I remember a VICE article from a decade ago picked up the trend and some people on neogaf attributed the sudden rise in popularity to the Lannisters in GoT. It made sense back then since the show and the spike in viewership for the genre both happened around the same time.
Maybe but they are full siblings in GOT, it's straight incest. The step stuff seems more likely correlated with people's real experiences growing up of mixed and split families. Idk for sure of course.
taboo content sells and all you have to do nowadays to make content taboo is add a word to the dialog (that i assume most people are ignoring anyways?)
i have only had one sex worker as a client during my accounting years and they only stayed a few years as a client, but that is my analysis. it's always a money thing.
I don't think the dialogue is even affected, it's probably just the titles. At least, some videos are definitely uploaded multiple times with different titles.
Since the UK either had a proposal to ban, or already have banned incesty porn, I'm guessing the platforms will just provide an option to show the same video under different titles for particular regions and various other targeting, including random a/b testing.
The 15 upvoters who preceded me seem to have firmly grasped this definition. For the rest of us:
Bimbofication is a practice, kink, or fetish that involves role-playing and transforming oneself into a stereotypical portrayal of a "bimbo," characterized by exaggerated femininity, playful behavior, and a carefree attitude. It emphasizes empowerment and self-expression, allowing individuals to embrace their sexuality and challenge societal norms.
There's also the less self-empowered variety where the transferred person not only looks and behaves like an exaggerated Barbie doll but is supposed to become that airheaded. Like so often, the lines between these varieties are blurry.
By the way, I find it rather telling that bimbo fetish is becoming more popular at a time when all of the MAGA women are doing their best to look like mass-produced plastic dolls... Exposure does a lot to drive preferences.
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soupguy@lemmy.world · 108 pts · 124d
I'll be glad to see the day when the front page isn't 70% step-fantasies.
qualia@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 124d
Deleuze & Guattari would argue step-fantasies are a byproduct of modern psychology's perspective of "sanity" being founded on Oedipalism.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 124d
Neat, a D&G namedrop in the wild.
minorkeys@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 124d
It's a byproduct of divorce rates and mixed families.
Yosmonkol@piefed.social · 4 pts · 123d
I remember a VICE article from a decade ago picked up the trend and some people on neogaf attributed the sudden rise in popularity to the Lannisters in GoT. It made sense back then since the show and the spike in viewership for the genre both happened around the same time.
minorkeys@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 123d
Maybe but they are full siblings in GOT, it's straight incest. The step stuff seems more likely correlated with people's real experiences growing up of mixed and split families. Idk for sure of course.
Yosmonkol@piefed.social · 4 pts · 123d
Right, the genre predates GoT, the argument at the time was that the show may have contributed to the 178% increase in views from 2014 to 2015 , bringing the genre mainstream.
minorkeys@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 123d
It definitely advertised it, for sure, but I think it would have grown in popularity regardless.
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 123d
What are you doing with that stump, brother???
Allero@lemmy.today · 22 pts · 123d
I always wondered why each and every video highlights the "step-" part.
Is it not to be caught promoting incest, or is it because actors look obviously too different to be related?
Demdaru@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 123d
First one. Before folk got oversensitive, that content had no "step-" in it xD
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 123d
taboo content sells and all you have to do nowadays to make content taboo is add a word to the dialog (that i assume most people are ignoring anyways?)
i have only had one sex worker as a client during my accounting years and they only stayed a few years as a client, but that is my analysis. it's always a money thing.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 123d
I don't think the dialogue is even affected, it's probably just the titles. At least, some videos are definitely uploaded multiple times with different titles.
Since the UK either had a proposal to ban, or already have banned incesty porn, I'm guessing the platforms will just provide an option to show the same video under different titles for particular regions and various other targeting, including random a/b testing.
Allero@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 123d
I see :)
qualia@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 124d
The 15 upvoters who preceded me seem to have firmly grasped this definition. For the rest of us:
Bimbofication is a practice, kink, or fetish that involves role-playing and transforming oneself into a stereotypical portrayal of a "bimbo," characterized by exaggerated femininity, playful behavior, and a carefree attitude. It emphasizes empowerment and self-expression, allowing individuals to embrace their sexuality and challenge societal norms.
Jesus_666@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 124d
There's also the less self-empowered variety where the transferred person not only looks and behaves like an exaggerated Barbie doll but is supposed to become that airheaded. Like so often, the lines between these varieties are blurry.
By the way, I find it rather telling that bimbo fetish is becoming more popular at a time when all of the MAGA women are doing their best to look like mass-produced plastic dolls... Exposure does a lot to drive preferences.
mrnobody@reddthat.com · 21 pts · 124d
Is that like girls looking like glorified Barbies? I'm out
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 123d
Kristi Noem's husband was the unwitting popularizer of the term, via his own practical example. So it's not just women.
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 124d
Also the bleached hair, excessive makeup, lip injections, and comically large breast and butt implants.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 123d
This is the more common definition
realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip · 10 pts · 123d
Woman: breathes
Crazy people: It emphasizes empowerment and self-expression
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org · 10 pts · 124d
So basically guys are jerking it to extreme makeover show?
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 6 pts · 124d
Empowers you to get everything you want, as long as you only want what the powerful want you to want.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 123d
People recently became familiar with this kink by the way of Kristi Noem's husband's example.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 123d
5wim@infosec.pub · 17 pts · 124d
B I M B O F I C A T O N
Town of Bimbofica. Fascinating fetish
9point6@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 123d
It's actually a subgenre of reggaeton
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 124d
SPAGHETTI VACATION!
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 16 pts · 124d
Let's change that to himboification.
cheers_queers@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 124d
i thought that at first too, but after seeing the pics i realized bimbo is exactly right lol
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 124d
Oh, I just meant the search term trend 🤣
cheers_queers@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 124d
ohhh lol
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 123d
it's a good idea
gndagreborn@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 124d
😳😳
Wren@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 123d
I hope this means less incest porn.
fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 124d
thought this was a (very late) april fools joke 💀 is this real? is there some recent / relevant reason for it?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 124d
this is Kristi Noem's husband. he likes to dress like a bimbo online and chat people up.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 123d
Those nips are doing WORK. Not good work, but work.
forwhomthecattolls@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 123d
and I thought my tits looked weird, good God
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 123d
Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 123d
I looked this up this weekend. It was not at all what I thought it would be and it was not enjoyable