Post #788300 by tikiskip on Wed, Jul 4, 2018 7:35 AM

Well I have posted controversial things before but did not think this post to be one.

“Your attitude about TC or "Tiki Elites" or California Tiki People or whatever”

I did not say anything about those people in that post, those terms where terms
Long ago about the tiki community I did not invent them as they were before my time.
But there are definitely set groups in the tiki community and there is definitely a rank or people that are the “in” people much like High school was.

Look at most of the publicity done on tiki and it really helps to be a native of California as most of the articles are on California people.
Take the tiki quest book you almost never hear of that on TC, (Chicago).

By the way I buy most of those books about tiki and put that Last quip about “I think tiki was made up by Book Publishers just to sell us books” as a joke.
I have your book and went to your small group symposium at the Mai Kai.

But look at the Most views on TC, not posts, VIEWS.
The top one is collecting tiki, “The collectors want you to look at the tiki stuff they just found”

The other top views is the people making tiki look at what I just made and maybe buy it damn I fall into that one or at least used to.
I got tired of posting look what I can do and thought posting info about the Kahiki might be a nice break for a while so it was not just me, me me, all the time.
Looks like I was safer with me, me, me.

The threads about history or past tiki bars fall WAY short of the views of the look at me threads have on TC.
TC people don’t even look at them, heck the “Art Swap 2018 - Dream Tiki” has more views than most of the history ones have and they have been up for years where as the Art Swap just went up. Me, me, me.
No me, no interest.

Lots of other people who I have talked to have some of the same opinions that I do it’s just hard to say them out loud it’s difficult to be a maker of tiki or have a super cool bar that gets no publicity past TC.

Who said anything about making money off tiki. I said selling your stuff, and have said many times before not many people make money off of tiki, I just try to offset the money I have put into tiki by selling lights and it is a hobby I like doing.

The smart people that do make money off of tiki almost never post on TC and this is a smart thing to do as posting your thoughts can piss people off.
BUT posting on a place like TC helps keep tiki alive thus helping them sell tiki without the need to get their hands dirty.
I should be so smart.

I think the look at me part of tiki is what has kept it going this long and don’t see it all as a bad thing, well the drunk underwear guy was, but if you have a vested interest in the tiki community and play a part in it you will stay with it a lot longer.

[ Edited by: tikiskip 2018-07-04 07:38 ]