>>85129 No, fucking weirdos who make everything about their retarded generational culture war ruin everything. You're getting old. Becoming more sensitive to the stupid shit young people do as the age gap widens and their behavior becomes less relatable. Instead of getting the fuck over it, you allow yourself to get into fights on fetish image boards because someone called you gay.

>>85223 >ayo cuh fr no cap bruh we be frfr ion eem talmbout ooga booga bix nood we wuz kangz I am old, old enough to remember when this community wasn't shit, when White people actually acted White and not like illiterate jungle baboons Hope you make it to 30 somewhat functional with a system full of estrogen and microplastic "fam"

Not that a customer would care, but BK has the worst breath out of any producer by far

>>85225 >Old enough to remember when this community wasn't shit BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Muh aryan tickle fetish board has fallen, make tkr great again!! Hold on, i need to post my reddit wojak

>>85225 >I am old, old enough to remember when this community wasn't shit if you were actually old you'd have known "the community" never WASN'T shit

>>85245 The ancient days of Geocities and Yahoo groups were pretty comfy tbh as was TT. Then everyone became a massive fucking mongoloid in the 2010s and nothing has been good since

>>85306 Things were very comfy back then. My personal theory is that things started going downhill when sites like Patreon popped up and allowed anyone to easily monetize anything, and then fully nosedived when "safe horny" became a concept.

>>85311 I'd put the cause further back. It was the internet getting more mainstream, corporations getting in on it and everything turning to performative nonsense meant to make money above all else. I'm not old enough to remember the 90s, but I can still recall finding out my fetish in the mid-2000s and what I found was pretty mellow. You'd always have eccentrics (what we term cringe these days), but generally it seemed like most people just tolerated them, unless it was some truly awful behavior. It was such a small community, full of people who likely never realized anyone else liked tickling besides them - I knew I just felt sort of grateful that there were others. That solidarity did, for a while on TT and TMF at least, create a genuine community. I generally approached people with weird perspectives and fantasies with humility, beacuse I realized they'd likely think I was just as weird. There's always been flaming over nonsense, but half the shit I see in the artist hate threads or on twitter nowadays wouldn't have gotten much response about 15 years ago. And then in 2008 the iphone brought everyone online, and the next few years came a cascade of culture politics and monetization, on social media in particular. I'm not a political scientist or psychologist so feel free to call me a faggot if this seems wrong, but I definitely think there's something there. Between having every aspect of your life online to be scrutinized by strangers, workplaces, romantic partners, an online culture that pushes making money in every last thing you do, and the inecssent push for you to share your thoughts and criticism on every last thing. It feels like over time this whole landscape has changed into something that kills off your empathy and make you hypersensitive to even the slightest provocation.

>>85311 >>85314 You all actually thought TMF was full of "lifestylers just making free content for everyone"? Are you all just talking about how "artists used to draw for free and now they don't"? Because there's no way you're sitting here acting like people constantly churned out clips for free. Even in the event big names did make community content for everyone to enjoy free, the one stipulation they'd have would that it not be reposted everywhere else online- which was then the FIRST thing that would immediately happen. And if you are just discussing artist related shit, TT was pretty much considered an entirely separate island where "the creative types" went to self segregate from the TMF due to their inability to gel with greater ticklefag community. This entire scene has been cringe retards for at least 20 years.

>>85314 As someone who can remember the 90s (and further back) and was there, some stuff was free, but it wasn't for a lack of trying to make money off it. It was mostly a lack of infrastructure to charge people for your product. Most people used snail mail, even though their catalogs were online. Paypal (in the beginning) was a real game changer for online retail. Now you have a lot more options. If those options existed in the 90s, people would be pay-walling and charging for their work. Hell, even pirated content was snail mail. I remember this one jack ass, Tobias Hackner, who would charge insane amounts of money for sets of gas station quality xerox copies of tickle art he didn't own. An example is attached. As far as these older communities being free expression and open? It got pretty gate keepy pretty quickly. Mostly because it became clicks of people and at the top you had mods and their friends. I personally butted heads with a number of mods on TMF for just kinda getting high on their own supply. Some of them were creating the "safe space" idea before it was even a concept. That said, people who think those older forums are "cringe" are also people in a more wild and free setting where you can say almost anything. Certainly places like this are less moderated. Some people like that and some people want their forums regulated a bit more. That's the big difference. Beyond that, people are a little more openly "autistic" here.

