The General State of Touhou "Down Bad Syndrome"

[Reitisen]

Okay, this question has been floating around in my mind ever since I saw something on Twitter that showed a thumbnail of Meiling sleeping and a hand reaching towards her chest. You know what people think when that happens. This clip garnered over 134k views (probably even more), whereas other Touhou clips get around 1–5k in general and sometimes get over 10k depending on the content.

So the question I'm asking is if the Touhou fanbase is getting way too horny based on everything generated over the past few years.

Some various examples of what I have seen over the years of "down syndrome" are:

Mommy? : Memes depicting the [insert Touhou character here] as a baby seeking affection.These are done to death all the time, but due to their cookie cutter meme status, they still get a lot of views.

Booba: Ah yes, everyone seems to just like the anatomically impossible and weirdly shaped mounds, which always seem to get more attention the more exposed they are. This needs no more explanation.

Public Horny: Well, this relates to the proposal at the start. The general "outright bad" syndrome seems to have increased over the years with the growth of the fandom; this can be seen everywhere from Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, Discord, and wherever Touhou is widely discussed or made.

These are only the tip of the iceberg; there are many more underneath, which are compiled into a possibly SFW or NSFW list depending on how you see them on the Horny rating scale.

 

The Comprehensive List of Fetish Material/Horny stuff I've seen: Viewer beware the contents within might induce bouts of gagging, puking, low grade disgust [Guaranteed],  sad :( , anger >:( , WTH syndrome, confusion, and bouts of other side effects depending on the individual.

Contents don't include images for your sanity, but will list publicly or privately seen and shared content across a variety of sites.

Contents are rated for teens and up, but generally not adults. So it's SFW

Eirin can't save you from this point on.

Have fun!

Spoiler

G**o : (My eyes need a bleaching from Twitter) [Don't even try searching this up in general] [You know when you know what is being blurred]

Armpit (A dying breed that likes armpits, is being overgrown by Chest and Butt enthusiasts. Seen on posts focusing on armpits.) [Usually not that down bad. I think . . .]

Feet/Obese (Okay you do you . . .) [Kind of uncommon to trend, but seen pretty often if you are looking for it]

Fart/Smell/waste/Consumption of y'know what (See the following stuff for the answer : No) [I've heard of this thing before]

Kinky BDSM (Yeah uhh . . . Sakuya doing stuff . . . ) [Sometimes seen as a joke on some posts over the internet]

Lolis with weird proportions/ Lolis being lewd in general (What The Hell) [Yup, FBI is watching]

Weird confessions/requests art (You have seen these on Reddit, creepy at best, downright sex offender at worst) [Draws in a lot of horny teens, who flock in droves in response to hormones and general loneliness]

Baby RP (Already explained)

R*** (Four words, one with R you do the rest) [This can be connected to the introduction]

Hey Mister! (GET OUT OF MY HEAD! GET OUT OF MY HEAD! GET OUT OF MY HEAD! GET OUT OF MY HEAD! I DON'T WANT YOUR GOD DAMN SPRITE CRANBERRY!) [This sure will dig up some horrible memories for people who have seen this meme and dug deeper from the YouTube comment section who oddly state "Sauce, Id#####" don't try to search it up, FBI is already on their way the moment you do.]

Yuri (To be honest, not that bad considering Touhou is a largely female cast. Relatively tame with just cute moments. Just don't look towards the Fanfiction sites about Alice and Marisa. Don't, I'm begging you, it includes literally everything horrible listed on this list and more.)

Fumo and Yukkuris (Yep, somebody had to draw Fumos and or Yukkuris into a NSFW form and share it to the internet) [My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.]

Many more because I can't peer into every nook and cranny of this forsaken internet of the horny void.

 

Alright, if you see this section, I presume you either skipped or saw all the stuff listed.

So what do you think? Are Touhou fans getting way too horny? Not horny? Always horny? Growing Horny? Less Horny?

That is all.

P.S. If you want to add to the list of what you've seen, feel free to list all the stuff in a spoiler comment.

Edited January 14, 2023 by Reitisen

[adzi]

Every other "weeb" fanbase has this, that's nothing new.

Also - while I can't (won't be bothered to) provide actual data, it was already noticed that while Touhou Project has a larger amount of R18 content made than other "usual suspect" franchises (various popular gacha games with tons of waifus of all forms, personalities, shapes and sizes) objectively, the percentage of that R18 content among all Touhou fanmade content is lesser than this of fanmade R18 content of other franchises. So, actually, Touhou Project fanbase isn't that "down bad", it just makes so much stuff in general, that its mountain of porn inevitably became bigger.

[Sci]

Wait 'till you discover Azur Lane.

[CountVonNumenor]

10 hours ago, adzi said:

Every other "weeb" fanbase has this, that's nothing new.

