How do you feel about cartoony vore?

[Smitty]

How do you feel about cartoony vore?

[shimin]

For me I'm fine with almost any art style I just care about the content mostly.

[FunnelVortex]

I mean I am sure it's how a lot of us started and found out we had a vore fetish (a lot of us wanted to see Tom actually eat Jerry). Well that and fairytales.

But even though I like producing/consuming vore with more serious themes sometimes it's good to see/make vore that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Though "cartoony" vore has a bit of a reputation of being slop in some circles due to a certain YouTube channel, but even then any artstyle/genre can be turned into slop and you shouldn't judge a whole artstyle/genre by it's slop content. Humbug (https://aryion.com/g4/user/Humbug) specializes in Cartoony Vore and they produce some of the highest quality furry vore animations out there.

[Trajan]

I don't feel like it introduced me to vore at a young age. idk what was that gave me a vore fetish, but it wasn't cartoons. Perhaps it was in me all along. Perhaps it was a combinaison of complex factors that led me to it. In any case, I don't have nostalgia towards any vore in cartoon, and instead have it toward actual vore art that I discovered not long after I knew how to wank (didn't go through the normal porn step, idk if it's the norm).

How do I feel about it ? I have nothing against any type of vore, if it's not my taste I just don't care about it, but good to those who like it. I think each and everyone of us should do what they like and be able to find content that corresponds to their taste, and this without shame from those who don't share their tastes.

Now, about my tastes, it depend on what you call cartoony vore. If it's looney tunes tier vore, then I don't gravitate towards that because I like the physicality of vore, and feeling like things have impact. If it includes anime-type vore, then yeah I do tend to consume quite a lot of this stuff.

About "vore" in cartoons, I have kind of mixed feelings. On one hand, when I see vore-tier stuff (aka something that I could see on ekas and not bat an eye at) in sfw stuff, it makes me feel like that one Leo Dicaprio meme where he points at the screen, but on the other hand, I think their is something disturbing in putting stuff that is for you a fetish into something sfw (especially if it's aimed at children), especially given how much disgusting vore is for a lot of those who aren't into it (without judgement about them, as you can be disgusted by something while still respecting it). On the other other hand, "swallowing thing whole" is a trope that's not just unique to our little fetish subculture, but something that's in plenty of art and culturally significant pieces (Saturn swallowing his children, Jonas and the whale, Cell in dbz, ..) without it being necessarly fetish, and in a way that can have a genuine subtextual meaning (the absorption of an entity by another which inherit his characteristic, a wolf in sheep's clothing who doesn't have any mercy but can still be stopped and its action reversed, I am into vore but it's the 1700s and idk it's even a thing some people have, etc.). So yeah, idk what to think about it.

[StrangeHowie]

I mean I am sure it's how a lot of us started and found out we had a vore fetish

My thoughts exactly. I remember the old days of my troubled sexual youth when I looked at compilations of this kind of stuff on YT; back when I was just discovering my vore fetish on the precipice of my teenage years.

In terms of actual judgement, I would like to add though that cartoony vore doesn't hit the right buttons in certain circumstances for me. For example, if its just plain cartoon vore antics then I'm game, but when it starts to be muddled by tones of sadism, gore, or just non-cartoony violence then its becomes cringe imo.
Weirdly, this goes into artstyle too; I find it way harder to enjoy darker stuff if the style is overwhelmingly cartoony then I do more "realistic" styles.

To each their own of course.

[Trajan]

I mean I am sure it's how a lot of us started and found out we had a vore fetish

My thoughts exactly. I remember the old days of my troubled sexual youth when I looked at compilations of this kind of stuff on YT; back when I was just discovering my vore fetish on the precipice of my teenage years.

Teenage me being paranoïd that people were going to discover I was into it.
Teenage me fearing that Eka's portal was a shady website where I risked catching a virus (ironically, it is much safer than those I used before settling here for good, the ones I used before were hella shady).
Today me openly telling my friends that I'm into weird fetish shit (not explicitly vore tho).
Today me having an account here and posting stories on ekas.

Honestly discovering your vore fetish is always a weird thing to live through, but at end you should accept it and embrace it (or at least live with it).

Weirdly, this goes into artstyle too; I find it way harder to enjoy darker stuff if the style is overwhelmingly cartoony then I do more "realistic" styles.

I think this has to do with general tone consistency. With a cartoony style you expect something light-hearted, whereas a more realistic artstyle indicates that something is gonna be more rooted in reality, which for vore art will very often mean a darker and more gruesome narrative.

[FunnelVortex]

I mean I am sure it's how a lot of us started and found out we had a vore fetish

My thoughts exactly. I remember the old days of my troubled sexual youth when I looked at compilations of this kind of stuff on YT; back when I was just discovering my vore fetish on the precipice of my teenage years.

