Hello, I’m writing a weight gain story that takes place in the real world around the late 2000s, and I wanted to have a segment where the characters look at some weight gain media (Stories, Comics, Games, etc.) so I was wondering if any of you guys had any notable examples of weight gain media created before 2010 or around the late 2000s (could be on DeviantArt, FurAffinity, or even more obscure sites). I’ve done a little bit of research myself, but I’m curious to see if you guys knew of any that I missed!
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This is was actually right around the time I started getting into the fetish. My experience was very DeviantArt-centric, and I’m going mostly on memory here
Non-kink examples from the time generally centered on cartoons and anime (a surprising number of shows had comedic moments of characters overeating and having a large belly). The most-referenced example by far was the “Passion Patties” episode of Totally Spies
Some specific artists and writers (mostly on dA):
- Satsurou
- Blyzzarde
- mccoddles
- Blimpy4000
- Keiji-Ino
- Dr-Black-Jack (esp the Love Hina fanfic series)
- kurocaze-s
General trends:
- Very male-centric, especially straight male-centric
- Very anime/jrpg-focused. Tons of fanart and fanfic of shonen and harem anime that were shown on Toonami and adult swim (esp Naruto, Bleach, and Dragonball Z. Throw in FF7 for the rpg side). Even original art/stories tended to be anime-inspired
- Any animation tended to be done in Flash
- Commisions existed, but requests were more common than they are now
- Search actually used to be useful!
- Mature filter either didn’t exist or was not as commonly used, and if some fanart blew up (heh), the artist would be flooded with hate comments
- Speaking of hate comments, inflation, mpreg, and furries were particularly targeted for ridicule (“sonic inflation” was a common vein for jokes)
- The boundaries between the weight gain, inflation, vore, preg, muscle growth, and giantess fandoms were somewhat porous
- A higher-than-i-expected percent of bhm art was furry
- People would sometimes upload BBW drawing compliations onto YouTube
You might also wanna consider fanfiction.net (the big fanfic hub site pre-AO3). Forums too, since social media didn’t fully eat the internet until mid-10s
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Chuck ‘StudioFA’ in as a seminal artist from that period, what with the Paige series. Often imitated, arguably never bettered. Biggie, too. Both Saxxon and TheKoudelka were active back then, I believe.
Dimensions Magazine, maybe Fantasy Feeder was up and running by then? (Certainly was in the early 2010s). Yahoo groups (or whatever it was called) was basically another big hub of secret FA content.
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Some classics:
Yahoo Groups were one set of communities that used to exist in the 00s, another was Myspace. However, going through online archives of either will be a bit involved. You’ll need to search through the CSV files to find them, but good luck.
https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_yahoogroups
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While true, gay media/representation has been fairly consistently present in terms of actual people in the fetish. In fact, the whole ‘bear’ subculture was pretty early in having its own forums and communities, including internationally (mostly europe/germany). I’m not sure where to look but there were entire webrings of sites dedicated to specific subcultures/regions, etc. None of them were that big compared to now, but tighter-knit.
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You’re 100% correct, and OP would find it more useful to know about something like beefyfrat dot com (which no longer exists), PlanetGay and Gay dot com for late 90s/early 00s (also gone), or those webrings and smaller forums you mentioned.
(My only defense is how narrow my own personal experience was)