YouPorn Traffic Dropped Sharply During Fortnite Pro-Am Tournament
Proving that Fortnite has a massive, ridiculously large player base, YouPorn’s traffic took a big hit, dropping a massive 13% during the Fortnite Pro-Am tournament taking place during E3 2018. As it turns out, these stats sort of indicate that everyone dropped their porn really quick to go and watch Fortnite players duke it out — celebrity streamers, no less — but people playing Fortnite.
YouPorn released statistics showing off what happened during the stream, as players around the world caused a massive dip, a sudden 13.57% drop that went back to normal immediately after the tournament had ended. You can see the effects of Fortnite on viewers’ porn habits on the graphic, released by YouPorn, below.
It’s totally surreal to see a game having this much of an effect on a porn website’s traffic, but that’s just a testament to how big Fortnite actually is. YouPorn even went through its user data and checked to see who was looking up names from the Pro-Am tournament on the site. As it turns out, it looks like people searched for Desiigner, Jordyn Jones, Markiplier, Pokimane, Ninja, and tons of other names while on the site, as if there were any porn of Ninja to be found. But people will try anything to find scandalous content, after all.
So it seems Fortnite has trumped porn, at least in the case during the Fortnite ProAm tournament. These are serious games, though, and with a new stream from Ninja coming soon, who’s partnered with RedBull, we’ll probably see something like this happening again. To what extent, however, we don’t know. You have to admit, though, no matter if you’re into porn or Fortnite, this is a sharp drop, so the power that the game has over the public is absolutely insane.
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