I wonder what it's like to discover you have a WAM fetish in this day and age. When I discovered mine the internet wasn't even around. I'm a pie fan and even when I joined the UMD (I believe 1997) there was a pretty limited about of pie videos, and they all hard to be ordered via mail, then wait for the VHS tape to arrive. For me, there was a ton of excitement.

I can't imagine what it's like now. The sheer amount of WAM videos available is total overload and I'm even sure where I'd begin. Beyond that, I wonder if some of the excitement that I experienced has been replaced by a rather dull edge of instant gratification.

Beyond that, back in the day, I was excited as hell to see any female get pied. But now with the shit-ton of videos out there, I saw myself getting more and more picky about what turned me on; has to be a pie tin, not paper plate, has to have crust coverage...but the right amount, pies can't be runny, etc...and the reactions have to be right.

Probably much easier! I started with my wam fetish in about 1974 ish, so not much to go on then

I never thought of wam as a fetish I did it with everyone I built relationships with along the way. But I also found myself being connected to my body with wam. For example dancing with a. Girl than opening water bottles and spraying them in the air only to realize I was the only one really into it.

I think today the internet has change how people discover anything and everything

Interesting one. I'm in my fifties now and can't say I discovered my fetish, it kind of gradually emerged with the onset of puberty for me. So it was there from the beginning helped firstly with fleeting glimpses in magazines, tv programmes like Noel's House Party then vhs tapes.
I get that there's so much more of a flood of content to be found now. I'm definately much more discerning, but then I think that's just me being older. It certainly hasn't diminished my love of getting messy or of seeing it done well.

when I initially discovered WAM I didn't see it as a fetish - certainly what I was looking for was more humiliation/degradation based but a lot of my early discoveries certainly caused a change of course

when I joined UMD I only had internet access at college and so UMD was not blocked, but a lot of outbound links were (it was just a directory then, no purchasing scenes) and, likewise, I was at the mercy of low quality/res things people had uploaded or, well, I did buy a couple of tapes on mail order but a lot.... well... there was good stuff, but also, a lot of things shall we say "it is what it is"

I think if what was available now was then, a lot of my course might have been different - who knows - but the abundance of stuff available for free, cheap, quick download, etc would make such a difference

But, then, as well as everything new being available - easy access to so much older content - the choice could help me pin point what I liked and didn't a lot quicker/cheaper/easier!

That is a curious thought. I'm in my late 20s, still skewing younger here. Although I've never gotten messy myself (and honestly, I'd probably enjoy "wamming" with a female partner more than doing it solo), I used to fantasize about women covered in mud, chocolate, black paint, etc. before I ever fully knew it was a thing. When YouTube came about, I was able to find some videos that were "interesting" in terms of how they fueled my fetish. But it wasn't until some years later that I stumbled across some of Messygirl's catalogue and saw attractive women slathering themselves with the black grease used in her videos. I was floored, as this was exactly the kind of stuff I had fantasized about for YEARS. I felt less weird seeing there were actually videos of this sort of thing that people paid to watch.

I say all that to say that, while fetishes to some extent are formed from something you're exposed to early on, it's amazing how wild the imagination can run on its own for several years, until discovering that very thing on the internet. Then again, there's so much more available at a click now that I'm sure it's different in some way.

I'm probably one of the youngest members on this site (22 years old). I got into WAM like most people here though. I remember seeing people getting pied on tv and even in the late 2000s, Nick was still featuring green slime (although it was starting to become less prevalent on the network), and being fascinated by people getting messy for some reason. Since I was already using YouTube by age 9-10, I figured why not look for videos of people getting pied and slimed? And that's what I did. Then around age 13, I realized that I had a fetish...

Anyway, I actually find myself less picky than most WAM fans. I usually have to force limits on myself when buying videos because if I didn't I would probably buy every WAM video ever made My only real turn-offs are savory WAM and nudity ( seeing clothes get messy is a big part of WAM for me).

Seems I'm the only one here who didn't develop this while younger. Had no idea it was a thing until this year. I'm late 20s as well. It was pie zone but i don't remember how I found the site. I had seen wam things scarcly in the 10s but thought it was odd or silly. But this is surely something I wouldn't have liked 5 years ago. It's too niche. You'd most likely get here from something else imo

johnnypie and I are probably around the same age.

I have said this before, but I developed my fetish for pies in the face when really young-- back then I would get an increased heart rate and nervous when a pretty girl was hit with a pie. Kind of a rarity back then. No internet and I wasn't taping stuff so you just came across it on sitcoms, etc.

Later on it became more sexual. Just think about how WEIRD that was as a teen, after you hit puberty. Your buddies all seem normal. Sure, you like the things in a girl everyone likes, but you also like pretty girls being hit with pies. WHAT? You just had nothing to guide you. You feel like a freak-- at least I did.

Anyway, I still like silly slapstick. Prefer scenarios with my WAM (as opposed to just straight-up messing someone in a chair, etc.). I even prefer clothed WAM. I really like mainstream WAM even though most here would consider it lame. I think this all goes back to when I developed the fetish.
People today? Probably develop a more hardcore development of the fetish. You WILL find the UMD if you even have an inkling of this fetish and the stuff here is more sex based-- nudity, hardcore humiliation, etc. So, I think my gentler preferences will slowly disappear over time.

That said, even my fetish has changed over the years. I used to HATE when the male got messed, but now I like it if a pretty woman is doing the messing. I developed a bit of a foot fetish, which I also like to see in my WAM (e.g., shoe filling).

I feel like I developed my WAM fetish due to a number of random coincidences, so I guess it's probably pretty similar for those growing up today. TV was arguably messier when I was growing up, but slapstick is and always will be a thing, so I can't imagine that pathway will be different for a lot of people. I developed my fetish just prior to Youtube becoming a thing, but once it came along it definitely helped for the reasons people have said. That, and porn being even more easily available now a days probably appeals to the curious ones. I think the humiliation aspect that I'm personally into grew independently of my WAM fetish, from being teased as a child and looking up to people who were "better" than me. Anyone could easily experience similar feelings at a delicate age even today, then your brain starts threading the things you like together.

Actually, if you subscribe to the psychological readings, like WAM fetishes being borne out of a rebellion while otherwise being a bit of a neat freak, they probably won't ever change. Brains might be weird and unpredictable but they seem to be a little bit consistent in some circumstances (as evidenced by the usual suspects always being named when people talk about how they got into WAM!).