In an 18 September press release announcing the arrests, the office of Attorney General Gurbir Grewal outlined the basics of Operation Open House and detailed the allegations against the 24 defendants:Īttorney General Gurbir S. However, it has been used by other would-be sexual predators in the past, the state Attorney General's office told us. In reality, despite its phenomenal popularity, Fortnite was not used by any of the 24 men arrested and charged with attempting to lure children for sex online in New Jersey in September 2018. Fortnite was the only app named in the headlines of all three of those articles. "It is a frightening reality that sexual predators are lurking on social media, ready to strike if they find a child who is vulnerable," Grewal said in describing how the 24 suspects were attempting to lure and elicit sex with teenagers.Īlong with other alarming reports, such as those published by and, NJ.com's article prompted multiple concerned inquiries from readers about the use of gaming apps such as Fortnite by those seeking to groom children for sex. N announcing the arrests of 24 alleged predators, state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal warned the public that people looking to take advantage of young teens and children have more options to do so than ever due to the ever-developing landscape of internet communication. Now, authorities say, some phone apps have opened even more channels of communication between adult predators and minors - including some video games like Fortnite and Minecraft.
Then the threat moved online via shady profiles on social media. Cops say parents need to worry":įirst, parents worried about their children being approached by predators at grocery stores and on playgrounds. The multi-agency sting operation, which involved state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies and hinged upon undercover officers posing online as underage girls and boys, prompted a widely-shared report by the NJ.com news website which carried the headline "Predators are using Fortnite to lure kids. So congratulations to Epic for making a game that people love so much that they want to have sex with it.In September 2018, a New Jersey-based law enforcement operation codenamed "Operation Open House" yielded 24 arrests of men alleged to have attempted to groom children for sex using mobile chat apps. Oh, and since the game is out on iOS but not Android, Apple iOS users are 77 percent more likely to look for Fortnite porn than their Google-using counterparts. And men are 136 percent more likely to search for Fortnite on Pornhub than women. Finland was the country with the most Fortnite searches proportionately. 1 state for Fortnite searches relative to other searches. But it turns out that when you’ve got the need to bump digital uglies on the mind, just about any shooter will do.įinally, Pornhub revealed that Kansas was the No. Pornhub previously reported that Overwatch saw a similar bump in adult-oriented interest during one of its betas.
These include Overwatch, Team Fortress 2, and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Pornhub notes that people often search for other related terms just before and after Fortnite. If you’re confused and wondering what people are even looking for when they put “Fortnite” into the search bar on a site like Pornhub, well the site’s members often pair their search with terms like “hentai,” “sex,” and “butt.” So … they’re horny.įortnite is also not the only game people are looking to get naughty with. “Things really picked up at the end of September 2017 when Fortnite’s Battle Royale came out, and they have grown steadily since then.”īut searches really popped off after Drake streamed the game on Twitch on March 15. “After Fortnite launched in July of 2017, it only resulted in a handful of searches,” reads Pornhub’s blog.
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