It's that time of the year again, putting the important parts into review. Kicking it off Pornhub style. Billions of yearly visits with more breakdowns then you ever wanted to know or could shake a stick at on a per country level.
https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2018-year-in-review
It seems only a brave editor is willing to promote this story, but as I think I was the guy who submitted the 2017 equivalent, which was both amusing and informative, I have no problem picking out some highlights. Some redactions have been necessary to keep SN SFW, obviously -- FP.
All that high definition video means a lot of data gets pumped out by Pornhub’s servers every day. In 2018, we transferred [redacted] Petabytes of data, which equates to [redacted] per second. That’s more bandwidth than the entire internet consumed in [redacted]!
When they’re not busy watching videos, Pornhub’s users enjoy socializing, with nearly [redacted] private messages sent and [redacted] video comments left. The most often used words in Pornhub comments include lots of feel good terms such as [redacted]. More than [redacted] people took the time to vote for their favorite videos, which incidentally is more people than [redacted].
Every minute, [redacted] new visitors arrive at Pornhub, [redacted] videos are watched and [redacted] searches are performed. [redacted] of those video views are of [redacted], which is still Pornhub’s most watched video of all time at [redacted] views.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Vokbain on Saturday December 29 2018, @12:46PM (2 children)
Well, I just [redacted]!
(Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Saturday December 29 2018, @12:53PM (1 child)
That is not very [redacted].
(Score: 3, Funny) by coolgopher on Saturday December 29 2018, @01:12PM
I would've modded you [redacted], but that option appears to have been [redacted].
(Score: 3, Interesting) by looorg on Saturday December 29 2018, @01:37PM (5 children)
There are a lot of interesting, non-pornographic, data gathered. First it's the amount of data they gather on EVERYTHING about the people that visit their site. One does wonder what the users of the site really does think about that, clearly they might not mind since it's not the first year this has been released. They do seem to keep excellent track on their users, whom also seem to volunteer way to much information.
We can clearly see more and more mobile devices are used and less desktop views. Perhaps it's just more "practical" and user-friendly considering the sites content.
It's kind of entertaining to think that every year they upload about 115 years worth of video, or every minute there is 2 hours of new content (I do wonder how they know it's new content tho and not just the same clips or old clips -- how do they detect dupes?). Still you won't ever be able to watch it and if you somehow manage to one is left wondering what it would do to a persons mind.
I do wonder what the facination is with "Japanese", it seems to be all over the place. I would say it showed that there is difference in taste, but then considering how many people looked for it perhaps there isn't. Also it becomes kind scarey watching the most viewed categories when they compare women to men, even if women are only about 1/3-1/4 of the datapoints. But atleast everyone seems to be in agreement about lesbians being awesome.
Stormy Daniels probably got more attention then she has ever had, which might be a good thing for her since she might have to relaunch her career to pay all them legal bills.
With that in mind, I do seem to recall that we had this news item last year to -- which is why I did submit it, but now I can't find it in the search for the sites news stories. I think I found the one for 2016 but nothing for 2017. Might be weak searching capabilities but still, link please?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday December 29 2018, @04:06PM (2 children)
I'd like to know how reliable they consider their data. Are some of the women really just men trying to hide their identities. Or dogs?
I'd also like them to merge Chrome OS into Linux - the linux figures didn't drop, as Chrome OS's gains were bigger than 'Linux's losses!
And that map of regional preferences is hilarious...
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by looorg on Saturday December 29 2018, @07:53PM (1 child)
Beyond the porn as noted this year in review offers quite a lot of interesting things on a social- and cultural level, or at least I think so. The evolution of porn, or the preference or what not. There are also some funny oddities to such as why is the cartoon of Stormy Daniels holding a Amanita muscaria mushroom in her hand? Those things are quite toxic, like her?
Also interesting in the pornstar rankings, the first man doesn't show up until spot #12, the next man is at #36 and then #55. That really does say something, probably the fairest conclusion is that the male talent just doesn't really matter all that much. They could more or less just be replaced by random cock dude, if he could perform on command that is.
It looks like the United States is like obsessed with porn from the country traffic data, but then that probably happens when you have more or less your own continent (sorry Canada). I guess if you added up all the European countries etc it would probably even out. It just looks skewed as fuck the way they present that bar-graph.
So people in general like to watch things that sort of remind them of themselves, so more about trying to identify then and not so much yellow-fever. Still it doesn't explain why the rest of the world seems obsessed with "Japanese" for their porn desires.
I agree that the world map was kind funny. We live in the matriarchy for sure ... Funniest is probably Big Dick Pakistan squeezed in between the Anal Middle east and MILF India.
Question: How come "straight guys" is the top searched term in the Gay Male category? Sure ok I guess that is like straight males searching for lesbians. It just seem odd somehow.
