Balloon Woman Blows Up Inflation Forum.

1  2019-01-11 by snallygaster

If the rule "if it exists, there's a fetish for it" rings true, the inflation fetish is probably its mascot. Inflation fetishists have a fixation on living things blowing up like balloons. Although some members of this community are insist that it's not a source of sexual arousal for them, others are happy to announce that it provides their wank material. These two camps don't get along sometimes, but they tend to put aside their differences to discuss inflation in the spaces that they share.

As you might expect, the furry fandom has a small but lively subset of inflation fetishists, though a number of fans of Western cartoons are also into watching their favorite characters blow up and float into the sky. Smaller yet is a group of people who are into watching living people being inflated, and at times being inflated themselves. For over a decade, all three types of enthusiast have occupied a space on the premier inflation fetish forum, inflationfetish.org. This community is relatively harmonious for a place that is both devoted to a fetish and full of furries, though at times drama has occured, driven primarily, as again you might expect, by the people who are into inflation art. At times like these, the people involved brushed themselves off and moved on. The group at large never got involved- except for once. It took the rarest of the fetishists - a self-inflationist - to cause an uproar in the quiet forum.

Female inflation fetishists are uncommon, but they aren't exactly rare. They make up a modest proportion of inflationfetish.org's membership and blend in with their male peers quite well. But Balloonshaz was different. From the moment she signed up to the forum, she made sure that everyone knew that she was all woman and ALL about pumping expanding stuff into her body. With each sexy post Balloonshaz made, and each tantalizing story she told, men and women alike showered her with the praise her ex-husband failed to give her. She quickly became the closest thing to a local celebrity that the forum could have.

But not everybody was starry-eyed over the balloon woman. The problems began when, during one of her threads, she promised that she took pictures. But oh! She couldn't figure out how to upload the pictures from her cell phone. Members of the community climbed over each other trying to offer her help, but the images ultimately never materialized. She soon promised pics again to the same result. And then she wanted to start a Youtube account to upload videos of herself in a Violet Beauregard suit- but she didn't know how to create an account and didn't seem to end up buying the suit.

The creator of the Violet Beauregard suit, blowup_boy, was a shop owner who had a lot of clout in the inflation community. Unlike the unwashed masses who were salivating at the mere idea that a woman wanted to upload pics, blowup_boy was level-headed and could sense that something was wrong. And so, the next time the balloon woman promised proof of her steamy exploits, he decided to act.

blowup_boy voiced his suspicions about the veracity of her stories. He questioned whether Balloonshaz was a woman at all. This initiated an immediate (but temporary) flounce from the female fetishist and a heated debate over her legitimacy and whether blowup_boy had gone too far.

This spat spilled into another thread created by a vagueposter seemingly upset over the broken fantasy. Here, the fetishists discussed Balloonshaz, free speech, the state of the forum, and the degree to which inflationchan was responsible for the recent uptick of toxicity in the community. After the thread established a consensus that blowup_boy was in the wrong, the man showed up to share his side of the story- Balloonshaz's presence was simply the final straw in what he perceived to be a string of roleplayers pretending to be women for attention.

But his protests fell on deaf ears, for most of is fellow inflation enthusiasts did not care who was behind the stories they wanked to so long as they could wank to them. Following the call-out thread, the community returned to its natural state, transformed only by the creeping decay affecting all forums.

79 comments

1  BussyShillBot 2019-01-11

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1  BIknkbtKitNwniS 2019-01-11

The creator of the Violet Beauregard suit, blowup_boy, was a shop owner who had a lot of clout in the inflation community.

Is this as prestigious as being a /r/drama mod?

1  snallygaster 2019-01-11

Much, much more prestigious.

1  atsteak 2019-01-11

They just have an inflated sense of importance.

1  TheColdTurtle 2019-01-11

So they are big in the inflation community?

1  Nom_Chompy 2019-01-11

Was this the forum you almost “blew up”?

1  snallygaster 2019-01-11

yeah lol

1  Nom_Chompy 2019-01-11

lmao

1  TheColdTurtle 2019-01-11

This is very high effort, I hope this post blows up.

1  Nyroc_ 2019-01-11

🎈🎈🎈

1  Ed_ButteredToast 2019-01-11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wglwGqmhr2w&t=322s

1  Nyroc_ 2019-01-11

had to rush to my office that was so hot I couldn't believe my eyes

1  Ed_ButteredToast 2019-01-11

BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA!! 🎈🏃‍♂️

1  WistopherWalken 2019-01-11

How and why do you know about this, snally 🤔

1  TheColdTurtle 2019-01-11

Well she is very big into drama

1  snallygaster 2019-01-11

it's just one of those things that you come across if you spend time in places full of depraved people.

1  CMDR-FusionCor3 2019-01-11

so in the inflation forums then

1  mud074 2019-01-11

So you're blowup_boy.

