There's another small part to this that I think Bella's talking about as well. A lot of the folks she's talking about don't fall into the "potential customer" catagory.
This is 100% incorrect. From a marketing perspective, anybody who shows any interest in her products is a potential customer. By some schools of marketing, anybody who even looks in Bella's direction is a potential customer. Certainly, anybody who visits this forum with an interest in tickling clips obviously can't be dismissed as a potential customer.
I've seen a lot of posters who just sit in Clips and slam the scenes as they come down the pike because they didn't cover what they wanted to see. And then never buy a video anyway, just keep downloading clips. We all know that there are people like that.
Exactly how do "we all know" who is buying clips and who isn't? I buy clips on line but my credit card is not made out to "drew70." Does it take Jedi training or something to be able to look at somebody in the clips section and somehow know that person doesn't buy clips on line?
There have actually been one or two that I've tracked over the years that I've come to believe simply sit there with a "slam" ready to go for any video clip. I've seen "Why didn't it have any foot tickling in it?" in an upperbody clip, "You should have used a girl to tickle her" in a M/F clip, "You should have tickled her ribs" in a foot clip and "A guy would have tickled her better" in a F/F clip...
...all from the same poster. Seen it quite a bit over the years, actually.
To me, a slam would be more like,"That was lame" or "That sucked." If a critic states specifically what it is he or she doesn't like about the clip, then its constructive criticism and well within the parameters of acceptable behavior as outlined in the GR.
I noticed Bella keeps assuming that those who don't agree with her simply don't understand what she is saying. I think the reverse is true. I think I get totally what she is saying. It's really not all that complex. She doesn't believe foot lovers for example should complain about upper body clips and that her customers need to realize she must put out a variety of material to satisfy a broad spectrum of clientel.
We get that. It's been reiterated ad nauseum. What's being missed here are basic marketing concepts. When you put out a product based on entertainment, you simply have to expect this kind of feedback. Anything you put out will entertain a certain percentage, while the rest will remain unentertained. They are likely to tell you about it. This isn't rude, or uncalled for. It's how the system works. This is true in the television industry, as well as motion picture and printed entertainment. They get all kinds of objections like..."Why'd you kill that character?"...."Why is so-and-so still on the show?!"...etc. Those that are serious about their product will give consideration to the complaints and will make adjustments according to the numbers.
Here's the meat of the issue here, as I see it. It wasn't all that long ago that tickling material was extremely rare and sought after. During these days, people were extremely grateful to anybody producing such material. So grateful, we'd pay upwards of $60-$90 for 45 minutes of questionable tickling with goofy feathers by people in silly costumes...and all of it in analog VHS format.
When the tickling groups formed on the internet, producers of tickling material were hailed as gods, and to this day that still goes on to some degree. It's hardly surprising that some people decided to start producing tickling material in a desire to recieve such fawning attention.
So the question becomes, how do you tell the serious producers from those that are just in it for the accolades? Easy. The serious producers are interested in both positive AND negative feedback, and aren't likely to complain when the cheering and fawning drop down to a level that can't sustain the ego.
So guys, keep those cards and letters coming!
. What I'm addressing here is the phenomenon of audience members who frown upon anything produced that isn't exactly what they want, no matter how much of what they like that you do give them. A good example is one customer in particular who loves my videos, but hates the fact that the 'ler in one of them is a male. He feels that there should never, ever ever EVER, be a male in a tickling video. Ever. When he asked me, horrified, why I had a guy (oo ick 
) for the 'ler, and I told him that many of my other customers prefer M/F, he actually replied that they were gay and there should never be a man in a tk vid 
. That's....I don't even know what that is. Can you see where I'm coming from? With a customer like that, no matter how many videos we make that he likes, he'll complain when we make one he doesn't; I find that to be a bit self-centered and I think most producers and others would agree. It's odd to me when folks ignore that there are other types of people. 
. Thank you for articulating this aspect so well. I've seen it from several posters actually, and frankly it's not BellaRisa feedback that prompted me to start this thread; I've always observed other producers on the receiving end of this behavior *far* more than I've been, especially the males who dare to (gasp!) appear in their own clips. For some 'customers' that's way too much fun for a guy who isn't them to be allowed to have, apparently, so they have to protest 
