June 12, 2025 – Thousands of users across Spotify, Discord, Google Cloud, and several adult camming platforms experienced service disruptions Thursday, as Cloudflare confirmed a third-party issue caused by a Google Cloud outage.

The incident, monitored by Downdetector, peaked with outage reports from 46,000 Spotify users, 14,000 Google Cloud users, and 11,000 Discord users. Additionally, services such as Snapchat, Character.ai, and major adult streaming platforms, including Chaturbate, Stripchat, and CamSoda, also saw widespread downtime.

A Cloudflare representative clarified that their core services were not impacted, but that “a limited number of services at Cloudflare use Google Cloud and were affected.” One of the affected components was Cloudflare Workers KV, a backend data storage tool that temporarily went offline.

Google Cloud, which accounts for 12% of the global cloud services market, acknowledged the problem, stating: “We are currently investigating a service disruption.” Users were referred to the public Google Cloud status dashboard for ongoing updates.

By Thursday afternoon, recovery began across several platforms. Cloudflare confirmed progress on their status page, and Spotify redirected users to Google’s dashboard for context. Similar recovery signals were noted across impacted camming sites, which rely on Google Cloud and Cloudflare infrastructure to deliver low-latency, high-reliability streaming.

This outage highlights the broad dependence on cloud giants like Google, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure. Past incidents — including an AWS outage in 2021 and a Cloudflare disruption in 2020 — have shown how interconnected platforms, including those in the adult entertainment industry, are equally exposed to upstream failures.

The incident serves as a reminder that platform resilience and service redundancy remain crucial in today’s cloud-powered digital ecosystem.

Source: Downdetector, CNN, Chaturbate

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SLR’s approach matches video frame rates with headset refresh rates: 60FPS for 60Hz, 90FPS for 90Hz, and now 120FPS for 120Hz headsets, delivering motion that feels natural and fluid.

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In a stunning turn of events, Mr Deepfakes—long considered the world’s largest hub for deepfake porn—has abruptly shut down, sending shockwaves through the online adult AI content landscape.

Once pulling in 13 million monthly visitors and boasting over 250,000 members, the site gained infamy for hosting nonconsensual AI-generated pornography featuring female celebrities. Regularly condemned as a dark emblem of deepfake technology, Mr Deepfakes became a focal point in the global debate around consent and synthetic media.

As of the week of May 6, 2025, the site went dark. Its homepage now displays a stark message:

“A critical service provider has terminated service permanently. Data loss has made it impossible to continue operation. We will not be relaunching.”

In bold, the message further warns users that any future site claiming to be Mr Deepfakes is fake, and the domain will eventually expire.

Although the operators remained anonymous for years, Der Spiegel recently named a Toronto man, David D., believed to be behind the site. The 36-year-old was reported to have worked in a hospital and launched multiple controversial websites over the years.

Back in 2022, one of the site’s creators told the BBC, without remorse:

“I don’t really feel that consent is required. It’s a fantasy, it’s not real.”

But reality appears to have caught up. Just one week before the shutdown, the U.S. Congress passed the Take It Down Act—a landmark bill set to criminalize the distribution of sexually explicit imagery, including AI-generated deepfake porn, without consent. Under the new legislation, offenders face up to two years in prison for adult content, and up to three years if the material involves minors. President Trump is expected to sign the Act imminently.

Meanwhile, the UK is moving in a similar direction, preparing its own laws targeting nonconsensual synthetic porn.

AI advisor Henry Ajder reflected on the site’s legacy:

“Mr Deepfakes was launched in 2018 after Reddit’s original r/deepfakes ban. Its meteoric growth was proof that demand existed—but this shutdown is clearly not from lack of interest.”

Ajder warned that, as with the Reddit ban, new platforms will inevitably rise to fill the vacuum left behind.

Nevertheless, for survivors and advocates, the closure marked a long-awaited win.
Laila Mickelwait, founder of Traffickinghub and leading anti-deepfake activist, posted:

“Congrats to the survivors and advocates who have been pushing for this mega abuse site to be held accountable!”

The end of Mr Deepfakes signals more than a technical failure—it may represent the beginning of a global reckoning for AI-generated adult content.