I donāt really know if this counts for this thread, but imo it feels like this belongs here.
I feel like the kink predominately has its real ācultureā online. Iāve been on the internet for a while and seen shit. I can say that tickling itself is a very common fetish/kink. Moreso, its size tends to come in from the overlapping of other fetishes, probably most notably, people who have a foot fetish. You also have others, such as hypnosis, bellies, armpits, bondage etc. etc. point is, it overlaps a lot so youāre exposed to a lot of people.
I feel like most of the infighting has to do primarily with this overlap. When you get to this size, with the amount of people involved, thereās always those who disagree, even flat out, hate each other. Due to this, the ācultureā is primarily divided and isolated and very tribal in nature.
Different facets of the community arenāt just separated by fetish overlap but by āplatformā. Letās wind the clocks back about ten years. There was a plethora of platforms to post on, each having their own culture. Notably, most of us here probably fucked around on deviantart, furaffinity, etc. Oldfags probably remember angelfire, dinosaurs would roam TMF. I donāt want to go on a huge tangent, but the physical tickling community is *vastly* different than the online tickling community, and my post is mostly directed at the online tickling community. I find it interesting that some platforms formed ātickle communitiesā independently from other sources, I.E, tumblr.
So where exactly am I going with this? You have all these people, on all these platforms, separately from each other. Theyāre pretty stable. Well, Deviantart shoots itself in the foot, and tumblr shoots itself in the foot. Where do the refugees go? Many migrate to twitter. At the same time, discord becomes a thing, putting faces to many of the artists.
People shit on the community consistently, when back in the day, before discord and twitter, honestly āDramaā was non-existent. The sperginess and absurdity of the community comes from the clash of cultures that these respective platforms after some years, I find that itās come to settle and after analyzing, Iāve come to group the artists/individuals into two respective online cultural groups. To which I have created an autistic list of artists Iāve assigned to one of two groups. These two groups are as follows, and Iāve assigned easy to understand traits to the groups so you can better see what each stands for.
Aberrant:
>Tickling as a fetish, embraces that it is sexual in nature
>Leans towards obscenity, enjoys more risquƩ related content, such as nonconsensual tickling, loli/shota tickling. Fiction does not equal reality.
>Exclusive platforms they might utilize in addition to regularly established ones: Baragg, Pixiv, Inkbunny
Puritan:
>Tickling as fluff, hesitant to embrace it as sexual in nature, if at all
>Leans towards non-controversial subject matter, will gravitate more towards western-approved characters , potentially older characters, "Milfs". Consensual tickling. Fiction affects reality.
>Exclusive platforms they might utilize in addition to regularly established ones: Tumblr, Bluesky, Reddit,
These traits arenāt mutually exclusive to determining whether someone is more Aberrant or Puritan oriented, you sort of need to use your brain.
>Why does this shit even matter you faggot
So you know who the fuck might take your commission and not shit all over you.