High-traffic adult or pirated content sites may display pop-ups claiming the user's Java is out of date, prompting a download that contains a virus. Technical Impact Adware & Spyware:

In the fragmented mobile hardware landscape of 2004, a developer couldn’t write native C++ for every device type. Java’s abstraction layer meant that a game developer could code the logic once. The JVM handled the screen size, key presses, and memory management. This reduced development costs by orders of magnitude, allowing more content to be produced.

Java’s history in the media space began with a focus on interactive TV, and it continues to provide the technical foundation for modern digital broadcasting. Java Technology for Digital Media - Oracle

Samsung’s Orsay OS (used on older Smart TVs) ran Java widgets. Even today, many hotel and airline entertainment systems boot a JVM to serve movies to seat-back screens.