Update: Kurt responds to the scandal in a series of tweets.
…some to show her it was real. But I couldn't find any – & ended up w/ this. My family reads my twitter feed, so they know this is true.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) June 8, 2017
Hmmmm. Something seems fishy. How hard is it to just type “tentacle porn” in google and find it. It’s probably harder to arrive on those specific Hentai images.
…diff would it make? Seriously, while I don't see the appeal of cartoon parn, porn is a multi-billion industry. Pple obviously look at it.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) June 8, 2017
Oh shit, he’s posting text messages.
No one hacked my account. We were searching to prove to my wife tentacle porn exists. See text convo. I only removed names and drug names. pic.twitter.com/EMHYlYKcPf
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) June 8, 2017
Vanity Fair and Newsweek contributor Kurt Eichenwald has been battling the alt right for months, usually losing, sometimes winning. In March he was able to get one of his trolls arrested for tweeting a strobe light .gif at him and allegedly giving Eichenwald a seizure.
The war continues apparently as trolls have been sending Eichenwald anti-semitic pamphlets in the mail. But when he decided Tweet photographic proof the flier was real, Eichenwald also revealed he had been looking at hentai or Japanese animated pornography.
In the photo, you can see the anti-semitic message Eichenwald received, but more importantly, if you zoom in on his web browser, you can see he had a tab open that reads “8 chiku [english, uncensored, 212 pictures], with two pages…”
A quick Google search, leads you to a Hentai website with 221 images of pornographic Japanese comics (NSFW link here), mostly of anime women in various conventional, hardcore sexual situations (i.e. no tentacles). Oddly conservative tastes for someone as weird as Kurt.
We can even get a glimpse into the man’s fetishes, by the tags he had selected. “Impregnation” and “schoolgirl uniform.” Kurt, you dog!
The irony of this revelation, is that Eichenwald constantly tells people to go “watch cartoons” as some kind of insult. Perhaps this recurring statement has a different, more sexual connotation considering the circumstances.
This isn’t the first time a major media figure’s porn habits were revealed on Twitter. Last December, Josh Marshall, editor of Talking Points Memo, accidentally tweeted out a link to a lesbian porno, so dainty and tame that many questioned if Mashall was even a real man.
As of publication, Eichenwald had not addressed his now public fetishes. We will update as more information comes out.
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