Rule34Video Review

The top-categories list is numbered and counted, and reading it straight through is the fastest way to understand this archive. 101 Dalmatians, 14. Doraemon, 30. Ben 10, 357. Ghostbusters, 14. Danny Phantom, 49. Max the Elf, 24. McDonalds, 53. Four of the most populated properties here were made for children, one of them is a fast-food chain, and all of it is animation — drawn or rendered, with no performers involved. The site does not sort them apart from anything else, and the counts are printed with the same confidence as the rest.

The archive's own measure of itself is in a heading: Newest (315,041).

Artists are ranked, credited and scored — Jackerman 85%, Derpixon 86%, Nyl 88%, General Butch 84%, Japs8005 90%, Nyakumi 90% — which makes this a creator index as much as a video shelf, and one where approval is a public number attached to a name.

The trending searches are mostly game characters with their franchise in brackets, and then the outliers give the game away: korean subtitles, widescreen, paws.