# Mormon Porn Mormon Porn, also known as Bubble Porn, is a photoshop technique that hides a clothed subject's outfit behind a scattering of opaque circles, creating the illusion of nudity. Born on Japanese textboard 2channel in June 2007 and exported to English speakers through a 2010 I Am Bored tutorial, the format spawned dedicated web generators, an official Japanese idol photo book with cutout overlays, and a persistent NSFW curiosity that Boing Boing still wrote about in 2016. ## Origin Bubbling started around June 2007 on /morningcoffee/, a Hello! Project idol fan board on the Japanese textboard 2channel, as a spin-off of an earlier 2004 series called '10-yen Collages' (10円コラ) that had concealed idol outfits with Japanese coins for the same visual gag[2]. Early alternate names on the thread included Marble Collage (ビー玉コラ), Worm-eaten Collage (虫食いコラ), and Perforated Collage (穴あきコラ), but none of them broke out of that single fan board. - **Platform:** 2channel /morningcoffee/ (source) / I Am Bored + affiliate blogs (viral spread) - **Creator:** Anonymous 2channel /morningcoffee/ board users - **Date:** 2007 ## Overview The trick uses a swiss-cheese overlay of opaque circles or worm-shaped holes on a fully clothed subject, tricking the eye into filling in bare skin where none exists[1]. Newer versions swap the opaque bubbles for translucent overlays that hint at the fabric underneath, which produces an even stronger illusion[1]. The format actually runs on two parallel tracks: a Japanese branch called Bubble Collage or 水玉コラ (Mizutama Kora, translated from Japanese), which grew through Hello! Project idol fan boards and dedicated web generators, and a smaller English-language branch that stayed mostly on I Am Bored and later linkbait blog posts[2]. ## How It Spread The technique escaped /morningcoffee/ at the end of 2009, when a thread on the /news4vip/ meme board caught the attention of Japanese affiliate blogs, which reprinted the images under the label 'Looking Like Naked' (裸に見える, Hadakani Mieru, translated from Japanese)[2]. Japanese programmers followed up in early 2010 with two web generators called Wormy and Circle Effect that automated the bubbling step for casual readers. On February 9, 2010, I Am Bored user fancylad wrote the tutorial 'How To Make Mormon Porn,' giving the format its religious English nickname. A Japanese publisher released an official idol photo book in August 2012 that shipped with detachable cutouts so readers could apply the effect by hand with scissors, and YouTuber HelloDenizen uploaded a Bubble Porn video on April 7, 2014. Boing Boing revisited the format in December 2016 and noted that the 'Mormon porn' etymology never really caught on outside a small niche[1]. ## How to Use Bubbling starts with a fully clothed photo, typically of a female subject in a pose that already reads as revealing. Editors then overlay a scatter of opaque circles or worm-shaped holes across the clothing so the eye fills in continuous skin. Recent takes use semi-transparent overlays that faintly show the underlying fabric for an even stronger fake-nude effect[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Mormon Porn? Mormon Porn, also called Bubble Porn, is a photoshop technique that lays opaque circles or worm-shaped holes across a clothed subject to fake the appearance of nudity[1]. ### Where did Mormon Porn come from? It started around June 2007 on /morningcoffee/, a Hello! Project idol fan board on the Japanese textboard 2channel[2]. ### What does Mormon Porn mean? It refers to the bubbling photoshop technique, and Boing Boing describes the 'Mormon porn' nickname as an idiosyncratic etymology that didn't really catch on outside a small niche, with the Japanese term Bubble Collage more widely used[1]. ### How do you use Mormon Porn? Editors overlay opaque circles or worm-shaped holes on a fully clothed photo so the exposed skin appears bare, and more recent versions use translucent overlays for a stronger illusion[1]. ### Is Mormon Porn still popular? No. Boing Boing wrote in December 2016 that the trend had appeared sparingly since first growing popular online[1]. ## References 1. [https://boingboing.net/2016/12/01/bubble-porn-aficionados-keep-r.html]() 2. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mormon-porn-bubble-porn]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/mormon-porn-bubble-porn Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library