The downside? You can see who favorites your photos.
Flickr is crawling with fetishists. It is inevitable with it being the internet and the existence of Rule 34*. So I am not too surprised that there are people with 500 favorites of women in plaid skirts and nylons. While that is impressive due to the person's dedication and thoroughness, it is very creepy.
These people are very easy to spot. Usually they have no pictures if their photo stream. If they do have any of their own pictures, it's photos of their fetish. Then their favorites are nothing but the most specific niche you can think of. Women in tights, men wearing a particular color of denim, or red silk (and only silk) scarves.
Note to any Flickr fetishists out there: You can easily disguise yourself if you posted other things. If I see someone who has favorited nothing but their particular fetish, then it is creepy. If someone has a mixture of things, like some pictures of airplanes or animals, I'm more likely to think they are saving my pictures for fashion - rather than sexual - inspiration. If you're that desperate, just bookmark or save the photos. We just don't want to know.
Flickr fetishists are not a huge problem. I don't want to give that impression. Fortunately, Flickr makes it easy to ban someone from favoriting your photos, so you don't have to be reminded about THAT CREEPY GUY that keeps commenting on pictures of your shoes.
I have nothing against other people's kinks. You have a thing for women's hands? Sure, whatever. Like seeing men dress up as clowns? Knock yourself out. But I do not want to be involved in strangers' sex lives. By favoriting a picture, it is publicly announcing that you're including this photograph into your sexual routine, whatever that might be.
Everyone has a right to whack off as needed. I also have a right to not know about it. Ew.
* Rule 34 - "If something exists, porn of it exists. No exceptions."
5 comments:
Nicely put. I've got too many creepers lurking around my flickr....
clothedmuch.blogspot.com
No one wants creepers hanging around, even through the internet.
Having a 3,000+ photo filled flickr account, do I know what you mean! I have had many random faves, and many random "please take more photos of handkerchiefs/plaid shirts for me" requests.
I really think the clincher was when I took a photo of myself wearing a costume that included a studded collar. That resulted in SIX favourites and FOUR messages that all ended in, "as you can see, I'm a dominant male. I saw your collar and am very interested". His usericon was old and bearded.
I screamed a lot and blocked him as thoroughly as I could. :\
Brittney-
How unpleasant! It's the internet of equivalent of when you go out to dance with your girlfriend sand there's some dude who keeps trying to grind with you even through you keep telling him to get out. Except your story is a bazillion times ickier. Ew.
I wore a pair of black and red tights and some guy wrote about those were his house colors. I asked him what he meant and he started referring to his crazy S&M dungeon thing. Ew.
I know just what you're talking about. I'm constantly blocking fetish creeps on flickr.
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