I do wonder tho how they quantify their data search terms -- after all isn't Lesbian, Lesbians scissoring and lesbian threesomes pretty much lesbians, just doing specific things or there is more of them. Instead of it being three separate items.
So much for the romantic hand holding and watching the stars. Also Big Dick was the fourth female viewing option while it barely broke into the top 10 for the male viewers. Gangbangs didn't even make the male top10.
Most searched for Pornstars by Women. Stormy Daniels, almost twice the bar size of the next person on the list. Why? Did they wanna see who serviced the president or? Any comment on that one Donald? Have we all missed out somehow?
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I tried to visit the site, for science. There sure are a lot of ads and tracking shit on that site. Content wise it appear to deliver what you would expect. That said tho it seems there are a lot clips from other commercial pornography sites, are they getting a cut or is this just some kind of never ending circus of takedown notices etc going around? This could explain the hours of content being uploaded every minute. But I wanted to see what they wanted to know to sign up, that said they are somewhat smarter about it then normal and I didn't fancy going about setting up new mail accounts etc just to find out, they did check the email you supplied so that it wasn't from one of the big known throw-away emailers, so I resorted to look at their Terms of Service instead.
I wonder how many actually bothered to read the terms of service and their privacy policy, my guess it's a very low low number of users. After all it gets in the way of the instant gratification you came to the site for.
https://www.pornhub.com/information#terms [pornhub.com]
It's pretty much the standard legal mumbo-jumbo where you promise that you are 18 years old or that it's legal where you are to watch, they don't check. We are on the honor system here. So all the data you enter could be complete bullshit, as long as it's not to obvious after all their advertisers could get upset then. So you, the user, should keep it within reason.
There are a few quite amusing things in there such as ...
I guess this is business standard, after all you can't undo what has been done or seen.
That is just funny on so many levels.
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Some of the data is probably quite accurate, such as how long accounts watch this or that, what they search for and what they watch. The country data is probably fairly accurate to, I doubt a lot of people go thru the process of trying to obfuscate or VPN to see the porn. But the age, name and gender and such is probably quite iffy. There probably is a difference between account types tho, if you go for the paid accounts and buy things via their services they know a lot more then since they want a credit card etc. But otherwise unless you are also uploading your own content that you want to get paid for it's probably all quite bad and iffy. After all it only becomes important if you want to get paid yourself rather then grabbing data from some random spank-account.
The weird part is that it doesn't feel like it was two years ago that this was news the last time. So it could be the 2017 or 2016 thing, I just can't find it. I think I made a comment about it to but I can't find that either. But then I didn't invest a lot of time searching for it either.
(Score: 3, Funny) by FatPhil on Sunday December 30 2018, @11:36AM
You mean "Toad": https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/09/stormy-daniels-donald-trump-has-a-dick-like-the-mu.html
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by toddestan on Saturday December 29 2018, @07:27PM (1 child)
The mobile vs. desktop part was interesting. I know mobile is popular, but over 80% now? No wonder every website now is a dumbed-down, optimized for mobile mess now. One thing that wasn't clear since they broke down the usage by gaming console further down, is if they are counting gaming consoles as desktops, mobile, or if gaming consoles even make up a significant portion of their users.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Saturday December 29 2018, @08:08PM
I'm not sure. I think they are separate entities, but that could just be my interpretation of it. They probably check for device and the options are probably desktop - mobile - tablet and console and each then got their own and is not included in the other. If anything shouldn't tablets and mobile be the same to then? They should have more in common then say desktop and console. But then chrome books and such are counted as desktop computers, or at least that is what it looks like to me. That said tho I wonder if gaming consoles are even responsible for a large amount of traffic, there is no data for that really. After all if one watches that pie chart "Traffic by Phone, Desktop and Tablet" then consoles are not even an option.
(Score: 4, Funny) by VLM on Saturday December 29 2018, @02:30PM
Not sure if that's a pr0n joke in the sense of viewers emitting vast quantities of genetic information in semi-liquid form, or insightful in the sense that pr0n has always held a leadership position in online technology. Both, I suppose.
(Score: 4, Funny) by legont on Saturday December 29 2018, @03:45PM (6 children)
‘lesbian’, ‘hentai’, ‘milf’ and ‘step mom’ are the top 4. Looks like youngsters are not only unemployable, but also unf****able. I guess the US propaganda worked effectively yet again.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2, Troll) by FatPhil on Saturday December 29 2018, @04:20PM (4 children)
"Straight" porn has cocks in it. Erm, why should I enjoy watching *someone else* pleasure a female? That's half way to cuckoldry.
Other viewpoints are available.
