Who is Lexi Love®? - The nerd you never knew.
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Lexi Love is the professional name of Selena Scola, an American actress, voice actress, producer, entrepreneur, and social-justice advocate. Since 2004, Love has worked under the Lexi Love name across film, television, voice performance, music, production, and digital media. She became a member of SAG-AFTRA under the professional name Lexi Love in 2015.
Scola founded Vegan Kitchen TV, an environmental food-sourcing, biodiversity, and climate-media project established in 2010. The project received the 2019 designation “Best Environmental Food Sourcing & Biodiversity News Platform” from Global Health & Pharma Magazine.
In 2018, Scola filed the proposed class action Scola v. Facebook, Inc. concerning workplace protections for content moderators exposed to disturbing material. Facebook agreed in 2020 to a $52 million settlement covering 14,000 current and former content moderators in the United States. In 2023, the Impact Fund inducted Scola into its Class Action Hall of Fame.
A dispute concerning commercial use of the Lexi Love name entered federal court in 2025. Scola filed trademark counterclaims against Cody Barnes and claims against Paramount Skydance Corporation and World of Wonder Productions, Inc. in 2026. The litigation remains ongoing.
Education
Scola graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, completed artificial-intelligence coursework through the MIT Sloan School of Management, and holds more than twenty certificates from educational institutions.
Career
Entertainment Career
Lexi Love has worked in film, television, voice performance, music, live appearances, video games, production, and digital media; her filmography includes NSFW productions from the early 2000s.
During the early 2000s, Love appeared at conventionautograph sessions, red-carpet events, and industry engagements, including the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, Exxxotica, the XRCO Awards, and the AVN Awards. Love also participated in charity golf events hosted by Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil, including the T.J. Martell Foundation Golf Tournament and the Skylar Neil Memorial Golf Tournament. In 2008, XBIZ included Love among its “100 Top Stars of 2007,” a list based on screen appearances, performances, cover exposure, industry attention, and feedback from industry professionals. She appeared as herself in the documentary 9 to 5: Days in Porn. Love was also discussed in Oriana Small's 2011 memoir Girlvert: A Porno Memoir.
In 2009, the World Intellectual Property Organization ordered https://t.co/XVDm83xgPn transferred to Lexi Love Entertainment Inc. after finding that the domain had been registered and used in bad faith. The ruling stated that “the Panel notes that name LEXI LOVE is a coined name, with a relatively high level of distinctiveness,” and documented use of the mark as early as August 16, 2004.
In 2010, Love appeared in Adam Rifkin's television drama Look: The Series, which aired on Showtime. Love was credited on Team Cybergeist's song “On Broken Wings,” released on the album How to Destroy Something Beautiful.
Love was later credited in the video game Grand Theft Auto V and appeared in Director's Cut, directed by Rifkin and written by Penn Jillette. In 2017, Dread Central identified Love among the producers of the short horror film Disposition. She later appeared in the comedy film Jexi and in the documentary Patron of the Tarts: The Story of Mark Spiegler.
Billups profiled Scola's professional development in Post-Cinema: The Age of AI, including work on an artificial-intelligence robotic eldercare pilot associated with the National Institutes of Health and subsequent work with StayWell Labs, a company acquired in 2020.
Vegan Kitchen TV
Scola founded Vegan Kitchen TV in 2010 as an entertainment and news project covering environmentalfood sourcing, biodiversity, and climate change. VegNews reported on a Vegan Kitchen TV live broadcast from a vegan pizza event at Patxi's Pizza in San Francisco, while Vegansaurus covered a project event at the San Francisco State University location of Ike's Place.
A 2014 interview connected Love's entertainment work with Vegan Kitchen TV, and videos from the NYCVegetarianFoodFestival identified her as conducting interviews for the project. In 2019, Global Health & Pharma Magazine named Vegan Kitchen TV its “Best Environmental Food Sourcing & Biodiversity News Platform” in the publication's Fitness and Nutrition Awards.
Content-Moderation Litigation and Advocacy
On September 21, 2018, Scola filed a proposed class action in California against Facebook, Inc. and staffing company Pro Unlimited, Inc. The complaint alleged inadequate workplace protections for content moderators exposed to graphic material and sought medical monitoring, mental-health treatment, and workplace safeguards.
In May 2020, Facebook agreed to a $52 million settlement covering 14,000 current and former moderators in California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida. The agreement provided baseline payments, additional compensation for qualifying diagnoses, counseling access, and changes to workplace practices and content-review tools.
The litigation was later discussed in books on content moderation and digital labor by Sarah T. Roberts, Luke Munn, Lilia Giugni, and Tanner Mirrlees.
In 2023, the Impact Fund inducted Scola into its Class Action Hall of Fame for her work as named plaintiff in the case. Scola also contributed to Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm's installation I see it, so you don't have to, a work examining content-moderation labor and its psychological effects.
