For the last month at least, NyaaTorrents has been running softcore porn ads for one online marketplace of Japanese anime`-related stuff. Because most of the people who submit torrents to Tokyo Toshokan upload their torrents to Nyaa, I figured that I was stuck. I don’t use Firefox, but I do use a proxy server, and I got tired of cringing every time I visited the site, so I started blocking ads. What really tipped the scales, though, was the behavior of the site owner. In a recent chat, someone asked politely for him to stop running the ads. He told them no and then told the person to just deal with it. I myself registered for an account just to point out that Nyaa is pushing softcore pornography. The figurines of women with exposed breasts is porn; the figurines of characters touching themselves in obviously sexual manners is porn. This isn’t artistic stuff and there’s no way to take it any other way. So Nyaa is purposefully pushing porn. The question is why, and why be such a jerk about it? Well, here’s another bit of information. I’ve also inquired of ad rates on Nyaa, thinking I could throw a banner ad or two up for some of my anime-related projects. I was stunned by how expensive it was. Nyaa is raking in the bucks from pushing porn. Others tried to legitimize it, but the basic situation is that the owner has made a decision to exploit women for the sake of financial gain.
I’m blocking ads from Nyaa, so there’s no way he can make money off me. I’d gladly use any other torrent host, but Tokyo Toshokan is about the only fansubbed anime listing site that I can stand and most of the groups seem to rely on Nyaa. Sigh.
We really should all come together and stop using Nyaa.
You, sir, have no idea about how expensive it is to run a site like NyaaTorrents or how hard it is to find any decent advertisers capable of paying for the CPI/CPM/CPC rates that one can get from the site. And advertising on NT is actually cheaper than advertising on another site of the same magnitude. The prices are just high because NT isn’t exactly a small site. Nyaa is most definitely not “raking in the bucks” from the ad income of NT when you take into account the costs of running the site and the fact that its basically pushing 100% of its bandwidth 24/7.
So, crafting a figurine is exploiting women?
Stop living in 17th century, son.
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