A qualitative content analysis was performed on 500 tweets from @lenapolanski (archived via Wayback Machine and public API snapshots, January 2022 – March 2025). Tweets were coded into six categories: promotional content (links to OnlyFans, ManyVids, clips), industry advocacy (censorship, payment processing, age verification), personal/mental health, engagement with fans, engagement with critics, and political commentary (non-industry).
Abstract: This paper examines the Twitter (now X) presence of Lena Polanski, a contemporary adult film performer and director. It argues that Polanski’s account operates as a dual-purpose digital space: one that reinforces mainstream social media’s commercialized spectacle of the adult industry, while simultaneously subverting platform norms through direct labor advocacy, mental health discourse, and anti-censorship activism. By analyzing a sample of her tweets and engagement patterns from 2022–2025, this study situates Polanski’s Twitter activity within broader debates on content moderation, sex worker agency, and algorithmic visibility.
Her approach also reveals the limits of individual resistance. Despite her following, Twitter’s payment services (Super Follows, Tips) remain unavailable to her due to “adult content” clauses. She cannot fully monetize the advocacy labor she performs. Thus, her Twitter presence is a paradox : a highly visible platform for critique that simultaneously withholds the economic tools to make that critique sustainable.
