PornHub Saw A HUGE Spike In Traffic When YouTube Went Down The Other Night

Inquirer- When people freaked out as video streaming site YouTube went down on Tuesday, Oct. 17, Pornhub may have benefitted from the temporary outage. The porn site showed data that its numbers skyrocketed by 12 percent by 9 p.m. Eastern Time in the United States. It then reached 21 percent “above daily averages” an hour later. Pornhub said the surge was a “significant increase by millions of additional viewers during Pornhub’s peak evening hours.” But once YouTube went back, Pornhub experienced a 2 to 4 percent drop in traffic.

Wow mystery solved! We finally have an answer to the question that has dumbfounded some of the greatest minds of our generation. What do people who watch funny or educational videos on YouTube do when YouTube crashes for a little while? Do they go outside and get some sun on their faces? Do they volunteer at a local soup kitchen to help the less fortunate? Do they expand their minds by reading a book? NOPE. Turns out they watch a TON of porn. Just an absolute ton of it. They flip from one video streaming service to the next. Oh YouTube is down? Guess I’ll watch a little porn to pass the time before it’s back up again. Tale as old as time. Next thing you know it’s 3am, you’re raw and you gotta wake up for work soon.

I’m not gonna sit here and say I did anything all that different. I recently got YouTube TV instead of cable because it’s so much goddamn cheaper so I too was fucked the other night when YouTube went down for a little bit. Cord cutting saves you a ton of money and is an awesome idea until your streaming TV service crashes in the middle of playoff baseball. Then what do you do? Apparently lots of people start watching porn. Did I immediately start watching porn? No I didn’t but now I wish I had so I could’ve joined all my fellow YouTubers. I did however flip right over to Netflix and started watching Big Mouth. There’s so many options now that one service crashing isn’t a huge deal because there’s 20 other options ready to slam content into your skull and for that I am grateful. Def gonna just watch porn next time though.