Case in point right now "sensory block pit trap" seems to be doing the rounds, a while ago it was "personality excretion as coloured jelly" and before that some less extreme ones such as "the jack-o pose" and "Sailor Moon redraw". Now obviously any of these will be someone's fetish but I'm not asking why they exist at all. Rather, there seem to be distinctive short-lived trends primarily in the Japanese art sphere (mostly seen on Pixiv and Twitter in my case) where many artists are drawing one or two works matching a specific obscure pattern and then no more, so they're not just intensely into it. So, where do they come from? How do they get started? Is there one big artist imageboard where these things go viral like reddit's default ranking? Are there a bunch of whales who get an itch and commission a bunch of artists at the same time? Big popular/influential artists leading the pack? Just a glitch in social media algorithms?
How/where do (mostly Japanese) porn fads originate and propagate?
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Uh, a little more specific please? Drawn art is too much work for casual shitposting so there needs to be some additional exchange culture around it which I'm not seeing.
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You don't need someone actively propagating fads because they already propagate memetically, people partake in trends out of their own volition most of the time.
When an idea is good enough, it propagates.
Yes but you still need some kind of feedback loop to tell artists "this is the hot thing right now" and enough community engagement to keep it going until the art is actually produced. What is the communication channel which aggregates enough noise for bizarre niche pornography specifically to propagate such patterns? The "shitting out your soul" one doesn't even really fit into a single image especially if you don't want to get suppressed by scat or death filters.
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Why would they need feedback? Artists are also people that consume content on the internet.
You talk as if they are isolated and couldn't possibly figure out what is trending by themselves...
Person A: "I have a bizarre fetish that I shall thrust upon the internet."
*proceeds to create and share bizarre fetish content*
Person B: "I did not know such a bizarre fetish existed. But it is now my bizarre fetish as well."
*proceeds to created and share bizarre fetish content*
Repeat ad nauseum until the new Person A comes along with his new bizarre fetish. Nobody's coordinating this shit. People are just weird.
*proceeds to create and share bizarre fetish content*
Person B: "I did not know such a bizarre fetish existed. But it is now my bizarre fetish as well."
*proceeds to created and share bizarre fetish content*
Repeat ad nauseum until the new Person A comes along with his new bizarre fetish. Nobody's coordinating this shit. People are just weird.