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The XHamster Wikipedia Page Is Suddenly Immensely Popular, and No One Knows Why (theoutline.com)

Posted by msmash on from the things-to-ponder dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: At the beginning of June I started to notice that XHamster, the third most popular adult website after Pornhub and XVideos, had one of the most viewed Wikipedia pages. On May 29, XHamster's Wikipedia page went from receiving around 100,000 views to 200,000. By June 1, it was getting more than 300,000 views a day for no apparent reason. There haven't been any viral stories about XHamster lately. There are no controversies about the page itself that would have prompted sustained attention or an edit war. [...] Pageviews on XHamster's Wikipedia page, however, has been bonkers throughout the month of June for no obvious reason. That's according to a pageview analysis tool from Wikimedia Labs, and confirmed by a Wikipedia spokesperson. I reached out to Wikipedia to see if it could shed some light on this puzzle. In an email, a spokesperson verified that the pageviews were accurate but that they didn't know what was causing the surge. Wikipedia's spokesperson pointed out that the edit activity, unlike its pageviews, has remained steady.

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  1. i visited xhamster once by FudRucker · · Score: 5, Funny

    and there were not any hamsters, but lots of poor people that could not afford to even buy clothes to wear

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    1. Re:i visited xhamster once by EvilSS · · Score: 5, Funny

      and there were not any hamsters, but lots of poor people that could not afford to even buy clothes to wear

      Oh there were hamsters, you just didn't look in the right category!

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      I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
    2. Re: i visited xhamster once by Type44Q · · Score: 1, Funny

      I'm told that if you look really closely at Goatse Guy, you can see whiskers...

  2. Another surge on July 5 happened by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is called slashdot effect. It used to be huge, back in the day when people were the first to welcome the overlords and talking about how the government controls commerce in Soviet Union and people had check marked lists in fixed point font describing why the proposed spam fighting solutions won't work.

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    sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
    1. Re:Another surge on July 5 happened by technoid_ · · Score: 4, Funny

      If only I had a beowulf cluster of the posts.

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  3. Re:They've really started branding their videos by KingRatMass · · Score: 4, Funny
    Fuck you... Pay for your porn then!

    Back in my day, we had to use Zmodem to download porn PICTURES. It once took two days to masturbate because mom kept making phone calls and interrupting my download. We sometimes had to wait 16 hours from the time we saw nipple until we got bush.

    Fucking ungrateful assholes... Get off my lawn!