1  cmakk1012 2019-01-11

/>boy

/>Snally

rly makes u thnk

1  atsteak 2019-01-11

Selling Violet Beauregard suits is good money. The price keeps going up, thanks to inflation.

1  r4chan-cancer 2019-01-11

As you might expect, the furry fandom has a small but lively subset of inflation fetishists

She says how right in her post.

1  snallygaster 2019-01-11

wow rude!

1  acidoverbasic 2019-01-11

So how does this fetish play out irl? Does it always involve inflatable suits or do they do weird things to make their body bloated or swollen

1  Tagesausbruch 2019-01-11

It's a fetish you can only fully live out once in your life

1  acidoverbasic 2019-01-11

🤯

1  NoIceRat 2019-01-11

Some of them put air or water up their ass, it's called 'bloating'

1  snallygaster 2019-01-11

It's both. For example, a way to do it is to eat mentos and drink coke at the same time, and some people stick an air pump up their asshole or down their throat to do it. One of the first links is a mod restricting discussion about irl inflation because it's apparently fairly dangerous.

1  acidoverbasic 2019-01-11

Oh god. I thought they were just role-playing about the air pump.

1  snallygaster 2019-01-11

Nah it's real. iirc one of the self-inflation guys went viral a few years ago.

The really weird ones are the ones who are just straight-up sexually attracted to balloons. It's even its own fetish community.

1  LadyVetinari 2019-01-11

Ooooo boy that sounds like a step or 2 removed from necrophilia tbh 😶

1  CordialCalamity 2019-01-11

But aren't most things if you really think about it?

1  Chin_Up_Chick 2019-01-11

You asked the question I was really afraid to ask because I really didn’t want to know the answer.

1  error404brain 2019-01-11

They have made being fat into a fetish

burgers absolute state. 😂😂😂

1  snallygaster 2019-01-11

Inflation fetish is different from feeder/fat fetish, but as you can imagine there seems to be some overlap

1  UsedTree 2019-01-11

I need a real hobby holy shit how do I waste all my time online

1  alphetasauce 2019-01-11

I love this snally. I'm not sure hope you're able to track it down, but I appreciate it when you do. That whole story reminds me of when I got catfished back in like 2006 or 7. Its so obvious now, but back then I just wanted her to be telling the truth so bad.

1  snallygaster 2019-01-11

You got catfished? Do tell

1  alphetasauce 2019-01-11

It's not super interesting. I don't remember how I met this particular screename. I just remember randomly talking to her when she was on my msn friends list. I talked to her on and off for a few years while I was in college. I went through a bad breakup and started flirting with her and things got sexual. I remember she was really into say anything and I played guitar. I had a shitty webcam and she didn't but I played her their song I want to know your plans and she sent me nudes in gratitude. I was pretty happy and talked about going to visit her. I was in a small town in TN at the time and she was in Atlanta. The day I was about to go see her she came up with some bullshit excuse about her brother getting arrested and she had to take care of his kids for a while. So I postponed for a couple of months and she told me she had some business up near me. The day we were supposed to meet up she texted me 5 hours after the meeting time and said she had been in a car wreck and sent me pictures of her totaled navigator. I forgot to mention that she told me she was rich as shit and that her father was a lawyer for the mafia. I'm typing this up stream of consciousness and trying to remember this shit from 15 years ago so forgive me. There were a few bullshit excuses like she couldn't figure out how to get a webcam to work because she was bad at technology and she always had some excuse as to why we couldn't meet. I kept trying to meet her randomly over the years, sometimes I would flake, but most of the time she would. She always had pictures of the same girl, every now and then some would be naked, but most of the time she'd just send them as she got them. I never actually called her on the catfish, I just gave up of ever being able to catch her in a lie and she just faded away. Every now and then I still wonder about who she was and if she was a fifty year old he and how he got those pictures and if that girl ever knew her pictures were being used to catfish. Part of me still wishes she was real.

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1  snallygaster 2019-01-11

Jesus Christ, that's horrible. How long did it take you to cut your ties with her?

1  alphetasauce 2019-01-11

3 or 4 years. It just more faded than cut ties. It was just more learning how the internet works ya know? People live the lives they wish when their anonymous, and so it's just more fun to catch them in their bullshit.

1  snallygaster 2019-01-11

That makes sense. It's a shame that you got caught up in it, though.

1  flotus_scrotus 2019-01-11

spaces they share

Keep Yourself Safe

1  headasplodes 2019-01-11

The only thing worse than people with degenerate fetishes like this are the freaks who say it isn't sexual.

1  snallygaster 2019-01-11

I know right? Just admit that you get off to it, learn to accept yourself, and move on with your life. It's almost weirder to have a non-sexual fixation on things like this.

1  DayyyTripper 2019-01-11

Excuse me snally, some of us more cerebral fetishists enjoy it for the intellectual stimulation.

Please don't kink-shame in this forum.

