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Formulation Two
Formulation One: If it is out there, the likelihood that there is erotic fan material of it becomes 100%.
Formulation Two: There's porn of it. No exceptions.
“The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you’ve got millions of pals out there. Type in ‘Find people that have sex with goats that are on fire’ and the computer will say, ‘Specify type of goat.’” --Richard Jeni
As the infamous musical number from Avenue Q tells us, " The Internet Is For Porn". This isn't that far off.
Say you have a movie, or a TV show, or a video game, or a comic book, or some other form of visual media that proves popular. Ultimately, a Fandom will be built around it. Now, generally, it's a good bet that a substantial number of those fans are living their lives on MUCKs and other web outlets for their love of the media. Also, some of the fanbase may harbor a Perverse Sexual Lust for some of your characters -- even if they were too young for such thoughts before watching the media. As such, after a while, their interest in it may become darker, their thoughts turning towards more risqué items of note... and they will start putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and write, draw, or render their fantasies for everyone to see.
Formulated in the dank depths of the 4chan imageboard, this is Rule #34 Of The Internet, the ubiquitous knowledge that somewhere, some small group of your franchise's fandom is probably getting their rocks off at porn of your characters. This may or may not be a problem, depending on the circumstances; most Fan Art and Fan Fiction in general are posted free of charge, so unless the owner of the franchise in question fears such scandalous depictions of their life's work damaging the franchise's and the owners' public image, it's presumed to be better for them to just let it slide instead of suing for copyright infringement. After all, if the fans like your stuff enough to have those kinds of thoughts about it, then they're obviously the kind of fans you want to keep to ensure your media's success, right? And it's not like they're going to stop making such pictures or stories, even with a court order over their head.
Of course, sometimes a fandom can go too far with this rule, which ultimately damages their public image regardless of how widespread the practice really is. And, if the fandom and the media are both widely known enough publicly, there's always the threat of the Media Watchdogs coming in with threats of censors and sanctions against the media itself for the creations of the fans. But that's just a real-life example of Viewers Are Morons, on both sides of the coin.
This is, of course, nothing new. It's just that now, in the Communication Age, all of humanity's dirty little secrets are coming out into the open. Add Memetic Mutation to that dynamic, and you get what could be considered either a revolution or a moral crisis of epic proportions. It depends on your point of view. Beauty is, after all, in the eye of the beholder.
See also Fetish Fuel and Rule Thirty Six. And see Power Perversion Potential if you really wanna blow your mind.
An oft-cited corollary to Rule Thirty-Four is as follows: 'If it is out there, the likelihood that there is furry porn of it approaches 100%.' As an addendum to Rule Thirty-Four is Rule Thirty-Five: If there is not porn of it, porn will be made of it. which then fulfills Rule Thirty-Four. Though Rule Thirty-Five can also sometimes be listed as "Invoking Rule 34 negates it".
Examples:
- Disney is a notorious example of a corporation actively against Rule Thirty Four, or any other 'unauthorized' use of their characters, for that matter; woe be a fan artist who makes a similar character to one of theirs, or any day care centers who have murals of their characters on their walls, as they have been known to file lawsuits against such 'offenders'.
- An infamous (and probably apocryphal) story from the early days of the studio tells of a staff party where a cartoon was shown of Mickey and Minnie Mouse in an x-rated scene. Afterwards, Walt chuckled along with everyone else, invited the two guys who made the cartoon to come up and be recognized... and then fired them on the spot and ordered the film destroyed.
- Other versions of the story suggest that it was Snow White and her dwarfs having an orgy in the film which was shown at Uncle Walt's birthday party.
- Be that as it may, Minnie and Mickey did appear in a few Tijuana Bibles and Snow White, Jasmine, Ariel and Jessica Rabbit are favorite targets of internet porn maestro Julius Zimmerman (No, I'm not including a link, do a search if you must!)
- Equally infamous, and probably just as apocryphal, is the story of author Harlan Ellison's one and only day working for Disney, which started very promisingly but ended immediately after a lunch where he joked about -- and acted out -- a hypothetical Mickey Mouse porn film.
- Interestingly, Disney chose not to sue The Realist or Wally Wood when he did his infamous Disneyland Memorial Orgy (the image, while not showing explicit depictions of genitalia, is probably not worksafe), on the feeling that it was probably protected as parody (as well as the possibility that the lawsuit would bring unwanted publicity). They did, however, sue the poster company selling unauthorized copies of Wood's work.
