Theories?

FeatherEndeavor · Aug 7, 2022

Back in 2004 there were a lot of tickling sites but not nearly as many as there are today. Since there weren't as many sites, GIFs, images, etc. it may have taken longer to find the specific niche of the fetish that we were looking for. Therefore there was a lot more searching for the term. But today there are more sites with more content as far as videos, pictures and whatnot. Not only can people find the content that they like quicker but many of us already know what sites we like therefore we don't need to randomly search the word "tickle" as much as we used to.

Not sure if this is the reason but it's just my guess.

FFT32 · Aug 7, 2022

I can't speak for the line graph, my interest is way up and always rising.

OmahaTickler · Aug 7, 2022

OR------maybe more people are doing it in real space, so there's less online activity on it.......

Cave In · Aug 9, 2022

FeatherEndeavor said:
Back in 2004 there were a lot of tickling sites but not nearly as many as there are today. Since there weren't as many sites, GIFs, images, etc. it may have taken longer to find the specific niche of the fetish that we were looking for. Therefore there was a lot more searching for the term. But today there are more sites with more content as far as videos, pictures and whatnot. Not only can people find the content that they like quicker but many of us already know what sites we like therefore we don't need to randomly search the word "tickle" as much as we used to.

Not sure if this is the reason but it's just my guess.

Definitely this. Habits have changed. Back then many were still gaining access to the Internet for the first time. And the best way to find tickling content back then was to Google. Nowadays the first place people will look for tickling content is probably YouTube.

To be honest though aside from the spike and subsequent drop off it's been at fairly consistent level since 2010.