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Remember when Tonya Harding's sex video went viral? That was nothing (Original Post) MineralMan Mar 2018 OP
and undoubtedly copies secured in additional safe locations hlthe2b Mar 2018 #1
One assumes so. When it drops, within 24 hours, MineralMan Mar 2018 #5
😂😂😂😂 madinmaryland Mar 2018 #23
Tonya Harding?? Blue_Tires Mar 2018 #2
Honestly, I don't. Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2018 #3
No. There was a Tonya Harding sex video? Was she on skates like rollergirl in that rzemanfl Mar 2018 #4
Boogie Nights (1997) Roller Girl was played by Heather Graham n/t FSogol Mar 2018 #14
Thanks. The title came into my head after some senior citizen cogitation. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2018 #15
Trump? Sex video? MyOwnPeace Mar 2018 #6
Sneak Peek at video title: Dirty Donny*s Degrading Dalliances Achilleaze Mar 2018 #7
If the pics show his member is the size of George Costanza's after a cold shower, Jarqui Mar 2018 #8
Yuck nt Abu Pepe Mar 2018 #9
I never could understand the appeal of watching repulsive people have sex. Aristus Mar 2018 #10
No memory of that at all. Tipperary Mar 2018 #11
I remember the kardashian one. dawg day Mar 2018 #13
Uhh...things didn't go "viral" in 1994. onenote Mar 2018 #12
I know, right? It certainly was not on my radar. Tipperary Mar 2018 #18
They did, but not exactly in the same way they do now. MineralMan Mar 2018 #20
Well sort of, but with 1400 baud modem it would take madinmaryland Mar 2018 #24
Just to be clear; there's been no report of "video"... brooklynite Mar 2018 #16
We really don't need a video of an orange walrus trying to smother a porn star while pretending FSogol Mar 2018 #19
No, I don't oberliner Mar 2018 #17
Revenge porn is wrong, but I wonder if "Dennison" agreed Ilsa Mar 2018 #21
Just saw I, Tonya. The most brutal life that woman has led. I almost applegrove Mar 2018 #22

MineralMan

(146,287 posts)
5. One assumes so. When it drops, within 24 hours,
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 09:07 AM
Mar 2018

it will be the top search on Google for at least a week. Imagine tens of millions of people going, "Ewwwww...." simultaneously.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
2. Tonya Harding??
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 09:05 AM
Mar 2018

I don't remember folks at the time crowding around a screen just to see that one...

Pamela Anderson, on the other hand....

rzemanfl

(29,556 posts)
4. No. There was a Tonya Harding sex video? Was she on skates like rollergirl in that
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 09:06 AM
Mar 2018

movie I barely remember? I think Burt Reynolds was in it.

Jarqui

(10,123 posts)
8. If the pics show his member is the size of George Costanza's after a cold shower,
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 09:53 AM
Mar 2018

that could take a bunch of the sting out of the last 18 months because laughter is good medicine and the man has sickened me.

I'm under no illusions in that a full cure won't arrive until he's out of office and we've undone all the damage he has done.

Something humiliating is in order for this repignant (new word for Trump) pussy grabber.

Aristus

(66,320 posts)
10. I never could understand the appeal of watching repulsive people have sex.
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 10:35 AM
Mar 2018

Repulsive either physically or due to their personalities.

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
13. I remember the kardashian one.
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 11:07 AM
Mar 2018

I was intrigued, I admit it! But it took about 2 minutes for me to become profoundly bored. I think they needed a director, better lighting, a more interesting setting, and some props. Conflict and dialogue might have helped too. It's weird to think of a sex tape as "vapid," but it was just that. Vacant, vapid.

onenote

(42,700 posts)
12. Uhh...things didn't go "viral" in 1994.
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 10:39 AM
Mar 2018

Last edited Fri Mar 23, 2018, 11:38 AM - Edit history (1)

Which is when Harding's wedding night video tape was released -- more than ten years before YouTube even existed.

Sure some people saw the video tape, but it wasn't talked about that much. The still photos published around the same time in Penthouse got some attention.

But "viral"? No, no one remembers that going "viral."

 

Tipperary

(6,930 posts)
18. I know, right? It certainly was not on my radar.
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 11:18 AM
Mar 2018

I do not remember “viral” being a thing in those days at all. This op is the first i have heard about any such video. I cannot imagine being interested in something like that, then or now. Much less actually remembering it lol!

MineralMan

(146,287 posts)
20. They did, but not exactly in the same way they do now.
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 01:17 PM
Mar 2018

I was using the Internet in 1994. I was also using CompuServe and GEnie at the same time. YouTube isn't the only way videos have been distributed online, by any means. Viral just means that word of something and how to access that something spread rapidly online. That video did just that. It appeared first on porn websites. They existed in 1994. Then, it started showing up pretty much everywhere files could be downloaded.

For the time period, it most certainly went viral. It's just that there weren't as many people using the system at that time. I launched my first business website in 1994. I also operated a popular BBS system, and had been for years. Nobody who heard of that video had any trouble viewing it if they wanted to.

People were online before the Internet became what it has become today. Lots of people. Viral means today that more people are involved. That's all.

brooklynite

(94,503 posts)
16. Just to be clear; there's been no report of "video"...
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 11:14 AM
Mar 2018

...the CD could contain still photos, emails and texts.

FSogol

(45,480 posts)
19. We really don't need a video of an orange walrus trying to smother a porn star while pretending
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 11:19 AM
Mar 2018

she's his daughter.

Ilsa

(61,694 posts)
21. Revenge porn is wrong, but I wonder if "Dennison" agreed
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 01:21 PM
Mar 2018

to it initially?

I don't mind if this dvd, if there is one, brings down his presidency. But I'd rather Mueller take out him and Pence in one fell swoop.

applegrove

(118,622 posts)
22. Just saw I, Tonya. The most brutal life that woman has led. I almost
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 04:11 PM
Mar 2018

could not get through it. And Nancy kerrigan's attack was a blip in the movie. Which is how Tonya saw it, I guess. So upsetting.

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