{"id":93369,"date":"2016-05-30T10:59:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T08:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=93369"},"modified":"2016-05-30T12:12:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T10:12:14","slug":"blizzards-massive-battle-against-overwatch-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/93369-blizzards-massive-battle-against-overwatch-porn","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard’s massive battle against Overwatch porn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blizzard is frantically<\/a> <\/strong>trying to keep pornographic content featuring its Overwatch characters off the internet.<\/p>\n

The game’s incredible popularity has lead to an\u00a0800% increase in searches for “Overwatch porn”, according to a release from Pornhub<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0with “Tracer” being the character receiving the most attention.<\/p>\n

As a result, Blizzard seems to have teamed up with a digital security company called Irdeto<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>leading to various takedown <\/a><\/strong>orders being issued against makers of the pornographic material.<\/p>\n

Given the game’s immense popularity and success however trying to stop all of these creators may prove to be an almost impossible task.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia’s definition of\u00a0Rule 34<\/a><\/b>:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

“If it exists, there is porn of it \u2013 no exceptions”\u2014is a prevalent meme<\/a> <\/strong>that Internet pornography exists that concerns every conceivable topic. The most popular targets are cartoons and anime.<\/em><\/p>\n

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