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>Are you that guy that thinks pet play/little-ism is some magical form of super-love that transcends traditional definitions of love? Because you sound a little hostile over my simplification of those things.
Nah, I also think that a lot of the public faces of petplay/ddlg dynamics firmly fit into "lame" but my working theory is that lame people and people who treat sexuality as a performance strongly overlap. Petplay/ddlg don't have a monopoly on this, it's just that they're the trendy thing right now so the performers gravitate to them.
The people with a solid handle on things don't tend to perform over social media, whether that media is Tumblr or Fetlife or Facebook, because they aren't shallow narcissists. Halfchan/d/'s BDSM general (or whatever they're calling that thread these days) is a great example of that kind of identity inflation in action, where it's more obvious thanks to the background anon environment.
Likewise, someone explaining those same dynamics in terms derived from only watching the narcissists perform right after complaining that they couldn't get anything out of Fetlife smacks of sour grapes. But now I understand how you reached the conclusions you did. Just remember that what you're really identifying is a symptom of lame people, not the fetishes themselves.