It turned out that the traffic to the popular porn site 'Pornhub' was rapidly increased due to YouTube's worldwide down

By Marco Verch

There was a situation where YouTube got down worldwide, mainly around 10:00 am Wednesday, October 17, 2018, Japan time. Whether it is said to have received that aftermath, it has been reported that the traffic to the major porn site "Pornhub" has increased rapidly.

YouTube Down, Pornhub Up - Pornhub Insights
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The worldwide downs of YouTube that occurred on October 17 was a large scale, and reports such as tweets such as "Down down!" Were received from users all over the world. On the screen of YouTube while it is down, a comment saying "The group of monkeys who received advanced training is working on problem solving" was displayed together with the illustration of the monkey with the tool .

A fault has occurred that makes it impossible to watch videos globally on YouTube, a monkey appeared on the error screen - GIGAZINE

And Pornhub of a major pornographic site showed a surge in traffic to respond to YouTube's worldwide down. Access increased rapidly at 9 p.m. (21 o'clock) on October 16 at the Eastern Standard Time of the United States, and at 10 p.m., there was a spike in which the traffic sharply increased by 21% compared to normal. After that, it was also interesting that the traffic dropped sharply at the timing around when YouTube was restored, and it was 4% lower than usual.

Also, it seems that signs searched during that period also showed signs different from usual. The ASMR that the brain is troubling just by listening to the voice and sound shows a 201% increase, and then why "YouTube" (183% increase) continues. Since then, "roleplay" (role play: 177% increase), "stormy daniels" (Stormy Daniels: 161%), "wwe" (girls' professional wrestling: 144% increase), "college" (university: 138% increase) bowsette "( Princess Kuppa : 137% increase), etc. are continuing.

Please note that it does not clearly indicate whether this ranking is on Pornhub or keyword that flows in search. By the way, "ASMR" ranked first in the ranking is completely prohibited by the Chinese government as "vulgar porn content".

ASMR movie that feels comfortable with sound is completely banned in China as "vulgar porn content" - GIGAZINE