GTS for the Next Generation
This is an auspicious point in history, my friends. Do you know why?
It’s a new news cycle for macrophilia! We’re seeing a new round of “hey, look at this weird shit” from indolent, disinterested “journalists” tasked to write about a trend they neither understand nor care about.
The Rise of ‘Giantess’ Kink, 2023’s Most-Searched Fetish (Vice, Dec. 12) and Porn site names the 2024 fetish of the year (Mashable, Dec. 12) are the vanguards of this routine, two articles based on the same core factoid—searches for “giantess” on Clips4Sale went up 1000% in 2023. What’s notable this round is that the “journalists” neglected to scavenge off past articles, like past articles have done, and instead are focused only on search results in TikTok and Reddit.
What’s missing are the same tired quotes from Dr Mark Griffiths, Dr Laura Friedman, and Dr Justin Lehmiller that appeared in Salon’s “Urge: A Giant Fetish” and have been reheated and served ever since. What’s also missing is the least amount of curiosity about the fetish on behalf of Vice’s Magdalene Taylor and Mashable’s Anna Iovine. They’re perfectly content to repeat soundbites from Clip4Sale’s blog and then theorize, Descartes-style (in an isolated cell, kneading a little ball of wax), what this fetish might be about.
Iovine starts out with “The giantess fetish is a type of macrophilia,” when what she probably means is that it’s a type of paraphilia. She frames giantess fantasies as either domination/crush or mixed-size sex. That is literally her word choice for an article someone paid her for. She mentions “transformation” and, at the last second, “vore,” in this erratic and under-informed article.
Taylor’s article runs pretty much the same way: starts out talking about a TikTok trend of low-angle shots, quotes the Clips4Sale blog entry about “giantess” being the #1 fetish search term around the world and the third-highest grossing category, at least in terms of content sold, if not sales. She boils the giantess fetish to femdom, then postulates about this trend in TikTok, namely, that a small trend of fun videos of low-angle shots blew up on account of enthusiastic comments trying to push the envelope further. I suppose that’s not unreasonable, and it’s certainly more cognition than Iovine bothered with. Perhaps it’s a better article than the Mashable piece, because it doesn’t attempt to spread too far in interest and actually takes a moment to think about the development of a limited phenomenon. The article isn’t about the giantess fetish: it’s about its popularity in Clips4Sale and TikTok. Size Fantasy fetishists may have wished for a deeper exploration of the giantess phenomenon, but that’s not the intent of this article, and that’s fine.
I mean, look at me: I started writing this newsletter with a shitty attitude about both articles, and I’ve talked myself into a different position with the Vice article.
The next day, Alice Giddings of Metro UK posted a similar piece—The ‘Giantess’ kink was the height of horniness in 2023—citing Clips4Sale’s findings but with new stats (over 6,000 giantess videos on PornHub; sales for giantess content on Clips4Sale have increased 36% last year), and now quoting “sex expert Ness Cooper.” To her credit, the quotes from Ness show that her apprehension of the giantess fetish is deeper than casual: “Some may also focus specifically on large genitals and being consumed by them or entering them as smaller beings.” The Boys/Gen V, Resident Evil, and Taylor Swift are alluded to as well.
It looks like Metro UK and Vice have two pretty good, well-written articles about the spike in interest in giantess videos. The lesson here? I need to read the whole article, maybe twice, before I go shooting my mouth off, but at least this way you get to witness the writer’s process first-hand.
The scavengers, however, are South Africa’s 2 Oceans Vibe News (“Porn Site Reveals “Giantess” As 2024 Fetish Of The Year”), heavily lifting from the Mashable article (with atrribution), and Z News Service out of Cheshire, England. The latter article, “2024’s Top Sexual Fetish Unveiled: Giantess or Macrophilia,” reads like it was cranked out by a substandard AI engine, claiming “a recent study” has identified the video trend, which is inaccurate. It cites several sources but links to none of them. Based on the content, I’m guessing that whoever generated this article… yeah, it’s attributed to Sam Allcock, CEO of PR Fire and founder of Law News, who reportedly made his fortune by flipping websites and starting an SEO agency. He may be a real person, I’ve found two similar but different photos of him:
The buttons on his shirt lie on the correct side, affirming that these images haven’t been reversed, but do people really wear a wristwatch on their right arm now? Is it a display of status, mounting the jewelry on one’s dominant arm? “Nice to meet you: look at what I’ll throw great sums of money at.”
But does this CEO actually write for Z News Service? Did a CEO in public relations actually take time out to write a not-entirely human-sounding article summing up Mashable’s facts for an article on the giantess fetish? Does this successful entrepreneur actually have time to write 13 articles on random topics on December 15 and 14 unrelated articles on December 14, for an obscure Cheshire news aggregator? My money says that few or none of the authors in Z News Service’s gallery write for them, if they exist at all, and this is yet another tedious example of a website bulking out its content with shabby AI compilation.
Which means that AI has taken over the role of the luckless low-rung drudge in the news office who has to generate the annual revisiting of macrophilia. Is this better or worse than the “hey, look at this weird shit” coverage by Dave and Chuck the Freak’s podcast, or Texas’s KFMX 94.5 repeating the Mashable article with their own adolescent commentary? At least the KFMX piece coughs up some new Size Fantasy artwork I’ve never seen before.
And let me note with pardonable pride that my home state, Minnesota, is one of those for whom “giantess” is the most popular search term. Wish I could claim any credit for this, but until Clips4Sale includes a literature section, I have zero influence.
In Her Shadow,
Aborigen
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