ZkellZara
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Hey so I’ll just be real about this.
It should be known that right now I dislike the way I handled that situation. it actually makes me cringe when I think of the videos i made in response.
To start, I made a tiktok basically saying “I like guys with bellies” and i never thought any wrong with it beforehand. I make several tiktoks about different gay topics. and I’m always trying to create videos that people will like and are honest to me.
I was trying to think of a caption for this tiktok trend. and I thought that putting “guys with bellies” would be a good caption. I’ve had a romantic and sexual interest in bears and I knew that it was honest to me so i posted it with confidence.
But I don’t think I realized how it looked. It implied that bears were my only type. and it was extremely fetishizing to an entire group in the gay community. Just because I’ve dated and had sexual interest in guys with bellies doesn’t mean I should proclaim it’s something i’m interested in unless it was exclusively what i was into. which isn’t the case
i very much love muscular men, I very much love bears and cubs too. I feel like I have an interest in alot of different body types. and when people saw muscular guys in my follow list it appeared that I was lying in the original tiktok. but really I just have a lot of different interests and i was just expressing one. when i should’ve realized that it’s extremely exploitative to do that unless it was exclusive to me
alot of people saying my following list was “only twinks”. but that’s not the truth at all. even back then. there were tons of bears, jocks, and random tiktokers on that list i had zero sexual interest in. and Yiddies chose to only highlight the muscular ones. when someone of the guys that i followed I didn’t even have any sexual interest in that were muscular. Most of the people i follow are to keep up with current trends on tiktok when I want to make new videos.
But I will correct the earlier comment. Someone said my first collab was with a twunk but my first ever onlyfans collab was actually with a bear and it was a great time.
Looking back I wish I wouldve handled it different. i regret so hard the tiktoks i made defending it. so cringe
All I can say is my original tiktok was something i felt like was honest to me. I don’t think I should’ve posted it since it was extremely fetishizing and borderline pandering. I just wanted to made a tiktok that I thought was fun and true to me. and i really regret my response to it all.
I mean if anyone has questions or wants to engage in this topic further I’m fully down. If I’m doing something that damaging I’m fully open and receptive to whatever I could be doing and changing that.
This is exactly what I was thinking when I responded last. Like you are allowed nuance in your attraction to diverse people of multiple types. To put the pressure on you to only like bears or guys with bellies because you said you like those, is the same type of exclusionary logic behind Bi erasure in the community. Liking one things does not invalidate the ability to have varied attraction and interest, and I’ve for one never been one to hold things against people they didn’t actually say because of insecurities of my own. We all have enough trauma and/or baggage of our own without having to drag down other people with us.
P.S. while there can be some fetishizing in the community for type-casting over-all, I don’t think you should be too hard on yourself about it. Being interested and playing your field and the options you have are very different to exploiting someone for their type only for how it pleases you. I feel like you’re a decent guy underneath it all, so at the end of the day, I’d consider myself blessed to be a bear type that you could find interest in, if I were so lucky, and if not, it isn’t your fault. At the end of the day, at this moment, we’re all just strangers on the internet, and don’t owe each other anything in our parasocial existence. Stay cool dude