People Looked at a Lot of Porn During the Northeast’s Short-Lived Snowmageddon

Winter Storm Juno, the alleged “historic” blizzard of apocalyptic proportions, mostly missed New York City, which got less than a foot of snow. Still, the region’s public transportation system shut down in preparation for what was supposed to be a dangerous snowfall, and conditions were notably more brutal in New England.

That meant a lot of Americans were spending their Tuesdays trapped inside their houses and apartments, which in turn meant they had more time to devote to everyone’s favorite hobby: masturbation. According to data released on Pornhub Insights, the smut giant’s equivalent to FiveThirtyEight, Pornhub’s traffic increased by a whopping 20 percent in New York yesterday. But who can blame them?

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