Pornhub Saw A Huge Spike in Traffic When YouTube Went Down
YouTube’s outage on Tuesday may have spelled disaster for people wanting to watch cute videos of cats, but Pornhub certainly wasn’t complaining.
The site received an unexpected surge in visits during the outage, reaching 21 percent above its daily average at 10 p.m. EST.
Who needs @YouTube when you have @Pornhub?
— Pornhub ARIA (@Pornhub) October 17, 2018
Pornhub’s explanation?
“When you can’t tube, you fap instead!”
Searches on the site for autonomous sensory meridian response (‘ASMR’) dramatically increased while YouTube was down, soaring 21 percent. Other terms likely to appear on both streaming sites ― including “wwe,” “bowsette,” “fortnite,” “minecraft,” “game,” “pokemon,” “celebrity,” “twitch,” “overwatch” and “halloween” ― saw even more hits.
YouTube may be down, but pornhub is still up
— SH (@AKHidden) October 17, 2018
— Romulo (@romulop2p) October 17, 2018
Exactly pic.twitter.com/JkfDWy3pkX
— Chug (@thechuggod) October 17, 2018
The end of YouTube is upon us! And the rise of @Pornhub begins!
— Charlie K (@UGGsquad) October 17, 2018
Do we have music on pornhub too? 😍
— JustHereForFun (@Em_Lotz) October 17, 2018
YouTube is down.
To PornHub!
Because it's either cookie decorating or fucking. There is no in between.— 👻 Bela Lughostie 👻 (@MissBellaBlitz) October 17, 2018
As Mashable reported, Pornhub’s traffic dropped once YouTube managed to get up and running again.
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