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videos in the "woman with large breasts not wearing a bra does something mundane" genre with multiple millions of views. Anecdata: even if they're we
by JohnBooty 10mo ago
videos in the "woman with large breasts not wearing
a bra does something mundane" genre with multiple millions
of views.
Anecdata: even if they're wearing bras and not dressed in a revealing way and it's a still photo... the views will pour in.
I've had a Flickr account for about 20 years. I used to run a community and I took a lot of pictures at our gatherings, which were primarily 20-somethings. Some photos had 100-1000x the views of other pictures and it took me a while to figure out why.
The photos with surprising view counts had women with large chests.
I know how obvious that sounds but many of these photos were so lowkey that... trust me, it was not obvious. For some of these photos, we're talking about something that would not be out of place as a yearbook photo or hanging on a church's bulletin board. It would just be a group photo of people hanging out, nothing sexy or revealing, and rando woman #7 in the photo might be apparently chesty. And it would have 100x the views of other photos from that event.
Interesting and amusing.
There are a number of ways you could think about it. Some views might be attributable to people who can't access explicit content due to parental controls or local laws but I have a hunch some people actually prefer this sort of thing to explicit content.
(I also wonder if there's a slight voyeuristic/nonconsensual appeal to these photos. Which ties back in to the opening paragraph of the linked article...)
It also underscored for me how women, especially women with certain bodies, can't escape being sexualized no matter what they do or wear.
- switchbak 10mo ago> how women, especially women with certain bodies, can't escape being sexualized Give it a while, everyone falls off the attractiveness escalator eventually. For some the only thing worse than being objectified is being invisible.
- NewJazz 10mo agoAnd for others, finally being invisible and not subject to leering in public and online is a mercy.
- switchbak 10mo agoIf that's all you need, you can always wear an oversized t-shirt with a wolf howling at the moon. Or maybe that only works for men.
- bananaflag 10mo agoWhat do you mean by that? Asking honestly.
- climb_stealth 10mo agoI think the t-shirt with the wolf howling at the moon is a bit of a stereotype. If you have watched the Simpsons, something the comic book store owner would wear. Overweight, unkempt, awkward around women, and guaranteed zero attention from women.
- bananaflag 10mo agoThanks! I expected that, but never associated it with the idea of a howling wolf.
- brailsafe 10mo agoDefinitely definitely only works for men
- the-mitr 10mo agoAnd it will form it's own niche. Rule 34
- LexiMax 10mo agoI have a pet theory that the reason certain men are homophobic is because they're terrified that another man is looking at them the same way they look at women.
- tonyhart7 10mo ago
- swed420 10mo ago> For some the only thing worse than being objectified is being invisible. "It's a Wonderful Chest" from Chappelle's Show was ahead of the curve(s) on this.
- emmelaich 10mo agohttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/apr/04/thelastwhistle https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/apr/04/thelas... > you builders, stop wolf-whistling, it's coarse. Except if you do it to me. Then I'd be really pleased ... Attraction and romance is complicated.
- gavinray 10mo agoThe pragmatic takeaway is "making yourself more attractive will make people x100 more interested in seeing you." So at least there's that.
- awesome_dude 10mo agoHrm, the takeaway is really (IMO) "Have a woman with a big chest in the same picture will get 100x more views"
- ClikeX 10mo agoGo to any photography subreddit that's not already focused on nudity or sex. Any photo with naked women will get more upvotes than most other submissions. It can be an objectively bad photo, that doesn't really matter.
- etra0 10mo agoI can totally attest this. I was an avid viewer of r/analog. I don't know if this was 'recent' or not, but every time someone post a naked picture, either good or not, it goes rapidly to Top posts. Even though it used to had many comments like "This photo is not interesting other than the naked woman", the upvotes arrived anyway. I think nowadays they mostly block the comments in those posts, but what used to be an inspiring subreddit that would pop from time to time in my feed, is not longer that interesting to me.
