Comments for Walmart: Sorry About That Porn

Walmart: Sorry About That Porn

2007-01-24T05:05:49Z

Why did Walmart.com sell gay anime tentacle porn? We asked, and Walmart.com spokeswoman Amy Colella said:

"These titles erroneously appeared on Walmart.com due to an isolated system filtering issue. We're taking this matter very seriously, and are working to remove these titles immediately from our website. We apologize to our customers for this occurrence."

Guess they need to add gay, porn, anime, weiner, sex, kinky, yaoi, mature, explicit, and 18+ to that system filter. Tentacles, too. You always gotta watch out for the tentacles.

Oh, and Target? Target is like, Isaac Mizrahi says that putting interesting foreign books around the house is a great way to liven up a space on a budget — BEN POPKEN

Image: Ghastly (NSFW)

Comment from CoffeeAddict on 2007-09-16

2007-09-16T09:02:28Z

I find the cartoon rather funny. If that is all it was I can see if being offensive to a child. Mind you I bet it was much worse and I'm surprised wal-mart didn't check something like that.

Comment from theinsanefurry on 2007-01-24

2007-01-25T00:20:31Z

Jesse,

Weird AL uses it. Have you never heard of Twinkie Weiner Sandwiches?

Comment from methane on 2007-01-24

2007-01-24T20:30:20Z

Hilarious. To say the Ghastly is NSFW is the understatement of the day. At least he didn't take one of Ghastly's Jesus panels... That would have caused a serious ruckus.

Comment from zibby on 2007-01-24

2007-01-24T19:18:01Z

OHO! No apology necessary Amy!

Comment from Jesse in Japan on 2007-01-24

2007-01-24T13:37:59Z

Who even uses the word "weiner" in that sense anyway? Who the hell uses it in any sense?

Pronell, yes, it exists. The things some women will do with an octopus for money...

Comment from pronell on 2007-01-24

2007-01-24T12:15:04Z

I'm sorry...
but...

REAL tenticle porn?

Comment from AcilletaM on 2007-01-24

2007-01-24T09:13:15Z

Just don't google it at work...

Comment from Ben Popken on 2007-01-24

2007-01-24T09:03:29Z

The picture above is a joke. Real tentacle porn wis pretty intense and full of rape. Just google +tentacle +fucking.

Comment from arcanasphere on 2007-01-24

2007-01-24T08:00:05Z

That image above is from an online comic called "Ghastly's Ghastly Comic." I sincerely doubt that it was any part of the material being sold at any of these large chain stores.

Comment from Holden Caulfield on 2007-01-24

2007-01-24T05:52:51Z

I view this site from work as well.The image doesnt bother me at all, however I am sure that somebody in my IT department might be inclined to get after me.

But then again, thats what I get for browsing the web at work, so I am mostly responsible for my actions.

Comment from TVarmy on 2007-01-24

2007-01-24T05:46:53Z

Yeah. The image is in kinda poor taste.

Walmart: You could have started a culture shift in the Heartland, with yourselves at the reigns. You blew it(Innuendo may or may not be intended)! Think of what you could have sold after changing so many hearts and minds.

Comment from timmus on 2007-01-24

2007-01-24T05:42:28Z

Where's the blacklist filter on Wal-Mart for all that smut?

Comment from Rectilinear Propagation on 2007-01-24

2007-01-24T05:34:48Z

So much for visiting Consumerist at work. :(
Just when you officially stop being porn...

I was about to write a post protesting the removal of porn from Wal-mart's web site but if it's all as crappy as the picture above, well, never mind!