In terms of actual judgement, I would like to add though that cartoony vore doesn't hit the right buttons in certain circumstances for me. For example, if its just plain cartoon vore antics then I'm game, but when it starts to be muddled by tones of sadism, gore, or just non-cartoony violence then its becomes cringe imo.
Weirdly, this goes into artstyle too; I find it way harder to enjoy darker stuff if the style is overwhelmingly cartoony then I do more "realistic" styles.

To each their own of course.

Agreed but I think a good happy balance between cartoony artstyle and darker themes can be met that ends up being a chef's kiss. The artist I linked to (Humbug), for example, is undoubtedly cartoony but their scenarios usually end with a character's death or the aftermath of a character's death with the pred often having some casually sadistic or uncaring tendencies. And the way Humbug balances the two ends up being just great.

The problem I more often notice is that "cartoony" often is used as an excuse for making low-quality 5 minute fap slop (Just drop a circle tool base here and add some gurgle text and some stock dialogue, etc) which ends up giving it a bad rep by association. However, cartoony (fatal/dark) vore can end up being done super well if done right and not just treated as a template for DeviantART content slop.

[FunnelVortex]

Teenage me being paranoïd that people were going to discover I was into it.
Teenage me fearing that Eka's portal was a shady website where I risked catching a virus (ironically, it is much safer than those I used before settling here for good, the ones I used before were hella shady).
Today me openly telling my friends that I'm into weird fetish shit (not explicitly vore tho).
Today me having an account here and posting stories on ekas.

It took me until I was 24 to become comfortable enough to start drawing vore stuff and until I was 26 to start more explicitly drawing fatal vore. Before all that liking vore was something I was low-key ashamed about, and often I had to listen to someone close rant about how disgusting vore was or about how they were okay with X vore but not Y vore and I had to nod my head going "uh huh uh huh".

These days I am pretty open but what I am into, though.

[ImWander]

well, it's my usual style, I think it looks better since it can be given a more rational fictional meaning, although it's not as striking as anime or realistic 3D/2D vore, I feel it's a nice style and depending on how it is drawn or captured, adorable, however mixing stronger themes like gore, I feel like it completely ruins the striking aspect of the cartoony, everyone is free to think differently, but I like this style in particular, it's easier for me

[Trajan]

Teenage me being paranoïd that people were going to discover I was into it.
Teenage me fearing that Eka's portal was a shady website where I risked catching a virus (ironically, it is much safer than those I used before settling here for good, the ones I used before were hella shady).
Today me openly telling my friends that I'm into weird fetish shit (not explicitly vore tho).
Today me having an account here and posting stories on ekas.

It took me until I was 24 to become comfortable enough to start drawing vore stuff and until I was 26 to start more explicitly drawing fatal vore. Before all that liking vore was something I was low-key ashamed about, and often I had to listen to someone close rant about how disgusting vore was or about how they were okay with X vore but not Y vore and I had to nod my head going "uh huh uh huh".

These days I am pretty open but what I am into, though.

For me I very quickly was like "this is just fantasy, no harm". My actual problems were 1. Fear that people would find about it 2. Fear that I was going to catch a virus because I wa young and those parts of the internet were kinda scary.

I fully accept that I'm into vore, and I wouldn't like it any other way. It's part of me, and I like what it gifted me.

Also ironically enough, actual mainstream porn is genuinly off-putting and disgusting to me, and I have little knowledge about it as my sexuality got immediatly forwarded to vore and was bathed in its content and tropes. As I said that's the case for me, idk how many people are the same probably a lot. (gonna stop talking about this though as it's kind of off-topic)

[FunnelVortex]

Also ironically enough, actual mainstream porn is genuinly off-putting and disgusting to me, and I have little knowledge about it as my sexuality got immediatly forwarded to vore and was bathed in its content and tropes. As I said that's the case for me, idk how many people are the same probably a lot. (gonna stop talking about this though as it's kind of off-topic)

Relatable. I do not enjoy or understand most mainstream porn or porn tropes. I also don't like seeing crotch genitals (especially swollen/inflamed/leaking/exaggerated-looking genitals, but I can tolerate normal-looking genitals if I like the art enough) or spread assholes. Also I am not into a lot of the weird (to me) internet porn/sex slang and it generally turns me off whenever a vore fic is bathed in it and other porn tropes.

Weirdly, even though I really like fatal and dark vore when it comes to actual romance I am rather of the cuddly type and do like bodily form.

I guess I am some sort of biromantic asexual I guess?

[StrangeHowie]

I think this has to do with general tone consistency. With a cartoony style you expect something light-hearted, whereas a more realistic artstyle indicates that something is gonna be more rooted in reality, which for vore art will very often mean a darker and more gruesome narrative.

