Sorry to respond to such an old comment, but since the thread’s getting revived, wanted to agree with what Mememe is saying.
I would go further and say that we should all be more critical of free content from people who don’t acknowledge the fetish. Like, the tiktokers we mention who don’t directly reference it but are clearly making some profit off of fetishists and clearly know about it are one thing, but I’m talking more about the classic idea of people just putting up burps for fun. We devote so much of this forum towards searching the web for anybody burping anywhere but I think there’s a line of consent crossed when engaging with content from people who aren’t aware of the fetish, especially when people are encouraging them to make more without making it clear why they’re interested. Disclosure of intent would mean less free content but it would mean the free content that does exist would exist more ethically.
Maybe it’s just my own mental illnesses but I keep track of everytime I masturbate in a spreadsheet and I’ve recently added a new column to sort whatever I get off to into categories of consent, with free fetish content being divided between the following categories:
- commerical content uploaded without consent (pirated content)
- public/archive without consent from someone who doesn’t know about the fetish (comps, reuploads)
- public/archive without consent (comps, reuploads of content creators)
- doesn’t seem to be someone who knows about the fetish (original content from creator who doesn’t know)
- likely for fetish but not explicit (creator has the vibe but doesn’t acknowledge)
- preview for commercial content (teaser clips from larger commercial video)
- advertises commercial content (i.e. links in bio for commercial work)
- content created by fetishists for other fetishists (like animations)
I certainly don’t think is information everyone needs to keep track of but I do think it’s worth considering where the content you frequently engage with fits into. For myself, I think the higher numbers are more ethical content to engage with and I’m trying to avoid 1-3 altogether these days. No one will police what you get off to, but we have a responsibility to ourselves to consider what we think is right, especially since, as fetishists nobody is going to be able to make these ethical rules except for ourselves because we are the only ones who understand what it’s like. The more ethical content on this spectrum is less likely to be negatively affected by greater exposure of the fetish, and I think that should make us question he commonly held belief here that exposure of our community would be bad for making content more rare.