XVideos

XVideos was founded in Paris in 2007 by the French owner, Stephane Michael Pacaud. XVideos serves as a pornographic media aggregator, a type of website which gives access to adult content in a similar manner as YouTube does for general content. Fabian Thylmann, the owner of MindGeek (now Aylo), attempted to purchase XVideos in 2012 in order to create a monopoly of pornographic tube sites. The French owner of XVideos turned down a reported offer of more than US$120 million by saying, "Sorry, I have to go and play Diablo II." In 2014, XVideos controversially attempted to force content providers to either pledge to renounce the right to delete videos from their accounts or to shut down their accounts immediately. The company is now owned by both Stephane Michael Pacaud and his sister, Malorie Debroah Pacaud. == Web traffic and ranking ==

, XVideos was the most-visited porn website and the seventh-most-visited website in the world, as ranked by Similarweb. although competitor Pornhub was ranked one slot above XNXX by 2024. Both XVideos and XNXX were also the world's most-visited websites for virtual reality videos in 2021. == Legal ==

In 2015, XVideos became involved in a legal case against MindGeek (currently known as Aylo). In a 2021 article, journalists Jakub Zelenka and Lukáš Prattle investigated abuse from XVideos brand, Legal Porno. Testimonies, both publicly available and obtained for the article, included women being uninformed about the films intent and having to engage in dangerous and complicated practices. Health concerns also appeared, such as one participant going to the hospital and many struggling with bowel movements afterwards. == See also ==