When I first heard about YouTube more than a decade ago, it was little more than dump for every dumb video scattered throughout the internet. Thanks to their less criminal legal practices regarding ownership of uploaded videos, it quickly became a popular resource for amateur content creators and video editors.
Now, YouTube is the second most visited website on the internet and a platform that has launched the careers of dozens of untalented millionaires. It has even become the primary means of entertainment for people around the world, as 5 billion videos are watched on YouTube in a single day.
Until it goes offline, at least!
On October 16th, YouTube experienced a rare global service outage from 9:30PM until 10:45PM ET. These displaced content consumers were forced to entertain themselves with alternative sources and as luck would have it, the statisticians at Pornhub Insights noticed another beloved website that experienced a spike in visits during the downtime.
As usual they have compiled a couple graphs to highlight how YouTube’s service disruption effected Pornhub traffic.
During YouTube’s unexpected outage on October 16, Pornhub experience a noticeable spike in average traffic. At its peak, 21% more people were using Pornhub than at 10pm on a normal night. Considering Pornhub is already the internet’s most popular adult website and a formidable website on its own, this kind of spike in traffic is rather interesting- especially when we look at what kind of search terms were the focus of this porn-viewing bubble.
Popular YouTube genres like asmr experienced 201% more searches during the outage, with YouTube itself experiencing an 183% boom in porn search relevancy. As we’ve noticed during other global events, often times people like to throw popular current event topics into Pornhub to see what’s going on and I’m happy these people choose to get their news from the website everyone else just uses to masturbate.
For a more in depth look at how YouTube’s service outage and other internet catastrophes effected porn traffic, head over to Pornhub Insights to read more.
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