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Popular Hentai Site Offers Free Access to Porn to Get You to Stay at Home

After Fakku announced the special promotion, the hentai-focused site quickly crashed from the surge in user traffic, which resulted in error pages.

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To encourage you to stay at home, a popular hentai site is offering users free access to its collection of Japanese cartoon porn for the next two weeks. 

On Sunday, Fakku tweeted out the special deal, which covers its library of English-translated Hentai comics. Normally, you’d have to pay $12.95 a month for access, but now you can read them without setting up a user account. 

“As the world continues to practice social distancing to fight the spread of COVID-19, we must come together and stay inside,” the site said in the tweet. “Starting RIGHT NOW, all subscription hentai is free for the next two weeks on FAKKU.”

The site announced the offer days after PornHub also came up with a special coronavirus-related promotion to motivate users to stay inside. Last Tuesday, it decided to make the normally $9.99-a-month PornHub Premium free for all users for the next month. In Fakku’s case, the site offers access to Hentai, which is focused on porn, but with Japanese anime or manga-based characters. 

Perhaps to no one’s surprise, user traffic has been surging ever since the free offer was made. As Motherboard notes, the site quickly crashed, resulting in error pages. “We experienced some downtime due to getting overloaded, but we're back up,” Fakku tweeted on Monday morning.  

 If you're not into hentai, the good news is that other non-adult sites, including streaming services, are offering extended trials and free promotions to keep the public informed and entertained during the coronavirus pandemic. Gaming service GOG.com has also made some of its games available for free as well. So take advantage of the deals while you can.  

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I've been a journalist for over 15 years. I got my start as a schools and cities reporter in Kansas City and joined PCMag in 2017, where I cover satellite internet services, cybersecurity, PC hardware, and more. I'm currently based in San Francisco, but previously spent over five years in China, covering the country's technology sector.

Since 2020, I've covered the launch and explosive growth of SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service, writing 600+ stories on availability and feature launches, but also the regulatory battles over the expansion of satellite constellations, fights with rival providers like AST SpaceMobile and Amazon, and the effort to expand into satellite-based mobile service. I've combed through FCC filings for the latest news and driven to remote corners of California to test Starlink's cellular service.

I also cover cyber threats, from ransomware gangs to the emergence of AI-based malware. In 2024 and 2025, the FTC forced Avast to pay consumers $16.5 million for secretly harvesting and selling their personal information to third-party clients, as revealed in my joint investigation with Motherboard.

I also cover the PC graphics card market. Pandemic-era shortages led me to camp out in front of a Best Buy to get an RTX 3000. I'm now following how the AI-driven memory shortage is impacting the entire consumer electronics market. I'm always eager to learn more, so please jump in the comments with feedback and send me tips.

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  • I loved my Sega Saturn despite PlayStation's popularity.
  • The iPod Video I received as a gift in college
  • Xbox 360 FTW
  • The Galaxy Nexus was the first smartphone I was proud to own.
  • The PC desktop I built in 2013, which still works to this day.

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