If you look at something like mobile gaming and then read how much money that dogshit industry brings in, you might despair that something fundamental in the human psyche has been analyzed and perfectly gamed to sell virtual nonsense to defenseless marks and that the we're fucked as a species. But then you read further and discover almost all of the money made through mobile game microtransactions comes from a tiny number of whales. It's pathetic, but it isn't the end of the humanity.
mobile game makes fuckhuge money because it has an install base in the fucking billions (who doesn't have a smartphone these days? and if you don't you most likely wouldn't be into mobile gaming to begin with). the other being a supply problem. if you want to spend money, and a lot of people do because they're consumer whores, where do you spend it? pozzed AAA dogshit that looks like pornhub from an indian IP? obviously both men and women gonna spend the money on the game with the cute/cool characters, story that isn't complete dogshit (which is incredible considering how fucking easy it is to write for fucking videogames), with the polish of old blizzard and an update cycle that would 41% any western studio (genshin pushes an update
every 6 weeks).
sure it's mostly whales, but people don't whale in "dead" games, especially ones they never heard of. to get them to whale you have to get them into the game first and the game has to stay popular - which is another thing the western industry went full retard with: thinking once you have a customer you'll have them forever and the number can only go up. maybe videogame devs (which those people can hardly be called really) should spend more time in vegas to see how that works. so yeah, those companies do understand out how the game is played, while western companies decided to crawl up their own ass instead.
as for the really hard stuff, that's pushed (and a matter of statistics, see below). It still blows my mind that literally everybody knows what an algorithm driven shithole the mainstream internet has become, yet there are still people who believe certain porn trends are purely organic. the vast majority of the planet is racist as fuck, with whole continents hating niggers, yet those same continents apparently consume nothing but blacked porn?
I'm 45 and I've been watching it get more extreme my entire life. Porn was nowhere near as ubiquitous in the mid-90s as it is today, and the content has gotten far more hardcore with anal, rimming, fauxcest, bdsm, choking, spitting, interracial, fisting, trannies, etc. all becoming much more commonplace when back then it was niche content you would have to go out of your way to seek out via ads in the back of hustler and small print run skin mags vs the front page of pornhub ready to download.
in the mid 90s you had to order your smut via mail, live in a big enough city to know the right spots to source stuff, and built a network of people into the same degenerate smut you were for continued supply.
to give you an example what that means, new york city has around 8.5 million people. if you have a degenerate population of 0,0001% that's still 850 people. how likely were you to cross paths with those 850 people in a city with 8.5 million, especially if you weren't into that smut to actively seek it out? "out of sight, out of mind".
otoh how many people does it take to populate a forum or another internet platform, considering you'll now have 0,0001% from all over the world congregate there, for the whole world to see?
there's most certainly an exposition effect increasing numbers by people previously too lazy/ashamed to pursue that kind of material, but that just means those people were always around. just because you didn't saw them before and noticed them doesn't mean they didn't exist.
besides, no matter the stance, the genie's out of the bottle. you can't have global information exchange that at the same time won't be used for the most basic urge that's so ingrained into humans and necessary to ensure the survival of the species. if people can't fuck another person, they gonna fuck their hand, that's how it always worked and always will. only the access to the stimuli has changed due to technological progress. smut fiction after the first book press made reproduction easy, grainy tiddies once photography was a thing, asf.
TLDR: humanity has always been a coomer, otherwise we'd have died out millenia ago.
as if anyone gives two flying fucks in hell about the japanese porn industry.
skill issue