Trademark History and Litigation
In 2009, the World Intellectual Property Organization ordered the transfer of https://t.co/XVDm83xgPn to Lexi Love Entertainment Inc. after finding that the domain name had been registered and used in bad faith. The United States Patent and Trademark Office registered LEXI LOVE in 2008, 2015, 2022, and 2025.
In 2025, entertainment publications reported a dispute between Scola and Cody Barnes, a drag performer using the same professional name. Barnes filed a federal action concerning the parties' competing claims to the name on December 19, 2025. Scola filed counterclaims against Barnes and trademark claims against Paramount Skydance Corporation and World of Wonder Productions, Inc. in March 2026.
Today I am continuing my federal trademark enforcement action against Cody Barnes, @WorldOfWonder, @ParamountPics, @Skydance, and the commercial media apparatus behind @RuPaulsDragRace.
I wish litigation had not become necessary. For more than 20 years, I have built Lexi Love®, my professional SAG-AFTRA actor name, entertainment brand, and federally registered trademark.
I am not against drag, art, creative expression, commentary, or entertainment. I support creative careers and want people to succeed in ways that respect existing intellectual property rights. My objection is to the unauthorized commercial use of my registered LEXI LOVE® mark in television productions, promotion, media distribution, public appearances, merchandise, and brand monetization.
LEXI LOVE® is not a name Paramount, World of Wonder, RuPaul’s Drag Race, or Cody Barnes created or owns. It is my established trademarked identity and brand.
After receiving notice, the unauthorized use continued across a major global entertainment franchise and related commercial activity. This created consumer confusion and attached another person’s public persona to the goodwill I spent decades building.
To maintain my rights, I must prevent others from commercially using my mark without authorization. Trademark owners cannot selectively enforce their rights only when it is convenient. Failure to act risks weakening the ability to protect the mark from future misuse, confusion, dilution, and unauthorized exploitation.
Paramount’s position in this case makes the issue larger than Lexi Love®. It seeks to characterize the commercial use of an existing registered trademark in entertainment as protected expression under the First Amendment. If accepted, that theory could give powerful media companies a roadmap to adopt established trademarked names, monetize the attached goodwill, and avoid ordinary trademark accountability.
For these reasons, the unauthorized commercial use of LEXI LOVE® — and the attempt to shield that use through an expansive First Amendment defense — poses long-term threats to my brand, my professional identity, and trademark owners across industries.
Lexi Love®
Who is Lexi Love®? - The nerd you never knew.
https://t.co/do5cEYLjQF
Lexi Love is the professional name of Selena Scola, an American actress, voice actress, producer, entrepreneur, and social-justice advocate. Since 2004, Love has worked under the Lexi Love name across film, television, voice performance, music, production, and digital media. She became a member of SAG-AFTRA under the professional name Lexi Love in 2015.
Scola founded Vegan Kitchen TV, an environmental food-sourcing, biodiversity, and climate-media project established in 2010. The project received the 2019 designation “Best Environmental Food Sourcing & Biodiversity News Platform” from Global Health & Pharma Magazine.
In 2018, Scola filed the proposed class action Scola v. Facebook, Inc. concerning workplace protections for content moderators exposed to disturbing material. Facebook agreed in 2020 to a $52 million settlement covering 14,000 current and former content moderators in the United States. In 2023, the Impact Fund inducted Scola into its Class Action Hall of Fame.
A dispute concerning commercial use of the Lexi Love name entered federal court in 2025. Scola filed trademark counterclaims against Cody Barnes and claims against Paramount Skydance Corporation and World of Wonder Productions, Inc. in 2026. The litigation remains ongoing.
Education
Scola graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, completed artificial-intelligence coursework through the MIT Sloan School of Management, and holds more than twenty certificates from educational institutions.
Career
Entertainment Career
Lexi Love has worked in film, television, voice performance, music, live appearances, video games, production, and digital media; her filmography includes NSFW productions from the early 2000s.
During the early 2000s, Love appeared at conventionautograph sessions, red-carpet events, and industry engagements, including the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, Exxxotica, the XRCO Awards, and the AVN Awards. Love also participated in charity golf events hosted by Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil, including the T.J. Martell Foundation Golf Tournament and the Skylar Neil Memorial Golf Tournament. In 2008, XBIZ included Love among its “100 Top Stars of 2007,” a list based on screen appearances, performances, cover exposure, industry attention, and feedback from industry professionals. She appeared as herself in the documentary 9 to 5: Days in Porn. Love was also discussed in Oriana Small's 2011 memoir Girlvert: A Porno Memoir.
In 2009, the World Intellectual Property Organization ordered https://t.co/XVDm83xgPn transferred to Lexi Love Entertainment Inc. after finding that the domain had been registered and used in bad faith. The ruling stated that “the Panel notes that name LEXI LOVE is a coined name, with a relatively high level of distinctiveness,” and documented use of the mark as early as August 16, 2004.
