Habbo Hotel, an online game popular amongst teenagers, has been exposed as a forum ‘filled with pornographic chat’ by a TV investigation.

The virtual world, which has more than 250 million registered users aged between 13 and 18 years-old and attracts 10 million users a month, is meant to be fun game in which children create avatars and furnish their own digital hotel room.

However, as Channel 4 News producer Rachel Seifert found out during her two month-long stint using the site, posing as a 13-year old, instead, Habbo Hotel is playing regular host to highly sexual exchanges.

“The chat was very sexual, perverse, violent, pornographic, overtly sexual acts, people saying they were going to do things to others, and it was very graphic,” said Seifert.