Zoom was down between 8 am  and 2 pm and the traffic managers at the rather large US porn streaming company Pornhub noticed a huge spike in traffic while Zoom was down. Traffic across the United Kingdom increased by as much at 5.6 percent at 11 a.m and the East Coast of the US by 6.2 per cent. Since these locations make up nearly half of Pornhub’s daily traffic, it means that the outfit saw a major shift in mid-day porn viewership.  Unless Pornhub is lubricating the figures, but we dont really see any reason.

 This wasn’t the first time that an outage caused an increase in Pornhub’s traffic. In March of 2019 both Facebook and Instagram were down for several hours, leading to a 19 percent surge in traffic to Pornhub.