Could vore ever go mainstream?

[GastricAztec (mention)]

Could it become as common as vampires and zombies? Or is the vore community too divided by different sub-genres to unite under a common banner?

Can you picture a major director making a film that glorifies vore as a fetish, rather than just a monster feature? There was vore in Return of the Jedi but it wasn’t regarded as a fetish, it was supposed to be scary.

What type of vore do you think has the best chance of becoming popular?

[dessychan8 (mention)]

If it does then people who've been around for decades will start being harassed. This isn't something people should want to happen.

[GastricAztec (mention)]

If it does then people who've been around for decades will start being harassed. This isn't something people should want to happen.

How could people be harassed?

[deathknight (mention)]

I have serious doubts on this one man

[ArcaneSigil (mention)]

I mean there are anime and movies that feature vore. Beastars, in the last episode, Legoshi eats his friend's leg. Dragon Pilot Hisone and Masotan is just a straight up Dragon Vore anime. Cartoon Network and Looney Toons featured vore way back in the early 1900s with characters like the Tazmanian Devil and several episodes of Sylvester and Tweety where Sylvester ate the bird and we got internals. Pinocchio had Monstro the whale internals. The only reason it's not so main stream anymore is because adults who grew up in those times apparently decided it's a bad thing.

[CapturePoint (mention)]

There are plenty of media that feature BDSM or similiar subjects in a non-judgemental way. I could see it happen for vore just as well.

But even if not there IS plenty of vore in media, there's a whole dedicated topic on this forum for it, ha ha!

[tarry (mention)]

Imo I think people have a love/hate relationship with vore, and back then when people hated it, they really HATED it.
I think there's still a large amount of people who hate it now, I've seen videos, comments and posts around it.
To be fair people who don't like it probably find it very disturbing, disgusting, or it's just too much, and when some people see something that looks bizarre and don't understand or misunderstand it they tend show hate (multiple people have done it with fetishes that have gone mainstream like feet, furries, and gays)
To be honest a bunch of what I just said was mainly just what I think from looking around on the internet (not from any thorough scientific research) and while vore has gone increasingly more popular, unless something unexpected or viral happens on the internet I really don't think vore will go mainstream.
But we should probably stay cautious, because if it does let's just say a lot can change

[IddlerItaler (mention)]

I mean, societies have been fine with slavery, human sacrifice, blood sports and even cannibalism - things far more abhorrent than tits on a TV. Anything's possible - even a society that doesn't see people as weird for having kinks, where it is acceptable to discuss sexuality in casual contexts and porn sites are treated as an important part of the human experience rather than as expendable dens of earthly corruption.

The flipside is that we might also backslide into puritanism, oppressiveness, and one or more of the things I mentioned.

[Omny87 (mention)]

There has been plenty of "vore" in media, and many of us found these scenes more arousing than most people (in some cases they are what sparked our interest in vore in the first place), but in the vast majority of examples given, it's not made for the same reason that I or any other vore artist on this site create vore, I.E. as an erotic/pornographic display for satisfying a fetish. Characters in "mainstream" media typically only get eaten for horror/shock value (monster movies, horror/action games, etc) or for comedy (cartoons, commercials, etc). This is just my opinion, but I honestly don't care for most "mainstream" vore these days because they're usually too fast, too violent, too goofy, or I just don't find either the pred or prey sexy.

You could argue that some mainstream vore scenes are at least someone erotic in tone, such when a predator taunts and teases their prey by calling them "tasty" and "delicious", or playfully licking their face. But personally, I feel most of these scenes are framed that way for the same reason a cartoon villain will mock and ridicule the hero as they are slowly lowered into a deathtrap: to both raise the tension of a scene and to demonstrate how sadistic/dangerous the villain/predator is to their intended victim. Just as a typical villain won't just shoot the hero without hesitation, a predator-type villain is not going to simply gobble up their target and be done with it; they want their prey to know they're going to be eaten, that they are nothing but food to them, that the predator feels no remorse and even enjoys the idea of eating someone alive. Sure, this sort of trope is erotic to us voreaphiles (it's one of my favorite vore tropes, certainly), but to a mainstream audience it's just another example of a villainous monologue. Maybe someone working behind the scenes was actually into vore and could have added a bit of vore-y goodness into these scenes, but let's be honest, that's purely speculation.

