ManyVids, Bella French’s Bio & Internalized Whorephobia

I am sure by now that everybody has noticed or seen announcements regarding the changes going on on ManyVids. Honestly, the changes going on on that platform are absolutely detrimental to so many. But that’s not why I’m absolutely disgusted and disappointed. We need to talk about Bella French’s Bio.

Bella French’s About Me

I am hoping by everybody has had a chance to read the clearly AI written and internalized whorephobia filled bio that Bella French has put up. Honestly, the fact that it is basically just copy and pasted from ChatGPT except for her direct quotes. Y’all that really just is whatever. We’re all busy we are all looking for little shortcuts here and there. That is not what we have to focus on and what needs to be pointed out and directly questioned.

This entire bio is dripping in whorephobia and hatred of sex workers. And I think it would be a good idea for us to sit down and go line by line and call that fucking shit out. Bella darlin, you do not get to attempt to hide this hateful bullshit with rescue framing and spiritual moralizing. Not while you are actively making it harder for us to live, shaming us and leaning into societal stigma.

Let’s start this by being very human with each other. Her experience her emotions and hurt is valid. She has every right to feel that way, she also has every right to speak how she feels publicly. It’s always hard and sad to see someone have such negative experiences.

But let’s get very damn clear. Her experience is not everybody’s. Her experience is valid. But her trying to white knight sex workers who are managing their own businesses and their own lives and their own experiences is not fucking okay. Again, directly to Miss Bella here, you do not get to project your hurt onto everybody else. How dare you try and use a rescue narrative dressed as empowerment all while you are adding more and more restrictions on every single fucking sex worker on that platform. Directly harming us because you feel bad about a choice you made.

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Bella French’s Bio Broken Down

Miss ma’am here uses quite a bit of flowery language and smoke screening to hide a lot of self-hate, and hate for the people who use her platform. So let’s look at it.

Sex Work is a Last Resort

As a woman, Bella has lived through the harshest realities of survival. After facing a deeply challenging business collapse, she turned to sex work to avoid bankruptcy.

Framing sex work as a last resort sets up the entire rescue narrative. Plenty of us choose this work for money, flexibility, disability access, or control of our own lives without having to answer to another person. Your choice, that you made and you later regretted, is not our universal truth.

The Desperation Trope

Imagine the level of desperation it takes to choose a camming career just to repay business loans.

And here it is written out right away. The desperation as the default trope for sex work. This storyline is weaponized every single time it can be to treat us sex workers as broken little birds in need of help. Everybody gets desperate. Not everybody goes into sex work. Bella how dare you use your shame and your regret to frame every single other sex worker as desperate and only here because they have no other options. And not only just framing us in that way. But then actively taking the steps required to make it even fucking harder for us.

Projection of Self-Shame

I had to put my entire life on hold, facing rejection, fear, and a deep sense of shame. I never wanted anyone to know how profoundly I had failed

Alright, there’s three different parts of this that need to be pointed out.

• Your shame is yours. It does not get to define our labor. Consider therapy honey. Work through it. Don’t turn around and project it on everyone else.
• You violated your own boundaries. Honey you do not get to turn around and point the finger at anyone else or take out your hurt on anyone else but yourself. You made your choices.
• framing sex work as a failure and then turning around and creating a platform and profiting off sex workers is absolutely reprehensible. Yes you did fail. You had a safe for work business fail. And so you got into camming. Which is what opened the doors and the opportunity for you to become the CEO of this platform and rake in so much from other people’s labor and artistry. How dare you frame the sex work aspect of this as a failure when it is what has created & sustained you.

Suicide or… Revolution?

Then, one day, someone stole my content and posted it on an unregulated tube site. In that moment, I had two choices: end my life… or go after the exploitative adult industry — and end that instead.

First off honey I highly suggest looking at and practicing some emotional regulation. In that moment you had so many fucking choices. Maybe get a dmca takedown service like everyone else. Or send a dmca request yourself. Turning a theft into a mandate to “end” an entire labor sector is exactly how moral panics start. The problem was piracy and platform abuse, not the existence of adult work.

