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Christy Mack’s Cheating Scandal

Christy Mack is basking in the glow of increased web traffic and Internet buzz unofficially awarded to Miss FreeOnes, the annual popularity content run by the adult community of the same name, but some of her fellow performers and fans are not pleased with the title. Is it just jealousy or something a bit more sinister?

Miss FreeOnes is awarded annually to the adult performer who receives the most votes and votes can be submitted by anonymous visitors and registered FreeOnes members alike. A relative newcomer, Ms. Mack surprised by winning this year’s contest (and $10,000 in cold, hard US currency) after three rounds of tough competition that saw last year’s winner Vicky Vette drop to #4. According to FreeOnes, voters could submit only one vote per day, with those votes submitted by FreeOnes members holding more voting weight than anonymous votes. Mack also took home the title of best newcomer this year and is known as a rampant social media slut, so where’s the controversy?

Those questioning Mack’s victory (like this Luke Is Back reader) note her recent popularity in Twitter and Instagram and declare it suspicious – but why? Mack declares similar levels of followers (and therefore popularity) to superstars Tera Patrick, Teagan Presley, and Jesse Jane, all of whom have held a high-profile contract with a major adult studio. How is it that Mack made her way into such prestigious celebrity company so quickly without, you know, cheating?

The accused chalks her popularity up to knowing “what to post and at what times,” boasting “within one hour, I can expect over 60 retweets, and over 200 favorites” of a single Tweeted utterance or image. FreeOnes also notes that Mack was in the top 50 performers within three months of adding Mack to the site, and that she currently tops lists of ‘most liked’ pornstars on Bang Bros, Wicked, Naughty America, and Team Skeet networks. Mack initially told FreeOnes she was worthy of the Miss FreeOnes 2013 crown because she likes “puppies, cars, rainbows, and tattoos!” Could it be that the prevalence of humorous cat videos and flashy body art in recent years alone took Christy to the top?

We were all in high school at some point, and we all know those jerks who won “best eyes” didn’t really have the best eyes in the entire senior class, they’d just mastered the art of seduction in a very subtle way. At Luke Is Back, Mike South pointed out the obvious: it’s all about who sends the most traffic to FreeOnes. FreeOnes agrees with South because, after all, this is and always has been a popularity contest. Even though there are measures in place to ensure fraud is detected and avoided, there are always new methods of cheating the system, methods that will always be exploited before they’re stopped. In past Miss FreeOnes contests, winners Vicky Vette and Sophie Dee were also accused of padding their votes by the same crowd of malcontents in disbelief that someone other than their favorite could take the crown. as FreeOnes noted then, whenever someone is chosen as the best of anything, there’ll always be a sore loser. Or, behind every hot girl there’s another fifty with knives at the ready. Or, maybe Christy Mack is just, like, shit-hot right now!

Is Evil Afoot at Evil Angel?

Last week we brought you news of Evil Angel’s latest endeavor, a clothing line designed by an erotic artist named Ricky Carrefero. But it turns out Ricky Carrefero may have been bombarded with allegations of evil once before. Welcome, dear reader, to the contentious world of erotic illustration.

Back in the early 2000s, a Los Angeles artist named Armando Huerta claimed that another man in his same line of work was passing Huerta’s work off as his own. The alleged plagiarist had been painting over portions of Huerta’s images and signing his own name, effectively changing nothing but the source (so, everything). The alleged plagiarist even managed to have a book containing a many such pieces published by SQP Art Books. The name of the alleged plagiarist? Ricky Carralero. Hmmm – that sounds familiar…

Now, there’s every chance that two men with almost identical names were working the same brush ‘n’ ink beat at the same time, but fuck… Was the artist behind Evil Angel’s new apparel endeavor also a thief, a phony, a plagiarist? Lingering doubts about the spelling of Carrefero and Carralero (and whatever other variations might exist) kept me searching. The only notable results appearing via Google for a “Ricky Carrefero” related to the announcement of Evil Angel’s clothing line about which I previously blogged, leaving me to wonder whether if “Ricky Carrefero” isn’t just a (barely) new name adopted by the same guy who allegedly ripped off Huerta. (And, by “allegedly” I mean “according to everyone posting at this blog“.) Or perhaps, as this post on the news page of Wicked Kulture, the website Carralero’s runs for his so-named erotic apparel company (natch!) refers to the man who’ll be applying color to cotton for EA by the same spelling that appears in Wicked Kulture’s byline and the front cover of the SQP Publication mentioned earlier, Art Premiere #1, Ricky Carralero is the only person Ricky Carralero can rely on to spell Ricky Carralero correctly.

Three Years of Cumming Loudly

One of those porn networks easily passed over in favor of the Brazzers and Bang Bros of the industry, Cum Louder recently celebrated its third birthday with a very special scene that, as this shot from its early moments clearly shows, couldn’t be anything but incredible.

From left to right, that’s Portugal’s NoeMilk, France’s Anissa Kate, Romanian Jasmine Black, and from Bulgaria, Claudia Shotz. And yes, they all appear in the scene, taking on three very lucky gentlemen in an orgy scene that trumps the four-minute clip compilation ‘Best of 2012’ that celebrated Cum Louder’s second year. NoeMilk and Anissa Kate, both powerful and compelling performers in individual scenes, seem especially thrilled to be given the chance to get properly acquainted, grabbing each other by the shoulders and making out passionately while Jasmine and Claudia seem entranced by the poundings they’re receiving.

Cum Louder might not have the 1080i HD videos (720p) and thousands of scenes it promises to prospective members, but for all its faults, any network that can gather talent like this to celebrate its third year of pornographic accomplishment achieved by following is well worth paying attention to.

Wear Evil on Your Sleeve

If you really love a particular band, you can advertise that fact with a t-shirt. If you really love Nike’s shoes, you can brand yourself with a chest-mounted tick motif and show the world how you don’t think and instead “Just Do It”. Hell, if you’re immensely proud of the fact that you partake in the United States democratic process, you can even promote the act of voting with an “I Voted” sticker on election day. But what do you do if you want to tell the world how much you enjoy the work of a particular pornography studio? If studio in question is Evil Angel, well, now there’s a solution.

Preparing to officially launch in the near future, Evil Angel’s latest endeavor, a clothing line sporting artwork designed by a longtime fan, may not yet be ready for public purchases but after giving fans and industry bodies a sneak peek at the recent International Lingerie Show, which took place at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on April 8-10. The artist, Ricky Carralero, came to Evil Angel by submitting original artworks for publication in EA head honcho John Stagliano’s Buttman Magazine. That artwork later ended up on some t-shirts and impressed Stagliano enough to warrant launching a new venture for his massively successful Evil Angel brand. The clothing line, which includes t-shirts for men and women, and tank tops, leggings, and camel-toe panties for women, each item boasting Carralero’s tattoo-style paintings, will be officially unleashed on consumers in a few months time, once Stagliano and crew “see what works and what doesn’t”.