- rafabulsing 10mo agoI still find that one to be one of the better photography subreddits, but I do agree that that's been happening a bit too often lately. (I'd also love recommendations of other good photography related subreddits, if you have any!)
- mattbettinson 10mo ago/r/analog used to be sooo good!
- dpark 10mo ago> “This photo is not interesting other than the naked woman” My first instinct is to agree with this sentiment. There’s a lot of pretty mediocre photography that gets attention because “naked woman”. At the same time, you could equally say “that landscape photo is not interesting if you take away the lake”. If you take away the interesting piece of a photo, yeah, it’s not interesting anymore. The fact is that people (but especially men) enjoy looking at naked and near-naked women. It’s a consistently compelling subject. It might be “easy” but it’s still compelling.
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- saulpw 10mo ago> I have a hunch some people actually prefer this sort of thing to explicit content. https://www.reddit.com/r/2busty2hide/ https://www.reddit.com/r/2busty2hide/
- JohnBooty 10mo agoI.... enjoyed looking at that! The confusing ones in my account were sooooo much tamer though. The chests were not even remotely the focus of the photos. It was subtle enough that it took me a while to even figure out the trend.
- fsckboy 10mo agothanks JohnBooty for sharing your insights about women with certain bodies
- xgulfie 10mo agoLike the valiant Sir Mix-a-lot before him, he can not lie
- hsjdndjdiendn 10mo agoI think there is a remix that could be made with both of them.... Would sell.
- Dr_Incelheimer 10mo agoI feel called out here :( I physically cannot resist on clicking on videos or photos with even mildly attractive women in the thumbnail. Same thing IRL. Which is strange because I don't even care about porn.
- anal_reactor 10mo agoNaked woman is like endgame. Seems great, but it actually sucks (hehe). Attractive woman in a completely normal situation is like starting new game and knowing it's gonna be really good.
- everdrive 10mo ago>It also underscored for me how women, especially women with certain bodies, can't escape being sexualized no matter what they do or wear. And how would you distinguish "being sexualized" from "men finding a woman attractive" ?
- scotty79 10mo agoIt's the same thing. You use one phrasing or the other depending on whether you want to villify of what's happening or not.
- JohnBooty 10mo agoIt's an interesting question and is, more or less, what the linked article is about. I enjoyed the read. (While written by a woman, it comes down decisively on the side of "hey - you don't need anybody's permission to find things sexy")
- ezoe 10mo agoBut how did only "chesty" photos get 100x views? Is there an online forum like posting a URL to such photos?
- DiscourseFan 10mo agoIts just instinctual
- JohnBooty 10mo agoFlickr doesn't break down views, so, for all I know it could have been bots doing image recognition or a single guy in his bedroom clicking on certain pictures 100x a day. But yeah.... "links shared on forums" was always my leading theory. In some cases, I'm sure the thumbnails enticed extra clicks. But some of the pictures just had a bustier than average woman in the background or something. It's not clear to me that the thumbnails were enticing. (99% of these people were my IRL friends as well, so I wasn't really trying to take salacious pictures....)
- ffuxlpff 10mo agoReal women are sexy. Especially the ones you know personally. The vulgar creatures posing in porn sites not so, but act as a substitute.
- scotty79 10mo ago> women with certain bodies, can't escape being sexualized no matter what they do or wear men with certain bodies, can't escape being tallized no matter what they do or wear or you could just say they are tall
- imtringued 10mo ago>It also underscored for me how women, especially women with certain bodies, can't escape being sexualized no matter what they do or wear. You also can't escape being ugly and receiving the opposite reaction as a man. There are so many things that you can't escape that it seems pretty suspect to focus on this one in particular. The most obvious aspect of being alive is that your body is mortal. You will never be able to escape that fact. You also cannot escape chronic diseases that negatively impact your life every single day. The idea that men and women pair up to produce new life together is one of the more wholesome aspects of life. There are plenty of insects where one of the partners dies in the process and many species that don't care for the young.