It has been a rough start to 2025 for Floridians, particularly Miamians.
Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler made it clear that he wants to be traded out of Miami.
"I want to see me get my joy back from playing basketball and wherever that may be, you know, we'll find out here very soon," Butler said on January 2. "I'm happy here, you know, off the court, but I want to be back to someone more dominant. I want to hoop."
The Miami Dolphins didn't make the playoffs and star wide receiver Tyreek Hill hinted that he wants to leave Miami following Sunday night's loss.
"I just gotta do what's best for me and family, dawg," Hill said on Sunday. "If that's here, or wherever the case may be, man. I'm going to open the door for myself, dawg. I'm opening the door. Like, I'm out, bruh, you know. It was great playing here, but at the end of the day, I gotta do what's best for my career."
To top it all off, people in the Sunshine State cannot even access Pornhub — one of the world's largest adult content sites, thanks to a Florida law (HB3) that requires all websites offering adult content to use an age verification system or pay fines.
Pornhub's parent company, Aylo, instead decided to block access for Floridians in protest of the new law due to privacy concerns.
Floridians are struggling to grapple with the new ban. (Thankfully, New Times has a step-by-step guide to getting around the ban via a VPN, AKA a virtual private network.)
According to a Google Trends analysis by FetishFinder, a platform for buying and selling fetish content, people are desperately trying to fill the void Pornhub left behind in their porn consumption.
The search terms "Pornhub alternative" and Pornhub alternatives" skyrocketed by 2,050 and 1,400 percent, respectively, while searches for "Pornhub" have dropped nearly 40 percent.
It appears people have been searching instead for "reddit porn," "xvideos," and "theporndude," all of which are surging on Google Trends search charts.
Others are merely trying to get around the ban.
Searches for "VPN" have increased by 105 percent, and searches for "free VPN" have exploded by 351 percent.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, folks.
Floridians are having a tough time living in a Pornhub-less state, according to a recent analysis of Google searches.
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