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 It's the law of the internet that makes some think "There Should Be a Law".note
(For the Charles Stross novel, see Rule 34)
If it exists, there is porn of it — no exceptions.
Supposedly originating and popularized by the 4chan imageboards, this was the first near-universally agreed-upon Rule Of The Internet. It is so well founded and documented with irrefutable proof that even those with only a cursory awareness of the Internet are aware of this rule even if they don't know it has a name.
While the original architects of the Internet had grandiose goals of research and data sharing, the second it fell into the hands of Joe Everyman, it became a tool for one thing and one thing only: pornography! Now, it's not that everyone online is just looking for pornography; it's just that it's very very easy to come across. Even if you're not looking for it! Don't believe us? Do a Google image search (filters off) of, well, pretty much anything. Sometimes even with the filters on. Odds are pretty certain the results will include something Not Safe for Work.
The key reason the scope of it is so wide and bizarre lies in what some have come to call Rule 36: "If you've thought of it, then there's somebody out there with a fetish for it." (And incidentally, by "it" we mean "anything that exists in the world.")
There's also Rule 35, basically a guarantee that Rule 34 will remain true: "If there is no porn of it, it will be made". This basically means that if you notice you can't find porn of something, and point it out, somebody will be happy to draw/write/find it for you in pretty short order, if only to maintain Rule 34.
Finally, there is the concept of quantum porn. "Referring to a type of previously non-existent porn will cause online porn of that type to come into being retroactively." Nobody takes this seriously, so far as is known.
You may wish to keep a bottle of Brain Bleach handy while proving (or attempting to disprove) Rule 34. Don't say we didn't warn you. And if you DO go hunting to prove this rule false, say good-bye to your childhood first...
Compare Sexy Whatever Outfit (a non-pornographic Sister Trope), Freud Was Right, Fetish Fuel (and the wiki for it ), Rule34 — Creator Reactions (a list of creator reactions to this applying to their work). See also Rule 63, which gets mixed up with this.
Not to be confused with (though overlap with this rule is guaranteed):
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