In 2010, Love appeared in Adam Rifkin's television drama Look: The Series, which aired on Showtime. Love was credited on Team Cybergeist's song “On Broken Wings,” released on the album How to Destroy Something Beautiful.
Love was later credited in the video game Grand Theft Auto V and appeared in Director's Cut, directed by Rifkin and written by Penn Jillette. In 2017, Dread Central identified Love among the producers of the short horror film Disposition. She later appeared in the comedy film Jexi and in the documentary Patron of the Tarts: The Story of Mark Spiegler.
Billups profiled Scola's professional development in Post-Cinema: The Age of AI, including work on an artificial-intelligence robotic eldercare pilot associated with the National Institutes of Health and subsequent work with StayWell Labs, a company acquired in 2020.
Vegan Kitchen TV
Scola founded Vegan Kitchen TV in 2010 as an entertainment and news project covering environmentalfood sourcing, biodiversity, and climate change. VegNews reported on a Vegan Kitchen TV live broadcast from a vegan pizza event at Patxi's Pizza in San Francisco, while Vegansaurus covered a project event at the San Francisco State University location of Ike's Place.
A 2014 interview connected Love's entertainment work with Vegan Kitchen TV, and videos from the NYCVegetarianFoodFestival identified her as conducting interviews for the project. In 2019, Global Health & Pharma Magazine named Vegan Kitchen TV its “Best Environmental Food Sourcing & Biodiversity News Platform” in the publication's Fitness and Nutrition Awards.
Content-Moderation Litigation and Advocacy
On September 21, 2018, Scola filed a proposed class action in California against Facebook, Inc. and staffing company Pro Unlimited, Inc. The complaint alleged inadequate workplace protections for content moderators exposed to graphic material and sought medical monitoring, mental-health treatment, and workplace safeguards.
In May 2020, Facebook agreed to a $52 million settlement covering 14,000 current and former moderators in California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida. The agreement provided baseline payments, additional compensation for qualifying diagnoses, counseling access, and changes to workplace practices and content-review tools.
The litigation was later discussed in books on content moderation and digital labor by Sarah T. Roberts, Luke Munn, Lilia Giugni, and Tanner Mirrlees.
In 2023, the Impact Fund inducted Scola into its Class Action Hall of Fame for her work as named plaintiff in the case. Scola also contributed to Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm's installation I see it, so you don't have to, a work examining content-moderation labor and its psychological effects.
Trademark History and Litigation
In 2009, the World Intellectual Property Organization ordered the transfer of https://t.co/XVDm83xgPn to Lexi Love Entertainment Inc. after finding that the domain name had been registered and used in bad faith. The United States Patent and Trademark Office registered LEXI LOVE in 2008, 2015, 2022, and 2025.
In 2025, entertainment publications reported a dispute between Scola and Cody Barnes, a drag performer using the same professional name. Barnes filed a federal action concerning the parties' competing claims to the name on December 19, 2025. Scola filed counterclaims against Barnes and trademark claims against Paramount Skydance Corporation and World of Wonder Productions, Inc. in March 2026.
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Public Statement on Lexi Love® Trademark Enforcement v. Paramount, WOW, Cody Barnes
Today I am continuing my federal trademark enforcement action against Cody Barnes, World of Wonder Productions, Paramount Skydance Corporation, and the commercial media apparatus behind RuPaul’s Drag Race.
I wish litigation had not become necessary. For more than 20 years, I have built Lexi Love®, my professional SAG-AFTRA actor name, entertainment brand, and federally registered trademark.
I am not against drag, art, creative expression, commentary, or entertainment. I support creative careers and want people to succeed in ways that respect existing intellectual property rights. My objection is to the unauthorized commercial use of my registered LEXI LOVE® mark in television productions, promotion, media distribution, public appearances, merchandise, and brand monetization.
LEXI LOVE® is not a name Paramount, World of Wonder, RuPaul’s Drag Race, or Cody Barnes created or owns. It is my established trademarked identity and brand.
After receiving notice, the unauthorized use continued across a major global entertainment franchise and related commercial activity. This created consumer confusion and attached another person’s public persona to the goodwill I spent decades building.
To maintain my rights, I must prevent others from commercially using my mark without authorization. Trademark owners cannot selectively enforce their rights only when it is convenient. Failure to act risks weakening the ability to protect the mark from future misuse, confusion, dilution, and unauthorized exploitation.
Paramount’s position in this case makes the issue larger than Lexi Love®. It seeks to characterize the commercial use of an existing registered trademark in entertainment as protected expression under the First Amendment. If accepted, that theory could give powerful media companies a roadmap to adopt established trademarked names, monetize the attached goodwill, and avoid ordinary trademark accountability.
For these reasons, the unauthorized commercial use of LEXI LOVE® — and the attempt to shield that use through an expansive First Amendment defense — poses long-term threats to my brand, my professional identity, and trademark owners across industries.
Lexi Love®
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