Were you able to do anything to control for the site’s general popularity? If you double the users on the site, you might expect that everything within the site would also double, right?
I wonder if AI has anything to do with some of the uptick
What, exactly, does this mean? What the numbers on the left mean and what is the source? Maybe I missed where this is explained…
Are those all new Marvel Rivals posts or are they old Marvel posts that have been updated to be listed under Marvel Rivals?
Supply balances demand; this is one sad graph
I love that you can track the release of arcane season 1 and 2
Marvel is big outside rivals, wouldn’t the site automatically put all marvel stuff together?
Maybe your conclusion is correct, but I’m sure the sites are just becoming more popular in general
OP has got some attitude in these comments! Be careful what you complain about, guys. 🙂
Wonderful post, by the way! It’s perfect in every way.
What happened in Genshin? Did they release a new ridiculously sexy character or something?
Ah yes – the true indicator of success.
Professionals know this one as the “will our skins sell?”-Indicators
“Pornfication” is a horrible word. Like, it’s a bad title insinuating that these live service games are turning into porn instead of how many images are made by artists for cranking they hog.
More interesting, you should include Bioshock: Burial at Sea, which is actually the pivot point for blender open source development as people really wanted to crank they hog to femme fatal Elizabeth.
OP just wondering does this include or exclude the ai_generated tag?
The metric is flawed. You need to normalize the number of posts by the number of players. Otherwise as the popularity and player base of a game grow, the community content certainly will also go up.
Wtf is genshin impact? I hear about from time to time but no idea what it is
Once again, Marvel Rivals out here eating Overwatch’s lunch…
I feel like it should be considered that many of the older/longer running live service games have *dedicated* porn websites for them. I’d imagine there’s some crossover, but if you were really into overwatch characters you’d probably go to a dedicated site for that and not this website.
You can add Guild Wars 2 in there. Last year they released all kinds of skimpy cosmetics.
Two points to make:
Genshin has 93 characters, of which 65 of them are female.
The next longest running, League of Legends, has 159 characters, with only 14 being female.
So the percentage of typically R34’d characters (most times female) are significantly higher in Genshin. Naturally meaning there’s more content to be found based on that and your data.
Second point: Genshin is an anime style based game. Data on R34’d anime characters would be extremely hard to analyze, but it’s *a lot*. That would also mean the people making said content have a better artistic base to use with Genshin vs a top-down MOAB style game. Basically Genshin caters to the horny, jiggle physics included.
That said, *sweet chocolatey FUCK* the Genshin player base needs to touch grass. I love Genshin but damn I hate the player base and all of….*gestures at graph*…that.
Edit: the data I grabbed off of active.player for LoL was inaccurate, apparently it’s closer to 60 as was corrected by another comment. Regardless, my point still stands on content creation based on available characters and the type of game each is.
Marvel Rivals to the moon! Diamond hands!!
To be honest, this doesn’t represent Rule34 and games being increasingly pornified – the spike might come from the massive deluge of AI-generated works instead.
Another line tracking the number of works tagged with AI might be helpful for context.
i loaded up marvel rivals a couple times just to watch the intro movie. they knew what they were doing, that chick (i dont know which one it is) has a massive ass.
“Well, that escalated Quickly.” -Sue Storm using her in game dominatrix skin
It’s kind of surprising that Fortnite, one of the biggest games in the world for most of this period, has remained consistently on the lower end of the chart. I imagine that’s a combination of Fortnite’s crossover properties getting tagged instead (e.g: Chun-Li gets a spike in popularity because of Fortnite, but the art is tagged Street Fighter instead of Fortnite) and the fact that Fortnite’s original characters don’t really have personalities or interactions and thus don’t stick in people’s minds as much.
I’d also be interested in how much this just reflects the consolidation of the gaming landscape around a handful of titles. These live-service games are designed to dominate the market for years at a time, leaving no opportunity for smaller titles to find their footing which used to be possible when games left reasonable gaps between sequels. It isn’t just live-service porn becoming popular, its *these* live-service games gaining a disproportionately large market share of video games and, by extent, video game porn.
So a lot of this is just popuIarity. I can personally spot spikes in the Overwatch posts that literally just correlate with notable events (May 2016, Release; October 2022, OW2 Release; March-August 2024, deshittification of P2W practices). The only strange one is Februrary 2019, which doesn’t correlate with anything other than shortly following the Tumblr Porn ban.
I feel like this is another big player in these upwards trends: the consolidation of NSFW art spaces. Previously NSFW-friendly spaces like Tumblr and imgur taking down these posts no doubt pushed a significant community of artists to begin sharing their stuff elsewhere. When even sites like Gumroad and OnlyFans are trying to get rid of their porny reputation, it’s no surprise that plenty have simply opted for a site like rule34 that’ll either host porn or die trying.
Rule34…wow…should’ve known better than to follow that rabbithole.
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Genshin Impact was pretty much already porn.
