What Happened to Yaqi?

[ThatPayPhoneGuy]

I was just wondering if anybody knows what happened to Yaqi? I remember him on Howard Stern, and I just bought Melissa is Ticklish from his Clips 4 Sale store. I know he had some sort of health issue at one time, so I just thought I'd ask.

 

[Wrestledom]

If I had to guess, I'd say he's just moved on to other stuff. Most people do, it's hard to do something like this for 20 + years. I can't think of anyone other than Frenchtickling who has been around in a big way since the pre-social media days.

 

[duderino84]

Rumor has it that he had some sort of ailment preventing him from performing and he disappeared.

 

[CapturedDoll]

He has been very ill for some time. So sick in fact that... Well let me show you from his own words. What hes been through I can't even begin to imagine how awful its been for him. And of course I asked him if this was ok to let everyone know in the Community how he was. He said yes.

September 13
·
Sarcoidosis and Pneumonia decided to double team me. After more that two weeks and over 40 horrible procedures and punishing doses of intravenous antibiotics and steroids plus over 100 blood draws, shots and IV inserts at Methodist hospital I seem to have prevailed. Now confined to a nursing home to learn how to walk and breathe again.

My compliments to Medicare, which provides 60 free hospital days a year and 20 days free in- patient nursing care.



September 21
·
Fucking Relapse,

My quality of life profoundly improved after leaving the hospital. The nursing home and staff are great and are on my side. Plenty of tasty food, 5 channels of streaming video. Free wifi. No one tells me when I have to go to bed and I get to eat all the ice cream I want.
I was making major progress relearning to walk and my oxygen saturation was reaching a point where I could breathe on my own again. I had a hair cut in the salon and changed in to street clothes. I seemed to be ending up on top. I could almost pass for human.
Then over the last few days, a continuous spike in fever. Lots of test done: blood, urine, Covid, Radiology. Half an hour ago ago a previous unknown minion enters my room with a hypo and wakes me from a deep slumber. He tells me I have a new, aggressive strain of Pneumonia to be treated with severely painful intra muscular injections over the next 5 days in my arms and thighs.
While the physical therapists are great here, getting an audience with my primary doctor, when she is not at the casino and who has already admitted that she does not know much about Sarcoidosis, is often a daunting and fruitless exercise. Any chest x ray of me will present an anomaly, regardless if anything is truly amiss. Fucking Sarcoid. 30 years of baffling the medical profession
So here I am, in more pain than I ever was at Methodist. 1:30 am. Unable to go back to sleep and left to ponder what is next for me and if all my positive progress has gone out the window. Bleh.

October 2
·
Bad night. Woke at 11:30 with extremely difficult breathing. Found my throat covered in thick, unproductive phlegm which took some doing to remove. I had to use portable oxygen but I was able to get my blood oxygen saturation back to a safe level in short order. I see my pulmonary doctor on Thursday but if this reoccurs before then I foresee another trip to the ER. Just don't want the pneumonia or Sarcoidosis to return to an active state. I have noted that the Sarcoid continues to mutate and manifests itself very differently from the way it once did.

Just talked to him a few mins ago- he said now its going to take him 4 months to relearn to breath and walk again.

 

[Mitchell]

Very sorry about this. I have talked to Yaqi on here through the years.

Yaqi is a great guy

Thoughts and prayers to Yaqi for a steady and full recovery

 

[Wrestledom]

Damn. I'm sorry to hear this. Do pass on my best wishes to him. Hope he gets better soon.

 

[CapturedDoll]

I would but instead I'll just show him this thread if people want to post to him well wishes.

 

[RavensFan52]

Well wishes Yaqi.Thank you for all the great you have done in the community. Your a hall of famer and on top of that always came off as a really cool person. Im hoping your able to get past this and have a good quality of life going foward. We are rooting for you.

 

[Rasputin]

Keep fighting the good fight Yaqi. We are all grateful for your contributions to our community over the years. We wish you the best in your recovery. Godspeed!

 

[Jezebel Lee]

Poor guy Hope he’s okay.