Yeah, in hindsight, I worded that poorly. By "cartoony" I not only mean artstyle (ex. looney toons) but also mechanics as well. If I see a character get pancaked by a hammer that was pulled out of nowhere, then I am going to be whiplashed when another character gets their pink bloody guts ripped out in the same story, drawing, comic, etc. While this can be entertaining, it does muck up the arousal imo. I guess that's because I really appreciate consistency in the types of vore content I consume; as soon as someone flips the tone, regardless of the tone, I could easily disengage from the fantasy. In other words, I really don't care about how "cartoony" or "realistic" the vore is, I just hope it keeps a consistent tone. I obviously like certain tones more than others, but my point still stands.

[theonlymatt]

I don't much care for it. I think it's a stage of life thing. Cartoon animation is something I associate with a younger time, while anime was something I got into as a teen and young adult. So for whatever reason I have a different reaction. I dunno, might just be out of my mind.

[RavenousLeona]

I'm certainly picky about it and have mixed feelings. I feel much the same way about any more cartoony art style with any furry porn, too. CarnivorousVixen and Shoelace are probably the few exceptions I can make.

But otherwise it doesn't appeal to my old, jaded ass because it's way too saccharine. In addition, I don't like more adult and childish things mixing like that. For one, it feels a cruel and repulsive bastardization of childhood to me, something I'm particularly weirded out about for whatever reason. For another, I find the whole "cutesy illustrations saying vulgar or edgy things" kinda... cringy. If anyone remembers those stupid bunny stickers from the aughts from Spencer's or Hot Topic or whatever, those are what I mean. The fact that some people on the 'net make that kinda crap their only personality sometimes drives me up a friggin' wall. If you're gonna be dark, or even pretend to be because you've got the personality of a cardboard cutout and the charisma of a brick, go all the way. Don't rape my childhood with your edgy-cutesy shit.

A lot of personal hangups but hey, at least I'm self-aware. :v

I wouldn't exactly call Humbug's art style cartoony either... though, he has leaned more into his Looney Tunes inspirations over recent years. I might be overly specific about things, but when I think a more "toon" design, I think simplified and exaggerated and cutesy. Humbug's still more anime-adjacent given the proportions used, even if he's given characters like Samantha and Bah four paw-like toes instead of his older five, for instance. I don't think he qualifies. He has tried vore stuff that specifically is meant to be more toony, but I wouldn't say that's his default style.

And yes, I do know that adults can enjoy cartoons too. Dude, I yar-har that stuff from the 80s to 00s all the time. Especially so I don't have to willingly pay Didney or Pedolodeon a cent for some of it, if I can help it. Some of it's aged like a fine wine, just like this quote from the original Willy Wonka movie. Crap, I can probably blame having a vore fetish on a lot of the stuff I'd seen as a kid -- the wolverine from that one Tiny Toons episode, the Big Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood, the hydra from Disney's Hercules, the cockroach alien from Men In Black (even if it's not a cartoon), et cetera.

EDIT -- Gave it some thought, and tweaked my response. I do feel like it's a pick-and-choose thing for me.

[ArcaneSigil]

I can't say I dislike it, because as a Brony vore writer that would mean denying the most obvious pred I have at my disposal. Pinkie Pie. Pinkie Pie operates on "Looney Toons" physics. The reason for the rule of "It's Pinkie Pie, don't question it" is many fold. Her Pinkie Sense is about as close to clairvoyance as you're gonna get out of a non-magical creature in a land full of magical creatures (talking horse doesn't count in this context). Then there's her LITERAL physics breaking abilities. Her mane: She stores her party canon inside her mane. It is canon, she has said she stores it there. Her party canon is the size of her torso. Her body: She has melted into a puddle, broken into pieces and reassembled herself like a puzzle, changed shades of pink on multiple occasions. Her vorish potential: There are at least two episodes in which Pinkie has showcased vorish potential.

In one episode, I don't recall the number or title, she got covered in cake batter. She then came OUT of the cake batter coating, which held the shape it had while covering her body, and proceeded to eat the entire pony sized cake batter statue in a single bite. Her mouth stretched to engulf the cake batter, she ate it and swallowed it. On other occasions, she has devoured cakes large enough to hide two to three ponies inside of them. On exactly zero of those occasions, she has gained weight. I'm pretty sure she has "Cartoon Hammerspace" physics. It's why, in many of my writings, it will be more frequent to see Pinkie Pie as a pred than a prey. Her very being brings into question whether or not physics works in the My Little Pony universe.

Science exists, Twilight Sparkle experiments with spells and potions frequently. Potions are more science than magic. But in this world of magic and monsters, even with science existing as a job ponies can have or even their destiny to be "world renowned scientists", there is one thing that holds true. Pinkie Pie does not make sense. But as a certain chaotic noodle once said... "what fun is there in making sense?"