The Real History of Rule 34
Added 2024-01-10 18:00:07 +0000 UTCA viral tweet made me curious about looking into the history of fanmade adult content, and I ended up deep diving a rabbit hole that goes further than you could ever expect.
References: https://www.lextorias.com/references/rule-34
Music Used: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB41KjBc4ASJA6Qcka3m7n6lc3rjrMPbW&si=Sv9hcRSXkhHJHhuZ
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Thank you for making this video. I just discovered your stuff.
Vicearoni
2024-08-03 02:36:57 +0000 UTCPatreon should let you edit the amount wherever you’d update the membership. They make it needlessly complicated for some reason (But also even $1 is more than good. I appreciate it!)
Lextorias
2024-03-29 07:10:46 +0000 UTCAlso- i'm unfamiliar with patreon, and can't find an option to donate a specified amount monthly to Lextorias. I did the $1 monthly, but can anyone point me to where i can give a little more? thx
Jeff Loe
2024-03-28 03:56:53 +0000 UTCLove your style of vid essay. Keeping it enthralling while not coming off as pretentious or snobby in the knowledge you're sharing. One of the few youtube creators i could see just hanging out and chilling with!
Jeff Loe
2024-03-28 03:53:42 +0000 UTCVideo is still up! The Vimeo embed only works directly through Patreon, due to an update. If you're on mobile updating your app should show it properly
Lextorias
2024-03-20 05:50:18 +0000 UTCNo video available?
DualOrange
2024-03-19 20:46:15 +0000 UTCDude, this is a truly epic video. Can't wait to share it with my son who grew up playing Overwatch and watching anime, but I wouldn't be surprised if he knows a lot of this already.🤣
Alaric Goldkuhl
2024-03-16 13:01:52 +0000 UTCThis video was great, I really appreciate it both as a piece of entertainment and as an examination and partial archival of an important part of internet history. I make my living making furry porn and I think there's a lot of really fascinating, cool information out there that gets swept under the rug. As much as some folks don't like to mention it, a large part of human history is sexual in nature, we're horny animals with brains that got too big. Great vid, look forward to seeing more, you've got a new sub outta me
Doodledip
2024-02-21 18:57:46 +0000 UTCEven if I don't follow Bolverk on Twitter he breaks into YouTube. He can't keep getting away with this 😭
Hansel Santiago
2024-02-18 13:56:29 +0000 UTCAmazing video essay - really one of the most interesting I've ever seen!
TAU-9
2024-02-11 16:36:49 +0000 UTCIt seems youtube algorithm likes this video. I didn't even know you and it was on my feed. Hope you don't get demonetized
Intox osef
2024-02-11 00:40:52 +0000 UTCThe video is only available to watch on Patreon. If you’re watching on mobile, ya gotta update your app
Lextorias
2024-02-02 22:55:02 +0000 UTC'Sorry, Because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here' it says
GreatTomato
2024-02-02 17:42:02 +0000 UTCThanks alot!
Taavi
2024-01-27 23:18:21 +0000 UTCThe video is only available to watch through Patreon. If you’re watching on your phone, you need to update your app
Lextorias
2024-01-27 22:39:11 +0000 UTCThe video doesn't work for me. It says I May have the wrong URL?
Taavi
2024-01-27 15:45:44 +0000 UTCCan you create a download link?
The Greatest Of Erotic Entertainment
2024-01-25 17:08:28 +0000 UTCfound this vid on yt but i got to u sayin u have an uncensored version on pateron and i insantly went to grab it. not only cuz i wanna see the tiddies but it feels like such a subject would just. not be enjoyable to learn about while it bein censored. it is pretty sad how so many online spaces are becoming increasingly sanitised, not for the users but for investors and whatever cuz money rules the world. and as u said it just leads to some works becoming lost media which fuckin suuucks
tofire
2024-01-25 01:57:34 +0000 UTCBest 1$ I've ever spent really awesome video my man.
Jackson Killz
2024-01-23 23:32:26 +0000 UTCI think I’ll start on my own research rn
SoulZaku
2024-01-20 16:07:37 +0000 UTCReally good video! 😤😤😤
SoulZaku
2024-01-20 16:07:18 +0000 UTCOh yeah totally! More like. Will 3D blow up more because 2D is being replaced with Ai. Will people want more cartoony rule 34 because realism is getting easier with Ai? Stuff like that is interesting.
Thomas
2024-01-17 01:53:21 +0000 UTCExcellent analysis of the whole issue from a industry point of view. It really is a shame how many of those awesome creators get ostracized because of the whole taboo on sex.
PLCM
2024-01-16 02:33:25 +0000 UTCAn informative and nostalgic summary by a fellow Canadian, during which I couldn't stop smiling. Keep making your great video essays while we wait for another phenomenal Ah Lecks video. (Pixiv best)
Zed_cat
2024-01-15 06:29:11 +0000 UTCVideo is only available to watch through Patreon. You may need to update your app if you're watching it on mobile
Lextorias
2024-01-15 01:19:15 +0000 UTCIs the video taken down? Can’t seem to view it on Vimeo
BLIZZ2012
2024-01-15 01:09:12 +0000 UTCboorus are already flooded with the stuff
Lextorias
2024-01-14 23:39:06 +0000 UTCIncredible video. I wonder how in 5-10 years we will see a huge shift due to Ai image generators making nsfw artwork.
