Digimon is one of the most popular cartoon characters today. Known by children of most countries in Europe, America, and obviously, in the Eastern culture, the character already spawned movies, card games, and all the sorts of products from clothes to toys with the Digimon thematic. However, the popularity of the character also brought a weird and negative side effect. The so called Digimon porn. What would have a cartoon character to do with pornography, most people would ask. Digimon porn is nothing but the association of two very popular words (Digimon, porn) in order to increase visits in websites that use those two keywords.

In a nutshell, search engines scan the words of each page of the internet to determine what they are talking about. With those scans, the engine generates the search result. The more keywords a page has, more different searches will lead to such page. This strategy is very controversial, as it generates a lot of pages which are called “dead content”. They often appear as first results on the main search engines but their content don’t relate at all with the keyword searched. In almost all cases, the page using such strategy displays a sexually graphic content. Digimon porn is a good example of how this weird strategy works.

Sometimes, looking for one of the keywords alone may lead to one of those pornographic sites, depending on the number of visits. It raises important ethical and even legal question, since looking for the cartoon character may lead to sites containing the so-called Digimon porn. As today is very common for children to access the internet, they are risked to stumble into Digimon porn sites and consequently to pornographic sites.

It’s very difficult to determine which sites are using such technique and even more difficult to punish them or creating some way to block their content. Digimon porn sites as it usually happens with pornography growing at amazing rate in the internet today.