Post #796122 by tikiskip on Sun, Jul 7, 2019 10:48 AM

I did see that in your tiki guide? Party City is not listed, not a joke, if you want to include all forms of tiki then party city should be in there.

If you think about it Party City is most widely seen as tiki by more people really.

Also when looking up the TC guidelines it says....
"If you’d like to know more about the kind of Tiki that Tiki Central focuses on, and what we don't, we recommend the following:"
•The Book of Tiki (book)

It sends you to Sven and that is what TC sees as tiki.
Not Facebook, Tikicentral.

"It's art, and I don't think there's a line or a percentage at which it is or isn't a Tiki bar anymore"

But see there is a line in the land of Tikicentral and you can find out about that line in The Book of Tiki as noted by the people that started Tikicentral in the guidelines to the site they started.

If one wants to include everything and be all chill about tiki then they should start a Hey were all chill tiki site and have guidelines for their site that include what they want and don't want on their site.

Tikicentral has been too relaxed in letting just any old crap pass as tiki to me, it might be the whole chill tiki thing that is killing TC.

"legalistic pedantry that is unnecessary for silly kitsch escapism."
True a bit, but you need to define something to study that thing like people do on TC,
And think of the money that is spent on tiki, that brings it out of silly kitsch escapism and right into a business, big business.