Are we experiencing a new peak in our fetish?

[cletus]

Someone created a post on here saying that when TA/TI were very active was the best time in our fetish. I am only really into bondage with tickling that looks inescapable. That being said since I'm not sure when, but I would say Nov/Dec when C4S had a sale for the holidays I have been saving all the previews of clips I might buy with the idea being last weekend I was budgeting $1200 for the first time since Nov/Dec. Well I found that I had almost $5000 worth of clips I would buy if money were no issue.

 

[Comfort Eagle]

People have a fond memory of the early/mid 2000's because -while a lot o great shit was coming out- all of it was being posted directly on here. Now, you need to actively hunt for producers and clips. They rarely make a point to have a presence here the way they would 20 years ago. "Fuck it, put it on Twitter" and forget about it.

If someone did like a weekly/bi-weekly/monthly "The best new material" thread, people would likely think it's a second golden age already.

 

[cletus]

People have a fond memory of the early/mid 2000's because -while a lot o great shit was coming out- all of it was being posted directly on here. Now, you need to actively hunt for producers and clips. They rarely make a point to have a presence here the way they would 20 years ago. "Fuck it, put it on Twitter" and forget about it.

If someone did like a weekly/bi-weekly/monthly "The best new material" thread, people would likely think it's a second golden age already.

I've always had no issue with Clips4Sale being my primary place to find that out, but in addition to that yeah there are a lot of other hiding places now out there like Twitter, OnlyFans, etc. Also back then at least I could just pay Czech, Tommy, French and UK a membership and download almost everything. Now all these producers I've noticed are putting out longer clips so they can make more per clip without other than French and UK still no way to get a lot of material on the cheap. You know no issue for the few of us (not me) who are rich and can drop $5000, but I sure as shit can't. This literally might be the first time ever in my being in the community since 2000 that has been true even when in the early 2000's I was a minimum wage employee.

 

[Soles_Scream]

People have a fond memory of the early/mid 2000's because -while a lot o great shit was coming out- all of it was being posted directly on here. Now, you need to actively hunt for producers and clips. They rarely make a point to have a presence here the way they would 20 years ago. "Fuck it, put it on Twitter" and forget about it.

If someone did like a weekly/bi-weekly/monthly "The best new material" thread, people would likely think it's a second golden age already.

Do you want to guess why a lot of producers stopped being as active here?

 

[duderino84]

Do you want to guess why a lot of producers stopped being as active here?

I'm leaning on the explanation "guilt by association with the community"...

 

[Comfort Eagle]

Do you want to guess why a lot of producers stopped being as active here?

Messageboards are a pain in the ass compared to every other form of social media, I'd imagine. They're a relatively antiquated format in the 2020s.

 

[BostonTickling]

Message boards are indeed antiquated, and a pain in the ass. That being said, I will always appreciate that this forum exists. It's a testament to the many years of love and labor from the moderators, and where I came of age as a young man into tickling long before social media reared its unfortunate head. That being said, The reason I stepped away from posting my content on here is because once I developed a fanbase and a following, and was able to add my preview clips to C4S, It felt like people knew where to find my stuff. To be fair, my output has decreased over the years, but some people still dig my content which I am very grateful for. I don't if anything like a new peak is happening to our sacred fetish, but I will always want this forum to exist.

 

[Deleted member 297737]

C4S is a dying breed, and others like it. The best way for any producers reading this is to utilize the current commonly known and welcoming Social Media to provide teasers of your clips, and then create your own site. — If you have heavy enough traffic, I also encourage you to create your own mini-forum for those specifically buying and interested in your videos. Allowing paying customers the chance of speaking with you, or even setting up Q&A's with favorite models can see you welcoming a nice bump in revenue.

Everything these days needs to conform to the current Media Outlets, and many older sites or new comers should be doing this.

It's not hard to make yourselves easily discovered these tags with Tagging being so heavily used everywhere. You need someone creative and have them assist in your Social Media coverage.

On a personal note: men I've been with who weren't initially into tickling have now, later-on, discovered that it is something they genuinely really enjoy and are exploring that on their time and with their methods.

Forums, in of themselves, are something I will eternally stand by as a staple. We, as people, need Community. We do not want to feel alone and should have a Home.

 

[cletus]

God I hope C4S never dies. Right now and since it became a thing it's literally (unless I'm wrong) the only place for me to go and find (I hope) all creators of this stuff. I realize people like Stryker and I'm assuming others are being special in only having their own website, but unless I can then go to Google and search tickling clips (or whatever you'd need to type) and then easily pull up these creators personal stores websites it's kind of not going to work for them.

Also major turnoff to me that there are creators on OnlyFans or LoyalFans where yeah you can pay them for their content, but then not download it. Great so what happens when those websites or just those creators disappear from those sites?

 

[aberdeen]

God I hope C4S never dies. Right now and since it became a thing it's literally (unless I'm wrong) the only place for me to go and find (I hope) all creators of this stuff. I realize people like Stryker and I'm assuming others are being special in only having their own website, but unless I can then go to Google and search tickling clips (or whatever you'd need to type) and then easily pull up these creators personal stores websites it's kind of not going to work for them.

Also major turnoff to me that there are creators on OnlyFans or LoyalFans where yeah you can pay them for their content, but then not download it. Great so what happens when those websites or just those creators disappear from those sites?

It may be a turn off but the content creators do not want their content reproduced and recirculated bec then no one would buy their content....Kind of the Netflix situation where they were losing $ from ppl sharing their account PW and non payers were piggybacking in...That is probably one of the reasons older content creators have shut their doors. However, on many sites there are various partiaL clips and gifs that get posted HOPING that he viewer will buy the OF subscription.
And those are quite enough for me. As far as I know, evern the older creators considered their content their own and had warning to not reproduce...but with the internet they cant police everyone so don't try.

 

[cletus]

It's this really shitty world we live in where producers don't want their stuff pirated. That's fair. But it's also unfair for me to give someone anymore it's getting to be $25 just so that next month they change their mind disappear and now I just lost $25. Also, if employers paid more or clips were cheaper. Then there are the few producers who are so prolific they don't mind giving you a lot for $30/month that you can download. I hope no producer thinks they should be able to just live exclusively off this given what I have heard from producers. I get that a lot of porn for vanilla people probably can earn some big bucks because in theory the whole population might be up for paying for that, but I've always believed we have to be a minority of the population meaning how much could you actually make? I get the sense some do, and get the sense some are rich to begin with.

 

[Deleted member 298024]

In regards to community? It's pretty dead. This place was the go-to for the latest news and goss and even some popcorn-worthy drama back in the day. Opinions were allowed in all formats, people would go head to head in some knock down drag out discourse, and also in extremely fascinating discussion with no sparring. I could legit sit and read threads here while eating a full course meal and still be left with more to read after being finished. I mean, it used to be a community in the fullest sense. You'll have people you don't care for, you'll also be able to make and build friendships, relationships, marriages, etc.


In regards to clips/vids/doujin/erotica? I absolutely think it's still going very well.