ex wicked weasel / microminimus contributor (long time): Ask me anything.

It is. Since the management changed, the items themselves are produced in singapur and don't have the same quality as before anymore. The prices has gone up significantly and have become almost ridiculos. The overall atmosphere that was very community based before has turned into a very much more pure commercial apporach. That might have been neccessary to keep the buisnes running though, but it changed the place. Recently there was a technical rework of the community website microminimus and that wrecked the site from a technical ans security aspect as well as in termns of the community that has gotten much mor toxic.

The change from a purely bikini enthusiasts community to a paid membership concept did change the userbase a lot, it with it the expectations of the new paying members, who now expect something in return for their membership fees. WW dies very little to govern that member base, and even less to make it up to their contributors who are in fact the real and genuine asset they got. Some recent changes in the policies of other sites eg. onlyfans also created a flood of semi pro or pro porn models, who use the community to advertise their oher sites and kill the real bikini enthusiast spirit hat once attracted me.

I can totally understan some of those action are helpful to maximize profit for the new owners, but it changed the whole community in a way so that I dont feel any longer reflected in it.

Number of reasons, some already answered above (or below). Plus some personal reasons. After over ten years there, it has simply lost its magic for me. I did never profit from doing all the galleries in a monetary way, but I now own about 150+ bikinis and 400 ww items in total. That is more than a lifetime support, given that I manage to keep my shape ^^

Also the with the prices hiking up, my expenses did too. I very rarely paid for the items I ordered, and could pay them with the tipps I got form my fanbase. But I had to pay for import duties and taxes, and the authorities stubbornly refused to get paid in ww credits. So even though my fans paid for my bikinis, I still had to shell out 20% - 30% of the total in real world money to get them imported. Only to make some nice and sexy galleries with it, get more bikinis and pay more taxes. It simply became to expensive in the end. There are some progrmas in place where ww makes up for the import fees, but while the old management recompensated the import in full (in credits of course), the new management only had a tier system, and only the very active and popular ladies got parts of the import compensated and not even all the time.

In the beginning it was just fun. I got sexy bikinis, took sexy and creative pics for galleries. I got likes and (mostly) nice comments, boosted my confidence, got attention, and could feed my inner exhibitionist. I even made friends on there that acoompanied me on that journy, some for the full ten years, and in some cases I am still in contect with them today.

It was a hobby. Maybe a sexy one, maybe a too sexy one for some, but I was totally fine with and had a lot of fun. I met some of the other ladies, we did photosets together, and in some cases partied hard. I loved the competitiveness the contests had (until I realized how rigged the system was).

In the end then my idea of waht I wanted form the community just didnt fit to the reality of what the community had become any more. Not only WW had changed, I had of course changed during my time there too.

Personally, nothing. I own about 250 wicked weasel items, some more from a brief visit to bikinifanatics (whose community suffered the same problems as the ww one, only way earlier and driven by even more greed), a few ASS ones and some from malibu string. That is way more than a lifetime support of ...beachwear for me.

No.

The majority of them (and their spouses) were (and are) super nice and very friendly. In general I had the impression that they had a higher education than average, and mostly were settled in life. All the personal encounters I had were awesome and very pleasureable.

Of course there are - like everywhere else in life - people who have different goals than just having fun. Especially in the later years, when the membership fees made the number of actual members dwindle, a more harsh competition about the more limited amount of tipping members started, sometimes with very ugly methods, like defamation and slutshaming, or with false reporting/flagging their strongest competitions galleries.

That is one reason I 'retired'. The community became toxic. Not only the now paying members more and more expected and pressured everyone into doing more and more softporn like galleries, a flood of professional erotic/porn models also raised the bar to get attentian, acknowledgement and tipps.

I myself never had that problem, because I always was on the liit (or sometimes beyond) the liits of what ww allowed to show (although the judgement was VERY subjective, and some girls like me could show a lot more than other girls without getting censored), and because I always served a special niche with mor creative and weird galleries and I did not have that much competition in that special field.

No. I did what I liked and wanted to do. there is nothing to regret. I had a blast for some years, it was very fun. Don't get into politics, don't let others mess up your fun. Ignore the trolls. And of course the basic internet rules. Keep your privacy private. There are hepa sof nice people otu there and a few psychos. You don't want them to show up at your house.

Also there is basic decision you'll have to make. Will you show your face or not. There are many resaons not to. repercussions may come fomr your real life community, your job or family. And i can understand many more resons not to. Personally I did show my face from the beginning. I fully stand behind what I was doing, and am still proud of it. But it is easier for me because I live in a very liberal environment. I have been recognized two times (of which I know) during the ten years, both time by people related to my day job. I had no probems out of that, but your personal experience may differ.

One thing to consider is, hat the pics you are sharing in the safety of that closed online community will not stay there.People seem to have all sorts of motivations to download the pics and share them without your knowledge or permission. I did find pics, galleries and complite rips with thousands of my pics on russian vk sites, on filesharing hubs, on the usual suspect porn sites and even here on reddit. you can DMCA some of them down, but normally hosters in bulgaria or azerbaidschan don't give a f##k abotu whatever you email them. I pulled down all the pics I had control over when i retired, but there are still thousands out there, and will continue to be. It is the internet, be aware of that.

Lala left quite some time ago already. For unknown reasons. It was way before everything went down the drain. The lack of topless might be due to the splitting of pics into 'classic' and 'unlocked' mode. You will have to activate 'unlocked' mode manually in your profile to see titties again.

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