What happened these last weeks

First of all, you have to know that everything happened because P0rnHub doesn't verify any content that's uploaded on their site. Anyone can upload anything, it's published instantly and it will stay there indefinitely. It went like this for years, way too long. It got out of control.

A few weeks ago, there were reports of forbidden content on P0rnHub. It was so big it appeared in mainstream medias. M4stercard and V1sa threatened to stop working with the site, and that made the bosses panic because they would lose lots of cash.
What to do? They went for the simpliest and most impressive yet worst way of cleaning the site: they deleted all pictures and any video that was not uploaded by Partners (= official porn studios) or by Models (= amateurs from the paid program). They went from 13 million videos to a mere 2.9 million. It's the equivalent of dropping a nuke on a city to get rid of a handful of criminals. Needless to say, the collateral damage has been massive but hey, they could keep M4stercard and V1sa so it's "all good" I guess.

They also removed the 'downlad' button because it would have been too easy to save the forbidden content and reupload it again.

They furthermore changed the conditions for uploading contents: you have to be a Partner or a Model.

I think that P0rnHub plans to verify and restore the deleted videos and reallow uploads from regular users within next year (2021) but they got too many honest persons upset. Those people worked their asses off (sometimes litterally) for free to entertain the community and their reward was a complete deletion of their work. They will either flee to other sites or downright stop producing free amateur porn.

Another thing that pisses me off are those 'Models' accounts that steal videos from other users: they were untouched by this purge and continue to earn money with the work of others. Fuck these guys. I keep my videos private only because of them.

So... What does that have to do with xHamster? Here on XH there is also a purge going on, a lot more discreete but it's here.
The 'download' button disappeared.
Some pictures and videos that were only questionable got simply and purely deleted.
The whole story section was erased.
When writing a blog post you can't attach pictures anymore.

As for myself, I had a profile on P0rnHub that got enterely emptied. I don't want to have anything to do with that site anymore. Even if I get back my videos and pictures I'll just delete them and use that account as an advertisement for this one :p And if this one gets purged too, I don't really know what I'd do...

All we honest users can do now is wait for the storm to pass, keep a copy of our videos and pictures on a hard drive just in case, and hope that better times are ahead of us.