- This troper once came across a rather graphic Lion King songfic. Needless to say, he stopped reading after the first mention of illicit activity, fearing further violation of his childhood.
- This troper recently found The Black Cauldron porn, after thinking that the movie was far too obscure to merit it.
- A Beauty And The Beast porn fic broke the brain of the reviewer at Godawful Fan Fiction enough that he or she could only post things like "...but he's a candle!"
- Gadget from Chip And Dale Rescue Rangers has been subject of pornographic drawings so often that more serious fans of hers and of the show started a protest movement named Rangerphiles Against Gadget Erotica.
- On the flip-side of the coin, Japanese manga and anime artists and companies have very little qualms about fans making erotic doujinshi of their worlds, or even selling them; in fact, many famous manga and anime artists started their careers doing just that, and some of them still dabble in the pastime. This is buffered by the very low print runs of such work.
- Kyoto Animation recently lampshaded the practice with a Shout Out to one of their other works. An episode of Lucky Star had the girls going to Comiket, a real-life doujinshi convention, with Konata marking all the tables she wanted to see. In the real Comiket of that year, all those tables sold Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu hentai.
- What's even worse is that she recruited her friends to pick up these doujinshi for her, including titles such as Dripping Brigade Chief.
- On the note of many famous manga and anime artists originally working in the doujinshi industry, CLAMP is notable for doing such. What did they market in? It's best not to know.
- According to some sources, the second season of Shinkon Gattai Godannar had to resolve funding problems by selling doujinshi of Godannar characters.
- This Troper has read a (while not porn, not work safe) Sonic The Hedgehog Anthropomorphic Gender Bender doujin written by Rikudo Koshi.
- For "Goreans", fans of John Norman's Gor novels, sexual deviancy is the entire purpose of the fandom - they act out in their real lives the ritualized tradition of sex slavery described in the novels (in the context of a consensual BDSM scene, of course).
- There is a certain Image Board (that will not be linked to -- if you want to find it, it's not hard to search for) with a section dedicated to challenges on this matter; they will track down pornographic images of anything. In most cases, if they can't find one, they make it -- making the claim a Self Fulfilling Prophecy (dubbed "Rule Thirty-Five": if make it apparent there is not porn of it, someone will make porn of it). Another site dedicated to collecting examples of Rule Thirty Four has managed to amass a bit over 70,000 images.
- Fred Gallagher of Megatokyo once said that if he found Megatokyo porn, he would quit producing the comic. He later understood that he had given too powerful a weapon for anybody who didn't like the comic, and changed his mind.
- Genshiken has this rule come up more than a few times, as its cast consists largely of otaku. Saki suffers a bit of a meltdown on learning there are hentai doujinshi of everything early on.
- An example of the degree to which this can get carried is also present: Since fair use provisions in Japanese copyright law are much different from those of the US, frequently all references to other animé will need to be bleeped out of the dialog. Since Genshiken revolves around a college otaku club, to avoid having to do this, the writers created a fictional animé named Kujibiki Unbalance that was chock-full of animé tropes and clichés in order to describe animé as a whole. Several of the Genshiken episodes are devoted to the craft of creating, publishing, and selling a ero-doujinshi of this fictional animé. As an example of life imitating art, now Kujibiki Unbalance is actually a real anime and manga, and every conceivable Slash Fic and hentai doujinshi featuring its characters are already being published.
- Through some mishap of how search engines work, the webcomic Mac Hall somehow got associated with Digimon porn. This resulted in a large number of people coming to the site for this exact purpose. As a joke, the writer posted a few spoofs to make fun of this. ...which resulted in Internet Search engines and furry sites associating them with Digimon porn even more. Then there was one last indignity that just made it look like the universe has it in for them.
- Given the height of Pokémon's popularity at one point, that there would be porn of it isn't too surprising. However, you are allowed to be disturbed by the fact that porn exists for every single species - all 493 of them, not counting interspecies! Now that is Rule 34 in action.
- At least there's still a good chunk of it dedicated to the humans in the Pokemon world, e.g. Misty, May, Dawn, Mrs. Ketchum...
- Turn off safe search and do a google image search for "missingno", then turn safe search back on and cry.
- I laughed. Does that make me a monster?
- Wait, what?! What?! WHAT?!
- Another Mon example! Digimon isn't exempt from this either. It seems that community has made Renamon and Gatomon their bitches of choice.
