Post #783359 by tikiskip on Wed, Jan 24, 2018 10:53 AM

You know Cool and Current should change a bit from time to time if it was real.
But the Cliques and minions of some events and tiki People have this need to be on top ALL the time.

This makes Cool and Current disappear not be fresh and new but old and stale, this old and stale is part of the TC death.
Remember when you first signed up how jazzed you were when you got feedback or people seemed to like what you made posted ect?

“I have never once voted for myself to be on Cool and Current so it is a real moral booster to see that people vote for my thread and I am thankful.”

I see that you agree with me Wendy and it is the same five or six topics on top most of the time taking that “moral booster” as you put it from the newbie.

Well this manic need for attention takes away from the newbie and even the old timer.
There was an old timer that posted a light, not me, well he got almost no response’s, he’s gone, not here much at all these days.

How many cool tiki art people have we ran off by this selective praise, new mug makers have it tough trying to get anywhere on TC.
The carvers all seem to get along, well not that one time, but for the most part they do.
Being mostly men and not form Cali you would think they would fight some.

So that’s where I’m at this popularity game is killing it, it’s like the old tiki mag that highlights the same California bars, the same California artists, they are good bars and art but damn is that all you got?

If you hit the history of a TC members posts and most of their post sell their stuff or are on their own threads who are they helping TC or themselves.

In closing TC helps sell tiki, that’s the stuff I make, the stuff you make, and the events, books, music, bars, ect.
Helping keep tiki healthy helps it grow and more cool tiki crap is made for us to buy and sell.

California will always have a kinda strong tiki scene so maybe that is enough for the people that run and promote the tiki machine, Known as the tiki elite.
Maybe deep state tiki would be a better name.

Is that enough for you average tiki Joe on the street in a state that’s not say California?

NOT AMIED AT WENDY, nine times out of ten the people I’m talking about never think it’s them.