>>43638
This is a very narrow minded take.
You are using 200 as a small number to discredit the possibility os subcultures within the microcosm of tickling.
Truth is, 200 is the amount of artists I’ve talked to over the past 3-4 years.
Good pictures get upwards of 3 thousand favourites on deviantart, and the ceiling is much higher on Twitter due to more normalfags using it.
We’re not as niche as you make it out to be. We’re a branch of bdsm that goes hand in hand with the most popular body part specific fetishes of the planet. (Namely feet, belly and armpits).
I know for a fact this place has a shitload of overlap with the artists from the deviantart days, who have been here because of its exclusivity and because they can speak their minds freely.
Nitropunk reads our shenanigans daily and makes sure to delete the smidge of patreon leaks he finds
RS deleted his gallery because someone explained how to do it in a thread here
QQ used to come here to act like the cool kids, only namefagging to post sketches never seen before, ZP even came here to suck his dick.
Raspberry « James Lover » Jose has been bouncing between here and /co/ for years.
Most people I met on the TKL discord in its first month were 8chan + deviantart users only with some /co/ users.
Now sure all these people don’t necessarily have the same opinions and thought process on everything, but they are extremely far away from the new wave of tumblrism present in twitter.
Tumblr tickling has always been associated with trans people and females living in their own little representation of a tickling fetish without our love for the female body, or without the hardcore torture aspect.
Tumblr tickling has such a distinct identity that calling them anything else than their own community is bullshit.
They have their own drama and their own ways of dealing with things.
They go on unending rants about le consent and le aftercare after le wholesome giggling session.
When they start calling out X or Y for being a pedo because they sent porn to a 17 year old, or when they have petty wars against who they believe is a tracer, it’s their tumblr way of doing things that is in action.
In that sense, we are much closer to the East Asian community (mostly JP and CN) in what they like. But even there you can draw very clear lines at where one community ends and the other begins other than the language.
They don’t use the same characters, they don’t use the same poses or scenarios, they’re much much more inclined to like loli. You won’t find them mixing with us in discord servers unless on very rare exceptions because they are a completely different community.
You could even make an argument for a latino community but i need more research to be sure.
>TL:DR
We will never be another branch of tumblr. We are simply too different on a base level. And anyone who believes they can just flood this place with twitterspeak and moralfaggotry will be met with mockery and lengthy autistic blogposts such as mine.
Oh and did you see that new Lila pic? It definitely looks tumblresque enough to be here, but I like it quite a bit.