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).

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.

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.

Lena Polanski’s Twitter account exemplifies the new digital labor of adult creators: they must be marketers, policy analysts, community managers, and mental health advocates simultaneously. Her feed is not simply promotion but a living document of platform governance as experienced by a stigmatized profession. Future research should compare her strategies with those of creators on decentralized platforms (e.g., Mastodon, Bluesky) to assess whether platform design can reduce this cognitive and emotional burden.

Lena Polanski (born 1992) is a Polish-born, UK-based adult performer, director, and industry commentator. With over 350,000 followers on Twitter as of 2025, her account functions as more than self-promotion. Unlike many peers whose feeds focus exclusively on clip sales and teasers, Polanski uses the platform to challenge stigma, document working conditions, and respond directly to platform governance. This paper asks: How does Lena Polanski’s Twitter use negotiate the tension between platform capitalism’s anti-sex work biases and her own professional agency?