Unless you’ve been on a digital detox over the past week, or you’re just really scared of aliens, you’d be well aware that the Internet is truly obsessed with Area 51 right now. Apparently, we’re so obsessed with spooky UFOs that they’re making us a little ~hot under the collar~
According to PornHub, searches for ‘Area 51’ have gone from zero to 160,000 in the past four days. Same goes for searches including the word ‘alien’, which fun fact: were already popular with about 30,000 searches per day, but have skyrocketed by up to 217 percent in the last month.
Okay, so if you do fall into the above digital detox/fear of aliens category and you have literally no clue what I’m banging on about, allow me to explain.
A few weeks ago, a Facebook event emerged urging people to “storm” Area 51, and has since attracted 1.9M attendees. The event has gone viral, spawning thousands of hilarious memes and even catching the attention of the U.S. Air Force, who had some serious words of warning.
A spokeswoman for the Air Force told the Washington Post, that Area 51 is “an open training range for the US Air Force, and we would discourage anyone from trying to come into the area where we train American armed forces.”
So, is it that the element of danger is making people keen to partake in a pre-raid romp? Are aliens the new Brad Pitt? Or do we all just have really dirty, curious minds?
Apparently, the top 20 alien-related search terms include everything from “alien impregnation” to “sexy alien babe,” because who doesn’t want a gorgeous UFO to be the mother of their unborn child!?
Look, there is absolutely no judgement from me, but I won’t be storming Area 51 because I find aliens are quite scary and in no way sexually attractive.