yomihara-exec said:
I think people underestimate the popularity of Bleached, not so much because "white is the default" is actually true but because there are many people who might draw the fetish but don't know that's the name of it, or are aware of the Booru's existence. I have seen over time a lot of artists steadily make Bleached edits or original drawings of their own accord, and while there are many "original" editors and the like I've seen come and go I have also seen plenty of new people join up to fill the gaps.
The niche nature of Bleached has never bothered me, and if more people get into it, great, but I've always thought that instead of fixating on Blacked or trying to "solve" Bleached's perceived problems, you should always just make things instead. Captions, edits, whatever. Making material like that is what helps, not debating whether or not the Nazi tag should be added to the default blacklist or if NTR is "permissible" in the Bleached kink.
One of the big eminent things that got me looking into bleached was the sheer popularity of white male interracial relations IRL without any real fetishization. While IRL, there is a difference between being Bleached and just being in an interracial relationship, in porn all interracial may as well be a varying degree of raceplay at this point. Even on R34 almost every WMXF post without any tatts or branded clothing inevitably has a highly upvoted string of comments of your usual "so and so is just addicted BWC" or "white guys are the only thing she needs" and other rather tame comments. I think it's a matter of actual real life things have not yet been consciously fetishized by porn and aren't allowed to be by the mainstream whereas the very nature of porn is generating appeal from a wild fantasy that seems irresistible to its consumers, therefore always trying to broach the taboo or scandalous from the start i.e. interracial porn in the 70s that we all know just means BMWF.
IRL, I don't care about having underwear carrying bleachbunnies openly boasting about being white only and getting inked up, but rather that the actual preference for white men increases with exclusivity just being a big bonus. In porn I mostly care about carving out just some sort of space where white dudes aren't getting shat on 24/7 and we can have all the underwerar-clad and inked up bunnies going nuts for BWC and saying white is right and such. I don't come here for it, but I don't even care if people want to have political asides in forums or whatever to let their anxieties and autism out either as long as you can keep it separate and not have the front page or comments loaded with jacking off to genocide and killing and torturing non-white people then we ask "why do people hate us? why aren't we popular?"