In one of many AI fruit videos posted on Instagram Reels, an anthropomorphic strawberry performed a squat in front of her lemon coach. Wearing tight black leggings and a red sports bra, her voluptuous curves nearly spilled out. The lemon, standing directly behind her, squeezed and fondled her breasts when she stood back up.
That was when the strawberry’s broccoli husband walked in. If this sounds more like the plot of a porn video, well, that’s because it is. This particular video gained more than 70,000 views in less than 12 hours, and it’s not the only one. These brightly colored AI fruit dramas started flooding For You pages over the last few months, created by various AI tools that can generate fully animated mini-episodes based on a food item of your choosing. It is the latest trend in short-form video and one of the first to seemingly develop an authentic fan following. There are many different themes in these viral videos, but it’s hard to miss that many of them are extremely horny. The entire genre is rife with plotlines pulled straight from porn, and some of the content involves scenes like kissing, groping, twerking, and implied sex.
“Some of the things they’re doing, I’m like, I can’t even get away with that stuff on OnlyFans,” says Gwen Adora, an adult performer who can’t escape AI fruit content on her X feed. One of the most common tropes she has seen is a fruit woman cheating on her fruit husband and getting pregnant with a baby that is the wrong variety of fruit. “We have pregnancy porn out here, but we’re not showing the birth. And they’re showing a baby. That’s crazy.”
The porn trends in AI fruit videos are not limited to pregnancy fetish content, although there are a lot of round pregnant bellies and even one AI video that depicts a gushing stream when a strawberry’s water breaks and she goes into labor. There are also videos of fruit getting “stuck” in the washing machine while another fruit presumably has sex with them from behind, fruit gangbangs, and fruit women sleeping with authority figures like bosses and school principals to get favors or avoid punishment. In addition to these visual and narrative porn tropes, the most overarching theme of them all seems to be cuckolding—a man whose wife or girlfriend has sex with another man.
“Immediately what struck me was that this is cuck fantasy,” says Mike Stabile, the Director of Public Policy for the adult industry trade association, the Free Speech Coalition. “This is fetish content reappropriated for a mainstream audience. And a wink-wink audience as well. People know what’s going on.”
The creator who posted the video of the strawberry getting groped by her lemon coach is Bahle Chonco, a 31-year-old man who lives in South Africa and says he makes thousands from posting AI-generated fruit videos on Facebook and Instagram. When asked if a video he posted that shows a strawberry getting impregnated by a group of chocolate bars is supposed to be like racial gangbang porn where a white woman has sex with a group of Black men, Chonco answers: “Exactly.”
“Basically, we try to entertain people,” Chonco says. “The cool thing about them is they don’t show those parts, though. It’s just your imagination.”
Chonco has posted nearly 3,000 AI videos on Instagram Reels, but they aren’t all fruits. He’s been uploading them since May 2025, and in the beginning, he was posting a lot of anthropomorphic AI cats. These earlier AI videos more closely resembled the style OG AI Facebook slop like Shrimp Jesus, but a lot of the cats were still pregnant and wearing sexy outfits. Every once in a while, one of Chonco’s 2025 videos would hit a million views, but most hovered in the low thousands.
In mid-February, the first AI fruit video appeared on Chonco’s feed. It was an apple husband cheating on his apple wife with a pear, until the apple wife completed a transformation into a sexy red evening dress. Then a week later, Chonco posted the video of the strawberry with the chocolate bars. The strawberry was also cheating on her yogurt husband in the video, and she gave birth to a strawberry dipped in chocolate. Notably, the yogurt husband was clearly intended to be a white man, based on his AI arms and legs, while the chocolate bars were intended to be Black men. In other AI cheating fruit videos, even if the race of the fruit is less explicit, the phallic fruits like eggplants are often wearing accessories like gold chains.
“There are very racialized undertones,” Adora says. “It says a lot about the racist tropes that are still happening. They still happen in porn, too, but not as much.”
When asked how he makes his AI fruit content, Chonco says he’ll sometimes upload a picture of a fruit, like strawberry and a picture of a woman, like Nicki Minaj—not her face, just her body—into an AI generator like Google’s Veo, which will create a sexy strawberry with Minaj’s curves. Then, Chonco will use another program to animate the fruit into moving scenes. He also uses Kim Kardashian’s body, he says.
By the end of February, Chonco was posting almost all AI fruit videos. The cats had been abandoned in favor of a genre that was suddenly racking up way more views on average. According to a screenshot of his Instagram Reels analytics he shared, Chonco has gained a majority of his 84,000 followers since he started posting the AI fruits videos. And cumulatively, those 500 or so videos have gotten over 127 million views.
“It’s the same reason why you have very sexualized music videos. People like them more than the ones that are just normal,” Chonco says. “If you sexualize it, everyone starts liking them.”
At the same time that softcore fruit porn is dominating the algorithm, real sex workers are continuing to face social media censorship, even when it comes to safe for work content. Actual porn is under attack, often under the guise of protecting children. But a lot of this pornified AI content may directly appeal to children. Some of the creators are using prompts like “Pixar meets brain rot,” copying the animation style that is indicative of children’s media.
“As long as social media has been around, sex and sex workers have understood that there was a double standard,” Stabile says. “You can’t, if you’re a sex worker, talk about your income or your life or your business in anything…other than code. But at the same time, if somebody wants to take a direct porn trope and translate it into something that arguably is kid-friendly, they look the other way.”
Chonco says his content is not meant to be viewed by kids, and he says he doesn’t think kids are watching it. It’s meant for adults, and there are certainly adults in the comments writing things like “What am I watching” and “Why am I doing this with my life?” But there’s also no guarantee that kids aren’t watching, especially considering that The New York Times recently found that the YouTube algorithm is pushing nonsensical AI-generated media to kids.
“It’s deeply, deeply disturbing that this is entertainment to many, many people, including children,” Adora says. “When they’re scrolling on their big iPad, their parents are going to look over and say ‘That looks fine. That’s fruit.’”
Even for adults engaging with fruit porn, it brings up complex questions for adult performers like Adora. AI companies are increasingly advertising to creators like her, offering AI versions of adult stars that fans can “talk to.” Adora doesn’t see the point of replacing authenticity, which, for many fans, is a selling point. Plus, it hasn’t really taken off.
Fruit cucks, on the other hand, are reaching stratospheric popularity. Authentic or not, Stabile says it all goes back to the basics of human sexuality—which is that we just like some freaky shit.
“I think that a lot of times, people don’t realize, they don’t think of themselves as somebody who’d be turned on by being cuckolded or by a certain fetish,” Stabile says. “But these are tropes and people see them and respond to them. This isn’t a new fantasy or fetish. It has existed in our culture for thousands of years.”