It’s the best time of the year: the time when Pornhub releases its annual Year In Review statistics. In case you’re unfamiliar, once a year Pornhub releases a bunch of interesting stats from the site. From most popular search terms by country, to which video game character searches have dominated the charts. Honestly it makes for some very fun reading.
Naturally it’s the video game stats we’re interested in (mostly), and skipping through the hefty analysis and going straight to the games unveils some pretty surprising numbers.
According to Pornhub, one of the most popular video game searches of 2019 was “Khajiit,” the cat-like beings made famous from the Elder Scrolls games. Although scooping a pretty low spot of the most-searched characters, Khajiit is the 23rd-highest ranked search time in the video games list.
Surprisingly, Khajiit was apparently searched for more times than Claire Redfield, the female protagonist of Resident Evil 2 Remake which released earlier this year.
Searches for Claire have actually dropped from 2018’s by a whopping 65%, whereas searches for Khajiit have increased by 7%
The top five most searched for video game characters are also pretty surprising. Zelda, Lara Croft, D.Va, Super Mario and Bowsette make up the top 5 list.
You do you, internet.
Earlier this year, Epic Games broke the internet by taking Fortnite offline in preparation for Chapter 2. At the time, Pornhub saw an enormous surge in visitors.
Publishing the findings, Pornhub noted that its website saw an increase in searches containing the word “Fortnite,” which performed “152% above average by Monday the 14th” of October 2019.
The stats also revealed that searches containing the phrase “black hole” increased by a staggering 9640%. Pornhub jokes: “While some of those new searches contained ‘fortnite black hole’, we can only assume that the previous ‘black hole’ searches were for something completely different.”
Yikes.
Check out the stats in full right here.
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