Thomas
2024-01-14 18:40:22 +0000 UTCAs someone who is in the lewd 3D artistry field and has met a lot of great and talented people through that medium, been told various wild stories that has occurred throughout the years (and experienced a lot of it in a short time span), i felt the urge to send a tip and watch the uncensored thing out of respect for the stupid amount of research and respect towards this topic, a that caused some of my friends eyebrows to raise and have one of them cut ties super slowly due to it kinda being the "weirdo" thing to do upon revealing it to them a few months ago. It really is one big community effort. Incredibly talented and frankly underappreciated individuals that half the time, work with very shoddy and kitbashed stuff that they put together themselves or found. Even the biggest model maker i know of rarely properly optimizes his stuff, which is pretty funny to me. Even thinking of his models makes my computer tear up. "Are you ready for more torture, sonny jim?" Rule34, 3D artwork especially, is seen as disposable material. A bag of chips you eat from, throw away and don't really think about until you get the urge to go out and get another bag. The process of making that bag of chips is very deliberate, downright frustrating at times but pure and simple artistry. Creative people putting up with intense amounts of horseshit and technological burdens to create insanely high effort eye candy that deserves the respect it lacks from the majority of people. One of my best buds, Pastelhole, impresses me with damn near everything they do and i'm pretty confident to call them one of my favorite artists -- in anything. Forreal. Edvard Munch might've been born in my country, but i'll take my buddy making smut of D.va from Overwatch any day of the week. Put that shit in a gallery. Thanks for highlighting all the history and doing it with upmost respect. Fantastic video. Once i finished it, i watched it again.
akkonsfw but she’s mr. beast
2024-01-14 17:22:35 +0000 UTCimagine drawing rule34 content haha thatd be so weird right guys
grey is gey
2024-01-14 15:06:01 +0000 UTCI've enjoyed your videos for a while now so I figured there was no reason I shouldn't pay up here and watch this one properly. Internet culture stuff is so wild so I'm always excited to learn more. Thanks for covering this kinda stuff
TheJadedMieu
2024-01-14 10:29:36 +0000 UTCThis video was (as always) so god damn good! Props to you for all the research you put into this. I really liked your thesis about how this is an art form that shouldn't be swept under the rug the way that it is.
Avram
2024-01-13 18:45:43 +0000 UTCThought I would watch it here bc of the whole demonetization stuff. Fun watch as always, keep up the great work.
Hoovy
2024-01-13 11:54:21 +0000 UTCStudioFOW retweeted a tweet linked to your video which brought me to you. It is crazy to see how this scene looked pre-internet with the comics and copyright stuff; what fascinating roots these things come from. You've earned a follow and subscription from me. Thanks for postinng!
Brad Turner
2024-01-13 00:07:20 +0000 UTCthis is peak. clean and approachable yet comprehensive yet intrinsic
Nthxz
2024-01-12 15:59:16 +0000 UTCfantastic effort of over-represented under-analyzed internet alleys otherwise shrugged off and forgotten- to detriment of us all. when civilization goes digital the digital is civilizational. to aggregate: LOVEWEB/Shadook's review (also uncensored over at Newgrounds) come to mind. about to watch your video- expecting to see starving artist exploitation mentioned, otherwise i've just brought it up. solely because while R34 is so (in)famous- the events leading to pictures of R34 was something only stumbled upon last year for me- and suddenly the wide world of artists talking about this for a decade and on appears. internet can be so insular you don't even know what you don't know until suddenly... clicking watch now, thanks for sharing your hyperfixation
Nthxz
2024-01-12 13:13:26 +0000 UTC:D
Marcell Dávid
2024-01-12 10:00:10 +0000 UTC😐
Lextorias
2024-01-12 09:59:22 +0000 UTCSo... Does that mean I can draw Lextorias porn?
Marcell Dávid
2024-01-12 09:45:01 +0000 UTCYou must’ve been put on this earth to post the best and most high-brow videos about anime titties known to man. I appreciate the maturity you have to discuss these topics without devolving into horny degeneracy lol
Graham Naquin
2024-01-12 06:02:22 +0000 UTCUnironically, I'm glad you're going to the effort to document this. It's as much our history as anything taught in school.
Joshua Carr
2024-01-12 04:06:28 +0000 UTCIt’s only hentai if it’s from Japan. Otherwise it’s just sparkling Rule 34.
Max Goldstein
2024-01-12 03:05:27 +0000 UTCAll good! I do upload videos as unlisted and then switch to "embed only" because of a glitch with Patreon not showing thumbnails. So that URL is still the video, you just can't watch it outside of Patreon's website/app. Glad everything is working now though. Enjoy the rest of the video!
Lextorias
2024-01-11 22:05:08 +0000 UTCUpdate: I updated the app and it supports in-app playing now (it was a few months old). Weird that it happened but it seems like there's no problem at all. Sorry to bother you!
TheAkibaScholar
2024-01-11 21:57:55 +0000 UTCJust tried on PC and it works - seems like you have it embedded here but from the Patreon Android app, the video is a link to Vimeo which worked before but no longer works. The link is to https://vimeo.com/901396561/5bc4e831bc
TheAkibaScholar
2024-01-11 21:55:28 +0000 UTCVideo is still up on my end. If you refresh and everything can you still not watch it?
Lextorias
2024-01-11 21:49:15 +0000 UTCDid the video get taken down? I watched half of it yesterday and went to finish it but it's gone
TheAkibaScholar
2024-01-11 21:24:05 +0000 UTCfixed! thank you
Lextorias
2024-01-11 09:34:00 +0000 UTCJust noticed the links are backwards lol
Dragonoid9810
2024-01-11 09:16:28 +0000 UTCwow, very nice video. Didn't expect the subject to be this interesting. Congrats and thank you for the references.
ShadowNeo
2024-01-11 00:41:51 +0000 UTCOh lawd here we go
Jeff
2024-01-10 19:23:53 +0000 UTCLove it, good luck with other hosting sights.
Noah West
2024-01-10 18:48:36 +0000 UTC
