Documentaries are lucrative for three reasons:

: Production levels in major hubs like Los Angeles saw a 40% decline in 2024–2025 compared to pre-strike levels, leading to a new wave of "gloom-and-doom" documentaries that explore the replacement of human writers with generative AI.

: In 2019, 22 women (including those associated with the name Leea Harris) won a $12.7 million civil judgment

against the creators of GirlsDoPorn. The court found that the defendants used fraud, coercion, and sex trafficking to produce their content. Criminal Convictions