Fortnite sparks porn crisis as randy players flee YouPorn to watch major gaming tournament
YOUPORN has reported plummeting traffic during last week's Fortnite Pro-Am Tournament.
The hugely popular XXX video site said the number of gaming visitors to the site slumped by nearly 14%.
At the E3 games convention in Los Angeles in June 12, Epic Games hosted a huge Fortnite competition starring top players and celebs.
Famous faces competing in the Pro-Am included streaming icon Ninja, UFC fighter Demetrious Johnson, The Walking Dead star Chandler Riggs, Community actor Joel McHale, and Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz.
Winners received a $3million charity prize pool (bagged by Ninja), and a Golden Pickaxe trophy to take home – so gamers were unsurprisingly attracted by the high stakes and celeb line-up.
This hit YouPorn hard.
"Our anonymised 'affinity' data shows that many of our 20million daily visitors are interested in gaming," YouPorn revealed.
"Specifically, YouPorn's Gamer Traffic went down by 13.57% during the live stream of the tournament, proving our gamers' commitment to the games."
The free porn website launched back in 2006, and is one of the 100 most accessed websites in the world.
The website also examined who, from the list of big-name celebrities and gamers, was getting searches on YouPorn during the tournament.
American rapped Desiigner received the biggest boost to searches with a 721% increase.
And 18-year-old Jordyn Jones came second – searches for the singer, dancer and model grew by 437%.
It's not the first time that Fortnite has sparked a major porn trend.
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- Fortnite Battle Royale is a free game
- It's available on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, Mac and now iPhone too
- In the game, up to 100 players are dropped onto a fictional island
- Players are then forced to battle it out in a last-person-standing deathmatch
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- The game has been blasted by critics for being too addictive
- Worried parents say they can't get their kids off the game
Back in April, rival smut site Pornhub revealed how randy Fortnite players flooded the site after the game went offline.
On April 11, the hit video game went down for "emergency maintenance" for around 17 hours.
This sparked a surge in Fortnite gamers questing for smut, with the site reporting a 60% spike in Fortnite searches during the downtime.
"Pornhub's statisticians found that searches for 'Fortnite' increased by as much as 60% during the 24 hour period, as hardcore players headed to Pornhub for their Fortnite fix," the smut site explained.
"Shortly after access to the server resumed, searches for 'Fortnite' returned to normal levels."
And in March 2018, The Sun revealed how Pornhub was hosting sexually explicit Fortnite videos.
One XXX clip showed a woman performing oral sex on a man while he played the game.
Another showed Fortnite gameplay footage with sex noises overlaid as an audio track.
We also found video montages of animated Fortnite characters in sexual poses.
The biggest surprise was discovering that the vast majority of Pornhub's Fortnite videos were safe-for-work gaming clips – like the kind you'd find on YouTube.
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Fortnite has been heavily criticised for its addictive qualities.
Earlier this month, a nine-year-old British girl was reportedly entered into rehab over her addiction to Fortnite.
The girl is believed to have wet herself during a 10-hour-long binge on Fortnite, and even hit her dad in the face when he tried to confiscate her Xbox.
The Sun recently revealed all the ways Epic Games designed Fortnite to get kids hooked on the game.
And we also warned parents over the signs of gaming addiction they need to look for in their children.
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