Snapchat for Your Dick

There’s this panic that gets sold to you about sending nudes. You get the rush, you hit send, and then immediate paranoia sets in—family, coworkers, screenshots, your whole life ending. The media’s been pushing this anxiety for years like it’s some real epidemic.

Pornhub decided to capitalize on it with an app called TrickPics. It’s Snapchat for dick pics, basically. You send your nudes but there’s a little animated graphic hovering over your genitals. A snake, a sticker, something. Technically covered.

I genuinely don’t know what the point is. If someone wants to screenshot your explicit videos, a pixelated frog isn’t going to stop them. But okay—if you’ve been waiting for the ability to send yourself completely naked with a cute cartoon obstruction, the app exists now.

The whole thing is absurd in a way that’s almost refreshing. Pornhub isn’t pretending this solves anything real. They’re just making an app for people who are horny and anxious, which at least has the merit of being honest about it.