# Ever Google yourself and find out you're a star of gay erotica? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 18, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060 "2013-04-18T19:36:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/1 "2013-04-18T19:36:23Z")
Mark Ruffalo just did. [And he’s loving it.](http://www.vulture.com/2013/04/mark-ruffalo-science-bros-avengers-robert-downey-jr.html) So, apparently, there’s an Avengers fan meme, “Science Bros”, that casts Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner/Hulk and Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark as a couple. There’s [art](https://www.google.com/search?q=science+bros+comic&safe=active&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=L0ZwUcbiA5Ol4APPmoG4CA&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=869#safe=active&hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=science+bros&oq=science+bros&gs_l=img.12..0l6j0i5j0i24l3.15418.15418.0.16521.1.1.0.0.0.0.68.68.1.1.0.ekwqrh..0.0...1.1.9.img.9m9uEvxAt1Y&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45373924,d.dmg&fp=61e9004973bec1a9&biw=1280&bih=869), [cosplay](https://www.google.com/search?q=science+bros+comic&safe=active&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=L0ZwUcbiA5Ol4APPmoG4CA&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=869#safe=active&hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=science+bros+cosplay&oq=science+bros+cosplay&gs_l=img.3...29882.32617.2.32906.10.9.1.0.0.0.265.572.8j0j1.9.0.ekwqrh..0.0...1.1.9.img.RCcAVaOBMUc&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45373924,d.dmg&fp=61e9004973bec1a9&biw=1280&bih=869), [fiction](https://www.google.com/#safe=active&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=869&sclient=psy-ab&q=science%20bros%20fic&oq=&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45373924,d.dmg&fp=944e4573aa091afb&pf=p&pdl=300), you name it. I wasn’t previously aware of this, but it’s, like, a _[thing](http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/mark-ruffalo-just-learned-about-all-the-homo-erotic-hulkiron)_. Mark Ruffalo was also unaware, until just a couple of days ago. But then… [QUOTE=Vulture] Mark Ruffalo isn’t the sort of actor who demands adoration: He had to be convinced to accept an activism award last night at the Annual Riverkeeper’s Fishermen’s Ball, and while there, he said that self-obsession just isn’t his bag. “I’ve never Googled myself on the Internet,” he told us. Does that mean he’s never heard of “Science Bros,” an Internet subculture celebrating the friendship of Bruce Banner and Tony Stark, the characters Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr. played in The Avengers? “No, what is that?” he asked. And then the giggles began. \ He kept scrolling. A pertinent question suggested itself. “So, are they all quasi-homoerotic?” he asked. "Like tinged with … " Yup. “That’s cute!” He alighted on a drawing of [Stark leaning onto Banner’s shoulder suggestively, offering him something out of a bag](http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr06/2013/4/17/16/enhanced-buzz-19315-1366229820-22.jpg). “Would you like a gummy worm?” Ruffalo murmured, supplying his own caption. [/QUOTE] My favorite part is that in the 24 hours since this story came out, ["gummy](http://24.media.tumblr.com/84b1abe20cd2787c740e57b6a6df62d1/tumblr_mlgkoxho0n1rr5vcqo1_500.jpg) [worm"](http://24.media.tumblr.com/e6260e4b8bbe31b5729123242f298224/tumblr_mlfvoad0FJ1r5x2r2o1_500.jpg) [has already](http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr06/2013/4/17/16/enhanced-buzz-19340-1366229655-14.jpg) [caught on](http://www.google.com/imgres?safe=active&sa=X&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=869&tbm=isch&tbnid=GvmPvvCifpMadM:&imgrefurl=http://askthesciencebros.tumblr.com/&docid=n5CEcvUriINnSM&imgurl=http://25.media.tumblr.com/d56e26a317f50c461843a4e51895e2f0/tumblr_mlfm1kmywo1rzoce5o1_500.gif&w=500&h=640&ei=tEdwUY2XM8bk4AOs-4CgAQ&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:1,s:0,i:90&iact=rc&dur=485&page=1&tbnh=207&tbnw=169&start=0&ndsp=20&tx=85&ty=140). ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/2 "2013-04-18T19:37:43Z")
Oh, be still my beating heart. Thanks for all those links. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/3 "2013-04-18T19:41:59Z")
Well, not the star. At most a bit player, removed before the second act. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/4 "2013-04-18T19:42:10Z")
I just found out about this yesterday (from the same article) and I think it’s just adorkable. 🙂 Especially Ruffalo’s response to it. Can’t wait to see RDJr’s! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/5 "2013-04-18T19:42:55Z")
**Ever Google yourself and find out you’re a star of gay erotica?** No. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/6 "2013-04-18T20:46:57Z")
Me either. But the weekend is coming up! Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/7 "2013-04-18T20:53:20Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Me either. But the weekend is coming up! > > Regards, > Shodan Okay, writers of the Dope - make it happen! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/8 "2013-04-18T20:56:59Z")
No, and believe me man I’ve been looking. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/9 "2013-04-18T22:53:19Z")
