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alt title(s): Rule34; Rule36; Rule Thirty Six 
The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you've got millions of pals out there. Type in 'Find people that have sex with goats that are on fire' and the computer will say, 'Specify type of goat.'
Please, put your legs down, I can see part of your butt-cheek. Nobody wants to see that. Except for maybe, like, one guy on the internet.
Rule 34: There is porn of it - no exceptions.
Supposedly originating with the comic panel above, and popularized by (who else?) the 4chan imageboards, this is the only 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.
Got a favourite fictional character you'd like to see in a compromising position? The Internet's got ya covered!
Enjoy watching two same-sex individuals making out? The Internet's got ya covered!
Have a specific, even unorthodox, fetish? You better believe the Internet has you covered!
The thing is, we humans are a social species. If given enough time, any individual will invariably come to think of that favourite of favourite past times. It's only natural that some of it will end up online as well.
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." Lesbians. Pregnant women. Pregnant men. Giants. Cannibalism. Centaurs. Balloon animals. And, of course, Giant Pregnant Inflatable Cannibal Hermaphrodite Lesbian Centaurs. Uh-huh.
But don't get your skivvies in a twist! It's not that we're all perverts; it's as the infamous musical number from Avenue Q tells us: " The Internet Is For Porn".
See also Fetish Fuel and Power Perversion Potential if you really wanna blow your mind. You may wish to keep a bottle of Brain Bleach handy. Or not. Basically, if you're on the internet long enough and surf carelessly, you'll see porn of Anything That Moves and some things that don't. See also Rule Sixty Three, which gets mixed up with this.
Not to be confused with the other wiki's Rule 34 .
Be warned: pretty much every outside link on this page is NSFW.
Examples:
- Disney is a notorious example of a corporation actively against Rule Thirty Four, or any other "unauthorized" use of their characters, for that matter; woe be a fan artist who makes a similar character to one of theirs, or any day care centers who have unapproved murals of their characters on their walls, as they have been known to file lawsuits against such "offenders".
- An infamous (and probably apocryphal) story from the early days of the studio tells of a staff party where a cartoon was shown of Mickey and Minnie Mouse in an x-rated scene. Afterwards, Walt chuckled along with everyone else, invited the two guys who made the cartoon to come up and be recognized... and then fired them on the spot and ordered the film destroyed.
- Other versions of the story suggest that it was Snow White and her dwarfs having an orgy in the film which was shown at Uncle Walt's birthday party.
- Minnie and Mickey did appear in a few Tijuana Bibles and Snow White, Jasmine, Ariel and Jessica Rabbit are favorite targets of internet porn maestro Julius Zimmerman.
- In one variation of the story, the x-ratedness was limited to a single cel, which of course Walt had no trouble spotting.
- One popular variation has the gentlemen sneaking a single frame of regular pornography into the reel to see how phenomenal Walt's vision was. Walt spots it, but only slightly chastises the animators, joking "You know, if she weren't naked, I wouldn't have seen her."
- This is in fact famous enough to get a snopes page (where it is rated "undetermined")
- Equally infamous is the story of author Harlan Ellison's one and only day working for Disney; Ellison himself tells the story with his trademark mix of humor and outrage (part 3 of the link). According to him, the day started very promisingly but ended immediately after a lunch where he joked about (and acted out) a hypothetical Mickey Mouse porn film.
- Interestingly, Disney chose not to sue The Realist or Wally Wood when he did his infamous Disneyland Memorial Orgy (the image, while not showing explicit depictions of genitalia, is probably not worksafe), on the feeling that it was probably protected as parody (as well as the possibility that the lawsuit would bring unwanted publicity). They did, however, sue the poster company selling unauthorized copies of Wood's work.
- A Beauty And The Beast porn fic broke the brain of the reviewer at Godawful Fan Fiction enough that he or she could only post things like "...but he's a candle!"
- Gadget from Chip And Dale Rescue Rangers has been the subject of pornographic drawings so often that more serious fans of hers and of the show started a protest movement named Rangerphiles Against Gadget Erotica.
- Supposedly, some animators at Disney actually draw this kind of stuff in their free time at work and joke about it. Unlike the examples above, however, they're smart enough to keep it to themselves and their co-workers.
- The underground comic book Weirdo reproduced a pornographic mock Sunday funnies page by the Flintstones comic strip artist done in his free time.
- There is a lot of Kim Possible art out there. But as a kickass athletic young cheerleader with the personal motto "I can do anything!", this was frankly inevitable.
- On a related topic, when your professor asks you to look for pictures of naked mole rats make sure to have safe search on. Kim Possible doing it with Rufus he already has and is not the school criteria he was looking for.
- Joseph Michael Linsner, in his Dawn & Beyond collectible art card set, included two Disney pieces. The first, a topless Ariel seen by a pop-eyed Sebastian is fairly tame. The second, Beauty getting molested by Beast with Limiere as a vibrator looking on is rather less so. Disney went after Linsner, and the set was recalled and is now sold without those two pieces included.
- Speaking of Disney, there is a rather uncomfortable amount of Bolt x Mittens porn hanging around.
- On the other hand, for second season Disney Gargoyles DVD, Disney interviewed a number of fanfic writers for a special feature on fanfic for the show. Some of the fanwriters in the special are downright notorious for writing NSFW work fic.
- On the flip-side of the coin, Japanese manga and anime artists and companies have very little qualms about fans making erotic doujinshi of their worlds, or even selling them; in fact, many famous manga and anime artists started their careers doing just that, and some of them still dabble in the pastime. This is buffered by the very low print runs of such work.
- On the note of many famous manga and anime artists originally working in the doujinshi industry, CLAMP is notable for doing such. What did they market in? It's best not to know.
