If you've ever wondered what your favorite porn star does in her spare time, glance at her Twitter feed, and you might find that her life is surprisingly normal.
Yet showing off that normal life is likely a key to her overall career strategy. More and more, porn stars are taking to social media to craft a personal brand that proves they've got more on the brain than just sex, a tactic that might even help them cross over into the mainstream.
A new crop of young porn stars aren't just freeze-frames on your video screens any more -- they're animated Gifs on your Tumblr feed, alarmingly witty humorists on Twitter and ferocious bloggers who are just as willing to show you the pizza they ate for dinner as they are to show you their naked booty. These are porn stars who you're more likely to find parading around Comic-Con, speaking on panel discussions at universities and DJing at nightclubs than signing autographs at a porn convention, although they've been known to do that, too.
Taking into account their influence on platforms like Twitter and Tumblr, their willingness to interact on forums like Reddit, the scope of their projects outside of porn and, of course, their overall popularity as performers, we've ranked the 10 most innovative porn stars who could very well be the next Sasha Grey.
10. April O'Neil
In the tradition of pop culture-obsessed porn stars like Andy San Dimas, who named herself after the SoCal city where Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure takes place, and Diana Prince, named for Wonder Woman's alter ego, April O'Neil takes her name from the foxy reporter in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The 26-year-old from Phoenix is into all things geeky, from Dr. Who to Reddit to San Diego Comic-Con, during which she dressed as her namesake in 2011.
This past year, her 86,000+ Twitter followers -- most of whom she actually replies to -- helped her win the AVN fan award for Twitter Queen. While her famous name isn't the most SEO-friendly, she's still relatively easy to find on Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and even Reddit, where she's answered questions about losing her virginity, penis size (she says the "motion of the ocean" is more important than size of the boat, metaphorically speaking), bisexuality (she became a porn star "for the pussy") and tattoos (the one on her shoulder is kanji for "I'm a dumbass who got a tattoo at 15," she says.)
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