By: Keith Witchka, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS – Gay Adult News
LAS VEGAS, NV — (June 30, 2025) — After a quarter-century online, legacy gay porn news and satire site BananaGuide.com has quietly shut down — and no one in the industry is talking about it.
The once-provocative and independent gay adult platform now redirects to a personal blog with a brief farewell message. No tweet. No press release. No legacy celebration. Just… silence.
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A Digital Farewell with No Applause
Visitors to BananaGuide.com are now met with a stark message:
“As of June 27, 2025 BananaGuide.com is no longer online.”
“For a quarter century we proudly served gay men seeking honest reviews of adult membership sites. Age verification laws in many U.S. and international jurisdictions have made it impossible for a free site like BananaGuide to continue to operate.”
The site’s final statement points squarely at frustration with increasingly restrictive age verification (AV) laws, which have spread across the U.S. and international markets, making compliance financially or logistically unviable for independent platforms.
The domain now points to a WordPress blog under the name Trevor Hennig, one of the site’s contributors. No site archive remains. No further updates have been issued.
Once a Staple of Gay Porn Media
Founded in the late 1990s, BananaGuide carved out a lasting reputation in gay adult media with its unfiltered tone, comedic critique, and sharp observations of the industry’s biggest players.
At its peak, it was known for:
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Satirical studio reviews with no fluff
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Member polls and opinion-driven content
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Calling out underwhelming porn trends before anyone else
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Editorial independence in a market flooded with affiliates
It was as much entertainment as it was information — a rare blend in early gay porn journalism.
Four Years of Silence Before the Fall
Even before its final redirect, the site had already gone silent. The official X (formerly Twitter) account, @bananaguidenews, hasn’t posted since July 8, 2021.
A check of Instagram and Facebook shows no presence.
No farewell post. No message to fans except for the message on the landing page.
Just a quiet disappearance after decades of publishing.
No Coverage, No Acknowledgment
Even more surprising than the shutdown? The industry silence.
As of June 30, 2025, not a single outlet has covered the BananaGuide shutdown — not:
It’s a void that highlights a deeper truth: most digital gay porn history can disappear without a trace.
JRL CHARTS Responds
As one of the last-standing daily publishers in the gay adult space, JRL CHARTS recognizes the legacy BananaGuide left behind — and the risk of losing our collective digital history.
Whether you agreed with their tone or not, BananaGuide stood for something: independence. And that’s something we still believe in every time we publish.”
— Andy Powell, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS
Final Thoughts
The quiet closure of BananaGuide.com isn’t just about a domain going offline. It’s about what happens when no one is left to document, archive, or remember.
JRL CHARTS remains committed to daily gay adult journalism — not for clicks, but for the record. Because when legacy is treated like content, it vanishes.
No redirect.
No silence.
Just real reporting. Every day.
JRL CHARTS remains the only gay adult media outlet preserving the stories others ignore — because history deserves more than silence.
