PornHub's traffic went up when YouTube went down Wednesday

YouTube had an unusual outage on Wednesday morning Manila, prompting all sorts of behavior online.

The hashtag #YouTubeDown quickly trended on Twitter, with netizens the world over panicking over the outage, and perhaps more interestingly, Pornuhb's traffic shot up!

According to a data released by PornHub, their traffic went up 12 percent when the outage was reported.

It surged to 21 percent one hour later, which PornHub said is "above daily averages at 10 p.m."

When YouTube's service was restored around lunch time (midnight in the Western hemisphere), PornHub's traffic dropped to 2 percent to -4 percent, which is below average numbers.

Pornhub said it's a "significant increase by millions of additional viewers during Pornhub’s peak evening hours." 

According to YouTube, three services were affected by the outage: YouTube, YouTube TV, and YouTube Music. 

Thanks for your reports about YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music access issues. We're working on resolving this and will let you know once fixed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated.

— Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 17, 2018

— Jannielyn Ann Bigtas/LA, GMA News