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On the earth of intercourse staff, “collabs” are a part of how individuals develop audiences and acquire followers.
This time, nonetheless, it’s shaping as much as do the alternative.
A few years in the past, Drake Von was the breakout star of the porn world.
What on the planet is he doing with disgraced make-up influencer (turned MAGA yak rancher) Jeffree Star?
Drake Von ought to be higher than this
In 2023 and 2024, Drake Von — actual identify Dawson Bacon, which might frankly additionally work properly as a porn star pseudonym — skyrocketed to the highest of plenty of grownup streaming websites.
(He shouldn’t be confused along with his equivalent twin, Silas Brooks, who can be within the business. They’re rumored to dislike one another. A conspiracy principle claims that they’re secretly the identical individual)
Von has taken dwelling awards, a few of which have NFSW titles. He’s identified for filming homosexual, bisexual, and straight scenes, interesting to a large viewers.
Previous to this, his largest controversy was arguably sometimes utilizing zooming software program to arguably distort the dimensions of his genitals in some images and movies. (To be clear, he doesn’t want the digital assist)
Which is what makes his current revelation so deeply unsettling to his thousands and thousands of his followers.
Drake Von inexplicably collaborating with racist & alleged predator Jeffree Star? hate that
— fanana hammock (@fananahammock.bsky.social) February 13, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Simply after midnight on Friday, February 13, Drake Von shared this stomach-turning Instagram video.
He seems alone at first, earlier than a second individual joins him, hopping onto his again for a piggy again journey.
A number of commenters characterised it as a “jumpscare.” They’re not improper.
Others shared their condemnation, unfollowing Von. Some even pleaded with him to make higher decisions.
That’s as a result of the opposite man within the video is Jeffree Star.
At this level, Jeffree Star is healthier identified for being a nasty individual than for make-up or yak meat or no matter
Cataloguing the numerous causes for which individuals not solely dislike however actively and passionately hate Jeffree Star is a worthy however prolonged endeavor. We’ll persist with the highlights.
Years in the past, Star was an aspiring musician. He was a MySpace consumer. And he made a reputation for himself within the early years of YouTube for his make-up opinions.
The primary unhealthy factor that almost all of us heard about him was allegations of racism. As you possibly can think about, movies of him utilizing the n-word didn’t assist his case.
(Kim Kardashian apologized for mistakenly defending him, and lower skilled ties with him shortly after her personal ill-advised collab with Star again in 2017)
An in depth 2020 report by journalist Kat Tenbarge contained a number of allegations of sexual assault and hush-money payoffs by Star. Star has denied wrongdoing, regardless of data of 5-figure payoffs from his cosmetics firm.
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— Jacob (@opalmorningstar) February 13, 2026
In newer years, Star has relocated to Wyoming. There, he seems to be utilizing his wealth to ingratiate himself with native companies.
He owns a yak farm. And, sadly, he has not merely gone into quiet retirement.
As a substitute, Star has gone on alarming rants defending Charlie Kirk and bashing trans individuals, significantly the nonbinary neighborhood.
Star went on a podcast to name for each “T” and “Q” to be faraway from the LGBTQ acronym. He’s additionally saying that he doesn’t establish with the label “homosexual,” regardless of his historical past of relationship males kind of solely.
We are able to’t actually say that his alt-right shift is a shock. It additionally doesn’t appear to be a grift concocted to deflect allegations of sexual misconduct. Based mostly upon his historical past, all of this bigotry looks like Star’s genuine self.
It isn’t guilt by affiliation, however it IS very poor judgment
So, sure, lots of people are extraordinarily disillusioned in Drake Von proper now. Not simply on Instagram, however even in tweets from individuals who didn’t go away even after the platform stopped being known as Twitter.
We don’t know in the event that they’re filming precise content material (that’s, porn) collectively, hooking up, or merely trolling. (With a picture that we completely can’t present you, it’s clear that there was a minimum of some sexual contact, even when it was just for an incendiary photograph)
It’s in all probability no shock to listen to that lots of people are telling Von that they’re unfollowing him and unsubscribing. (It’s not all discuss; anecdotally, we all know that individuals are unfollowing him as they see this, even when it’s in all probability not nearly all of his followers)
Von has plenty of followers who’re trans, who’re Black, or who aren’t however nonetheless care about proper and improper.
We don’t consider in guilt by affiliation — bigotry is just not an STI. Nevertheless it says quite a bit about Von that he’s keen to affiliate with Star in any capability, not to mention permit him to the touch him.
Perhaps he’s solely now discovering out what kind of individual he’s working with. Perhaps everybody ought to watch Matt Bernstein’s Jeffree Star video to familiarize themselves with one in every of magnificence YouTube’s worst villains.