- And then we have Miss Maki Murakami. Gravitation remixes...each more explicit than the last. Not to mention Gamerz Heaven. Yeah.
- According to some sources, the second season of Shinkon Gattai Godannar had to resolve funding problems by selling doujinshi of Godannar characters.
- Hellsing creator Kouta Hirano started off as a hentai artist — and most of the characters in Hellsing are actually recycled from his previous works.
- There is a (while not porn, not work safe) Sonic The Hedgehog anthropomorphic Gender Bender doujin written by Koshi Rikudo.
- Koharu Biyori's omake at the end of volume 1 features the guy unsuspectingly buying hentai featuring himself with his robot maid because his friend couldn't make it to the con and asked him to load up. He never actually reads it, but his robot girl maid does.
- Kyoto Animation recently lampshaded the practice with a Shout Out to one of their other works. An episode of Lucky Star had the girls going to Comiket, a real-life doujinshi convention, with Konata marking all the tables she wanted to see. In the real Comiket of that year, all those tables sold Suzumiya Haruhi hentai. What's even worse is that she recruited her friends to pick up these doujinshi for her, including titles such as Dripping Brigade Chief.
- Rei Hiroe, creator of the successful manga series Black Lagoon, openly makes hentai doujins under the pseudonym Tex-Mex. Apparently he does so just for fun, but never does any based on his own work. However he has published two worksafe artbooks in doujin format about characters from the Black Lagoon series under said pseudonym, with the first one being simply about how he designed the characters and the other being a swimsuit special.
- In an ironic twist, because of publishing them under the name Tex-Mex, these artbooks have found their way into the lists of hentai manga despite being totally worksafe.
- In one of his swimsuit illustrations, Hiroe even invites readers to draw erotic scenes about Roberta.
- Kiyohiko Azuma, author of such decidedly family-viewing-safe, and even wholesome entertainment as Azumanga Daioh and Yotsubato, got his start doing erotic and non-erotic fan doujinshi; mostly under the pen name Jōji Jonokuchi.
- Hell, even tropers have their rule 34s. In this sophisticated comment on the false image that internet people project◊, TV Tropes itself is made fappable.
- Dalek porn first turned up (that we know of) in 1978 when companion Jo Grant (okay, actress Katy Manning) was photographed naked sitting on one.
- There is a certain Image Board with a section dedicated to challenges on this matter; they will attempt track down pornographic images of anything. In most cases, if they can't find one, they will make it. Another site dedicated to collecting examples of Rule Thirty Four has managed to amass a bit over 350,000 images.
- Genshiken has this rule come up more than a few times, as its cast consists largely of otaku. Saki suffers a bit of a meltdown on learning there are hentai doujinshi of everything early on.
- An example of the degree to which this can get carried is also present: Since fair use provisions in Japanese copyright law are much different from those of the US, frequently all references to other anime will need to be bleeped out of the dialog. Since Genshiken revolves around a college otaku club, to avoid having to do this, the writers created a fictional anime named Kujibiki Unbalance that was chock-full of anime tropes and clichés in order to describe anime as a whole. Several of the Genshiken episodes are devoted to the craft of creating, publishing, and selling a ero-doujinshi of this fictional anime. As an example of life imitating art, now Kujibiki Unbalance is actually a real anime and manga, and every conceivable Slash Fic and hentai doujinshi featuring its characters are already being published.
- Through some mishap of how search engines work, the webcomic Mac Hall somehow got associated with Digimon porn. This resulted in a large number of people coming to the site for this exact purpose. As a joke, the writer posted a few spoofs to make fun of this. ...which resulted in Internet Search engines and furry sites associating them with Digimon porn even more. Then there was one last indignity that just made it look like the universe has it in for them.
- How many fanfics do you know that have caused international incidents? "Agony in Pink" was a Power Rangers fanfic where the Pink Ranger gets tortured and killed — in lengthy detail — by a monster created by Lord Zedd. It resulted in the newsgroup it was posted on getting banned in Australia, and is believed to be responsible for the complete removal of adult fanfic from Fan Fiction.net. The lemon-fics eventually returned to the site, once all the furor gradually evaporated over time, but now they're rated (disguised as) "Mature" . However, virtually of the original lemon-fics which got deleted by the administrators never did get posted again though.
- Fortunately for self-proclaimed perverts everywhere, Adultfanfiction.net remains to take the burden off its shoulders. And if Fanfiction.net ever carries out its threat of banning M-rated fanfiction too, well, its rating system can take that as well.
- The creators of webcomics College Roomies From Hell and Queen Of Wands politely asked their fanbase that if they were going to produce porn based on the webcomic to please not post it or links to it in the comic's forum as the creator didn't want to see it. Both fanbases complied.
- Fred Gallagher of Megatokyo once said that if he found Megatokyo porn, he would quit producing the comic. He later understood that he had given too powerful a weapon for anybody who didn't like the comic, and changed his mind. That may have been a wise decision on his part ({{NSFW}}).
- Archie Comics is another company that aggressively responds to Rule 34, threatening legal action against Fanfiction.net if it didn't take down all the slash fics featuring its characters. It's not hard to see why, when you consider that the slash in question ranged from Archie/Jughead to Archie/Mr.Weatherbee.
- This xkcd strip probably explains the process behind this phenomenon.
- Needless to say, wetriffs.com now exists. According to a Wired interview, it existed six months before the comic, the domain registered by creator Randall Monroe.
- MythBusters' Adam Savage KNOWS that Rule 34 applies to his own show, and HAS seen things he wishes to unsee. He says so here.
Pass the Brain Bleach...
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