Fakku, an English-language hentai platform, joined the fight against Covid with an announcement that all of its porn will be free for the next two weeks. Within hours of that announcement, however, the site crashed—possibly due to an overwhelming swarm of homebound hentai enthusiasts overloading its servers and attempting to download the free content while they could. While we can't pinpoint when, exactly, Fakku succumbed to the server load, the site was down for at least two hours, according to users on a data hoarding subreddit who complained that the site was returning errors while they tried to archive the free content. As of writing, the site is still mostly down, but some frames are half-loading as it attempts to un-crush itself. Fakku launched in and has more than nine million unique visitors every month, according to its own statistics. The Twitter account has more than , followers.
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Hentai Site Makes All Porn Free During Coronavirus, Is Immediately Overloaded
At the start, the content was uploaded exclusively by the site's administrators, but later these privileges were shared with the community, allowing for translators to have their work seen by a much larger audience. However, at the end of , Fakku made the transition into only publishing officially-licensed hentai manga. Jacob originally used money from student loans to pay for server and bandwidth costs, but that quickly became unsustainable and shortly after its launch Fakku was forced to shut down. It was brought back up after user donations rescued the site in July
Hentai Site Makes All Porn Free During Coronavirus, Is Immediately Overloaded
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Adult manga publisher FAKKU announced on Monday that all subscription content on its site will be free for the next two weeks. According to their notice, this includes "over , pages" of manga. The announcement caused a surge in traffic causing the website to go down, but it was back to business by 10 pm PST. FAKKU began as a website for hosting user-submitted translations of hentai manga, and it entered the digital and physical publishing business in through a partnership with Japanese publisher Wanimagazine. FAKKU 's website offers subscription-based access to digital manga, and also publishes physical books online.