On August 24th, popular video conferencing service Zoom experienced a major outage between 8am and 2pm. Across much of the United Kingdom and the East Coast of the United States, thousands of people were unable to connect to their business calls, online classes and yoga sessions.

While some people simply switched to a different video service for the day, Daily Caller asked us if many others used the downtime to visit Pornhub. And it turns out they did!

Traffic across the United Kingdom increased by as much at 5.6% at 11am, and the East Coast of the U.S. by 6.2%. When you consider that the U.S. and U.K. make up nearly half of Pornhub’s daily traffic, that represents a major shift in mid-day porn viewership.

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