>>22497>I wonder if there are people like us on mediums like tv shows, movies and games that attempt to have their kinks more prominent in their work, but this can get shot down, by others working on the project. I'm a graphic designer-illustrator and 15± years ago I had a cool gig for a magazine put out by a major media conglomerate, aimed at tween girls. I had to create and draw a series of characters to illustrate an advertorial, and that's about as much as I'll say so I don't out myself.
Anyway, they were supposed to be six hip 20-somethings, three of each gender. Of the females, I made one slender, one slim-curvy and one fat (what we FAs would call midsized). I knew the business well enough not to draw the SSBBW I really wanted, and anyway one had to be careful about sexualizing them too much because, well, tweens and frankly I was worried if the boobs, butt, and belly got too big my horny hand would show itself.
The art director — herself a BBW — loved my chubster, but immediately warned me she wouldn't fly. In fact she told me to slim her down before presenting it to her boss and the advertorial client. I complied, the AD submitted her, and the now-barely plump version was still deemed too fat. I was specifically told to give her a recognizable waist, but the boobs could stay big, natch.
My second revise had more notes to slim her down, and the final version wound up a curvy thin woman, basically like the other one except she was vaguely mixed race (lol, so I don't cry).
All this to explain how the sausage gets made (npi), and I imagine even in these more enlightened times of body positivity and such, FA or just diversity-minded creatives and their fat creations are nipped at the bud.
In my subjective, unscientific observance there tends to be more FAs among creatives than other types of folks, which leads me to believe entertainment companies are teeming with them. But creatives rarely ascend to the real decision-making level, and when they do there are moneymen (mostly men) surrounding them who'll photoshop a size 10 Bryce Howard or take calipers to a cartoon character's hips.
Still, for many reasons I'm psyched to see so many more fat people on TV, in ads, and even in the movies. Like a black president, I knew it would happen eventually but wasn't sure I'd see it in my lifetime lol.