Also - while I can't (won't be bothered to) provide actual data, it was already noticed that while Touhou Project has a larger amount of R18 content made than other "usual suspect" franchises (various popular gacha games with tons of waifus of all forms, personalities, shapes and sizes) objectively, the percentage of that R18 content among all Touhou fanmade content is lesser than this of fanmade R18 content of other franchises. So, actually, Touhou Project fanbase isn't that "down bad", it just makes so much stuff in general, that its mountain of porn inevitably became bigger.

Please remind me to come back with an actual, elaborate reply once I return from my journey. I would like to say more right now, but I have to go to sleep soon as I am leaving early in the morning. So see you all later.

Oh, also @Reitisen, if you are interested, I did cover quite extensively the very topic you have talked about in 3 threads last year. But I am glad I am no longer the only one who is addressing the whole concept. Overall, it just looks as if we are just throwing it under the rug and make ourselves it does not exist.

[Turbonator]

21 hours ago, Reitisen said:

So what do you think? Are Touhou fans getting way too horny? Not horny? Always horny? Growing Horny? Less Horny?

Blue Archive and Azur Lane have 15-20% R-18/Total while Touhou is 8% (Source: Gelbooru's API (I blame inaccurate tagging if this is way off))

[Cirbo]

TBF Touhou Project had two solid decades to accumulate NSFW material due to rule34, the only surprising thing is the longevity of the hornyposting

[Nekofire]

I don’t understand why Touhou have a lot of NSFW content, I mean look at what they look like in the game, they all have child proportions and they aren’t drawn in a sexy way with sexy clothes 

I wonder wish one of the fetish you’ve listed is the most used or the most appreciated (I’m just curious)

[Reitisen]

1 hour ago, Nekofire said:

I don’t understand why Touhou have a lot of NSFW content, I mean look at what they look like in the game, they all have child proportions and they aren’t drawn in a sexy way with sexy clothes 

I wonder wish one of the fetish you’ve listed is the most used or the most appreciated (I’m just curious)

I would say Yuri would probably be the most used and appreciated considering the fact that Touhou is an mostly all female cast and that stuff can be seen floating around everywhere you see Touhou at. Just the other day I saw one floating around TWT with Meiling and Sakuya, an often common Yuri fetish pair.

Though IDK if that is the most appreciated considering the fact that second most I've seen would be obese/feet fetish that rarely pops up into my TWT feed.

[CountVonNumenor]

On 1/15/2023 at 1:47 AM, CountVonNumenor said:

Please remind me to come back with an actual, elaborate reply once I return from my journey. I would like to say more right now, but I have to go to sleep soon as I am leaving early in the morning. So see you all later.

Holy shit, I completely forgot about this. Now I really do owe Reitisen a proper answer to the question he/she has come up with.

[nitorii]

I legit got to the point where I stopped caring because I'm so used to seeing it. I'm lucky my youtube feed isn't ridden with bad horny memes about touhou.
Although, I cannot deny I have consumed this kinda content (referring to NSFW) in the past and have seen a lotta stuff, ranging from mildly interesting to "lemme see if howtobasic has a tutorial on brainwashing yourself"
I've listed what I've personally seen in the spoiler box below. View at your own discretion. I didn't bother to censor anything btw.
 

Spoiler

list of things I've personally seen: gore, rape, lolicon, shotacon (dom by part of X 2hu), tentacles, futanari, NTR, mind control (this is awfully common), scat and derivatives, drugs or drugging (why), bukkake (group tag: happiness milk, they do those a lot.), general gangbang, lé legendary gigantic breasts or just large body assets in general, probably gigantism? (I don't know if this is a real word) idk, prostitution and likely a lot more tags I am not bothered to remember right now, the list is long enough as it is.

In conclusion, I personally am not scarred, bothered, or happy about it. It's just the way of the internet. If it exists, it is bound to have an outburst in porn sometime.
I surely wish I didn't see half of the things I listed though :)

Edited March 14, 2023 by yukayay
forgot to add something

[superyanisback]

I recently found a spreadsheet documenting the amount of R18 present on Pixiv and Gelbooru.

Touhou seems to be within the upper echelon in terms of percentage on Pixiv, but on Gelbooru Touhou honestly seem that bad .
If we look at absolute numbers, well Touhou absolutely dominates, but that's just because Touhou's had so long to gather R18 stuff.
Like Genshin Impact produces like 4 times as much R18 as Touhou right now. 

[CountVonNumenor]

On 3/14/2023 at 3:58 AM, yukayay said:

Although, I cannot deny I have consumed this kinda content (referring to NSFW) in the past and have seen a lotta stuff, ranging from mildly interesting to "lemme see if howtobasic has a tutorial on brainwashing yourself"
I've listed what I've personally seen in the spoiler box below. View at your own discretion. I didn't bother to censor anything btw.
 

