A 2013 CNN story said Rule 34 was 'likely the most famous' Internet rule that has become part of mainstream culture. On November 14, 2018, a Twitch streamer celebrated turning eighteen by posting a video to Twitter in which he looked up Rule 34 pictures. The popular video and its responses were covered by The Daily Dot. įan fiction has eroticized numerous political figures from the 2016 United States presidential election and the 2021 Suez Canal obstruction by the container ship Ever Given. Short low-cost books called 'Tinglers' have depicted anthropomorphized dinosaurs and airplanes in sexual acts. The probably pseudonymous author, Chuck Tingle, published dystopian erotica on Brexit, featuring sex with a giant one-pound coin from the future, hours after the referendum passed. Analysis Īccording to researchers Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam, 'Today, Rule 34 thrives as sacred lore on blogs, YouTube videos, Twitter feeds and social networking sites. It's frequently used as a verb, as in 'I Rule 34'ed Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell on the judging table'.' They propose the reason the maxim resonated with so many people is because it 'certainly seems true' for 'anybody who has spent time surfing the Web'.