- In fact, many Nintendo games are targets. Let's not get started on Zelda OOT selfcest, or Twilight Princess furry porn. And that's when they are not attempting a crossover with Okami...
- Mario is no exception either and this troper had to say No Just No on all the things they did to Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser, Yoshi, and yes, even monsters/things like Shy Guys and Piranha Plants.
- This Troper scanned the first article on the new Sonic The Hedgehog RPG, and is sad to say that the female character supposedly got porn within hours. Which is odd, because the character is covered in species-obstructing armor, and its gender would be ambiguous if not for the use of the word "she" with the caption.
- This troper was at Ground friggin' Zero for Rule 34 of a new Sonic character -- when Blaze the Cat was first revealed, he posted a picture of her onto a rather well-known furry imageboard; no less that twenty-four hours later, at least three porn pics of her had been posted in that same exact thread, the first one coming less than twelve hours after that initial picture was posted. If anything, this is a testament to furries' dedication towards Rule 34. (Among other things...)
- This gets particularly bad with regards to Transformers. There are perfectly serviceable audience-surrogate human characters... but no, pretty much always the robots themselves being the victims of yaoi fangirls, despite some of them transforming in ways that... You know what? We're better off changing the subject very, very quickly.
- Dora from Questionable Content calls this rule "Quantum Fetish Mechanics."
- Ironically enough, this troper has seen the very same character subject to this trope.
- The webcomic Chugworth Academy is an unusual example, as most of the pornography based off it was drawn by the original artist, Scribblekid (who had an interest in pornographic art).
- This xkcd strip probably explains the process behind this phenomenon.
- Needless to say, wetriffs.com now exists.
- According to a Wired interview, it existed six months before the comic, the domain registered by creator Randall Monroe.
- There's fanfic written with Biblical characters, including slash (Jesus/Judas, anyone?).
- Please. For this troper it's all about the Ruth/Naomi.
- Star Wars porn is an obvious example, especially with the Princess Leia in slave girl costume. The most unusual one is probably two Imperial AT-ATs humping. A nature documentary about elephants comes to mind. Amusingly, the D6 RPR book "Fragments From the Rim" has an excerpt from a comedic news bulletin claiming to have identified an "AT-AT Stud farm". It promises pictures. There is also a kama sutra for AT-STs.
- Yoda And Padme.........no more need be said. Squick!
- Don't Even Highlight the above...
- Oh please, I've seen worse: Furry Nazi yaoi.
- How many fanfics do you know that have caused international incidents? "Agony in Pink" was a Power Rangers fanfic where the Pink Ranger gets tortured and killed -- in lengthy detail -- by a monster created by Lord Zedd. It resulted in the newsgroup it was posted on getting banned in Australia, and is believed to be responsible for the complete removal of adult fanfic from Fan Fiction.net.
- The creators of webcomics College Roomies From Hell and Queen Of Wands politely asked their fanbase that if they were going to produce porn based on the webcomic to please not post it or links to it in the comic's forum as the creator didn't want to see it. Both fanbases complied.
- This editor could have lived her life happily without knowing that there is Soreike! Anpanman hentai by Zaou Taishi.
- There is also Keroro Gunsu yaoi doujinshi (furry even!) by Zaou Taishi :D
- A small subset of Radiohead fans fantasize about Thom/Jonny/Colin love triangles - it would be pretty minor if it weren't for the fact that Jonny is Colin's little brother and they're all married with kids.
- There is an entire thread based around this trope on the Order of the Stick forums. Made even more disturbing by the fact that they're stick figures.
- Two threads: One "Fanservice" thread, and one called "House of Horrors". Let's just say the latter is labeled NSFW.
- This particular troper has seen quite a bit of Rule Thirty-Four being implemented in the Warhammer 40000 fandom, and certainly not just in the obvious places, such as Slaaneshi cultists, Dark Eldar, and the Sisters of Battle. On 4chan's Traditional Games board, he's seen everything from Space Marines (the term "Battle Brothers" and "geneseed" taking on whole new contexts) Tau, Kroot, Tyranids, and even the Necrons.
- Interestingly, Cosmic Horror writer Ramsey Campbell appeared to have predicted the rise of rule 34, and even made a character that was the personification of it, Y'Golonac; a god of any possibly conceivable depravity and perversion that any being, sane or not, could think of. Simply reading his name was apparently enough to let him possess you. Methinks most people in the world today have built up an immunity.