 

[robmic]

Wow! I can only imagine! I had a bought with Pneumonia. Spent 10 days in the hospital with a tube in my left lung draining fluid out. I thought that as bad. I'll bet he would give anything to have been able to trade places with me!

 

[SoleMates]

Yaqi is a great guy

The same Yaqi that once called the women of this forum, collectively, a bunch of "Sea cows"?

That Yaqi?

I mean, what he's going through is horrible and he has my sympathy for that, but did you all seriously forget how much time he spent insulting this forum and the people in it?

Blows my mind how much of a pass this guy gets considering some of the things he's said and done over the years. He's no Kujman, but still.

 

[Jezebel Lee]

The same Yaqi that once called the women of this forum, collectively, a bunch of "Sea cows"?

That Yaqi?

I mean, what he's going through is horrible and he has my sympathy for that, but did you all seriously forget how much time he spent insulting this forum and the people in it?

Blows my mind how much of a pass this guy gets considering some of the things he's said and done over the years. He's no Kujman, but still.

I genuinely wasn’t aware of this. Source?

 

[SoleMates]

I genuinely wasn’t aware of this. Source?

I just checked, and the original thread is gone... so unfortunately at this point it's a "trust me, bro" moment. Long story short, at one point Yaqi decided to send a press release to Howard Stern full of insults directed at this community, among which was the "Sea cows" comment. It wasn't the only time he pulled something like this; basically he hated us all until it was time to shill his new video. He also "retired" half a dozen times before coming back a few months later, again with a new video.

I guess at this point we can just memory hole all of the twisted shit and remember the man fondly for reasons.

Seriously though, I wish him a full recovery.

 

[Comfort Eagle]

Yeah I don't wanna shit all over a guy with medical problems, but this was in fact a thing that happened;
https://www.ticklingforum.com/showthread.php?30770-Yaqi-meddles-with-primal-forces-of-nature

Yaqi, king of all ticklers,
is leaving the internet,
citing critical health issues and an irretrievable
contempt for the tickling community as reasons for his
departure.

Yaqi also stated that his contempt for the "internet
tickling community" played a key role in his decision.

"To me, tickling has always been about innocence. I am
appalled to see the internet community reshaping it
into something indistinguishable from pornography.
Granted there are many good people out there, but the
"vocal" community is a collection of uninteresting,
obsessive, moronic, hate-filled, hypocritical,
prejudicial, masturbating rat motherfuckers."

"You've got these desperate creatures living in chat
rooms 24/7 chasing the impossible dream of finding a
female tickling partner. It doesn't matter that the
vast majority of women in this meaningless clique are
fat ugly sea cows."

"Some record everything on television hoping for a
glimpse of tickling, some compile copious notes on
every ticklish celebrity. Some proclaim "VCR ALERT!!!
Possible Pamela Anderson foot tickle!!!" as though
they were announcing the second coming of Christ."

"Some folks make celebrity tickling fakes or pen
endless tales of Britney Spears kidnapped and tickle
tortured"

"These people will stop at nothing to get their free
mainstream tickling masturbatory materials. They all
love HOWARD STERN and his tickle chair and then
violently condemn him when he fails to illicit
laughter. I wish Howard would punish this vile group
of masturbators and stop tickling celebrities."

"Oh, I forgot. Don't ever criticize these people. If
you speak poorly of this wretched clique and they will
hate you with a fury usually reserved for mass
murderers."

"I refuse to generate any more free mainstream
tickling masturbatory material." Yaqi said adamantly.
"This group is so loathsome that the thought of
contributing to their high tech masturbation machine
sessions fills me with inertia. These people are
fucking hypocrites because even though they will
attack me for expressing my opinions, some wishing I
was dead, they would still be spread eagled over
themselves to watch any future materials I generated."


"The biggest rub is that most of these people will
never fulfill their fantasies because they are too
chicken shit to reveal to their partners they have a
tickling fetish. So they embrace the internet as an
all encompassing way of life that becomes life
absolutely."

"This people have transformed tickling into something
I want no part of."

