>>51041407The clock man only got as popular as he did because someone made a fan design of him in a suit, and that seems to be the biggest thing with tumblr girls: pale men in suits. And I think that's a big reason that submas was and is so popular: they're weird-looking men in suits. It's even worse considering they were given butler outfits in Masters, which is like peak tumblr sexyman aesthetic.
>>51038618I was more or less talking about how the Subway Bosses weren't so weird when you look at what other characters that mainly tumblr users lusted after, but people treat them like they're some sort of massive anomaly when honestly I feel like they fit right in with the general TSM criteria.
>I would assume the artbook/guide books were harder to get so the official art wasn’t circulated around as much in comparison to the other charactersIt's pretty much what
>>51040479 said, they were in Corocoro and I think the first handful of fans latched on from there, and the rest that followed were drawn in by the loads of fanart that came after it. For me, it may have been both because I was on /vp/ when BW came out and was pretty much around for every submas thread.
>>51041880There's been a handful of Japanese tumblr users, likely because they're tired of getting their shit reposted by other people and want to post their stuff themselves. But most of Japan either doesn't want to use tumblr or simply chooses not to because Twitter is just where everyone's amassed. Tumblr is like a little town when Twitter is a big bustling city. It's just where all the action is, so that's where everyone goes. That's probably also why so many people left tumblr, it was a chain reaction of porn artists leaving, their followers leaving, and then the followers of those people leaving because their favorite creators left, not because of the porn ban.
