Old dude with thoughts on the community

FAMGM:
I disagree with a lot of the detail in what you’ve said, but the overall thrust of it I basically agree with.

I was thinking only the other day that some of the best fat content was around in my early 20s. It was generally some amateur on youtube who had hidden her fat fetish from the world all her life and was feeling the intense thrill of playing with her belly on camera.

I’m pretty sick of the economics of fetish content driving what people expect. This site is still quite good, but on the other one, every second person has an only fans or a cashapp. And they’re incessantly complaining about how no one is “feeding” them. This is partly why some of the more extreme content has become prevalent: people are competing for attention in buyers’ market.

At the other end of the spectrum are certain well-known content creators, who essentially re-enforce the monetised nature of things. “Support content creators”, is the catch cry. Well, I’d rather not. I’d rather support someone who isn’t a “content creator”, who’s just involved because they are genuinely into it.


I think there's a balance to strike. I think content creators should be paid. They are providing a service that incurs a financial burden on their part to provide it

But at the same tlme there needs to be passion and joy in lt as well.

On the flip side, let's not run off the feedees who are only in it for the love of the game. Lotta people get mad when feedees are talking about their kink escapades only for other users to demand free conteng from them

There's a user on here that is into extreme gaining. No pics, but she never asks anyone for anything. Absolute gem. And yet I have seen pelpme openly harrass her for free content.
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Seeing the cute slim guy/girl blow up


SumoSized:
They might not be thinking that hard about it but the themes are still present and it can still lead to stigmatization. I'm a feedee and I don't have a humiliation fetish, so when I hear other people's real stories or read people's fictional ones about how fat is bad and fat people are ostracized for their weight, but actually they're sexy but actually they should feel ashamed. It demotivates me from wanting to gain even just a little bit because I don't want to be humiliated.
I'm not saying this to say "we need to ban these stories because they hurt people's feelings", because a lot of people do enjoy the humiliation factor. I just think we need to be careful how we judge people who don't share this fetish and who don't want to gain weight but just have due to other circumstances. Because even though they aren't part of our circle, the way we treat and view them, affects how we treat and view feedees/gainers in our circle.

Munchies:
I think a lot of people get into the whole "Don't yuck my yum" mentality that they don't examine their yum in the first place. They have deep, conflicting feelings that they don't want to explore.

And I get that. Introspection is scary.

But I have spoken to a lot of feedees, gainers, encouragers, and feeders. A lot of them admit to seeing fat people like a dirty little secret. A lot of fat people that those that fetishize them as less than. It's really sad.

SumoSized:
You'd think people in this community would be against fatphobia, but it's still startling to me how engrained it is. It's almost like some people are only into it because it's taboo, and so if peoples weights became more normalized, they would lose interest.


You may be onto something. It would explain why people keep gravitating towards the extremes.
4 weeks

Old dude with thoughts on the community

I think these are valid observations, but I fear you have an incomplete view on things.

There's been a heavy emphasis on the feedee models. While I agree the commercialization of this fetish is concerning, you cannot have a market without buyers.

I've lurked in the community long before being an active member. There's a growing sense of entitlement from all corners of this community. I see people openly being entitled to fat people and their bodies to an alarming degree.

For example, if you look in the comments of any feedee or gainer, you'll notice a lot of hostility if they don't gain fast enough or stuff themselves intensely enough, the audience gets nasty. And not just models - regular feedees get this too.

I had a conversation with a fellow feeder not too long about about his struggles finding a feedee. He exhibited the same growing entitlement. I pointed out that when you are pushy and entitled, the only people who will give you the time of day are those that want your money.

But people ain't trying to hear that.

On top of all this, this community has developed a cult-like mentality towards fatness. These days, so many people value extreme weight gain over everything else. It's to the point where feedees that want to go from 400 lbs to 250 lbs for comfort do not feel comfortable talking about these things

Hell, even though I am strictly a feeder, I get a lot of people who are genuinely confused as to why I want to be muscular over being fat.

Back in the day, people were less obsessed about extremes. Sure you had the extreme weight gain crowd, but it was a niche within a niche. But now you have feeders genuinely upset that their feedee - who has gain 50 lbs in a year - is not gaining fast enough. Feedees are mentally spiralling because people are shaming them for not being at least 200 lbs.

I am into extreme weight gain, but we desperately need the kink diversity we are rapidly losing.
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Seeing the cute slim guy/girl blow up


SumoSized:
They might not be thinking that hard about it but the themes are still present and it can still lead to stigmatization. I'm a feedee and I don't have a humiliation fetish, so when I hear other people's real stories or read people's fictional ones about how fat is bad and fat people are ostracized for their weight, but actually they're sexy but actually they should feel ashamed. It demotivates me from wanting to gain even just a little bit because I don't want to be humiliated.
I'm not saying this to say "we need to ban these stories because they hurt people's feelings", because a lot of people do enjoy the humiliation factor. I just think we need to be careful how we judge people who don't share this fetish and who don't want to gain weight but just have due to other circumstances. Because even though they aren't part of our circle, the way we treat and view them, affects how we treat and view feedees/gainers in our circle.


I think a lot of people get into the whole "Don't yuck my yum" mentality that they don't examine their yum in the first place. They have deep, conflicting feelings that they don't want to explore.

And I get that. Introspection is scary.

