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“I want to show people you can do it yourself...”
“My mindset is that if I’m going to get into a profession that’s so hard to come out of—like it’s hard for us to find jobs elsewhere that aren’t related to it—I just have to be the best,” she reasons. “Because if you do it halfway, then afterwards my life might become really hard. Like if I’m just
kind of a mediocre performer, transitioning back into the workplace with such a big gap in my resume.
“This is it. Some things are forever.”
Kazumi memes may be one of those things.
Even though she had yet to launch her Instagram at @kazumisworld, her first viral moment
came in March 2020, when she decided to Photoshop her face with a Fox News headline that she got kicked out of Harvard.
“It was just a selfie of me and it went on WorldStar and it went on all these influencer pages and it became like this talking point,” Kazumi recalls.
“And people were like, ‘Who is this fucking stupid bitch? Let’s find her naked.’ So it happened.
“Before that I was making a lot of money off of Telegram because I didn’t want social media for a long time. It was just a place where we would share tips and collaborate with each other.
“I made my OnlyFans pop during Covid because I didn’t want to go outside and I wanted a remote job. And just working online I was in group chats being like, ‘Hey, how do I take a nude? How do I do this?’ And everyone would just come together like, ‘I don’t know, let’s try this.’
“And then we would just all collaborate, which is why I always say it’s community over competition. Because it doesn’t matter if another girl does the same thing. I just have to do it, too. And then people refine their own styles.”
Kazumi made honing her techniques in content creation and social media marketing a priority during the first phase of the country’s stay-at-home mandate.
“I wasn’t really collabing at that point in my life either,” she says. “So it was just about technique on optimization—how do you increase customer acquisition and how do you make sure the customer experience is so good that they keep buying shit?
“Even if my porn at the time was ass—it was very amateur. It was me in hotel rooms with a ring light.”
Now when Kazumi rents hotel rooms, she’s often meeting A-list talent and crew there for content shoots that she produces and owns. This year her high-profile collaborations include scenes with three-time AVN Female Performer of the Year Angela White, six-time AVN Favorite Male Porn Star winner Johnny Sins and reigning AVN Best Male Newcomer Anton Harden, to name a few.
“Kazumi is proving herself to be a highly effective, independent operator in the contemporary adult space,” Angela White, the Australian superstar who is the winningest female performer of all time, tells AVN.