Several mainstream media sites have been inundated with porn content, but there is an explanation

Several mainstream media sites have been inundated with porn content

The incident is due to the domination of a video platform changed hands, which created considerable embarrassment for the Washington Post, HuffPo and others

(photo: Unsplash) , the Washington Post, the HuffPo and other media were flooded with pornographic banners yesterday? All the fault of a defunct domain, that of the VidMe video platform, according to what Vice writes. The hosting site, which was trying to become a YouTube competitor, went out of business in 2017 and its domain recently expired.

But a pornography company called 5 Star Porn bought it. Hd, and lo and behold, on several media sites, users have seen hardcore porn appear as embedded content. The quirk was first noticed by Twitter user @dox_gay, who also provided several examples.

Twitter hasn't noticed but a now-defunct video hosting / advertising platform (VidMe) let their domain expire so it was purchased by a porn website, now there is NSFW porn all over the regular internet where their links were embedded lol

For example: https://t.co/UdPRFnq4EP

- DOXIE 🌻 (@dox_gay) July 22, 2021



It seems that any page that had embed a video from vid.me now redirects to the home page of 5 Star Porn HD. The vid.me site also redirects there. In the Huffington Post, an article about Martin Shkreli banned from Twitter is enriched with videos titled "Getting Into Porsha's Ass" and "Why Don't We Tag Team Your GF?" , but this is just one example among many. Now it's up to sites to disable these links.

What happened is a very extreme example of link rot - or broken link - which is what happens when online content or images are deleted or interrupted, and links no longer link to their original goals.

Most social media platforms have allowed the embedding of their content. Twitter turned on embeds in 2012, and Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube, and Instagram also allow some versions of embeds. Reddit has an option that allows users to delete embedded content if the post is edited.


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