Warning: This article contains adult language and topics that may be NSFW.
This was an awesome year for celebrity beefs, from Iggy vs. Azealia to Taylor vs. Katy to Marlon Wayans vs. Lord Jamar.
But if watching famous people sling shade on social media is one of your favorite spectator sports, then you should probably be following porn stars Lisa Ann, Nikki Benz, Bonnie Rotten, and Christy Mack, who were embroiled in extremely public tifts on Twitter last weekend. And unlike fights in an actual porno, it didn’t end with hair-pulling, scratching, and an elaborate lesbian daisy chain.
It all started when adult performer Nikki Benz, who’s most famous for announcing her Toronto mayoral run earlier this year, tweeted photos of her birthday celebration in Dubai. She also posted a video on her Instagram of a camel race, with the caption “When you in Dubai you bet on camels.”
Then Lisa Ann, who announced on Facebook that she was retiring from performing in porn earlier this week, posted the following subtweets:
This is the subtweet that started it all. Plus her DMs and texts to me cc: @thereallisaann pic.twitter.com/3BcKnJGxUw
— NIKKI BENZ (@nikkibenz) December 22, 2014
Obviously, the tweets were a not-so-subtle implication that Benz was in Dubai not for her birthday but as an escort. (While it’s fairly common for adult performers to escort on the side, it’s an extremely controversial practice in the industry, with some arguing that performers who escort without using protection put other performers at risk for contracting STIs. Lisa Ann has gone on record speaking out against performers escorting.)
Enraged, Benz fought back, calling Lisa Ann a hypocrite, a “bully ass hoe,” and attacked her reputation in the adult industry. It escalated quickly, with Benz ultimately accusing Lisa Ann of engaging in various unsavory activities and challenging her to a boxing match :
You're claiming you're a role model? What about all them pills you pop? And the cocaine use? Shit you're prob high right now bitch!!
— NIKKI BENZ (@nikkibenz) December 21, 2014
Screengrab via Nikki Benz/Twitter
https://twitter.com/nikkibenz/status/546709355517997056
@thereallisaann you are the least liked person in the adult industry. You are mean to everyone. You're a bully but u can't Fuck w me!
— NIKKI BENZ (@nikkibenz) December 22, 2014
https://twitter.com/nikkibenz/status/546795262732410880
You sure are brave over the Internet. Let's see you in a boxing ring @thereallisaann
— NIKKI BENZ (@nikkibenz) December 22, 2014
Hey @thereallisaann let me beat your ass in a boxing match and I'll donate the proceeds to a charity. U fucking bully ass hoe!!!
— NIKKI BENZ (@nikkibenz) December 22, 2014
Other porn stars, both active and former, chimed in:
https://twitter.com/CarmenLuvanaXXX/status/546779235445395457
People should spend less time on jealousy and negativity and more time on positivity and looking in the mirror.
— DANI DANIELS (@akaDaniDaniels) December 21, 2014
Lisa Ann’s fans also jumped in to provide emotional support:
@thereallisaann don´t sink down to her level. Just ignore the bullshit
— Top Bottom (18+) (@sexycompetiton) December 22, 2014
@thereallisaann You dont have too explain enithing.We belive in you.
— Aleksandar (@Aleksan321564) December 22, 2014
Benz concluded by telling Lisa Ann she was “wiping her ass with her face.”
It went on like this for a few hours, with Lisa Ann retaliating by accusing Benz of, among other things living in the U.S. illegally, then declaring all-out war:
Lisa Ann/Twitter
She tweeted the following this morning:
Twitter/Lisa Ann
Some of Nikki and Lisa’s fans were upset, and wanted Porn Mommy and Daddy to stop fighting:
@nikkibenz @thereallisaann plzz stop fighting:(
— Rual007 (@Roope07) December 22, 2014
Over on the alt-porn end of the spectrum, adult performer Bonnie Rotten lashed out at former adult performer Christy Mack, who was recently seriously injured in a brutal beating by her ex-boyfriend, the MMA fighter Jon “War Machine” Koppenhaver:
This isn’t the first time Rotten has gone after Mack on social media after her attack, in which Mack suffered 18 broken bones, a ruptured liver, and missing teeth. There appears to be some longstanding beef between the two, but Mack took the high road (kinda):
@thebonnierotten I'm sorry I'm helping others and you're just shitting on yourself and losing money trying to produce scenes.
— Christy Mack (@ChristyMack) December 22, 2014
The verbal abuse culminated with Mack accusing Rotten of peeing instead of squirting on-camera, a cardinal sin in the porn world:
@thebonnierotten @ScottBrindisi I buy followers? Didn't Instagram just do a cleanse? And don't I still have over 1.1 MILLION followers?
— Christy Mack (@ChristyMack) December 22, 2014
@thebonnierotten also, the royalties that I receive from products are more than enough to live on. But you wouldn't know what that's like.
— Christy Mack (@ChristyMack) December 22, 2014
@_tinypuff @zmansport @thebonnierotten @coolmomma12 or a trail of pee that she calls "squirt"
— Christy Mack (@ChristyMack) December 22, 2014
.@thebonnierotten I quit over a ago, and you're still trying to compete with me. That doesn't make you better, that makes you an idiot.
— Christy Mack (@ChristyMack) December 22, 2014
Rotten later apologized (kinda) for going after Mack.
Bonnie Rotten/Twitter
Is there a clear victor in these Twitter porn wars? We’ll leave it up to you to decide. But there’s one clear winner: Us fans, gleefully watching it all go down from the safety of our keyboards.
H/T Barstool Sports | Photo by Gary/Flickr (CC BY SA 2.0)