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Pornhub has a lot of Minecraft let’s play, we talked to the people who make them
It’s hard to be shocking on an adult entertainment site. It’s hard to be startled with thumbnails when the product has become as openly taboo as Pornhub. If you’ve ever visited a site like Pornhub, you’ve seen a lot. From whole categories dedicated to unlikely taxi situations to attractive women who suddenly like plumbers, it’s really hard to come up with anything that can hold you back. But a Minecraft video might do just that.
People are uploading innocent gaming videos to adult entertainment sites.two of them, after Raptor Bacon and Delicious FPS, told me they do it mostly because it’s fun, but they also hide Minecraft videos in porn clips as a promotional tactic. clever. Raptor focuses on Minecraft, while Tasty plays Call of Duty. Both have found success in their art and show no signs of letting up.
So how does someone start uploading games to Pornhub? For Raptor Bacon, it was initially driven by the hilarity of the underlying situation. “Honestly, I just thought it would be fun,” the creator said. “You know people are going to be there looking for the obvious stuff you’re going to find on Pornhub. Then they’ll stumble across a Minecraft for us to play, and they’ll be like, ‘Oh, that’s weird. I’m going to watch that’. Turns out a lot of people both do.
He wasn’t the first to think of such an approach, though. Others came to him. “One guy posted a video that was just a redstone tutorial, which was really funny at the time. But then they purged a good portion of the site. Any videos that weren’t posted by a verified Pornhub member were removed. But When they deleted all of this, most of the Minecraft videos disappeared. I was the last person standing.”
Tasty started his business due to old-fashioned content theft.Others ripped one of his Fortnite videos from YouTube without his knowledge and uploaded it to Pornhub — which has been ongoing problem For most of the platform’s existence, it has partnered with sex workers and content creators. “I ended up getting some comments saying they saw the video on ‘the hub’. At first I didn’t actually know what they meant. But I got more and more comments saying they saw it on ‘the hub’ Got to this video hub’ and it kinda clicked. I ended up searching on Pornhub and found my video.
After that, the Call of Duty creator said he decided to upload his clips to Pornhub for the same reasons as Raptor. But all of a sudden, those videos are getting more attention on Pornhub than they are on YouTube. “People came over and found me on Pornhub, and then came to my YouTube channel, my Twitter and stuff like that. They’ve been doing it. That’s why I’m still doing it now.”
They also have their own approach to website content. Despite the innocence of their game content, they all experiment with puns in their own way. Rapor’s “Dirty Hoe” is just a video of him using a hoe in a game. Tasty in turn has “Twitch Streamer accidentally shows huge cock while streaming…” Here’s a photo of a cock. But many of their titles on each of their videos are the same as regular Let’s Play, adding to the juxtaposition of content.
So what did the success of Raptor and Tasty look like? Tasty’s biggest video on Pornhub has around 430,000 views. Continuing to post on the site would result in “at least 500-1,000 people a day just hitting my Pornhub profile,” he said. The Call of Duty player even featured one of his videos on Pornhub’s homepage. “Based on my research, there are about 40 to 60 videos being featured every day. I don’t know how it got a Call of Duty video on the homepage, but I think it’s pretty cool.”
For Raptor, his content has been rising through the ranks of creators on the site. “I started in the first year and I wanted to rank 120,000 or something, at the bottom of the bucket. Now I’m about 4,000 or so.” Creators even put money into Pornhub ads to experiment with their returns.
Pornhub’s CPM or RPM is lower than YouTube’s. “For Pornhub, 1,400 views cost about $1,” Raptor said. “On YouTube, it’s like $4-5.” “
Tasty confirms that his Pornhub content is also lower: “It’s definitely a lot lower than other sites like YouTube.” He makes a good point, “Big companies like Pepsi, they don’t put ads on Pornhub, right? Bar?”
So what’s the ending? Neither creator has any intention of stopping uploads. In fact, Raptor hopes to make better videos with computer upgrades. Tasty also has his own audience on Twitch, he entertains them and is always in the content creation realm. However, Birds of Prey Bacon wants Pornhub to take its niche gaming community to the next level.
“What I’d like to do is have Pornhub start some games, like the gaming section. It makes sense, like on Twitch, you have all the streamers who like to do hot tub streams. I mean, if some of all those people People are going to Pornhub, you know? It’s a proper site, you’re not going to be like being de-currency or something. And you know everyone’s going to be there for the same reason, you might as well just let Pornhub start a game label, and then Minecraft will appear.”
Even with no plans to expand into gaming content, Pornhub has attracted a small percentage of gamers. Both creators benefit from viewers seeing their content on Pornhub and then continuing to enjoy their content elsewhere.
A conversation about the desperate reality of content creator discoverability in this phenomenon. Whether your platform of choice is YouTube, Twitch, or TikTok, it’s hard to “succeed” as a creator. Scrolling through these sites for game content has become bombarded with mouth-opening and eyes-opening in front of oversaturated game stills and OMG emojis. It makes sense that video creators like Raptor and Tasty would be drawn to one of the only popular video hosts whose Minecraft or Call of Duty videos still stand out.
I’m not sure about anything, but games can also have such bizarre success on Pornhub. Maybe it’s because if any medium is seen as unattractive or even positively asexual, it’s a game — even if Overwatch porn is wildly successful. Well, until Pornhub’s niche users run into problems, I’m sure more people will use Pornhub as a place to differentiate themselves from other game creators.