a slight improvement
Monday, 4 September 2023 11:08![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yvannairieBreeding kink looks to finally be going out of fashion, but unfortunately it looks like it's being replaced by petplay.
yvannairieyvannairieBreeding kink looks to finally be going out of fashion, but unfortunately it looks like it's being replaced by petplay.
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Date: 4/9/23 13:44 (UTC)no subject
Date: 4/9/23 14:56 (UTC)They absolutely do. Someone who is popular and genuinely into it gets excited and starts hornyposting a ton, people with weak self-conceptions are like "oh yeah, me too, totally" and start posting about it also, people who think it's a meme start posting about it, it starts trending on PornHub, it becomes inescapable and eventually there's a backlash (mainly from people who are tired of it, occasionally dressed up as a purity police outrage), which makes those who weren't already into it stop posting, which creates a horny vacuum for someone to insert their favourite niche kink into, someone popular who is into it gets excited, etc etc.
If you're someone with a stable roster of fetishes who doesn't follow a lot of self-described funny guys you wouldn't even notice it going on, except maybe as an influx of people engaging with your hornyposting b/c it's on trend. I basically only ever notice if it's a kink I dislike and suddenly have to blacklist because nobody will stop posting about it, or when it gets bad enough that it starts breaking containment and doesn't get tagged anymore.
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Date: 4/9/23 16:50 (UTC)no subject
Date: 4/9/23 15:55 (UTC)no subject
Date: 4/9/23 20:07 (UTC)Eh, if you weren't constantly shoulder-deep in breeding kink in your fandoms, this will also probably pass as a ripple on the surface. I just have bad taste in shit I get fixated on, and somehow spend a lot of time in community with both teenagers and young adults who aren't done baking yet.
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Date: 5/9/23 05:32 (UTC)no subject
Date: 4/9/23 21:05 (UTC)no subject
Date: 5/9/23 05:54 (UTC)Yeah. And I feel like I'm being made fun of when people suddenly start posting shit about what they think petplay is like and make a meme out of it. I've felt this way about other kinks I was into and even kinks I wasn't into but my friends were into becoming the memestock of the internet for whatever brief window they occupied the collective brainspace.
Like I am glad to see the breeding stuff go, I've been extremely exhausted by nobody tagging it and bringing it up randomly like it's a neutral thing, but I'm not gonna enjoy them bringing up petplay like it's a neutral thing because even then I know it's a trap. Most people talking about kink are just performing socially, and if you're "too" into (ie. at all genuinely into) whatever the meme du jour is, you become a meme right alongside it.
At worst it becomes the same way foot fetish is ie. literally the only time it's brought up even on supposedly "progressive", "sex positive" servers, it's as a punchline. I've stopped interacting with so many people over their inability to see beyond the tip of their nose, and what with how intensely puritanical the internet is atm anyway, I'm not gonna enjoy the puritans going down the list of yet another kink that is allowed to exist as long as it's always, always the punchline.
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Date: 6/9/23 04:19 (UTC)Like it's a fake shield of vulnerability, and when you're actually vulnerable, that's when they get you, all over again.
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Date: 6/9/23 05:46 (UTC)It's exactly that, and I've seen enough people who are loudly "against perverts and freaks" do it that I also know these people will treat any actual dom who approaches them like shit if they aren't just doing it for the meme.
It's very tiring, like, I'm just tired of being kinky and that being a punchline. People do not think about the words that leave their mouth, they're shuttered to imagining the world is just like they are and anyone who isn't is a
freak perverta dangerous predator.