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YouPorn Debuts Jedy Vales, Its NSFW Virtual Brand Ambassador

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YouPorn, the porn site you visit when you've had just enough to drink but not enough to pass out in the bean bag chair, is today announcing the debut of its newest Social Influencer and Brand Ambassador, Jedy Vales. Normally a hiring such as this wouldn't be worth a second glance, but it's not a hiring — it's a creation. Jedy Vales is a virtual avatar, a bot, the automated soul of thousands of social media interns that came before.

An argument could be made for the revolutionary aspect of having a virtual avatar be the face of your brand, like that toned-out KFC Colonel, but the Trix Rabbit has been around since 1959 and while doesn't directly interact with consumers, is still a non-human representative of a brand. The only difference here is that Jedy Vales will be engaging with users. The Trix Rabbit doesn't hit you with suggestive social media messages when you eat his cereal.

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Physically, Jedy Vales should have followed in the footsteps of Lil Miquela; they are whatever you want them to be (in a sense) with a smooth blend of ethnicity and gender. Instead, Jedy Vales is closer to a tanned version of Lara Croft from mid-2000s gaming. A typical male fantasy, blown up and brought to life for mostly male consumption. There are probably some demographics somewhere that justify this decision.

It seems that every time a porn-related digital avatar pops up, they just seem like they aren't fully inclusive and are just male-focused. There is so much more to sexuality and gender than just what bro-dudes want. Regardless, I'm not going to quote a digital avatar so here's Charlie Hughes, Vice President of YouPorn, pretending that this is a new hire and not just a marketing tool enabled by technology.

"Jedy is the quintessential representation of the technological innovations we are known for, and so she is the perfect spokesperson to represent YouPorn," said Hughes. "With Jedy coming on board, we’ll be able to create the opportunity to interact with our users in a new environment. We look forward to seeing what Jedy has in store."

So what does Jedy have in store for users? What does Jedy bring to the table that a human or group of humans cannot? How about the inability to feel human emotions? Nope, Jedy is not programmatic or AI, but rather human controlled. So controlling Jedy will be akin to being a Facebook moderator. Part of the absolute hellscrape of social media is the general terrible behavior of the humans that use it. I'm sure YouPorn Katie receives a ton of sexually explicit responses in a day. Jedy is built to receive and engage with such sexual contexts, communicating day-to-day virtual life stuff and engaging with users through Instagram, Twitter, YouPorn's blog and her profile on Modelhub. Hopefully whomever is running Jedy has a strong constitution.

According to the press release, Jedy has follower goals, but that just means the marketing team has follower goals. Once we start treating virtual humans like humans, they'll build themselves physical bodies and start taking over the world. Jedy was created by Camasutra VR, a company that specializes in virtual reality (duh) and was responsible for programming the avatar's physical characteristics and digital behaviors to be as close to human as possible. It's a tad creepy, but automation in the porn avatar space is still a relatively new field, so we'll see how this plays out.

One of Jedy's main goals is to release an exclusive and explicit video on Modelhub upon reaching 1 million followers on social media, just in case you were exhausted by the normal amount of Rule 34 animated porn currently available and wanted something slightly new. At least it's not the Trix Rabbit. Jedy Vales launches today across YouPorn platforms and probably virtually looks forward to interacting with your sexually charged and generally inappropriate-for-humans comments.


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