In PornHub: Sauce Code (3.5” Orange), Arlo Sinclair pushes his satire to bawdy extremes, merging the obsolescence of floppy disk technology with the provocative excess of internet pornography. Painted with his characteristic photorealistic precision, the translucent orange 3.5” disk bears a label reading: “Pornhub Sauce Code Backup Disk” with the handwritten amendment: “You turn my floppy disk HARD.” The cheeky pun reimagines a once-essential storage medium as the unlikely vessel for one of the internet’s most controversial and ubiquitous platforms.

The humor is layered with irony. The floppy disk—capable of storing barely over a megabyte—would be hopelessly inadequate for hosting streaming adult content, yet Sinclair makes it a “backup disk” for an empire built on digital abundance. The phrase “Proudly supporting the birth rate decline since 2007” adds another punchline, pointing to pornography’s cultural and social entanglements while couching it in faux-advertising rhetoric.

Beyond its surface humor, the work extends Sinclair’s ongoing project of recontextualizing technological fossils as satirical mirrors of cultural memory. The disk’s scratches, label creases, and handwritten scrawls are rendered with painstaking attention, elevating a disposable object into a cultural icon. By juxtaposing the outdated with the hyper-current, Sinclair asks viewers to consider how technologies—and the industries they enable—are both transient and enduring, disposable yet inescapably formative.

Like the other works in his 2025 cycle, PornHub: Sauce Code sits at the intersection of Pop Art’s appropriation and Urban Contemporary’s sharp-edged critique. Echoing the irreverence of artists such as Richard Prince and Banksy, Sinclair uses parody and shock to hold a mirror to society’s obsessions, contradictions, and taboos—reminding us that what once seemed fleeting often becomes fossilized in the collective imagination.