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list of things I've personally seen: gore, rape, lolicon, shotacon (dom by part of X 2hu), tentacles, futanari, NTR, mind control (this is awfully common), scat and derivatives, drugs or drugging (why), bukkake (group tag: happiness milk, they do those a lot.), general gangbang, lé legendary gigantic breasts or just large body assets in general, probably gigantism? (I don't know if this is a real word) idk, prostitution and likely a lot more tags I am not bothered to remember right now, the list is long enough as it is.

In conclusion, I personally am not scarred, bothered, or happy about it. It's just the way of the internet. If it exists, it is bound to have an outburst in porn sometime.
I surely wish I didn't see half of the things I listed though :)

It's been a while since I last made a contribution to the forum, so let's see what I can add. In regards to what you have mentioned, my one and a half years of using Danbooru as my main hub for finding Touhou images on a daily basis also brought at least some of the tags you mentioned. Therefore, let's get into a (not so holy) basic list of stuff of things that would make me say "same, buddy":

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- rape (depending on what the Danbooru users would think, they will tell you an image may or may not depict such an act - see any post regarding the "art" of hakutaku gohan)
- lolicon/shotacon
- tentacles 
- futanari (ah, the classic...)
- mind control (again, again situation as in my comment about rape)
- not sure ho much I saw about milk, but milking sure is a thing... (ffs)
- gangbang/orgy
- large... "assets"
- gigantism (yes, it is a word) - let me explain a bit, at least from what I witnessed: there are people who apparently have something for giant partners, even if Danbooru has mostly given us giant women; combine that with other tags, and you will end up with stuff like "building sex" (as the name implies, it's gigantism + use of buildings/any other large objects you may see in an  urban environment as a... pleasure toy, be it by rubbing or shoving into... the womanly parts)... ffs, did I really have to use a wiki to look for detail into such a useless thing? most likely not, but here we are
- prostitution 
- bondage/BDSM (surprisingly, there's a big amount of that about Touhou characters, especially Reimu)
- any kind of -jobs (curtesy to Fusu in large part)

Surprisingly, I have not really seen cases of gore/guro, scat, drugs (although sometimes it is not clear if the character was drugged or mind controlled, unless the author explicitly says so) or NTR with my Touhou findings. Maybe I am still safe... for the time being 

Quite a few unholy things to my track record, to be honest. I think I should be ashamed of it. 

 

7 hours ago, superyanisback said:

I recently found a spreadsheet documenting the amount of R18 present on Pixiv and Gelbooru

How recent is the spreadsheet? The results are very interesting, with some that I really did not get to see until now. Until I saw this, my reference came from another sheet I got last year as a result of writing a thread on r/touhou:

 

1. Most damningly, given the actual thing above, Touhou actually has less mature content than most other popular series, as measured by me, right now, looking at Pixiv post counts: The procedure for all the data below is the same: I took the 10 most popular "copyright" tags at danbooru.us to get a list of "what's popular in the West". Then I went to pixiv.net and searched the main tag for each series, and then redid the search adding the term "R-18", which is the Japanese code for "mature work". I took note of the search results and calculated the "mature ratio" for each series. Touhou has the second smallest ratio, with only Vocaloid having less mature content.
    

Series	Posts	R-18 Posts	Mature Works %
FGO	500.746	66.294	13.23%
東方 (Touhou)	2.449.831	192.275	7.84%
アイドルマスター (Idolmaster)	262.369	113.030	43.08%
艦これ (Kantai Collection)	850.150	120.100	14.12%
ホロライブ (Hololive)	244.879	25.884	10.57%
VOCALOID	505.964	19.545	3.86%
ポケモン (Pokémon)	823.234	120.454	14.63%
原神 (Genshin Impact)	243.892	52.579	21.56%
アズールレーン (Azur Lane)	192.314	50.300	26.15%
アークナイツ (Arknights)	155.213	17.391	11.20%

So, the whole point of this essay is moot. Touhou is NOT "so popular in terms of mature content". People want to lewd idols, battleships and genderbent historical figures more than the youkai.

 

7 hours ago, superyanisback said:

Touhou seems to be within the upper echelon in terms of percentage on Pixiv, but on Gelbooru Touhou honestly seem that bad .
If we look at absolute numbers, well Touhou absolutely dominates, but that's just because Touhou's had so long to gather R18 stuff.

If the data I mentioned above is correct, Touhou might have more R18 simply due to the sheer amount of works. However, when it comes o percentage out of all the works under that tag, we are apparently very low compared to most other stuff. Also by the way, what is the latest hot stuff nowadays getting tons of art? Besides Blue Archive (for which I have seen the note regarding characters age), Honkai also seems to be getting a lot of art, R18 included (or at least Kafka does, a character from that game).

Kafka