It is very important that we look at the strategic choice of using suicide in this messaging because is very intentful. It is to make the sex work industry look like it only leads to mental health and emotional health degradation. Again Bella honey, therapy is a great plan.

Profiting & Taking Power Away

ManyVids was born from that moment — created to take power away from corporate platforms that profit from exploitation, and return it to the hands of the creators.

• Power to creators: If power really returned to creators, you would not be teeing up your next big project to restrict our reach and steer our choices.
• Profiting from exploitation: Ma’am, sit down. As we all know they are now restricting the reach of NSFW videos and content. But, don’t worry, as long as we agree to give our content away for free, people who have paid the platform to be on a premium tier can see it. Quick question: we have to give our goods away for free now so that people who pay you will see it. How in the fuck is that not profiting from exploiting us?

The White Knight Narrative

Today, Bella is leading MV’s next evolution: helping elevate online sex workers by offering real alternatives and new, supported paths out of the adult industry

There is the exit language, clean and condescending. With of course her platform here to save us all. A “path out” is not neutral when it is the headline promise. Real support is safer payments, data privacy, fair moderation, fast appeals, and legal advocacy. Do better.

Naked to Survive

My goal is to create meaningful options, especially for women, so that no one ever has to get naked to survive. No woman, no man, no soul should have to cross that threshold just to pay rent

That is some hateful language. Equating nudity with degradation is classic respectability politics. Also, plenty of us choose nudity because it pays better than bosses who underpay and overreach. Bella honey I would much rather sit my ass on my bed and get naked here and there throughout the day and end the day knowing that I put in the work and the effort for myself and my future, than go slave my ass away in some warehouse, or corporate floor and earn pennies on the dollar so that my boss can get paid a big bonus at the end of the fucking year and have none of that effort going toward my own progression.

We Support You, Conditionally

And if you do, we will respect you, support you, and show you a way out — if and when you choose to take it.

You keep saying respect, then immediately pivot to exit. That is conditional care. Support without strings does not come with a tour guide to the door. And what about every other creator who is not willing to follow your misguided lead. Have you forgotten that we put in the work to support you and your current comfort? Have you forgotten you still have a duty to support us as NSFW creators on your platform?

Fuck You Disguised as Care

We’re here for you, even when the world may have given up on you. We never will

The narrative this paints that the world gives up on creators so we end up here is deplorable. Bella, you did not just give up on us. You gave up on us, shamed us, and are throwing us out the fucking door with no looking back. Have shame for your words and your actions. And cut the hero complex. Nobody is interested. That is all that this sentence fucking deserves.

Sacred Sexuality

Sexuality is sacred. It’s at the core of who we are. The solution isn’t to eliminate the adult industry, that would only create deeper shadows. The solution is elevation.

Miss ma’am, calling sexuality sacred while forcing restrictions onit is just a mega church rhetoric with a tech budget. “Elevation” that limits distribution and preaches purity is elimination. Let’s use precision of language here.

We Need ‘Healed’

Our relationship with sexuality must be healed

Your relationship with your sexuality might need healed. Again I suggest therapy. As for us creators, stop using us as your rehab project. The stigma and hate you have put only in this bio not even mentioning everywhere else is what is causing wounds.

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Let’s Cut the Bullshit

Here is what actually elevates sex workers right now:

• no strings attached support
• payment processing that does not suddenly ban us
• transparent moderation and real appeals
• Rapid DMCA and anti piracy tooling that does not punish victims
• Data privacy and no policy whiplash
• Large platforms using their voices to celebrate and support us
• Decriminalization and anti discrimination enforcement
• Housing, healthcare, and violence services that never require quitting.

If your plan is not delivering these, it is not elevation. It is restriction with marketing. These were fancy words honey. But shit is still shit no matter how much glitter you put on it. Hate is hate no matter how much loving language you use. Whorephobia is whorephobia no matter how internalized it is.

Your self shame is not ours. Your regrets are not ours.

Have shame now in these words and these actions. That’s where your shame should lie. Do better by creators. And as a woman yourself, do better for other women.