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We've written a new article about feederism as an introduction for new people coming to the website.

We're also hoping that we'll be able to get it ranking highly in search engines, but to do this it needs to be as informative and original as possible.

Please take a look and let us know what you think. Does it seem like a good introduction to potential newbies? Is there anything we could add?

Please let us know your comments below.

fantasyfeeder.com/articles/view

P.S. Also, please share this article as much as possible, or post links to it on your social feeds. Let's get some new members to the site

Very nice, just a few notes:

1. I don't think you should say feedism is "addictive". It can be, but it doesn't have to be and it's probably better if it isn't.

2. Maybe I missed it, but you should mention that part of the fun of feedism is the ability to eat all you want without guilt. Once you decide to get fat (or fatter), there is no shame in having that extra doughnut or whatever. In fact, you may even feel a responsibility to eat it.

3. Another part of the fun is the increase in capacity as you get bigger. If eating a lot is fun, eating more than a lot will be even more fun.

4. And of course, if a feedee can find a feeder--as can happen on fantasy feeder--that also ramps up the fun. If you have a feeder, overeating and gaining are not merely guilt-free but become acts of generosity.

I concur. You also missed a [I] lot of other things like gainers, mutual gainers, foodies, etc. If we are going to take the feedist narrative out of the mainstream's hands and put it into our own, we have to get it right.

Hell, I've made numerous posts breaking down feedism before in an easily digestible way. If you share this article as is, a lot of people will be misinformed about who we are as a group.

Very nice article, thank you. Very good to have a video, pictures...
A few comments.
At the beginning I would put more color (in the background of Contents), the same as bellow.
I would change the sentence:"Most people within the feederism community will also advocate for these things" by "Most people within the feederism community will also advocate for these topics".

It's a good overview! Might be cool to have some quotes from community members in there, or maybe in a companion article.
If this is article is supposed to be an introduction to feedism, I have some concern over some word choice and definitions.

1) feedism vs. feederism
For example, the move in the community to refer to the kink as "feedism" instead of "feederism" was a wise one, as it's the more inclusive term. I don't claim to be on every corner of the internet, but I see members of the community use "feedism" far more commonly these days. I also think "feederism" reflects the sensationalist narratives run by outside media. It kind of suggests that the kink is entirely driven by feeder's desires, ya know? Rather than feedees being full, eager, autonomous participants.

So I prefer to see the kink referred ot as "feedism" throughout the body of the article, possibly mentioning "feederism" in the gloassary at the end. Something like "Feederism: you may have seen this kink referred to as feedism, which used to be the common term."

2) Glossary terms
While seeking a perfect definition is futile, the terms as they're defined here seem narrower than--and in some cases, not accurate to--the ways I've seen community members actually use them over the years.

2.1 feedee--there are plenty of people who identify as feedees (including me) without feeders. So I think the bit about "with the assistance of a feeder" should be removed.

2.2 feeder--as with feedee, there are plenty of people who identify as feeders but for whom directly, literally feeding their partner is not of much importance. So maybe something like "A feeder is someone who enjoys helping their partner put on weight, wether through feeding them directly, cooking for them, encouraging them, etc.

2.3 feeder/feedee vs. gainer/encourager--I've seen lots of people attempt to differentiate these over the years, with little consistency. This seems like one of those instances where people try to come up with different definitions simply because there are two different words, when in reality, they're used to mean pretty much the same thing. [Much like colloquial uses of "kink", "fetish", and "paraphilia"]

IME, the biggest determinant of which set of labels someone uses is not which behaviors/activities they take part in, rather, sexual orientation and which community somone became involved with. Gay men (and some bi men) use gainer/encourager, and the rest of use use feedee/feeder. There's some crossover between who uses which terms of course (IMO, moreso in the last few years than in the last ~10+ before that), but that's the most consistent difference.

If anyone is skeptical that this is the real difference, I recommend using search engines to look for "feedee porn" and "gainer porn"

What does this mean for the glossary? Maybe something like:

"Gainer: a term similar to feedee, but more commonly used by gay men"
"Encourager: a term similar to feeder, but more commonly used by gay men"

Some great points, particularly about the definitions. The article will be updated from time to time to keep it relevant with trends. There are a lot of articles about feederism out there, but I feel that since we are the community, we have more authority over this than some others.

Just about the terms feedism vs feederism, I take your point about the trend towards feedism. However for search engine optimisation (SEO), feederism is still by far the more widely searched term, which is why we've optimised for this.

I get that. But then you should talk about both. It makes no sense to ignore a commonly used community term. That's not in service to the community or people looking to join it.

The new terminology used in the community is not being ignored. The first line of the article does state:



I think as part of the suggestions from members in this thread, we would like to expand on this topic. We all know that the change from Feederism to Feedism was to be more inclusive to all members and aspects of the community, not just focusing on feeders as the sole / dominant participants. So a section on this in the article would be great, just to explain to new members and those not in the know why there was a change, and that Feedism is the now used term amongst people in the community.

It's great that everyone is getting involved, and maybe we could work with some of you to write / cover topics you have mentioned that could be included in updates for this article going forwards.

Would any of you be interested in this? Let me know!

Hmm, interesting. I’m not too familiar with how SEO works.

Is there any way to account for both? Title it something like “What are feedism and feederism?”

As the title stands, especially paired with the phrasing of the first sentence “sometimes known as feedism” implies that “feederism” is still widely accepted.

This sounds great! I think it’s probably even worth mentioning the SEO concern. Like I don’t *love* it, but I understand it, and I think today’s audience will also get it. (…unless the first rule of SEO is don’t talk about SEO? Again, idk how it works)



In principle yes! Thank you for asking. I’m not sure if I could give more information in the article than I’ve already given here; it’s not like I remember who drove the feederism—>feedism change, or how it occurred. I have a vague memory of seeing a couple posts on tumblr circulate like… a decade ago, and it seemed like the change was very rapid from there.