But I have spoken to a lot of feedees, gainers, encouragers, and feeders. A lot of them admit to seeing fat people like a dirty little secret. A lot of fat people notice those that fetishize them often see them as less than. It's really sad.
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Seeing the cute slim guy/girl blow up

Letters And Numbers:
Yeah, I don’t know that a lot of people think that hard about it, they just know they like what they like. Some people are also very into the teasing/humiliation part of the fetish, which plays into stories like these, too.


Look, despite allegations to the contrary, I am not a prude. I'm probably freakier than most people. Hell, I have written stories with detailed torture scenes. But the prevelence of how popular these themes are speaks to a wider problem in the community.

I talk to a lot of people on here. And I've noticed a lot of users feel ashamed of fat. Whether it be how they want to be fat, fatten people up, or just have a fat partner, so many people hate they like fattness. And shame has away of evolving into weird situations.

This is not to say exploring theme of fatphobia are bad. I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with writing or enjoying revenge weight gain stories. But we as a community need to better interrogate our relationship with fatness. Ask ourselves if we are satisfied with how things are.

Based on the many people I've spoken to over the years, the answer seems to be no.
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Seeing the cute slim guy/girl blow up

Fatforfun:
Munchies, I agree with you in general about revenge stories. But there are exceptions. See my story Fat Justice. Hope you like it.


You will note that I am painting in broad strokes.

That said, I took a glace at your story and um ...

Are you sure you want me to explore the themes therein.

Because I can. I will be fair about it, but are you really sure you want me to do that?
1 month

Trying this again

NoMoYoYo:
Between July last year and July this year, I gained 72lbs. When I started this gain, I wanted to get fat again, but I wanted to do it slowly. Well that went out the window. The rapid gain was amazing. I love getting fat fast.

However, I started feeling not so good so I stopped. I've lost about 25lbs since then and feel much better...but I still have the itch.

I think I'm in a much better place to try gaining again. This time I would like to take a smarter approach. I love being fat and want to be fatter.

My plan is to eat more, but not recklessly and no fast food. Wendy's and McD's (among others) are my kryptonite.

I hope I can do this. Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated. I've looked at other threads and have some ideas.


Crock pots

Chuck in the ingredients and go about your day. Come dinner time you have a big meal waiting for you.

The appeal of fast food is in it's low effort. If you make a bunch of low effort foods, you can eat that instead of fast food.
1 month

What drives you wild in a good way?

HappyBigBelly:
Hey all :-) Hoping this can be a fun thread for us all.

What drives your FA passions wild when you see someone do it? This can be your SO or just folks in the general public.

For me, it drives me wild when my wife sits back in the sofa or in bed and lets her shirt ride up, showing off any part of her lovely, 50+ inch belly.

Sometimes, she’ll rest her hand in her pants and just let it stay there, cupping and sometimes gently rubbing part of it. Many of our most intimate moments of have has started with her letting her belly show while lying in bed or relaxing on the couch :-)


Partner in tight button downs

Partner pulling out his belly and wobbling it

Partner jiggling his ass (man can't twerk, but this is a close second)

Partner being so stuffed he gets all helpless and needs me to take care of him

Any man with a really big ass
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Seeing the cute slim guy/girl blow up



Glitter Jelly:
I've often wondered about that, since this theme is so prevalent in the stories section...

Letters And Numbers:
If I had to guess, there might be 2 things going on:

1) That kind of revenge-by-getting-fat trope is common in a lot of media, it's been around forever, and I'm sure there are quite a few people in this community today who discovered they liked weight gain (or erotic weight gain media) because of tropes like that in "straight" media -- they just liked it for a different reason than how the author intended, maybe. Maybe not.

2) A lot of the stories on this site are taking well worn tropes like this one and putting the author's own take on it, and the author might not be thinking that hard about the origin of the trope they're mimicking, because it's something they always thought was hot. They might not have seen it the way it was intended to be seen, kinda subverting a problematic trope, but maybe inexpertly making that clear. Or not. It's amateur art, though, people trying things out.


I think this is true in terms of surface level, individual reasons. But the popularity also speaks to feedist culture. As much as feedism is countercultural, feedist still live in a fatphobic world. I do not think a lot of feedists have interrogated these influences as a whole.

I noticed revenge weight gain stories follow a general beat. Mean person is skinny and hot. As punishment for their sins, they get fat. Society rejects them, their life is ruined, and then they get fatter. Bonus points if the mean person joins the other loser fatties or the loser fatty they bullied become skinny and hot.

Notice how this frames fat as bad and skinny as good. There are, of course, variations on an individual level, but this is how the bulk of them go. From where I sit, this suggests feeling ashamed of their kinks and fetishes. They find fat sexy (the porn part) while also negociating some level of fatphobia (the revenge part).

But I suppose it makes sense. A lot of people sexualize what they find taboo.
1 month

Seeing the cute slim guy/girl blow up

Modulo9:
Yep! I always enjoyed seeing the cute girls gain weight. I was a teen back in the 1990's when girls were very skinny...very different from today were girls actually due exercises to make their ass bigger.

A few girls from my highschool have blown up. Known of them were the bitchy type. One was a thicc cheerleader she was very sweet and has since porked out since being happily married.

I'm sure people that went to school or worked with my wife must think the same thing when they see her now.


What on earth are you talking about? People of all sizes have always existed.

Also, can we please stop talking about teenagers in a sexualized way? That's sketchy.
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