This feature appeared in the March issue of AVN magazine.
LOS ANGELES—Violet Dawn is so brand new, if you go to search her online, you won’t find much, which is kind of remarkable in the era of online influencers and indie creators—it’s as if she just appeared out of the clear, lavender sky.
“Well, when I got into porn, I made the decision. I really wanted to start fresh as far as my social media is concerned. I made a completely new Instagram, a new Twitter, and obviously I started promoting myself, making my content,” Dawn explained to AVN during a break in shooting, on a week-long trip to Vegas.
“I was up to nearly 10,000 followers on Twitter within nine days, and it got banned,” she confessed innocently.
It’s an interesting start for a starlet who is trying to build followers and a fanbase from scratch—until you realize that Dawn is an experienced live performer, who knows how to communicate with her body very well. It makes you wonder what she posted, to get banned on X in less than two weeks?
It turns out that the Florida native was a successful feature dancer for years before making the decision to crossover to content. She let it slip that, in her previous incarnation, she was one of Nightmoves Magazine’s 2023 Entertainers of the Year, from the local Tampa area.
“Yes, ma’am. When I turned 18, um, I got into it,” she said, very polite and well-spoken. “I’ve done professional dancing my whole life. I was a ballerina. So, the act of performing, flexibility, entertaining—it’s always been a passion of mine. Truth be told, and I don’t mean this in a crass or a rude way, but it’s different than the majority of girls, where either they have to get into dancing because they need to or because they just see it as kind of cool.
“For me, I was like, ‘Oh my God. This is what I was kind of meant to do. I can dance, I can be sexy,’ all of the above, just grouped together, you know.”
So, during the pandemic, while a generation of would-be content stars were locked-down and first experimenting with themselves on OnlyFans and other streaming platforms, Dawn took an alternate route on the live stage.
“After COVID and even during COVID, I was working at Scores in Tampa at the time. We were the very first strip club to reopen. It was also because we’re a restaurant. We had to wear face masks the entire time while dancing and we couldn’t touch the customers,” Dawn recalled. “You wanna know what? I swear on everything I love, the most money I made as a dancer was during COVID.
“It was the stimulus checks. People were coming in and they were spending them like nobody’s business,” she claimed.
Dawn’s boyfriend Joey, who had a brief stint as an adult performer himself and is now a talent recruiter, was the one who suggested that she might enjoy performing in scenes and that she might be good at it.
“I’m an incredibly sensual, instigative person in my day-to-day life, and I was curious to see how it would bleed through in this industry. If anything, this job just gives me an opportunity to, like, bring it out of myself more, you know,” she mused.
“Not to be arrogant, but this is something that I know I’m good at in my day-to-day life. I knew I would kill it,” she added, self-assuredly. “Pleasing others is, like, truthfully beyond pleasing for me. So, I always say to people, and even like my boyfriend—it would be selfish to just keep all of my tricks to myself, you know. I got to show them off to the world.”
Dawn is currently self booking. Contact her at [email protected] for availability.
