One of the main reasons I took a break was because being online so much, trying to keep up with friends and fans, social media, a schedule for updating things, and the like just became too much.
WAM in particular is a very personal fetish for me, and I've enjoyed getting to meet fellow fetishists and creatives through putting myself out there, but it got to the point where I got burnt out.
Some of you on here, I did get to know pretty well in the DMs, so I'm sorry for not getting back to those, but for my own mental health, I'm making a conscious effort to only do things when I have the full energy to do so.
As great as forums and social media are for connecting people and discovering more things about yourself and kink and whatever other fetishes one might have, I've been finding it really nice to step back from it all.
Hopefully this time around, I can have more healthy boundaries for myself so I don't lose the enjoyment I have for some of my greatest pleasures (And also many first that I happened to video tape because I'm an unrelenting exhibitionist).
Thank you again to everyone who has stuck around through the radio silence and continued to show support in various ways
Yeah, a community shouldn't be something that you keep up with, as though it's gonna leave you behind if you don't run fast enough. Some people might not get it, but I'm confident that there are people here who will be happy to match your pace. I hope you can find those people and connect with them in a way that feels like you're just humming along instead of pushing yourself
I felt like you might have been taking a break for a reason like this, and I fully support it. Even though I'm not a producer, I can definitely understand burnout with this even just from an overstimulation standpoint. I've been working (not altogether successfully) to limit time I spend perusing WAM content, just for better overall balance and state of mind. It's taken a lot for me to even gain a healthy view of my kink/fetish, so that's a start at least. But your approach is great and I hope it can also help you have a better time here, maybe maximizing the most out of less scenes/less time spent here. Although, as always, your presence here is most welcome.
The things with forums and social media is it's all about now, the next thing, more, more, more. If you stop, you go backwards. It's always the next thing, quantity, faster.
But as a consumer (yes I did some producer a while back and what i think was the best scene is on the lost tapes...) I rarely look at the messy forum itself, I don't look at this one that often and the WAM games seems to be an increasingly obsession with more more more, which rather puts you off joining in... I tend to have a number of scenes sat in the cart, some have been there quite a while, some so long they were removed by the store! Occasionally, I'll buy a scene and enjoy it, then go back into the store's back catalogue and purchase other scenes.
Sometimes, ll you want is a bit of interaction, some company and yet often a small community can leave you feeling lonely. Trying to do that, the other week i added some screenshots of me in a gunge tank last summer, there'd be a short video too, but here just wants me to stick it in my store, so it's secretly on youtube, but I'm reluctant to share it from there...
I disappear every now and then too. Sometimes for months on end. I've deleted account in the past to KEEP me from being able to log in, especially when I'm depressed.
I'm glad you set a boundary, and I hope things are going well for you.