{"id":27897,"date":"2016-07-16T03:48:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T10:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/pokemon-go-is-more-popular-than-porn-right-now"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:36:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:36:31","slug":"pokemon-go-is-more-popular-than-porn-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/pokemon-go-is-more-popular-than-porn-right-now","title":{"rendered":"POK\u00c9MON GO Is More Popular Than Porn Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pokemon-go-is-more-popular-than-porn-right-now.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been online at any point in the past week, you\u2019ve probably come to realize that <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdist.com\/tag\/pokemon-go\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em><\/a> is in the midst of a full-fledged internet takeover. It\u2019s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidthier\/2016\/07\/07\/live-release-ios-android-pokemon-go-hits-1-in-app-store\/#4ff72e6a20a2\" target=\"_blank\">top app<\/a> in the iOS App Store, and just yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/gaming\/2016\/07\/12\/chart-more-time-spent-pokmon-go-than-instagram-snapchat\/86982096\/\" target=\"_blank\">it was revealed<\/a> that people are using <em>Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em> more than they are social media apps like WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat.<\/p>\n<p>But it turns out it was more loved than any of us realized, as by certain metrics, <em>Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em> is more popular than one of the main pillars of the internet: porn.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, video game industry analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZhugeEX\/status\/752256898171273216\" target=\"_blank\">ZhugeEX discovered<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/trends\/explore#q=pokemon%20go%2C%20porn&date=now%207-d&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B4\" target=\"_blank\">according to Google Trends<\/a>, people are searching for <em>Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em> more than they are for pornography. Take a look at the data for yourself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/trends\/explore#q=%2Fg%2F11bw4tm1l9%2C%20porn&date=now%207-d&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B4\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, or check out the screenshot below:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdist.com\/pokemon-go-is-more-popular-than-porn-right-now\/\">http:\/\/nerdist.com\/pokemon-go-is-more-popular-than-porn-right-now\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve been online at any point in the past week, you\u2019ve probably come to realize that Pok\u00e9mon Go is in the midst of a full-fledged internet takeover. It\u2019s the top app in the iOS App Store, and just yesterday, it was revealed that people are using Pok\u00e9mon Go more than they are social media [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66905,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27897\/revisions\/66905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}