"I know many fans will be disappointed with my
departure." Yaqi said with a twinge of regret. "I'd
like to thank all of those who have supported my work
and efforts over the years. What I did, I ultimately
did for all of you. I have tried to publicly show that
tickling, in its purest form, is not some freaky thing
that one needs to hide. It is acceptable, people
accept it, people think it is cool, and I have proven
this to my complete satisfaction."

"It's a shame that the internet presence, many of them
still closeted, want to reduce tickling to just
another jack-off fest."

"Fuck them. And Fuck death too!"

 

[gyobfan4]

Yeah I don't wanna shit all over a guy with medical problems, but this was in fact a thing that happened;
https://www.ticklingforum.com/showthread.php?30770-Yaqi-meddles-with-primal-forces-of-nature

This is the only part that is wrong and of course not true "It doesn't matter that the vast majority of women in this meaningless clique are fat ugly sea cows".

All the other points are true though, many members on this forum have proved this so many times over the years you would have to be blind not to notice it.

 

[Comfort Eagle]

This is the only part that is wrong and of course not true "It doesn't matter that the vast majority of women in this meaningless clique are fat ugly sea cows".

All the other points are true though, many members on this forum have proved this so many times over the years you would have to be blind not to notice it.

Let's break it down then, sport;

"To me, tickling has always been about innocence. I am
appalled to see the internet community reshaping it
into something indistinguishable from pornography.

"It's a shame that the internet presence, many of them
still closeted, want to reduce tickling to just
another jack-off fest."

If this were the case, why had he opened and maintained a CLips4Sale store, a pornography vendor?

 

[LeatherRebell]

It sucks that he's going through these health problems now, but yeah it doesn't change his shitty behavior from the past. I hadn't even heard some of the stuff that's been mentioned in the thread, none of it surprised me though. I always thought he was a creep. One of the my biggest issues was his claim that he'd give the models he tickled a safe word to use if they needed him to stop and would just ignore it half the time.

This is complete bullshit, an abuse of power, and a betrayal of the trust the women were putting in him when they let him tie them up. He would literally go on talk shows and say this while laughing as if it was a big fucking joke. It's ridiculous that he would just keep torturing someone who he's supposed to be taking care of because he's so fucking horny and doesn't want to stop.

His behaviour in interviews really painted him as a self-entitled pervert too. There's one where he's being interviewed by a woman and suggests that he can show her some of his methods by tickling her, which clearly makes her uncomfortable and she basically begs him not to, but then he just does it anyway. And yeah it was brief, but imagine some middle-aged guy being interviewed by a young woman and just grabbing her ass despite her protests? It would be undeniably not okay. And since tickling is what this guy gets off on, it's basically the same thing.

That appearance on the Howard Stern show really rubbed me the wrong way. Just how he dashes over to the model to make sure she's being effectively restrained and then clearly just wants to tickle her to his heart's content instead of doing what is intended by the show. Like, this isn't one of your mandated sessions, you're not paying this model, it's a segment for a radio show, demonstrate a little fucking restraint.

Also, I'm sure I remember hearing that in like 2004, Yaqi claimed to have a terminal illness and only a few years, or it might have even been months, left to live. Does anyone else remember that? I can't say this was for sure the case but I think after several years passing and Yaqi not being dead led people to believe he was faking it to drum up sympathy. Am I crazy or did that happen?

I'll just say this too. I am all for forgiveness and I know all this creepy shit was in the past, so if he's a changed man now, then I have no problems with him and I wish him good health. But I have always got bad vibes from him, and it's clear a lot of others here have too so it's not unfounded.

 

[duderino84]

It sucks that he's going through these health problems now, but yeah it doesn't change his shitty behavior from the past. I hadn't even heard some of the stuff that's been mentioned in the thread, none of it surprised me though. I always thought he was a creep. One of the my biggest issues was his claim that he'd give the models he tickled a safe word to use if they needed him to stop and would just ignore it half the time.

