History Main / TheInternetIsForPorn

In fact, many of the internet's innovations -- particularly in e-commerce, encryption, and streaming video -- originated with porn and the desire to consume it safely and efficiently. Even Website/{{YouTube}} was founded partly in response to Music/JanetJackson's WardrobeMalfunction at the 2004 Super Bowl,[[note]]Ironically, the site doesn't allow most cases of nudity or intercourse, though fetish porn that doesn't include either sneaks in all the time[[/note]] and Google Images was developed in response to the tidal wave of search queries for pictures of Creator/JenniferLopez's infamous green dress with a NavelDeepNeckline from the 2000 Grammys. Never undervalue the human desire to see scandalized naked flesh.

** DVN is fairly well represented on Website/YouTube, including ''The Captain's Wife's Lament'' ("What if we [[{{Feghoot}} spent an entire song setting up]] just one {{pun}}?") and ''Enormous Penis'', making them [[LampshadeHanging lampshaders]] of a demographic they arguably contribute to.

* [=OnlyFans=] once had an advertising campaign on Website/{{Facebook}} inviting fitness instructors, cooking show hosts, and other non-pornographic content creators to host their videos on the site. In theory, anyone can make use of OF, and the company has never marketed themselves as a host for adult entertainment. But the reality is that OF and sites like it have a reputation for one specific use, as the snarky comments left on the Facebook ads pointed out. It all came to a head in 2021 when OF announced that they would be banning pornographic content from the platform altogether. Since porn constitutes the vast majority of its business, the backlash was as swift as it was predictable, and within a week of the announcement (the ban hadn't even gone into effect yet), OF changed course and announced that porn performers could stay after all. By contrast, OF's biggest competitor [=JustForFans=] has ''always'' been proud of its status as a porn site and announced that they would happily take any performers ditched by OF.[[note]]And for the record, content creators that ''aren't'' in the business of porn but want to be paid for their work are more likely to use Patreon--where they offer perks in exchange for tiered monthly donations--in conjunction with Youtube and other free streaming sites. Of course, Patreon also has no shortage of visual artists whose output consists mostly of smutty images, a market [=OnlyFans=] never really managed to break into.[[/note]]

** If the book Asriel indefinitely borrowed from the Librarby is any indication, he seems to [[HasAType have a thing]] for purple dragons. When Queen creates a room based on his internet history, Kris will only open the door with their eyes shut and the contents anger Susie (a purple reptilian herself), implying his search history is… less than savoury.

* Simon and River's father doesn't want a Cortex extension in the house because he thinks this on ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' but Simon's mom already got the extension so he loses the fight.

--->'''Fry:''' You got that on the Internet? In my day the Internet was only used for pornography.\\

-->'''Soos:''' Yeah, this room is way creepy.
-->'''Mabel:''' Not as creepy as Dipper's internet history! Hey-o!

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' had an episode where everyone's Internet went down, plunging the nation into chaos (conditions literally got [[Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath as desperate as the 1930s Dust Bowl]], and [[DeliberatelyMonochrome everything shifted to black and white]]). In the men's case (particularly Randy Marsh), the other problems were compounded by porn withdrawal (After internet porn, they couldn't go back to ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}''). One group created an "Internet Porn Simulator" by lowering hastily drawn stick figure pictures into an empty monitor casing. Further expanded on in TheMovie, when Stan innocently (no, really) asks Kyle to look up "clitoris", without knowing it's a sex organ, and they get 8 billion hits. Including one of Cartman's mom, of course.

* Deepdata1's #7 answer in ''WebVideo/TenWordsOfWisdom'' was "The ancient humans needed a place to hide their porn, too."

** In "The Autobiography," Mittens inadvertently opens a porn website on Penny’s desktop computer. It immediately begins littering the screen with pop-ups and downloading a likely malicious file. Penny’s mom also may or may not be looking at porn on her personal laptop.

** DVN is fairly well represented on Website/YouTube, including ''The Captain's Wife's Lament'' ("What if we [[{{Feghoot}} spent an entire song setting up]] just one IncrediblyLamePun?") and ''Enormous Penis'', making them [[LampshadeHanging lampshaders]] of a demographic they arguably contribute to.

* In [[https://textsfromsuperheroes.com/image/189812089962 this]] ''Blog/TextsFromSuperheroes'' exchange, Vision says that he's picked Christmas gifts for his fellow Avengers by accessing their browser histories. ComicBook/CaptainAmerica gets a box set of [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} the 1942 World Series]]; the rest get "sex stuff."

* In Jenna Black's ''[[Literature/ReplicaSeries Replica]]'', most young women in the Executive class are ''expected'' to be pure, innocent, and virginal to the point where they know nothing about sex. The internet, however, makes this pretty difficult.

* In [[https://textsfromsuperheroes.com/image/189812089962 this]] ''Blog/TextsFromSuperheroes'' exchange, Vision says that he's picked Christmas gifts for his fellow Avengers by accessing their browser histories. Franchise/CaptainAmerica gets a box set of [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} the 1942 World Series]]; the rest get "sex stuff."