ThisAV is a

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sharing website hosted from

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, established in 2009. Contents uploaded are mainly in Chinese or Japanese, and are freely available to non-registered users. In 2015, the owner claimed to receive around 10 million daily visitors from a million unique

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es per day. About 15% and 60% of those IPs originate from Hong Kong and Japan, respectively. The site owner claims to be a 1980s

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, with a background in

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since their highschool times. They established the site during the

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, being unable to find a satisfying career while seeing the potential popularity of a pornography website. The site became temporarily inaccessible since January 2023, showing its domain name to be on sale when accessed. After its reactivation, the logo of "MissAV" is displayed instead of its typical one, when accessed from a mobile browser. FANZA, a subsidiary of DMM.com, announced its acquisition of MissAV and ThisAV's .com domain name in January 2025. The company claimed to have tookover the site through legal actions.

History

ThisAV was established in 2009. The website's theme music,
To You That I can't Forget
', is created in collaboration with Hong Kongese band in 2011. The website was taken offline temporarily on September 1, 2012, in protest of the Moral and National Education controversy and supporting the Scholarism movement. The message "our government should consider the voice of those Scholarism kids and 90 thousand protesters on the streets" was displayed on the webpage instead. The website included a

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in its logo after the attack on reporter Kevin Lau. Later during the

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, its typical logo became black-and-white, overlaid with a colored, yellow ribbon. It also released an article satirizing the 8·31 decision. In January 2025, a US regional court ruled against the owner of ThisAV

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, and requested the transfer of ownership for both missav and thisav's .com domain name to the Japanese corporation Will. That same month FANZA announced its takeover of the two domain name through legal actions.

References

{{Pornographic video digital distribution platforms Defunct websites Internet properties established in 2009 2009 establishments in Hong Kong Hong Kong websites Chinese erotica and pornography websites Internet properties disestablished in 2025