Pornhub announced last week that adult film actress Mia Khalifa is the most popular porn star on its streaming video site. When news of her popularity spread on social media, many became outraged.

Here were some of the comments from social media, and they're not pretty at all:


Then, Lebanese feminist writer Juliana Yazbeck wrote this of Khalifa's role in fueling more sexism in conservative Lebanon:

For someone who has struggled so much to assert their presence as a human being with a working, thinking brain, I cannot deny that I felt a pang of despair when Mia erupted across social media and entertainment news. It never even crossed my mind to think, “she doesn’t have the right.” What did cross my mind was: “Really? Of the very few Lebanese women who are making global headlines, it had to be a porn star?”

Perhaps one of her popular videos that sparked a lot of controversy was this one, where she and Cuban porn star Juliana Vega wore hijabs while performing sex acts:


Mia is 21 years old and is currently living in Florida. She's currently working with the pron production company Bang Bros. Here are some of her Instagrams:
















But regardless of the death threats she's received, it doesn't appear that she's going to give her career in porn any second thoughts.


It's also made her more popular now.