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JohnBootyyesterday at 6:47 PM7 repliesview on HN

    videos in the "woman with large breasts not wearing 
    a bra does something mundane" genre with multiple millions 
    of views.
Anecdata: even if they're wearing bras and not dressed in a revealing way and it's a still photo... the views will pour in.

I've had a Flickr account for about 20 years. I used to run a community and I took a lot of pictures at our gatherings, which were primarily 20-somethings. Some photos had 100-1000x the views of other pictures and it took me a while to figure out why.

The photos with surprising view counts had women with large chests.

I know how obvious that sounds but many of these photos were so lowkey that... trust me, it was not obvious. For some of these photos, we're talking about something that would not be out of place as a yearbook photo or hanging on a church's bulletin board. It would just be a group photo of people hanging out, nothing sexy or revealing, and rando woman #7 in the photo might be apparently chesty. And it would have 100x the views of other photos from that event.

Interesting and amusing.

There are a number of ways you could think about it. Some views might be attributable to people who can't access explicit content due to parental controls or local laws but I have a hunch some people actually prefer this sort of thing to explicit content.

(I also wonder if there's a slight voyeuristic/nonconsensual appeal to these photos. Which ties back in to the opening paragraph of the linked article...)

It also underscored for me how women, especially women with certain bodies, can't escape being sexualized no matter what they do or wear.


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switchbakyesterday at 7:19 PM

> how women, especially women with certain bodies, can't escape being sexualized

Give it a while, everyone falls off the attractiveness escalator eventually. For some the only thing worse than being objectified is being invisible.

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ClikeXyesterday at 7:28 PM

Go to any photography subreddit that's not already focused on nudity or sex. Any photo with naked women will get more upvotes than most other submissions. It can be an objectively bad photo, that doesn't really matter.

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saulpwyesterday at 7:29 PM

> I have a hunch some people actually prefer this sort of thing to explicit content.

https://www.reddit.com/r/2busty2hide/

gavinrayyesterday at 7:23 PM

The pragmatic takeaway is "making yourself more attractive will make people x100 more interested in seeing you."

So at least there's that.

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fsckboyyesterday at 7:44 PM

thanks JohnBooty for sharing your insights about women with certain bodies

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anal_reactoryesterday at 10:20 PM

Naked woman is like endgame. Seems great, but it actually sucks (hehe). Attractive woman in a completely normal situation is like starting new game and knowing it's gonna be really good.

Dr_Incelheimeryesterday at 9:35 PM

I feel called out here :( I physically cannot resist on clicking on videos or photos with even mildly attractive women in the thumbnail. Same thing IRL. Which is strange because I don't even care about porn.