Pornhub Reveals Most Popular ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Searches Before Blockbuster Debut

Avengers: Endgame created an utter explosion of traffic on Pornhub in the days leading up to the Marvel blockbuster’s record-breaking debut.

According to recently released stats from Pornhub Insights, the research team that tracks that analyzes the website’s viewership, the number of “Avengers”-related searches surged by an astounding 2,191 percent in the week before the blockbuster hit theaters. 

That translates to an additional 2 million hits over a seven-day period, not including the normal number of “Avengers” queries on Pornhub.  For comparison’s sake, the release of 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War sparked a 356-percent increase in related searches. 

Pornhub Statisticians also provided data on the popularity of individual characters. A second graph, below, shows that Captain Marvel was by far the most-searched superhero, while Black Panther and Spider Man rounded out the top three after a considerable drop-off. 

Of course, Avengers: Endgame proved to be ridiculously popular on the silver screen as well. 

Bolstered by rave critical reviews, the franchise finale shattered the record for the biggest opening weekend of all time, with an estimated $350 million ticket sales domestically and $1.2 billion globally. 

According to Fox News, it surpassed projected sales by around $100 million and dethroned Avengers: Infinity War, which had previously set the record at $257.7 million 

Pornhub’s servers just might break if they ever decide to make an all-female Avengers movie

Watch Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston Co-Star With Ferraris, Superyachts in ‘Murder Mystery’ Trailer

Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston try to embark on a European honeymoon and instead become prime suspects in an international murder probe in the new trailer for Murder Mystery, coming to Netflix on June 14.

The lighthearted clip opens with police detective Nick (an impressively mustachioed Sandler) spoiling his wife Audrey’s (Aniston) murder mystery novel while flying to Europe for their long-awaited honeymoon. 

Nick falls asleep on the plane while Audrey runs into the charming Charles (Luke Evans) in first class, who later invites the couple aboard the yacht of an elderly billionaire for the weekend.

Shortly after Nick gets distracted by a beautiful actress (Gemma Arterton), the billionaire yacht owner is mysteriously murdered. 

Sandler and Aniston become the prime suspects in the investigation, making for what looks like a fun whodunit as they fight for their innocence to the strains of Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do.”

Aside from Sandler rocking a suave tuxedo and Aniston looking lovely as always in a red cocktail dress, there’s plenty more upscale eye-candy in the trailer, ranging from the aforementioned superyacht to a badass red Ferrari that Aniston drives during a car chase at the end of the clip.

Stream the whole movie when it hits Netflix on June 14.

Apple CEO Tim Cook Reveals Simple Trick to Use Your Phone Less

Apple CEO Tim Cook wants you to use your phone less, and he’s even shared a simple trick to make that happen.

The tech titan has apparently had it with the constant stream of app notifications that he and many other iPhone users receive on a daily basis. 

Speaking at this year’s TIME 100 Summit, Cook revealed the simple trick he uses to drastically scale back notifications—some might call them spam—and cut down on screen time.

“If you have an iPhone, I would encourage you to do this,” Cook said. “I’ve gone in and gutted the number of notifications I receive. Do I really need to get thousands of notifications per day?”

“If you’re looking at your phone more than you’re looking into someone’s eyes, you’re doing the wrong thing,” he added.

Cook went on to claim that “Apple never wanted to maximize user time.” 

“We’re telling people how much time they are spending in apps.” he said of the Screen Time reports. 

There’s some obvious irony in such a statement coming from Apple’s top exec. And, as Tech Crunch notes, the iPhone platform was designed so that app developers could ping users with almost any message imaginable, “from getting a new followers on a social app to a sale in a shopping app.” 

Tech Crunch reports: 

The very idea behind the notification platform, opt-in as it may be, is that developers should actively — and in real time — try to capture users’ attention and redirect them back to their apps.

This is not how such an alert mechanism had to be designed.

The tech industry outlet went on to suggest alternative systems that aren’t so invasive, such as setting a specific time of day to receive app alerts or prioritizing notifications based on urgency. 

Since none of those options currently exist, it’s probably easiest just to heed Cook’s advice and turn off as many notifications as possible.