For the love of all that is sweet, smelly and right with the world, DO NOT EXPOSE FART ARTISTS. No matter how tempting it is to reveal one artist as another, or even suspect it; keep that crap to yourself.

We scare off more talented and kind artists by exposing them or patronizing them. Just cut it out and if you see someone doing it, do NOT participate.

Some people are just not comfortable with having their personal fetishes (or even if it's just a hobby but not a real fetish for them) brought to light. So please, I'm begging for a lot of us....

One artist's name is one artist and they are who they are, even if it's their alias!

You don’t need to associate with any sort of specific gang, and you don’t need to carry around a bunch of details so you can dox someone. I’m suprised that this shit still happens, according to the urgency of this post, and I’d suggest to creators who make fetish content to boycott the system as punishment, since they’re the ones in the most immediate danger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djlc6uHTVmY

Unpopular opinion but I think it needs to be said. If you have a fetish just own it. Don't be a coward by going under a different name and slightly changing your art.

I don't think it's very fair to call someone a coward for not being open about what they are sexually attracted to, especially when their fetish is something so infamous and despised (and, admittedly, gross) on the internet; not everyone wants the world to know that they like farts, feet, inflation, and many others.

I agree with Uneune. Once you become more open about your fetish and stop living in fear of what others think about you, your life becomes a lot easier to deal with. It's like how the LGBQ community is right now with a lot of people coming out and expressing themselves even though it is still frowned upon.

There’s a difference between having a fetish and having a sexuality that isn’t straight. The love of a fetish isn’t towards any actual person, it’s toward a situation or object. Telling people who are keeping their fetishes secret to essentially “step out of their comfort zone” is dismissive of their emotions and humanness and is short-sighted and too impersonal of a piece of advice for a subject as nerve-wracking as opening up about your fetish. Just because it’s easy for one person doesn’t mean it’s easy for everyone. Generalization is always a blas in everything. Reality is specific and nuanced in its facts. If someone wants to open up about their fetish AND they would feel safe doing so, then they probably should. But if they don’t want to then no one has any right to privy into that or to shame them for having one or hiding it. The very act of posting something akin to anything opposite to what I’ve stated above is concerning to me and that reasoning endangers people.

Yeah I definitely have to agree with Penchant and Homologous. There is no reason you should have to be open about your fetish if you don't want to be. And to say that somebody is a coward for now wanting people to know about something so private is, in my opinion, extremely ignorant.

It's nobodies else's business but your own. There's nothing cowardly about not wanting people to know about your personal interests.

Whatever.

And I agree with Homologous. For some it my not even be about whether or not they're comfortable with their fetish, they just may not want to have their public persona associated with it.

People have a funny way of remembering the worst things about public figures.

Remember AnimatedJames? Here he's just another fartist but bring him up in circles outside our own and most people would ask, "Isn't that the guy who draws farts?" despite the fact that he does unrelated stuff as well.

I miss Animated James. It's a shame he doesn't create artwork anymore. If only people hadn't ridiculed him for his fetish. :(

So you would rather live in fear of what people might think of you by having an unpopular fetist? Who cares what people on the internet think about you. If you look up my username on Google, you will see I use it for everything, including both personal and public things. I could care less what other people think about me. If this makes me happy, then accept me for who I am. If more people in our community were like this, then we could show the world that we are proud of what we like and not some weird group that wants to hide away and be ashamed of something we love.

It isn’t actually that simple. Yes, you can do that. But the emotional staggering it can do to a person is tremendous. YOU got out of YOUR “hidey-hole”. Good for you. Meanwhile not everyone has your personality, your cultural background, or your mental health to do something like that without experiencing trauma. The fetish community doesn’t need to go prancing itself on display at any level; it is fine if we prefer to close this piece of us away to a personal space.

Whether we feel ashamed or not, we’re still a very small part of society. Sure, a society might just ignore the tidbit of your fetish. Or they might be one where no one will hire someone like that. Or they could be one where you could be killed for having deviant desires that go against some religious law.

Just as well, it’s a basic human need to socialize. But when one is estranged or fears plausible estrangement, then they have every right to hide their fetish without anyone asking. If every person with a fetish on earth were forced to publicize on it then so many people would have their humanness and entity rejected and neglected. Some of them could actually lose their financial stability or even their lives.

I can’t understand why anyone SHOULD open up. Not everyone gets a happy ending. Some are left alone on a romantic level. Some are left alone entirely on any personal level. Everyone who opens up about is throwing their out into the world and our species. And after seeing how angry and aggressive our species can get, it’s no wonder people are afraid of admitting to their fetishes. By doing so you put yourself at risk and you cannot control the outcome. It could be good, but that acceptance can never overturn any abuse done about this.

I didn't realise that exercising my right to privacy was the same as living in fear, but hey, thanks for letting me know ;)

Since no one seems to be making any headway in this argument, I feel like we may just have to agree to disagree on the topic of privacy.

Some people don't feel a need to hide their fetishes, some do. Some people prefer male farts, some people prefer female ones, some don't care. Some like certain materials or situations, some like more eastern- or western-inspired styles, some prefer still images or doujinshis, there's a million of these differences I could list off. We just gotta learn to accept, right? We're all here for the same reason (well, all of us except the troll accs), right?

To those saying "Be open about it". I'm curious. So does that somehow dictate that someone ELSE should oust someone with a fart fetish if the person doesn't want it to be known that they have one? That's nobody's business but their own. Why does it fall to other people to try to expose that person as having the fetish? At that point, I don't think it should come as any surprise that people leave the community when that happens. If they don't want it known, then accept that and move on.

To those that feel you should be open about your fetish, then run your own lives that way. Not all of us would like to have it known by the world that we have a fetish that's often mocked, ridiculed and looked down upon. And that shouldn't be challenged by trying to force someone's fetish to become public knowledge.

It's funny though, default started this whole argument, but never commented back afterwards nor offered a shred of evidence that this is even going on.

It's apparently something from a 4chan thread, I think. I remember looking through one of the threads on there and seeing that happen with somebody bringing up a particular artist having a normal account and a fart fetish account. People in the thread were quick to tell him to shut up about it though and to stop trying to chase off artists from the community by making the connection known.

Which I agree with. If someone wanted it to be known that they're a fetish artist as well, they'd do it themselves rather than not bring it up.

Actually, this happens several times, as evidenced by how many artists who used to do fart fetish artwork, but then purge everything the moment someone says "Hey, your art sytle looks a lot like so and so."

Right now on deviantart there is a crusade to expose and shame fart artists by seeking art the drawings, commenting, then trying to find anyone at all that looks even remotely similar to expose them and cause trouble.

My plea wasn't to garner attention, it was a plea to people who think it's okay to out people to lay off.