i will preface this post by saying one thing:
there is nothing more that i despise more than an artist turning their backs on the people who made them popular in the first place. i know it's just a personal thing and not everyone feels this way, but it makes me feel like we've been used as a stepping stone and immediately discarded the second they find something that gives them more money, while being extremely ungrateful and sometimes even straight up trying to cover up their past, so no one knows who their original fans even were or what got them to this level of attention and popularity in the first place.
that being said, it's come to my attention that baronstrap has deleted every single tickling related animation he's ever done, and is even taking down reuploads of his tickling animations that are uploaded to third party porn sites. (yes i know plenty of them are still up, thanks to porn sides who couldn't give a shit, but many of them i had bookmarked have been "taken down due to a complaint from the original creator" or something along those lines)
he doesn't want a soul to know that's what he used to do, and what got him popular in the first place.
if he had started out as a regular nsfw animator, he'd have to compete with waves and waves of nsfw animators that are equally or more talented than him. but he saw an opportunity in the tickling community, a lack of "professional" (saying this loosely for lack of a better term) animation beyond just SFM and basic looping blender animations.
he filled that niche, and he was basically the only person actually making high quality tickling animations with VAs and the whole shebang, he gained popularity quick, but the second he had enough exposure to the more normie nsfw community, he just straight up quit and left the whole scene for a wider appeal. he was never into tickling, he wasn't "one of us" to put it that way, we were always just an opportunity for him to get into the spotlight and then thrown away the second he got there.
and now he's trying his hardest to hide what even got him there on the first place, because he's ashamed of us. he despises tickling and most likely thinks it's super cringe. fuck baronstrap.
tl;dr i hate baronstrap