If vore ever did become mainstream (which to me would require it being presented on a streaming service like Netflix and/or talked about on mainstream news), I imagine it would be brought into public view in a manner similar to how BDSM was presented in 50 Shades of Grey. Make of that what you will.

[IddlerItaler (mention)]

You could argue that some mainstream vore scenes are at least someone erotic in tone, such when a predator taunts and teases their prey by calling them "tasty" and "delicious", or playfully licking their face.

I remember one of the nuns at sunday school threatening me with "I'll eat you" after I had done the homework in a blatantly wrong way.

Though I've also heard the infrequent "You look good/cute enough to eat" as a flirt.

[Miridium (mention)]

Probably not. It's way too niche.

[thefray013 (mention)]

I'd say that our community as it currently exists will probably be the most "mainstream" it'll ever get.

[JaggedBits (mention)]

god, i hope not

[GastricAztec (mention)]

god, i hope not

I’ve heard people here say this, why wouldn’t you want it to go mainstream?

[IddlerItaler (mention)]

I’ve heard people here say this, why wouldn’t you want it to go mainstream?

The usual motivations I see are:

A. I'm happy with vore's status as a niche fetish and I don't wish for the community to expand

B. Fetishes are personal and intimate and thus best left to the private sphere rather than mainstream

C. Vore is gross and I'm a degenerate for having this fetish and the less I stumble upon it during everyday life, the better

[thefray013 (mention)]

god, i hope not

I’ve heard people here say this, why wouldn’t you want it to go mainstream?

I like it being relatively "secluded" here. And, what exactly do you mean by "mainstream?"

Edit: I forgot to read for a second. I don't think it'd ever go mainstream like that, at least not on a very significant scale.

[PacifistDuck (mention)]

Not this shit again. It seems like every once in a while this gets brought up again, and the answer never changes: No. It's a niche hobby that will never be seen as normal and accepted, no matter how much we try to compare it to other stuff.
Just keep it within the community. If not for the safety of artists and enjoyers alike, then because mainstream culture inevitably destroys anything it gets its hands on.

[IddlerItaler (mention)]

Not this shit again. It seems like every once in a while this gets brought up again, and the answer never changes: No. It's a niche hobby that will never be seen as normal and accepted, no matter how much we try to compare it to other stuff.
Just keep it within the community. If not for the safety of artists and enjoyers alike, then because mainstream culture inevitably destroys anything it gets its hands on.

I know you said you no comparisons, but reading your username I can't help but make a comparison. I'm reminded of how acceptable it had become to make jokes about genocide and war crimes across many internet social circles - Attack on Titan, r/GamersRiseUp, Warhammer Fantasy and 40K, Stellaris and other strategy games. I would have happily traded those away for a nonstop stream of vore and giantess jokes instead (although frankly, the darker brand of vore, with the disregard of life, would be like a Christmas present for internet edgelords).

Either way, it's hard to say that the stigma against vore and other fetishes plays in the favour of their communities and artists, when that thing is at the root of harassment and artist takedowns like the removal of Karbo's deviantart. After the Gumroad debacle, someone joked that at this rate NSFW artists will have to run for president just to not be stamped out completely.

[AlicesStomach (mention)]

In my opinion it could really only go mainstream in the porn scene, and even then it would still be quite niche. Ik a few vore artists get a good chunk of cash so it wouldn't be hard to say that porn artists/video makers wouldn't NOT be interested.

[ScarKnight (mention)]

I mean, fuck, there’s an omegaverse anime airing right now; sky’s the fucking limit at this point.