This might only be anecdotal on my part and it's just the feeling I get from being around here and other places on the Internet since she turned hardcore. Since she has did some hardcore things, I don't really see any significant rise in her popularity myself. I could be wrong, but I get the sense I'm not. Maybe it's because she's only doing it for her site and has put almost no promotional material from it out, or maybe because she waited to long to go that route and was past her prime, maybe she was popular enough as a adult model which she was one of the top ones already that she was tapped out with the numbers of her future potential fan base, maybe her career has been mismanaged in a business or promotional sense in another way, or maybe it's some other reason or several combined reasons, but I haven't seen any popularity explosion because of the hardcore stuff, not like one would expect even in today's porn world. I predicted for her that the "new car smell" effect of her going hardcore might wear off quickly, but looking back she might never have had it in the first place.
I also wouldn't be surprised if she's not making a whole lot more than she was before. Of course only she and the people running her operation know for sure and hardly anybody in porn will willing share their business’ financial information and even when they do it's often hard to find it trustworthy or be assured of it's factualness. Still, I also get the feeling tons of new cash aren't just rushing in for her.