This is complete bullshit, an abuse of power, and a betrayal of the trust the women were putting in him when they let him tie them up. He would literally go on talk shows and say this while laughing as if it was a big fucking joke. It's ridiculous that he would just keep torturing someone who he's supposed to be taking care of because he's so fucking horny and doesn't want to stop.

His behaviour in interviews really painted him as a self-entitled pervert too. There's one where he's being interviewed by a woman and suggests that he can show her some of his methods by tickling her, which clearly makes her uncomfortable and she basically begs him not to, but then he just does it anyway. And yeah it was brief, but imagine some middle-aged guy being interviewed by a young woman and just grabbing her ass despite her protests? It would be undeniably not okay. And since tickling is what this guy gets off on, it's basically the same thing.

That appearance on the Howard Stern show really rubbed me the wrong way. Just how he dashes over to the model to make sure she's being effectively restrained and then clearly just wants to tickle her to his heart's content instead of doing what is intended by the show. Like, this isn't one of your mandated sessions, you're not paying this model, it's a segment for a radio show, demonstrate a little fucking restraint.

Also, I'm sure I remember hearing that in like 2004, Yaqi claimed to have a terminal illness and only a few years, or it might have even been months, left to live. Does anyone else remember that? I can't say this was for sure the case but I think after several years passing and Yaqi not being dead led people to believe he was faking it to drum up sympathy. Am I crazy or did that happen?

I'll just say this too. I am all for forgiveness and I know all this creepy shit was in the past, so if he's a changed man now, then I have no problems with him and I wish him good health. But I have always got bad vibes from him, and it's clear a lot of others here have too so it's not unfounded.

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https://youtu.be/He46vS0Xs3Y?si=DyG6CK--UJdt1inv

It has commentary mixed in but I think the picture is clear.

I mean, I bet when you're sharing your life with a public radio host and he's doing every kind of razzing possible from asking why you don't associate it to sex to whether or not you're gay that it's pretty embarrassing and a clear effort to make you feel stupid about liking tickling.

The video is nearly 20 years old and even I still feel like it's a painful reminder of how closed minded people can be. I wouldn't be surprised if Yaqi did have guilt by association and chose an illness explanation out.

That being said, it sucks that he's actually ill and suffering.

 

[brotherted]

I was familiar with the old Yaqi videos and Howard Stern Show appearances, but I was unaware he'd ever said this kind of stuff:

"To me, tickling has always been about innocence. I am
appalled to see the internet community reshaping it
into something indistinguishable from pornography.
Granted there are many good people out there, but the
"vocal" community is a collection of uninteresting,
obsessive, moronic, hate-filled, hypocritical,
prejudicial, masturbating rat motherfuckers."

"These people will stop at nothing to get their free
mainstream tickling masturbatory materials."

I'm interested in what got him to this place. For example, he seems to make repeated pejorative references to masturbation, as if to imply that people who masturbate are somehow pathetic or perverted. Because what, he never masturbated? The women he worked with never masturbated? The show host from whom he sought attention, Howard Stern, didn't talk all the time about his own masturbation?

Or is it that Yaqi, Yagi's girls and Howard masturbated from appropriate stimuli rather than tickling, which he considered to be inappropriate sexual stimulus and should always be kept innocent?

This was all long before the days of social media trolling were so well understood, and I can definitely get Yaqi's negative reaction to trolls who likely mocked and ridiculed him constantly -- especially since Howard did so himself on the shows. Maybe Yaqi was looking for any style of insult to hit back at them, and at that time, masturbator was kind of considered insult-shorthand for "You're too much of a pathetic, ugly incel to ever get an actual sex partner." But even given that, it's still a pretty strange punching back approach, given how Yaqi made money.

Does it also mean Yaqi wasn't turned on by tickling? Seems hard to believe. Or was he turned on by it, but repressed admitting that because he felt it shameful? More likely. Still, what weird quotes, eh? It's like finding out decades later that Hugh Hefner insulted people by calling them "masturbators."

 

[Comfort Eagle]

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I mean, I bet when you're sharing your life with a public radio host and he's doing every kind of razzing possible from asking why you don't associate it to sex to whether or not you're gay that it's pretty embarrassing and a clear effort to make you feel stupid about liking tickling.

