So just to clarify - the 62 million visitors were in one month, as Snopes makes clear.

However as you say 62 million visits in internet terms is a nonsense and not equivalent to unique visitors. Such metrics count every page hit so 1 user browsing through pages in one visit will count as multiple visits, and that user may return multiple times.

And the biggest piece of information is that this is a general porn site, with 100 categories of porn. As snopes says "Examples include "blonde," "skinny" and "webcam" — among many others." So we don't actually know who viewed this particular category.

CNN did a decent investigation particularly as they found a telegram group with 1000 users, but the porn site stuff has been misreported by other outlets. We live in an era of slop journalism where people just steal content from the source and make crap poorly researched content from it, or spread stupid rumours.

I noticed that sleep themed videos began being suggested online after that famous case in France. I found it ironic. The case rose awareness, I guess.

What does this say about society? I don't know. These same websites also recommend poop videos. I'm pretty sure access to the internet has messed people up.

Nice trying to misquote statistics.. /Edit This was not intentional so that should be noted as updated comment

However, the "62 million" figure cited in social media posts represented the total number of visits to the pornographic website in February 2026

That is not UP UNTIL that month.. that is just in that month..

From just monthly visits you cannot possibly determine the active user count but you can compare it to similar activity sites.

A quick AI Slop Overview gives you The average daily active users for a site with 60 million visits in a month would be approximately 2 million

this is skewed statistics as we want active users not visits so with a bit more refining defining Visits Per User

For adult/porn sites, VPU typically skews higher than general content because users often visit multiple times per day. Reasonable VPU ranges to use for estimates:

Low-engagement assumption: 3–7 visits per month
Moderate-engagement (common): 10–30 visits per month
High-engagement power users: 30–90+ visits per month

Dividing this by 30 (mid numbers) we still get a very high estimate of around 2 Million Monthly Active Users.

For context.. Crunchyroll as a websites average around 10 Million MAU.

In fact, women never said 62 million men were involved in the raping themselves. Women’s concern was that 62 million men were collectively engaged in the crime through their consumption of the content and their failure to report it. They were therefore co-conspirators, enablers, complicit, aiding and abetting the rapists and helping them monetize their crimes.

The real problem is that each month that site gets visits from what is more likely men than women who approve and support this type of behavior. Even if the 62 million is an exaggeration it is extremely disturbing that these visitors are OK with this and helping the actual rapist monetize their crimes.

Holy shit, what a dismissive take on the article. This exact reaction is part of the problem .

Who gives a shit about the accurate reporting of the number. How about the broader issue of a) sleep rape, proven in court, b) that rapists have published their exploits online, and C) that there is an audience for same.

Take your semantics and fuck off.

Strange. I see 77 upvotes and 0 downvote.

They're not even necessarily visiting for the videos described in the article. That's total visitors to the site.

Or bots.

It’s not just a fetish there is real legitimate rape of unconscious/drugged women on there.

Motherless is a very loose site compared to say PornHub, which itself still has illegal content but makes a much stronger effort to remove.

And for that reason even if we assume the worst about the site, it'd be the uploaders being the problem, not the visitors.

its a deviance, fetish usually some form of consent, deviancy doesnt.

Td;dr: men bad.

Some men bed.