Asifa trending on Xvideos in India is offensive and needs to be removed

How far will India sink? That is the question that especially concerns us today. People come together in the face of tragedy, but India’s response to this latest human rights tragedy has been defiant, to say the least.

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Several social media posts today highlighted what at first sounded like fake news. Ashifa is trending on Xvideos, India’s most visited porn site.

This is the worst case scenario and is probably so low that India could sink.

Editor’s Note: Contrary to rumors, there is no video of Asifa’s death on any porn site . Asifa is trending on several sites as a search term for “For As Yet Unknown Reasons.”

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Last week, at least one bank employee in India was fired for celebrating Asifa’s death , but what to do with the thousands of people who apparently searched for her on Xvideos?

Indifference towards the dead is not uncommon in India, with pain and suffering usually forgotten after a month. A few candlelight vigils won’t change the way most Indians feel about women and how they treat them in their daily lives. This includes their response to the biggest incident of violence against women in India.

One would think that the rape and murder of an 8-year-old would be treated with the respect it deserves and in a harsher manner than before. The horror of this latest disgrace deserves outrage across India, but this reaction is a body blow to anyone who was hoping that India would soon turn away from issues of women’s rights, child abuse and xenophobia. is.

As of this writing, Asifa was the top trending on Xvideos in India and the second most popular trend in Pakistan. In Bangladesh, this was the third most popular trend . We also searched for trending topics in other countries such as Russia, the United States, Germany, and Sri Lanka, but our search terms did not appear as trends in these countries.

Connecting Xvideos and XNXX

One area that has exploded in recent years is establishing connections between online chatters to determine where a particular viral video or new trend was inspired from. Naturally, people are wondering where the Asifa trend appeared on Xvideos. The bigger question is why.

Only one video will appear as a search result on Asifa or when you click on Asifa Trends . Asifa is not tagged in this video and her name is not mentioned in the title. In the entire code of the pages we looked at in Google Chrome, the only mention of Asifa was in the referrer URL of the search results page.

So I wanted to know why Xvideos is showing this video as a search result. Attempts to access Xvideos were fruitless . The company’s content removal form did not allow users to enter a search URL, which is the only way to report Asifa’s activity. We only accepted video or profile URLs.

I attempted to report a video that appeared in the search results, but Xvideo also ignored it, with an error message stating that the video could not be reported because it appeared to have been uploaded by an authenticated user .

Xvideos’ ownership is notoriously murky. It is registered to a Polish company named WGCZ Holdings, and according to court filings, its owners are Stephen Michael Pacaud and Deborah Mallory Pacaud, as this excellent The Next Web research shows. They also support XNXX.

Any doubts about the link between XNXX and Xvideos should be cleared up by the fact that both sites show the same videos in search results on Asifa .

By the way, XNXX is the third most popular porn site in India, followed by PornHub. So it’s clear that the team at WGCZ has a good understanding of what works and what doesn’t in India.

Questions about Xvideos

Another thing to consider is that there is no way to know how Xvideos chooses trending topics. Do you cross-reference search terms on Google and other search engines to determine popularity? Do you use search algorithms to determine what goes in the first spot in which countries ? Has anyone entered Asifa as a search term?

I have a lot of questions and unfortunately Xvideos can’t seem to answer them. After all, the company doesn’t have a good history of keeping track of its mechanics. Our hope is that collective anger may force them to break that norm. We strongly encourage our readers to contact Xvideos through any means necessary to remove any objectionable trending topics.