I don't even know why I am doing this.
As I stated on my other post, the 95% of the people I am trying to call out are simply ignoring this post as they have ignored all the others before as well.
Add to that, the fact that I am posting in the Non-Wam section, where no one travels to.

For several years now, I have been posting threads that feature photoset comic strips of Barbie dolls wamming each other. 95% of the forum have been avoiding these threads.
I have noticed this past year that when other people post threads that have the keyword "Barbie" in them, the forum has been flocking to these threads in large numbers.
I have tried pointing this out (in a vague humorous manner), at which point someone tried replying that these threads contain "real" models........
https://umd.net/forums/barbie-memes-pies#postid_936532

BUT HERE'S THE THING

You do not know what is "Behind The Curtain" until you take a peek.
How do you know what this other person is truly posting????
and how do you know what I am truly posting????????

I would also like to add that I have tried to post threads of "real" models (my threads containing "Barbie WAM' are clearly labeled) and yet, I have still been largely ignored by the masses.
I have even (once again) sarcastically tried to "call out" the forum for ignoring my posts, while rushing in droves to others who have posted very similar threads just a few weeks later.
https://umd.net/forums/pie-on-top-of-the-head#postid_782007

Once again, I don't know why I am even trying to rant about this in a "far-off corner" of the community, seeing as though everyone that I am trying to reach anyway will just see my username and just ignore this thread like all the others.

I will continue to post on this forum. I will not allow hypocrites clicking on threads and liking fake pictures of AI models to dissuade me from my own creativity.

Maybe people have read your threads and did not appreciate your attitude and so they blocked you. Don't judge your work by clicks or likes. If it is real art and not AI, I say post it and do what you want. Unless you are trying to use this for advertising or to sell things. People have come and gone with everything in WAM from toys to blow up dolls. The other possibility is that people see your toys as too close to underage focus content and that is why they don't click.

I don't know what other people have had to say, but I like your stuff. I actually FAR prefer it to the AI stuff. As soon as I see something is AI, I just ignore it. But as far as I know, I've seen just about every one of your posts.

Perhaps I should have been more vocal in my support. I apologize for that.

Regardless, I would encourage you to keep doing it, if it makes you happy. Don't concern yourself with criticism. Live your life by the "F-3 Rule". If someone is not Feeding you, Financing you, or F$&king you, then who cares what they think?

It works for me.

First up, there's an important point to understand: nobody owes you any page views or likes. If people don't click on your posts, that doesn't make them hypocrites, and you have no moral high ground to "call them out".

There are various reasons why people might not click on your posts:
* Maybe they have no interest in Barbie dolls.
* Maybe they've muted you (based on previous posts), and therefore they won't see your posts on other topics.
* Maybe they just make a decision based on the subject line.


The messy forum has 100 posts on the first page; based on the colour of the hyperlinks, I've clicked on 23 of them. I.e. I skip more than I look at. I don't know whether that's typical, but you might want to phrase this as "why aren't people actively choosing my posts?" rather than "why are people actively ignoring me?"

You are correct that I don't know what's "behind the curtain", and maybe I'm missing out on some really great content in those other posts. In a similar way, if I go to YouTube and look at the suggested videos, I don't click all of them, so maybe I'm missing out on some good stuff there. However, there are only so many hours in the day.

There's also the point that different people use the forum in different ways. MessMaster recently updated the synthetic (AI) tagging, so that replies to a post will inherit the main tag. I was a bit baffled by that: I'm already filtering the forum to exclude that tag, so replies are irrelevant if the original post doesn't appear in my list.

However, some other people mentioned that they use the picture archive:
https://umd.net/forums/ai-photos
I.e. they start there to see the thumbnails, and only click through to the main post/photo if they want more. I assume that browsing the archive doesn't affect the view count on each photo, but at that point people do have a pretty good idea of what's being posted.

You are posting pictures of a niche fetish within a niche fetish. Your reaction is way over the top. What do you expect when all you are really doing is getting dolls messy. But whatever turns you on, everyone has their different fetishes. I would possibly say they might be better received on a doll forum

The important thing isn't how many overall views a thread gets, but how many appreciative ones it gets.

WAM is split into a vast number of niches and everyone has their own tastes and preferences. This isn't a bad thing, it adds to the overall variety.

So as long as people who like your work are looking at it, that's all that really matters.