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“Most recently, during the gangbang scene for Jules Jordan, she absolutely blew me away,”
Karter tells AVN. “Managing so many guys while staying in control—technical, sexy, horny and
completely in character—very few performers can do that.
“She absolutely deserves her title this year. She owns it.”
Clouds—who was an AP student in high school that received multiple scholarship offers—
hustled all throughout college and in the years that followed, modeling, dancing, stripping,
collaborating and monetizing her social media.
“I was working so hard,” she recalls. “I still do work really, really hard, but I have a little bit
more of a structured schedule. Back then I made my own schedule. Every single thing I did
was out of my own pure drive and just determination.
“It was a time online when Vine was a thing, so comedy and adult were kind of an interesting
mix together. So I did some of that. I mean I’ve worked with a lot of collabs with several creators
and traveled a lot. And I really enjoyed my time because I had a lot of free will because of my
work. It was just absolutely wonderful. I still have that free will. It’s just a little bit more structured,
of course, and I don’t have to decide what I’m doing every single day.”
A free spirit who traveled around the Southeast EDM circuit with a go-go dancing troupe
during her early 20s, Clouds “on a whim” moved from Nashville to Colorado Springs, Colo.,
when she was 22. She made her next stop Las Vegas to continue her online sex work “because
I thought that was a good, happy medium between like the whole jump to LA.”
“I’ve been doing adult work online since I was 21,” says Clouds, who turned 30 in February.
“When premium Snapchat was a thing I rode that train until it kind of slowly fell off. So I’ve
been online doing videos before I got into porn. I think I’d recorded well over 200 videos for
my own stuff.”
She broke into mainstream porn in February 2020 just prior to the COVID shutdown, but
because of the sporadic shooting during that first year of the pandemic, it was a slow build.
By the end of 2021, however, Clouds already had amassed almost 150 credits and she was
on her way to stardom.
Anna tells me that early on she had a different idea about adult performing.
“Back in the day I thought what makes a great sex scene is just like really good fucking, just
really good, really hard, really rough fucking. Because I was more of a viewer, you know,” she
explains.
“But now what I would say creates a great sex scene is the ability to sell desire. Because we’re
not selling sex, we sell desire. We sell a feeling of desire that might not be able to be created
just with someone’s imagination.
“So I think that the sex, of course, is a huge part of selling that desire but there’s a lot more
to it now.
“The main difference is before I thought it was just the sex and now I think that I know exactly
what porn is and what form of entertainment we are, and we’re the sellers of desire.”
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