quickly offered a paid internship at Pornhub which she happily accepted. We all look forward to working with Belle who will be helping out with Pornhub’s social media and marketing!