Last week Pornhub launched their Emoji 4 Porn, a mobile service that allows users to text an emoji to a number and receive a mini-porn clip for free, which matches up to the image.
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The chosen emojis range from the blatantly obvious (scissors for lesbians) to downright cute (a little octopus for Hentai). But their choice for Latina porn, bear in mind that Latinas are already heavily stereotyped in this industry, is a taco.
Needless to say, people are pretty pissed at how all of the other nationalities were represented by flags and ebony by a woman’s face, whereas the Latinas were portrayed as a spicy snack that isn’t even a staple dish of a majority of the Latino or Latin American community.
Cue social media backlash:
Racist #Pornhub Emojis Use Tacos to Characterize Latinas: https://t.co/FSgH0hct9g pic.twitter.com/BehZg6H6ua
— Latina Magazine (@Latina) April 25, 2016
The taco emoji is for "Latina" I'm done https://t.co/pWC8ZuPrbm
— Ed(win) (@Edwin_Meng) April 20, 2016
https://twitter.com/TonyaJoRiley/status/722806365962416129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/laciguapadelsur/status/724316379764133889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Latina is a taco? WTF?!? I do like the crossing of swords for gay & scissors for lesbian. Very clever, if you're 12. https://t.co/HP6ht1MZF1
— LoverandDreamer SpookyAF (@LoverandDreamer) April 20, 2016
Well done Pornhub, way to piss off a significant chunk of your users. I’m sure they’ll take note and change it to something less culturally offensive. Remember guys #LatinasAreNot tacos.
For more on Pornhub, did you know that they recently launched a free virtual reality porn channel? The future is here.