Oooh, I didn't intend that pun, but indeed, the popularity of "POV" porn is for those who wish to pretend it's not someone else getting their dick wet. Which kind of reinforces the view that non-POV porn is a bit cucky.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @04:41PM
This guy gets it. All straight porn is cucking the viewer.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @06:02PM (2 children)
for "normal" people, porn is a fantasy. meaning you are supposed to be imagining that the wang of the actor is your wang (without even realizing it). not looking at the actor as some dude screwing someone and you're watching. though, after a certain amount of porn, this effect wears off, and there are just wangs everywhere. at this point you may find yourself watching more women with each other or by themselves, robots, power tools, bed posts, farm animals, aliens, demons, whatever.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @06:17PM (1 child)
Personally I have switched back to regular old naked women pics and let my imagination do more of the work. It is more satisfying though it requires a tiny bit more effort. Most video porn is unrealistic and completely lacking emotional depth. If you don't thI'm nk emotions are important for sex then best of luck with your future performance issues.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @09:33AM
what if i told you.. you could just use your imagionatoins?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @04:43PM
All the youngster porn is kept on the dark web.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday December 29 2018, @03:51PM (7 children)
it's surprising that the country whose women watch the most is the Philippines. i would have guessed a european country like france.
i don't understand the popularity of hentai. is it because it's idealized characters without normal human flaws?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday December 29 2018, @04:14PM (5 children)
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday December 29 2018, @05:20PM (4 children)
Humans have historically been willing to get it on with anything that they could. Neanderthals wasn't even the tip of the iceberg. Consider sheep, e.g. I know of historically recent reports of a man choosing to get it on with a mare. (FWIW, he was British upper class. But that probably just meant he had easy access.)
For that matter, a large number of people of both sexes get it on with plastic objects that have no obvious gross similarity to a partner of the same species. (Detailed similarity is necessary for comfort, so doesn't count.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @09:55PM
This guy loves his car and somehow has sex with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06BFsQ_28Co [youtube.com]
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday December 30 2018, @01:50AM
And you can still tell who they are, because they all work for Boeing or Northrop-Grumman.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday December 30 2018, @12:14PM (1 child)
Being the Prince of Wales indeed has such privileges.
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Sunday December 30 2018, @06:56PM
Well, the time period I was thinking of was the early 1900's, and the particular individual wasn't royal. And saw no reason to keep his habit any particular secret. (I don't know enough about him to assert that horses were his main interest...but I suppose it's possible.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @06:05PM
i suspect it also makes bad things more ok b/c the people are not real.
(Score: 5, Funny) by sgleysti on Saturday December 29 2018, @05:02PM
All that high definition video means a lot of data gets pumped out by Pornhub’s servers every day. In 2018, we transferred eleventy Petabytes of data, which equates to many bits per second. That’s more bandwidth than the entire internet consumed in 1901!
When they’re not busy watching videos, Pornhub’s users enjoy socializing, with nearly-private messages sent and inane video comments left. The most often used words in Pornhub comments include lots of feel good terms such as kittens, puppies, and rainbows. More than 2 people took the time to vote for their favorite videos, which incidentally is more people than 2.
Every minute, random new visitors arrive at Pornhub, low-quality videos are watched and embarrassing searches are performed. 80% of those video views are of kittens playing in a cardboard box, which is still Pornhub’s most watched video of all time at -2147483648 views.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @09:50PM (2 children)
Do most people really want to see this stuff? It should be in its own section the same way the split gay/straight. This is a really annoying (disturbing) trend.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @10:35PM
They should also have a category for real, verified incest, not the fake stepmom stuff for losers.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Sunday December 30 2018, @06:05AM
"My fetish is normal. All you others are weirdos."
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @11:00PM (1 child)
In Italy they search Italian. In Sweden they search Swedish. In Poland they search Polish.
In Ukraine they search Russian.
Nobody tell Porky or he will declare marshal law again.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday December 30 2018, @01:48AM
Looking at the international breakdown, Russia and the Anglosphere enjoy "hentai" or "lesbian," no big surprise there.
The goatfucking regions of the world enjoy "anal," no big surprise there.
Spain and India like "milf/mature," no surprise there give that they're both momma's-boy cultures, no big surprise there.
Pakistan likes "big dick," no surprise there, given that they're a bunch of micro-peened fantasizers, no big surprise there.
But Africa actually liking Ebony porn?! I find that hard to believe because they're all about the Muh Dikk, and muh-dikkin' doesn't include Black women.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Sunday December 30 2018, @05:58AM
Apparently somebody other than the one you got, since all useful information from the quote at the end has been stripped out.
*Some* redactions? Why is it necessary to remove all data from this summary?:
I don't see how at least 9 of 14 of those could possibly be offensive. If this is some sort of joke, it's not funny.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"