Android users (the green lines) were presumably less inclined to turn off the porn to check in on Cupertino, but some topics seemed to catch their interest. The blue lines on the left represent iOS traffic dips on Pornhub during Apple's fall 2018 keynote. For instance, Pornhub's iOS traffic dipped by as much as 11 percent during Apple's fall event when the iPhone XR, XS and XS Max made their debuts. Still, some of the more interesting data in Pornhub's report concerns cases where people weren't watching as much porn as usual. In 2018, the site streamed a total of 4,403 petabytes, which, as Pornhub brags, is more than the entire internet consumed in 2002. The sheer quantity of HD video streaming from Pornhub's servers at any given moment equates to a heck of a lot of data. That averages 92 million visitors per day, and the number is still trending upward - Pornhub says its current daily average is now more than 100 million visitors. The platform racked up 33.5 billion visits in 2018, 5 billion more than in 2017. It's no surprise online porn is big business, but you still might be shocked to hear just how much traffic flows through Pornhub every day. well, you knowĬlick for more on the intersection of technology and sex. In the meantime, here are the top takeaways that raised my eyebrows.
There are too many intriguing tidbits to stuff into this summary, so check out the full report for a fun, illuminating and surprisingly SFW-ish read (no pornographic images, just charts and figures). The 2018 report, released Tuesday and coming in at about 8,000 words, offers a comprehensive peek at our collective proclivities. The video gained roughly 422,700 views over two months.Hot for Harley Quinn? Fancy some Fortnite porn, perhaps? Turns out you're not alone, according to an in-depth report from Pornhub that sheds an awful lot of light on a topic few are willing to speak publicly or honestly about.įor millions, Pornhub is the de facto front page of porn on the internet, and every year the site amasses a mountain of data on the kinds of porn people are searching for. For instance, YouTuber Arcade Assassin posted a video (shown below) on November 12th, 2021, that added in the Bonk sound and meme at the end of it. Regardless, users began remixing the video on YouTube, making meme edits. However, the tweet has since been deleted. The video gained more attention after Redmoa posted it to his Twitter, where it gained over 48,000 likes and 8,500 retweets in two months.
Aunt Cass is a character from the Pixar film Big Hero 6 who was remixed into a video posted on September 26th, 2021, by an animator on Newgrounds called Redmoa. The video (shown below) amassed 3 million views and 163,000 likes over three months.Īnother notable rule 34 meme was also created in late 2021 called Aunt Cass Checks Your Browser History which is a larger variant of the original Busty Aunt Cass trend.
Inspired by Ankha Zone, a new trend called That Cat Is Not Dancing started with a YouTube video posted on September 18th, 2021, by YouTuber Memotic. On August 24th, 2009, the Internet humor site Holy Taco published a post titled "25 SFW Rule 34 Images", which featured several notable demotivational posters of the rule. On February 17th, 2008, an anonymous 4chan user started a thread on the /b/ board titled "Rule 34 thread", which accumulated over 365 responses prior to being archived. On August 20th, the webcomic Xkcd published at comic titled “Rule 34”, which illustrated a hypothetical sexual scenario involving a woman and a guitar.
In May of 2007, the Rule 34 database was launched on with a searchable archive of Rule 34 images. Rule 35: If no porn is found at the moment, it will be made. Rule 34: There is porn of it, no exceptions. Rule 35 was created as an addendum to the rule, which clarified that if porn on a subject did not currently exist, it would be created. On October 12th, the rule was included in the original "Rules of the Internet" list submitted to the Internet culture wiki Encyclopedia Dramatica. On March 30th, 2006, the first Urban Dictionary definition for "Rule 34" was submitted by user Nukeitall, who claimed the adage was commonly used on a variety of message boards.