Mr. Deepfakes, leading nonconsensual deepfake porn site, shuts down
Mr. Deepfakes, a major platform hosting over 55,000 nonconsensual deepfake pornography videos, shut down in May 2025 after a service provider terminated its operations. The site had become the primary platform for creating and distributing synthetic sexual content depicting real people, particularly female celebrities, without consent.
What happened
Mr. Deepfakes, the internet's leading site for nonconsensual deepfake pornography, shut down in May 2025. The site hosted more than 55,000 deepfake videos and received over 6 million visits per month, according to reporting by Der Spiegel.
The site posted a notice stating that a critical service provider had permanently terminated service and data loss made it impossible to continue operation. Users could upload their own pornographic content or request creators make deepfakes, and the site also became a resource for sharing techniques on how to make nonconsensual deepfakes.
Reported impact
The deepfake porn industry targeted typically female celebrities without their permission, photoshopping their faces into existing video content using artificial intelligence. Taylor Swift was notably targeted by sexually explicit AI-generated deepfakes that spread across social media in the preceding year.
Index analysis
Alternative porn sites, social media platforms and internet browsers had placed bans on deepfake content, though they struggled to block it entirely. Reddit closed its deepfake forum in 2018 after it grew to 90,000 users, and Pornhub and other major sites also banned AI-generated deepfakes, but Mr. Deepfakes filled the void as a dedicated platform.
Governance controls
There is no federal law banning deepfake pornography in the United States, though several states including New York and California have passed legislation targeting the content.
Classification
Sources and evidence
This record was researched and written by the Index, based on the following original reporting.