> [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Mark Ruffalo just did. > > My favorite part is that in the 24 hours since this story came out, ["gummy](http://24.media.tumblr.com/84b1abe20cd2787c740e57b6a6df62d1/tumblr_mlgkoxho0n1rr5vcqo1_500.jpg) [worm"](http://24.media.tumblr.com/e6260e4b8bbe31b5729123242f298224/tumblr_mlfvoad0FJ1r5x2r2o1_500.jpg) [has already](http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr06/2013/4/17/16/enhanced-buzz-19340-1366229655-14.jpg) [caught on](http://www.google.com/imgres?safe=active&sa=X&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=869&tbm=isch&tbnid=GvmPvvCifpMadM:&imgrefurl=http://askthesciencebros.tumblr.com/&docid=n5CEcvUriINnSM&imgurl=http://25.media.tumblr.com/d56e26a317f50c461843a4e51895e2f0/tumblr_mlfm1kmywo1rzoce5o1_500.gif&w=500&h=640&ei=tEdwUY2XM8bk4AOs-4CgAQ&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:1,s:0,i:90&iact=rc&dur=485&page=1&tbnh=207&tbnw=169&start=0&ndsp=20&tx=85&ty=140). Oh my god that is the best thing I’ve seen all week. Thank you so much for this - I think you saved my sanity. I’ve been valiantly ignoring the Stark/Capt’n shippers because I just find that totally unbelievable, so this is … much better. Much. We just need to find someone to hook Loki up with, and life will be perfect. Now my computer is going to be full of teh gay again. Damnit. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/10 "2013-04-18T23:19:37Z")
I seem to be a character played by Broderick Crawford. So try that on for size, Mr secure in his heterosexuality Mark Ruffalo: not superhero slashfic gay, no. Broderick Crawford gay. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/11 "2013-04-19T02:55:03Z")
Even better still: Has your co-worker in the next cubicle over ever googled you and found out you’re a star of gay erotica? And then asked you about it? I had that experience (sort-of) a few years ago. Next-cubicle-neighbor asked me if I had my own web site. Uhhhh, no. Why? He had googled my name and found a web site named [noparse][www.LastnameFirstname.com](http://www.LastnameFirstname.com)[/noparse] (with my name in there), which, upon closer inspection, proved to be a gay male porn site. I did a bit of research myself. I found the IP address was assigned to a commercial ISP in a big city far far away from me (in the same country). Googling my name, I found a person with the same name as me in that state. I’m guessing that was his handiwork, although I never determined for certain that that particular person was connected with that web site. But there was evidence for it. I think that person operated the ISP in question.) (More recently, googling that name, I find that site is long gone, and I find an news article on-line having that person’s obituary. And I find yet another person with the same (uncommon) name in the same area, who is 20-some years older. I’m guessing a father and son with the same name – and the younger one died first.) ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/12 "2013-04-19T03:14:21Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > **Ever Google yourself and find out you’re a star of gay erotica?** > > No. Thats kinda what I was thinking. Except with that pump action shotgun sound effect added to it. ---
**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/13 "2013-04-19T03:57:54Z")
I’ve checked porn sites for my first name, and it’s almost always M/M. I guess I don’t have a name sexy to straight people. My girlfriend’s ex-husband has the same name as (but isn’t) a gay-porn actor. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/14 "2013-04-19T04:20:31Z")
_I_ am an Italian porn star! I’m not even Italian! I’m also a sociologist in Germany. ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/15 "2013-04-19T08:09:27Z")
I’m not a star of gay erotica, but I am apparently a B-list country music singer. No, not _that_ b list country music singer. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/16 "2013-04-19T11:04:35Z")
It just occurred to me that someone out there may have written SDMB-themed erotica. If such a thing exists, do me a favor and don’t tell me, please. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/17 "2013-04-19T12:00:50Z")
No - but I did find out that a guy who is a _competitive eater_ shares my name. My family had a field day with that one. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/18 "2013-04-19T20:29:31Z")
[Actual webcam pic of Eli Roth and Christoph Waltz after Roth showed Waltz the fanfiction kinkmeme for their Inglorious Basterds characters.](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwqnfnpNN31qzrcfio1_500.jpg) There’s also a Lord of the Rings one out there but I forget the exact circumstances and I’m at work right now so I don’t want to go looking too hard. At a press event, some fans showed some of the hobbit actors (IIRC) a photo manipulation of their characters having sex. The media caught their looks of shock and (what seems to be) disgust. ---
**Author:** ![EMCEE\_98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5ac83/32.png) [@EMCEE\_98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EMCEE_98)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/19 "2013-04-19T20:39:24Z")
No, but a google search of my full name brings up a serial killer in Texas. Luckily, I was 5 years old when the murders occurred, so there was no case of mistaken identity. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060/20 "2013-04-19T21:09:37Z")
> [@kushiel](#): > > [Actual webcam pic of Eli Roth and Christoph Waltz after Roth showed Waltz the fanfiction kinkmeme for their Inglorious Basterds characters.](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwqnfnpNN31qzrcfio1_500.jpg)\ “Don’t they know we’re brothers?!?” “They don’t seem to care.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-google-yourself-and-find-out-youre-a-star-of-gay-erotica/656060.md?page=2)