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PornHub Comments On Stock Photos is a single topic blog featuring stock photographs of people posing in front of notebook computers and captioned with lewd comments that are found on the adult video site PornHub.

Origin

On October 22nd, 2013, the "PornHub Comments On Stock Photos" Tumblr blog was created by comedian Jason Mustian,^[8] with the first post featuring a photograph of a tuxedo-wearing man seated at a laptop with a caption complimenting the quality of an adult film (shown below). In the first three months, the post gained over 800 notes.

Precursor

On September 8th, 2013, the Tumblr blog "Porn Comments on Instagram Pics" was launched, which features pictures taken from the photo-sharing site Instagram with captions of comments from unknown adult entertainment sites (shown below), in a similar vein to Instagram Quote Rebuttals.

Spread

On October 30th, the blog was linked on the /r/InternetIsBeautiful^[5] subreddit, where it received upwards of 4,500 up votes and 150 comments in the following two months. On October 31st, 2013, the Internet news blog The Daily Dot^[4] published an article about the blog, followed by the Internet humor blog UpRoxx^[6] the next week. On December 30th, Redditor DapperConch submitted a post titled "Nice Comment" to the /r/Unexpected^[3] subreddit, which contained a photo of a man using a laptop captioned with a fantasy about a female adult film star (shown below). In the following four days, the post received more than 9,300 up votes and 230 comments.

Various Examples

Pornhub Comments on Valentines

On January 19th, 2014, Mustian launched the "Pornhub Comments on Valentines" Tumblr blog, which highlights Valentine's Day ecards with captions taken from PornHub comments. In addition, each post contains a link to the relevant source material (shown below).

On February 5th, Redditor sociopaths-anonymous submitted the Tumblr blog to the /r/InternetIsBeautiful^[7] subreddit, where it gained over 4,400 up votes and 170 comments in the first 24 hours. On the same day, several news blogs highlighted notable examples from the blog, including Death and Taxes, UpRoxx,^[10] Kotaku,^[11] The Daily Dot,^[12] Hyper Vocal^[13] and Nerve.^[14]

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