>>85318 >no boomer nothing was ever good you just have nostalgia goggles Go back to Roblox and Skibidi Toilet

>>85314 I can't believe I forgot about the iPhone coming out! Giving normies internet access was a mistake. >>85318 No. >>85323 TMF was always a strange environment. I miss the days of all the tiny little Geocities and Angelfire sites, along with much smaller forums like TheATF.

>>85333 Good 'ole Geocities. Looped Midi music and seizure inducing flash GIFs. Those were the days.

>>85314 At the risk of sounding like the most insufferable hipster stereotype - "mainstream acceptance" really is the kiss of death. Small, quirky and isolated communities thrive off being interconnected (by necessity) and people who are into it by virtue of limited options. This can lead to stagnation over time, but dilution of what made the community what it was in the first place is far worse. When the original users are replaced by tourists and transients with lukewarm interest at best, none of the original appeal is bound to survive at that point. Look at how gaming and anime have gone to shit over the past 30 years as the content slowly went from niche but high-effort output with a narrow targeted appeal, to bland lowest-common denominator "mass market appeal" that as always ends up appealing to nobody. >>85323 I don't know about more freedom today (certainly not Reddit or until recently Twitter) but the older communities definitely didn't have to rely on extensive censorship or content moderation. One of the benefits of keeping things small and manageable, the same number of users all effectively knew each other (even if only by handle) so it was like having 30-40 pen pals instead of a faceless mass. >>85333 These people don't understand anything but the soulless, soul-crushing dystopia they've grown up in. They worship mobile tech and social media as the pinnacle of human achievements because those were the only inventions of any consequence in their lifetimes. So while your average modern consumer bugman could read or even understand the "concept" of civilizational highs and lows in abstract, they have no real context to relate to them. It's why they look at comfy vintage pictures of happy, stable families in homogenous high-trust communities and immediately project their own degenerate rot onto it. These people COULDN'T be happy, nobody was EVER happy, no, Dad had to be a closet fag who wanted to tongue buttholes, Mom had to be a cheating whore using drugs on the sly, and little Timmy desperately wanted to be a girl but there were no posting on /leftypol/-change clinics in those days. Not that the 90s were a "golden age" by any means but kids began that decade with a NES if they were lucky, and by the end the Dreamcast had made online gaming affordable and accessible to the middle class, with the PS2 and Xbox just on the horizon. Nothing in the past 20 years has matched that level of innovation or advancement. It's no wonder modern phone-zombies can't comprehend the concept.

"chïld sẹx change clinics" got filtered lmao but it still works

>>85326 this is a completely retarded response, even one of the guys on your site admits the largest ticklefag stomping ground at the peak of the "golden era" was undeniably weird. >>85333 "The community" was pretty much always shit, even the people harkening back to the good ol days are pointing back to much, much smaller niche sites, and Geocities pages that had much less interaction. Do you know why that is, oldfag? Because ticklefags were always autistic freaks, and you needed to take the initiative to actively sequester yourself with like-minded people away from them.

>>85349 Are you just here to be a cunt? There's better things to do with your irreplaceable and rapidly diminishing time.

>>85350 >Are you just here to be a cunt? lmfao you're literally in a "producer hate thread". the entire topic is things about and individuals involved in the scene that you dislike.

>>85339 hey anon, i think it's time to take your meds

>>85371 >just saying things were better when the economy was stronger and communities were based on contributions not clicks >WAOW HECKIN YIKERINOS CHIEF HOW BOUT YOU TAKE THOSE MEDDYBOIS

>>85049 you're trying too hard, tourist

>>85225 willing to bet this guy isn't even white

Wow can’t believe black people exist

>>85450 some people in boards nowadays sound like a shitty AI trying to imitate a 4chan user

>>85450 they don't, people are white

>>85478 ok niggers are subhuman or something back to hatethread pls

>>85479 >opens hate thread >hate

Fucking kek I was just being a dumbass don’t take me seriously

>>85502 hate towards producers you stupid idiots it's a producer hate thread not /pol/ I'm here to talk about tickling take the ideologies or whatever elsewhere

>>85450 >>85504 kill yourself Isonzo

>>85511 >people have more than one interest nigger? jew? jeet?

>>85502 wrong hate, thats for 4chan

Kek not killing myself

>>85525 based life liver

>>85525 >dragging out your own pointless suffering to own the chuds Thanks I'm glad for it. Don't worry I'm laughs at your pain every step of the way. I hope you live forever.

>>85515 yeah no shit take the interests elsewhere tho it should come as no surprise that people are usually here for the exclusive subject of tickling the only race fueled ideology I'd like to see on TKR is the one where specific races get tickled