CHARLOTTE, N.C. – An unprecedented number of visitors on Wednesday logged on to adult video-sharing site PornoTube.com following a rumor that a sex tape featuring pop star Britney Spears was published on the site. The 19 seconds of video allegedly shows Spears’ performing oral sex on her soon-to-be-ex husband, Kevin Federline.
According to PornoTube, it is not known who tipped off celebrity gossip sites and bloggers—including popular reigning snark king Defamer—however, the post resulted in an influx of traffic unlike any PornoTube previously has experienced.
“Wednesday afternoon we were being inundated with phone calls and emails from news organizations wanting information on the video,” said a spokesperson in a press release from PornoTube. “We were concentrating on keeping the website operational not on answering media questions.”
The grainy video, which already has been “favorited” more than 2,000 times, is believed to be a hoax, according to PornoTube. Adult site Fleshbot has embedded an extended copy of the clip along with the statement denouncing the video as a fake—but does state that the actress in the clip closely resembles the pop star. A user poll (now closed) asking viewers if they believed the clip’s star is the recently single celebrity and K-Fed showed nearly half the respondents believed it was Spears, while the other half wrote, “No, it’s not her; the real Britney would give a much better blowjob than that.”
PornoTube.com allows for owners of erotic materials to upload and share video clips, photos and audio. Similar to YouTube, the site allows visitors to browse and search for adult content. According to the company, Wednesday’s massive traffic helped garner significant attention to the five-month-old site.
