Fortnite “collapsed” temporarily, causing web 18+ to increase Search rate by 10 thousand %

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What do you do when your favorite online game is under maintenance or “down”? A statistical probability that the answer is “see movies 18+“. Hundreds of thousands of fans Fortnite corroborated this by rushing to visit “black web” during the game’s hiatus. Fortnite Chapter 2 can bring many new points, but some things never change.

According to an article on Pornhub’s Insights blog, related searches for Fortnite on the site peaked at 152% above average during the “Black Hole event” on October 14. The above percentages are results from hundreds of thousands of new searches.
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Searches for the term “black hole” are even more astonishing, 9640% higher than the average for October 14. The term “black hole fortnite” also appears in the search. . (This phrase is probably also understood in a different sense in adult movies) In addition, traffic from gamers also increased, reaching 10.6% compared to the average rate usually seen in the evenings. Sunday.

While the numbers above all provide specific details on the “18+ web” habits of players during the Black Hole event, the phenomenon is nothing new. During Fortnite’s unannounced maintenance last year, Pornhub also saw a spike in traffic from Fortnite gamers.
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