I'm definitely partisan on her BUT I think there are a couple of reasons which can explain her success and legacy (both far superior to her career, objectively speaking). I'll try and remain objective.
She was the epitome of what the average consumer of mainstream porn wants: young girl, cool tattoos, hot body, big boobs. Also had personality, she wasn't another vacuous girl who lies down, moans, gets cumshot, and leaves. She actively participated in the scene. She wrote the subject for her first anal scene (
Anything He Desires, with Allie Haze, Levi Cash and Bill Bayley), and it was a good scene. The fact that the anal itself didn't turn out to be that good is another question — she did a way better job with her second anal btw.
And yes, people like giant boobs and tend to ignore if they are fake or not. Btw hers were two very good fake boobs, even if I agree that
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She shot for Brazzers (not "almost exclusively", that's factually untrue: she worked almost exclusively for them
at a certain point because they signed her under exclusive contract) and other mainstream companies (Digital Playground, Jules Jordan and BangBros) which guaranteed her a huge success. Her scenes are some of the most watched still today and during the lockdown Brazzers released a compilation of her scenes.
She worked almost exclusively (this time for real) with big names (Bill Bayley, Danny D, Johnny Sins, Keiran Lee, Mike Adriano) which definitely raised her popularity.
She never did DP or harder stuff (which is a limit of hers), but still any company she has worked with bet heavily on her. I mean, there must be reasons.
Also the fact that she suddenly disappeared (and I mean, she
literally disappeared) paradoxically contributed to create her "legacy".
TL;DR she was hot and cool. She did less than she could have, but what she did was usually of high quality. Her fame is excessive, but there are good reasons why she could still be famous these days.