Discussion: Why it's hard to sustain sharing my kink (no problem sustaining my kink itself btw :-) )

I’ve been making my naughty little captions for just about a year.  I know my captions can get a little dark sometimes… if it wasn’t a man trapped in the role of the woman who is being forced to live these fantasies my captions would be downright misogynistic.  Trapped as a sex toy, trapped as a man’s slave, trapped as my own mother-in-law married to a backwards conservative old man…

These are fantasies. They excite and titillate because they are not real. No one should be trapped or enslaved. But… we explore dark fantasies all the time. We have zombie apocalypse movies, creepy psychopathic murder series, stories of horrific war, vampires, and even face hugging aliens in mainstream media (don’t tell me Alien isn’t a dark TG pregnancy nightmare).  Dark fantasies no one should have to live but tickle a part of our human psyche. 

I don’t want to sound all philosophical but being human means exploring those dark parts of ourselves as much as celebrating the wonderful things we do.

That said… Even in this age of no-fact-checking I keep finding my blogspot posts censored by Google.  I got kicked off DeviantArt (which I paid for a full year and got maybe 5 months out of btw) because some porn site sent them a DMCA takedown because of one of the photos I used… Memes (which is essentially what TG captions are) have always used photos from other sites and clearly fall into fair use (especially because I don’t get paid for my dirty little hobby).

I even had a temporary ban on Reddit because I posted a caption about a guy transformed into a girl and sneaking into the showers (he found himself then wanting to sneak into the boys showers now that he was a girl).  Reddit assumed it was a real voyeur picture and I had to refer them to the original porn site that was clearly posting staged videos of “girls in the shower…”

Oh, and then there’s someone (or a few someones) who love to vote down posts on Reddit not because of the specific post, but they just run down a whole subreddit, downvoting every single post because they don’t like the genre.  

It's frustrating because it’s arbitrary.  It’s not because of a copyright infringement, it’s not because of a privacy violation, it’s not even because the content itself is particularly dark or mean spirited. 

It’s because the content is kinky, and it’s not the kink of the people who run these sites. And other people's kinks aren't always our own... which can make people uncomfortable. I understand that, I get an emotional response to things that confuse or are just "off" enough, but I'm mature enough to take a breath and walk away... none of my business really.

But if you ever wonder why you see someone come along and publish a lot of really great captions and then disappear, it’s not that they suddenly “got over their kink.” It’s because having to fight faceless algorithms and, even worse, real people who just don’t like your kind of kink… well it kind of takes the fun out of it. And honestly, I only do my captions because I enjoy it.

I’m probably going to move my blog to a site I host myself (and then hope AWS doesn’t come after me).

I’d love to hear other people’s thoughts on dark-kink-slapdowns.