Marvel Rivals, check. Thank you.
Were you able to do anything to control for the site’s general popularity? If you double the users on the site, you might expect that everything within the site would also double, right?
I wonder if AI has anything to do with some of the uptick
What, exactly, does this mean? What the numbers on the left mean and what is the source? Maybe I missed where this is explained…
Are those all new Marvel Rivals posts or are they old Marvel posts that have been updated to be listed under Marvel Rivals?
Supply balances demand; this is one sad graph
I love that you can track the release of arcane season 1 and 2
Marvel is big outside rivals, wouldn’t the site automatically put all marvel stuff together?
Maybe your conclusion is correct, but I’m sure the sites are just becoming more popular in general
OP has got some attitude in these comments! Be careful what you complain about, guys. 🙂
Wonderful post, by the way! It’s perfect in every way.
What happened in Genshin? Did they release a new ridiculously sexy character or something?
Ah yes – the true indicator of success.
Professionals know this one as the “will our skins sell?”-Indicators
“Pornfication” is a horrible word. Like, it’s a bad title insinuating that these live service games are turning into porn instead of how many images are made by artists for cranking they hog.
More interesting, you should include Bioshock: Burial at Sea, which is actually the pivot point for blender open source development as people really wanted to crank they hog to femme fatal Elizabeth.
OP just wondering does this include or exclude the ai_generated tag?
The metric is flawed. You need to normalize the number of posts by the number of players. Otherwise as the popularity and player base of a game grow, the community content certainly will also go up.
Wtf is genshin impact? I hear about from time to time but no idea what it is
Once again, Marvel Rivals out here eating Overwatch’s lunch…
I feel like it should be considered that many of the older/longer running live service games have *dedicated* porn websites for them. I’d imagine there’s some crossover, but if you were really into overwatch characters you’d probably go to a dedicated site for that and not this website.
You can add Guild Wars 2 in there. Last year they released all kinds of skimpy cosmetics.
Two points to make:
Genshin has 93 characters, of which 65 of them are female.
The next longest running, League of Legends, has 159 characters, with only 14 being female.
So the percentage of typically R34’d characters (most times female) are significantly higher in Genshin. Naturally meaning there’s more content to be found based on that and your data.
Second point: Genshin is an anime style based game. Data on R34’d anime characters would be extremely hard to analyze, but it’s *a lot*. That would also mean the people making said content have a better artistic base to use with Genshin vs a top-down MOAB style game. Basically Genshin caters to the horny, jiggle physics included.
That said, *sweet chocolatey FUCK* the Genshin player base needs to touch grass. I love Genshin but damn I hate the player base and all of….*gestures at graph*…that.
Edit: the data I grabbed off of active.player for LoL was inaccurate, apparently it’s closer to 60 as was corrected by another comment. Regardless, my point still stands on content creation based on available characters and the type of game each is.
Marvel Rivals to the moon! Diamond hands!!
To be honest, this doesn’t represent Rule34 and games being increasingly pornified – the spike might come from the massive deluge of AI-generated works instead.
Another line tracking the number of works tagged with AI might be helpful for context.
i loaded up marvel rivals a couple times just to watch the intro movie. they knew what they were doing, that chick (i dont know which one it is) has a massive ass.
“Well, that escalated Quickly.” -Sue Storm using her in game dominatrix skin
It’s kind of surprising that Fortnite, one of the biggest games in the world for most of this period, has remained consistently on the lower end of the chart. I imagine that’s a combination of Fortnite’s crossover properties getting tagged instead (e.g: Chun-Li gets a spike in popularity because of Fortnite, but the art is tagged Street Fighter instead of Fortnite) and the fact that Fortnite’s original characters don’t really have personalities or interactions and thus don’t stick in people’s minds as much.
I’d also be interested in how much this just reflects the consolidation of the gaming landscape around a handful of titles. These live-service games are designed to dominate the market for years at a time, leaving no opportunity for smaller titles to find their footing which used to be possible when games left reasonable gaps between sequels. It isn’t just live-service porn becoming popular, its *these* live-service games gaining a disproportionately large market share of video games and, by extent, video game porn.
So a lot of this is just popuIarity. I can personally spot spikes in the Overwatch posts that literally just correlate with notable events (May 2016, Release; October 2022, OW2 Release; March-August 2024, deshittification of P2W practices). The only strange one is Februrary 2019, which doesn’t correlate with anything other than shortly following the Tumblr Porn ban.
I feel like this is another big player in these upwards trends: the consolidation of NSFW art spaces. Previously NSFW-friendly spaces like Tumblr and imgur taking down these posts no doubt pushed a significant community of artists to begin sharing their stuff elsewhere. When even sites like Gumroad and OnlyFans are trying to get rid of their porny reputation, it’s no surprise that plenty have simply opted for a site like rule34 that’ll either host porn or die trying.
Rule34…wow…should’ve known better than to follow that rabbithole.
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