1  Oh_hamburgers_ 2019-01-11

Well that was an experience. People are fucking weird.

1  DoesntSmellLikePalm 2019-01-11

I love inflation fetishes, it’s just so fucking stupid I love it. This is as good as that MMO furry who’d break the servers by forcing his inflation fetish on everyone via potions and shit. This is God’s work. Inshallah

1  sadderreborn 2019-01-11

Gigantosaur or was it gigabear

1  DoesntSmellLikePalm 2019-01-11

Gigabear

1  demotecontrol 2019-01-11

Wait, so does all this mean that Harry is a rapist?

1  cmakk1012 2019-01-11

READ👏ANOTHER👏BOOK

1  -66- 2019-01-11

stay puffy, everyone

1  BlessThisBussy 2019-01-11

Snally posts! :D

1  GandalftheChromatic 2019-01-11

I hope they all die of an embolism

1  Chicup 2019-01-11

hello everyone I have pics on my phone of me inflated this morning in my long black satin gown which i want to put on here. I inflated last night put a ball pump butt plug in and fell asleep, woke up at 7am fit to burst i was bigger gasses must have built up over night :oops: hehe i was so tight my satin was so tight.

And people believed this? Well I guess if you get off on women inflating themselves, you aren't quite all there.

1  Inceltiers 2019-01-11

Don’t you ever get revolted by this stuff?

I mean I struggle to even go on lolcow knowing how mentally unhinged all of them are how do you manage this shit

1  snallygaster 2019-01-11

Don’t you ever get revolted by this stuff?

Only if it hurts people or animals or if there are bodily fluids involved. Or parasites, which is usually part of fetishes involving bodily fluid so that's already covered.

I struggle to even go on lolcow knowing how mentally unhinged all of them are

Most of the people on lolcow are just normal unreated Cluster B people who happened to find an audience. It's not that bad

how do you manage this shit

desensitization I guess. Plus if you are interested in studying communities it's easy to separate yourself from what they're doing and saying. The way that bedbugs reproduce is really disgusting but I bet that if you're fascinated by bedbugs it's just interesting to you

1  Inceltiers 2019-01-11

Except a bedbug will always be a pest

Bedbugs don’t wear suits and ties and become your work colleagues

cluster B people

What? Is that some kind of pseudo term you just made up?

1  snallygaster 2019-01-11

Bedbugs don’t wear suits and ties and become your work colleagues

Neither do online trainwrecks.

What? Is that some kind of pseudo term you just made up?

Look up Cluster B personality disorders. Most of the people featured on lolcow have at least one Cluster B personality disorder and no intention of getting help.

1  Inceltiers 2019-01-11

Wew

Are you a phycologist?

1  snallygaster 2019-01-11

I'm a mycologist studying the slimy growths that spring up on the internet.

1  CordialCalamity 2019-01-11

We're all fungi in the end.

1  snallygaster 2019-01-11

woah

1  yourdeadwife 2019-01-11

Stay puffy everyone.

help

1  Inceltiers 2019-01-11

Also what does popping mean?

Like sticking a needle into someone’s stomach to pop it?

Or just rupturing it?

1  tcpip4lyfe 2019-01-11

Tldr

1  kellhusian 2019-01-11

Great story, enjoyed every minute reading this lol

1  Pepperglue 2019-01-11

The Internet truly brings the freaks around the world together.

1  Cdace 2019-01-11

u/snallygaster I’m curious as to your thoughts on why so many anonymous forums are dying slowly (seeing as you visit so many of them). Are they all dying in the face of larger forums like reddit or are their users just moving on to social media like twitter or instagram?

1  ubermanwolf 2019-01-11

Plasma fold

1  snallygaster 2019-01-11

It depends on a lot of things, like the forum's subject and audience. For example, internet culture forums or hobby forums like Something Awful took a large hit because of reddit, but a lot of small 'normal' hobbyist forums have been replaced by facebook groups, and beginners go to reddit for tips. irl subculture forums, which were never really thriving to begin with, died because of things like instagram and tumblr, and tumblr killed a lot of metaphysical subculture forums. I don't think twitter's directly replaced anything, maybe furry discussion forums since the community seems big over there.

1  Cdace 2019-01-11

Interesting. Thanks for the response

1  Nothankxx 2019-01-11

Check my post history if you want some examples

1  fauxbreaux 2019-01-11

Stay puffy everyone

1  Gil-Gandel 2019-01-11

And there I was thinking this was something to do with economics and the money supply.

1  youre_mum_mate 2019-01-11

This is an incredible post.

Also, I'm amazed anyone on the forum thinks she's legitimate, and yet it appears to be the dominant viewpoint. I guess the idea that they might one day find a wife who likes inflation is too nice a thing for them to give up.

1  snallygaster 2019-01-11

The only think that makes me think she might have been somewhat legit is that whoever is behind the account wasn't pretending that she was a younger woman given the divorce and avatar. There was definitely something up tho