History Main / TheInternetIsForPorn

* ''Literature/SecretSanta'': Erik uses his expense account to watch lots of pay-per-view porn.

* Defunct ''a cappella'' group ''[=DaVinci's Notebook=]'' / DVN's-break-up survivor group ''Paul & Storm'' and their number [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxYVBNhJ3pc Internet Porn,]] which contains a number of amusing(ly accurate) allusions to the sort of content one can find ("Girl on girl on girl on girl on ''girl on guy on sheep''").

* [=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.[[/note]]

* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'': Linkara has mentioned this trope a few times, notably as a joke reason why he wouldn't want to pay the overpriced online prices and shipping fees for a hardcover of Creator/AlanMoore's ''Comicbook/Lost Girls'', and why he feels Frank Miller's "News in the Nude" and its real-life equivalent, ''Naked News'', hold no appeal.

* '''WebVideo/BadCreepypasta'': the riffers mocked the protagonist of ''I HATE YOU'' for using newly acquired computer to pirate pornography, and suggested the protagonist of ''A Chao's Demise'' to watch internet porn for eagerly waiting for his friend to give him a bootleg copy of ''Sonic Adventure 2: Battle''.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': "Tyrannosaurus Rex; real. Babe-osaurus Rex; porn. A symposium on the Pangea theory of the Permian Extin -- WOW, THAT IS SOME NASTY PORN!!!"

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': Used in "[[Recap/SherlockS02E01AScandalInBelgravia A Scandal in Belgravia]]": "If I wanted to look at naked women I'd borrow John's laptop."
-->'''John:''' You do borrow my laptop.\\

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 people searching for pictures of Creator/JenniferLopez's [[AbsoluteCleavage infamous green dress]] from the 2000 Grammys. Never undervalue the human desire to see scandalized naked flesh.

In fact, many of the internet's innovations — especially 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 people searching for pictures of Creator/JenniferLopez's [[AbsoluteCleavage infamous green dress]] from the 2000 Grammys. Never undervalue the human desire to see scandalized naked flesh.

* [=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. 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 or some other free streaming site.

* [=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. 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]]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 or some other free streaming site.[[/note]]

In fact, many of the internet's innovations — especially 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]]. Never undervalue the human desire to see scandalized naked flesh.

* [=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. 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]]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 all the various free streaming sites.[[/note]]
* 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".

Partly a result of TheRuleOfFirstAdopters. Ubiquitous enough to result in RuleThirtyFour. For some, the Internet has become such a convenient PornStash that it is [[DoubleEntendre single-handedly]] [[TropeBreaker breaking]] the trope PoorMansPorn, and increasing the mainstream acceptability of "adult entertainment". As noted in [[https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/11/republican-party-anti-pornography-politics-222096 this article]] by Tim Alberta for ''Politico'', cracking down on and eventually banning pornography was a key aim of MoralGuardians in the United States as late as the early 2000s, but today, thanks to the internet revolution, even the most diehard anti-porn activists have largely given up on restricting porn, instead favoring PR campaigns designed to dissuade people from watching it and financial services from supporting it. The only people who have to resort to porn substitutes are ones without the Internet.

A former version of this page claimed people with censored Internet (where porn is often illegal) have to resort to porn substitutes, which is not true: the vast majority of Internet censorship-circumventing practices is for porn rather than political purposes. It's even said that if you can't find porn (in places with censored Internet), you are not innovative.

** Pintsize's hard drive has been described as a 'private universe of porn', and [[http://twitter.com/pintsize0101 his Twitter account]] is nothing but hentai and RuleThirtyFour. Which Marigold then rates the artwork of.

A former version of this page claim people with censored Internet (where porn is often illegal) have to resort to porn substitutes, which is not true: the vast majority of Internet censorship-circumventing practices is for porn rather than political purposes. It's even said that if you can't find porn (in places with censored Internet), you are not innovative.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Oreimo}}'', a mad Kirino confronts her brother Kyousuke about this after finding out that he used her laptop to surf for porn in episode 7; but [[{{Irony}} she gave him the laptop so he could play one of her numerous]] {{eroge}}s, so it's not clear what she's offended about...

Partly a result of TheRuleOfFirstAdopters. Ubiquitous enough to result in RuleThirtyFour. For some, the Internet has become such a convenient PornStash that it is [[DoubleEntendre single-handedly]] [[TropeBreaker breaking]] the trope PoorMansPorn, and increasing the mainstream acceptability of "adult entertainment". As noted in [[https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/11/republican-party-anti-pornography-politics-222096 this article]] by Tim Alberta for ''Politico'', cracking down on and eventually banning pornography was a key aim of MoralGuardians in the United States as late as the early 2000s, but today, thanks to the internet revolution, even the most diehard anti-porn activists have largely given up on restricting porn, instead favoring PR campaigns designed to dissuade people from watching it. The only people who have to resort to porn substitutes are ones without the Internet.

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* [=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. 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]]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 all the various free streaming sites.[[/note]]

* [=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. 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]]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 all the various free streaming sites.[[note]]

* [=OnlyFans=] has been advertising on Website/{{Facebook}} inviting fitness instructors, cooking show hosts, and other non-pornographic performers to host their videos on the site. In theory, all sorts of content creators 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. 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. 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.

* [=OnlyFans=] has been advertising on Website/{{Facebook}} inviting fitness instructors to post their videos on the site. In theory, all sorts of content creators can make use of it, and the company has technically never marketed themselves to porn performers. But the reality is that [=OnlyFans=] and sites like it have a reputation for one specific use, as the snarky comments left on the Facebook ads pointed out.

* The situation is commented on in [[http://techfox.comicgenesis.com/d/20090629.html this]] page of ''[[Webcomic/TwentyFirstCenturyFox 21st Century Fox]]''.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', Slick, Squigley, and others are often shown surfing for porn. Most porn websites seem to be owned by {{Satan}}.
* In the most recent strip for ''Website/RoninPressComics'' we get that [[http://www.roninpresscomics.com/indoor-recess/the-holy-trinity/ the internet holy trinity is porn, video games, and cats.]]

* Joked about frequently in ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' including [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3248 here.]]

* [=OnlyFans=] has been advertising on Website/{{Facebook}} inviting fitness instructors to post their videos on the site. In theory, all sorts of content creators can make use of [=OnlyFans=], but the reality is that the site and others like it have a reputation for one specific use, as the snarky comments left on the Facebook ads pointed out.

* 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".

* In [[ 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".