General

Is it just me, or is more people started to like fat more?

For example, I've seen more and more artists on social media beginning to delve into drawing more chubby or bigger characters

More body positivity on social media

More people online showing appreciation for bigger people

And overall, people are just fatter nowadays

And overall this fetish growing more and more

Anyone else noticed this?

So it really isn't just me lol.

Eh, it swings back and forth every few decades or so.

Sometimes, thin is in. Sometimes it's the full figured types. If you go back a few decades, you'll find adds geared towards women encouraging them to by weight gain powder to attract a man.

Mind you, this is only mainstream society. They are many cultures all over the world that prize bigger figures.

I think it largely depends on the subcultures and communities you're examining.

One thing the internet facilitates is the discovery of opinions and tastes that don't fall into the cultural mainstream of your meatspace community. At its worst, this means echo spaces where you can find others who share your own narrow set of tastes and opinions and reinforce them. But at its best, this means diversity of thought, especially if you are yourself willing to explore beyond your comfort zone.

In the latter case, people can expand their definitions of attractiveness, value, or even just normalcy to be more representative of a larger variety of people, even if those populations are traditionally marginalized or uncommon.

I think it's in these spaces that fat attraction--or even better in the long run, in my opinion, attraction to and visibility of people for reasons beyond their appearance--will be more apparent.

I think, at least in the US, we are far from adopting values like that in the mainstream; consider the biggest franchises in media and I don't think you'll find these inclusive values reflected there. Fat Thor was played for humor, not humanity, and he was swiftly brought back to "normal" once the joke ran its course.

Sorry if that rant was incoherent, I am running on 3 hours of sleep and have a can of Monster in me.

I live in a college town and whoever I go near campus I am just shocked at how many yong people are so plump❤️ And once go go fat, you never go back.