The adult industry has been at the forefront of driving technical innovation on the internet (and previously in home media) since the beginning. It's huge business with huge data and bandwidth requirements. The teledildonics (love that word) patent expiring a few years ago is just going to push this further into new areas. Haptics and VR will eventual be driven forward by the adult industry.
LLMs? Look at the most profitable site: Civital, where people congregate to make fake nudes and AI girlfriends.
Legitimately Overwatch 2 as an IP would make more profit as a porn studio than as a video game. It's actually absurd, rank #12 on this infographic https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/14jmn2h/oc...
OnlyFans models often make insane paychecks, millions of dollars annually, a friend of a friend makes 50-80k a year just on feet pics.
Kind of makes me regret turning down a recruiter for PornHub a decade ago.