I was familiar with the old Yaqi videos and Howard Stern Show appearances, but I was unaware he'd ever said this kind of stuff:

"To me, tickling has always been about innocence. I am
appalled to see the internet community reshaping it
into something indistinguishable from pornography.
Granted there are many good people out there, but the
"vocal" community is a collection of uninteresting,
obsessive, moronic, hate-filled, hypocritical,
prejudicial, masturbating rat motherfuckers."

"These people will stop at nothing to get their free
mainstream tickling masturbatory materials."

I'm interested in what got him to this place. For example, he seems to make repeated pejorative references to masturbation, as if to imply that people who masturbate are somehow pathetic or perverted. Because what, he never masturbated? The women he worked with never masturbated? The show host from whom he sought attention, Howard Stern, didn't talk all the time about his own masturbation?

Or is it that Yaqi, Yagi's girls and Howard masturbated from appropriate stimuli rather than tickling, which he considered to be inappropriate sexual stimulus and should always be kept innocent?

This was all long before the days of social media trolling were so well understood, and I can definitely get Yaqi's negative reaction to trolls who likely mocked and ridiculed him constantly -- especially since Howard did so himself on the shows. Maybe Yaqi was looking for any style of insult to hit back at them, and at that time, masturbator was kind of considered insult-shorthand for "You're too much of a pathetic, ugly incel to ever get an actual sex partner." But even given that, it's still a pretty strange punching back approach, given how Yaqi made money.

Does it also mean Yaqi wasn't turned on by tickling? Seems hard to believe. Or was he turned on by it, but repressed admitting that because he felt it shameful? More likely. Still, what weird quotes, eh? It's like finding out decades later that Hugh Hefner insulted people by calling them "masturbators."

Frankly I don't buy this "It's entirely non sexual brah, you guys are the perverts here" shit for a second. Why?

How many "conventionally" unattractive women did he ever shoot with. How many fat guys? It was always generally good-looking, and usually always in some form of bikini... or even topless. Why does a non-sexual, completely innocent love of tickling require big naked tits? All he wanted to do was spread the joy of laughter and not once at any point did he stumble across a fat girl with no sex appeal who he thought could use a laugh?

He was intentionally obfuscating his intentions, and Howard, Artie, and everyone else in that studio saw right through him from the start.

 

[ThatPayPhoneGuy]

Keep up the fight Yaqi!

 

[duderino84]

Frankly I don't buy this "It's entirely non sexual brah, you guys are the perverts here" shit for a second. Why?

How many "conventionally" unattractive women did he ever shoot with. How many fat guys? It was always generally good-looking, and usually always in some form of bikini... or even topless. Why does a non-sexual, completely innocent love of tickling require big naked tits? All he wanted to do was spread the joy of laughter and not once at any point did he stumble across a fat girl with no sex appeal who he thought could use a laugh?

He was intentionally obfuscating his intentions, and Howard, Artie, and everyone else in that studio saw right through him from the start.

I can't really say whether Yaqi was lying because frankly only he really knows that. Presenting like it's "intentional" indicates he knew he would basically be shamed. Like when they start prodding "you must be really lonely" "no, I've always gotten chicks" or when he's asked when his first time and he responds 18 and you hear "that's late". You can literally see him swallowing up his pride trying not to react to the full extent that sort of quizzing promotes. You think it would be easy to say you met up with tons of models just to tickle them, that you had no attraction whatsoever, and you're not recluse after?

A lot of Yaqi seems forced. Be it when he tries to go on radio or when he's on his older videos, you can actually see how much force he's applying trying to get the models to laugh. Like pretty much attacking. So that's why I hold to my theory that somewhat he came in and told the truth about his "world" of experience, but pretty much had his ego shredded by radio and disappeared from the community with the illness being the most sensible reason.

 

[weezl]

Did Yaqi have a personality disorder?

 

[duderino84]

Did Yaqi have a personality disorder?

Beats me. It's not like depression is uncommon to accompany fetishes.