- Exception: Pretty much everything that isn't a form of visual media is safe from Rule 34. Possibly the rule was formulated by a group of people incapable of imagining something not shown on TV.
- Want to bet? Redwall porn easily predates any visual media but the cover of a single book, and let's not even get into the years before Harry Potter ever made it to film. Even for lesser-known books, it's out there -- this troper has seen more Soon I Will Be Invincible and Perdido Street Station porn than I'd ever needed.
- This troper politely requests - nay, demands - Eleanor Updale fanfiction. If it's for a book fandom, it's certainly out there - just better hidden.
- Oh, and Calvin And Hobbes? Yeah, in Calvin/Hobbes, and even Hobbes/Hobbes selfcest. Surprisingly, the latter isn't always as bad as you'd expect.
- Don't mention the doujinshi circle M-kichibeya to Mother 3 fans. They'll start going off about Naughty Tentacles and the Pigmasks gangbanging the Masked Man.
- This troper has deduced that if there is WALL-E porn out there, he will pull a Scanners.
- Hey, the movie is about characters who fall madly in love with each other. Of course there'll be porn.
- There is. About two weeks after the movie came out, someone wrote a porn-fic of it and posted it on FFN. Just reading the summary made this troper sick.
- Can I get a link, please?
- There are even pictures! I have seen several. Fun.
- Simple proof:
- 1. If there is porn of R-Type, there is porn of everything.
- 2. There is porn of R-Type. QED.
- This troper has thought of a way for Rule 34 to be recursive. I haven't been brave enough to look, but I'm afraid we have to assume that it is. There is, after all, another Rule 34: "I will not turn into a snake. It never helps." from the Evil Overlord List. With two Rule 34s and snake transformations in the same place, well, let's just say the suitably inclined might see possibilities and leave it at that. Alternatively, the porn of (subject) could be construed as the unholy spawn of Rule 34 and the subject, born of the subject's being obscenely and bloodily violated by the rule. Oh for the halcyon days when the voices in my head only told me to burn things.
- Mythbusters porn. Jamie/Adam. My poor, poor, unprotected brain.
- This troper has seen Lazytown porn. How I wish I hadn't.
- There is a mind-boggling quantity of porn for the Kirby animated series out there. And much of it is Dedede/Escargoon.
- Treebeard/Bill the pony. You may now claw your eyes out.''
- The Venture Brothers recently featured a pair of twin girls. This troper and his friend wondered how long for Rule 34 to be in effect. The answer? Give or take, six hours. This troper applauds the internet.
- This is Older Than The Internet. Nearly every popular film or TV show has had a porn version made over the past 30 years. They usually replace a word in the title with a body part or sexual term.
- Even kiddy cartoon characters meant for kids learning how to spell/count/etc. are no exception. I still rock and quiver at the thought of the porn I saw of Blue's Clues and Dragon Tales! D:
- Rule. 34. Daleks. There's even a porn movie involving them. Or So I Heard (no, really).
- There is a video game for experiencing sex online. I wish i was kidding.
- Archie Comics is another company that aggressively responds to Rule 34, threatening legal action against Fanfiction.net if it didn't take down all the slash fics featuring its characters. It's not hard to see why, when you consider that the slash in question ranged from Archie/Jughead to Archie/Mr.Weatherbee.
- Krogan Porn. Krogan Porn? Krogan Porn...
- This troper has regrettably come across The Crocodile Hunter/Stingray porn. No, really.
- This troper's dreams of Gradius becoming Rule 34 material were dashed with the release of Otomedius, a Gradius parody (a la Parodius) with a Moe Moe, FanService-y personification of the Vic Viper.
- This troper has seen porn of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Hell yes.
- There's even porn starring inanimate objects; it's called anthropomor fic and there's a livejournal community devoted to pairings such as sodium/chlorine, Ohio State University/University of Michigan, toothbrush/Johnny Depp, and Australia/Antarctica/India threesomes. If you think people can't write erotica about cornflakes and milk, you are wrong my friend.
- I've seen Wal-mart '34'. Needless to say I was disgusted.
- Math porn? Behold the tale of Poly Nomial.
- On the subject of the above: The Brave Little Toaster. Both with a male version of the Toaster and a female one. Sometimes both at once. Sweet merciful heavens MY CHILDHOOD.
- K.K. Slider and Tom Nook from Animal Crossing. Nuff said.
- This troper has seen links to Top Gear slash fiction, but not dared to click on it...
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