Happy New Year! I hope you had a good 2022 and hope you have the best 2023 you can! To me, it’s been an interesting year, and have big hopes for 2023. I plan to release many more drawings (I have so many on my iPad) in the new year. Prob on Twitter/Hive/Tumblr because IG is very prudish, even with drawings. Here’s to an amazing 2023.

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I have been sick for the better part of a week. Luckily it’s just a sinus infection, but still, this time of year sucks to be sick. Hence the lack of posts on the blog; it’s not because I don’t want to; I have been in bed as much as I can. This post came to me this morning, and I thought I would share my thoughts about Classic Versus Fashion jocks. This is more of a 101 type of post and I will cover the Classic Jocks this week and Fashion next week.

Classic Jocks

Classic jocks have been around for over 100 years. Their designs haven’t changed much in that time. There are two types of classic jocks, the swimmer and regular (well lack of better word). The regular has a 3 inch waist band a sort of nylon mesh pouch and 1 inch leg staps. It should fit snug and hold everything in place. The swimmer was made for wearing under a swim brief and has a 1 inch waisband and slightly smaller leg straps. I am not really mentioning cup jocks here today just as an FYI

These jocks were created to help prevent injury in sports. However, they did make their way into the leather fetish world (and gay men) because of their design. Jocks are a super fun design, I remember wearing my first one and thought “This is hot” and I must have more!

Over the lasat 20 years the classic jock has decreased in popularity. Bike stopped making the classic #10 jock before returning in the last few years. I have seen more and more guys start posting more content on social with the classic jock. Also, brands like Jack Adams, Male Power and Timoteo are making classic jocks in the classic white and new colors.

Happy Holidays guys. Whew, we have made it through another year. The last few weeks have been crazy with a pinched nerve, sick for the last few days. I’m taking much-needed time off to rest and recover. This is a pic I drew last year after the holidays featuring Undiedude24 from IG. It’s one of my favorites I have done and it killed me to wait a year to put it out.

I”m reusing the image from this weekend because this post contains information that Twitter deems is “against their TOS.” Which are total BS and a desperate attempt to hang on to people. No matter what happens with the dumpster fire that is Twitter (rumors I have seen on Twitter are investors are telling a certain billionaire he needs to step down and appoint an adult as CEO).

We have never had a home that could be ours. Every time we get an amiable underwear space, it gets taken away. I’m looking at you Tumblr. However, Tumblr is back and allowing NSFW content, just not porn. I came up with an infographic you can look at the four places I have considered going. The good and the bad of each.

This is by no means the end-all-be-all list. If you are familiar with these and I have something wrong, let me know so I can fix it. I use some of these sites I”m learning as well.

The site I am leaning toward the most is Hive. The first reason it seems to be a mix of Twitter and Instagram. It’s super easy to use, and you don’t have to do a lot to sign up. Lastly, it’s very welcoming to the LGBTQ+ community on the front discover page; it has a section for the community. I know Hive had some issues and was down for a few days this month. They are a super small team and are growing fast. Over the last few updates, the app has sped up, and it seems to be on the right track. I haven’t created accounts for the UNB Blog and UNB Store yet, but I’m debating my strategy.

I said it before, and I’ll say it again we need an underwear social media place we can connect. The sucky part of this is that we seem to be splintering and unsure where our online buds are going. The new TOS violation of linking seems A. Anti=competitive and B. are desperate.

I created a page here to link to all the UNB Social media accounts and mine. I plan on adding more for the podcast guys and this will be a place for you to find us where ever we go. Plus, there is always the blog, and I’ll try to write updates as I can.

Sharing our love of underwear, swimwear, and gear at the best of times can be difficult. How many out there have had posts removed, accounts suspended, or even deleted? Mix in the current dumpster fire that is Twitter, and this makes connecting with others and sharing our love of gear much harder. There is a lot I want to say on this topic, and I will do an editor’s desk podcast this weekend and put it out for everyone.

Why is this important?

There are very few places we can go and share openly without violating TOS on services. This includes everyday guys, brands, and stores. It’s frustrating sometimes because even promoting the blog has gotten me into trouble with many social media sites. Adding in the UNB Store complicates issues even more. The last time I was in Vegas, I attended some marketing seminars for small online stores, and 75% of the ideas were ones we couldn’t use in underwear. Why should we water down what we want to promote to suit someone else? We want to normalize underwear.

Where do we go?

When Twitter was sold, I didn’t think it would change much. It’s been two months since the buyout, and things keep getting more chaotic. People are starting to leave and go to other places. It’s sad because it’s been a relatively safe space to share NSFW pics and connect on Twitter (outside of the profile pics and avatars, which UNB was hit for this “violation”). Where do we go? Tumblr is now letting you put up NSFW content again, but no sex acts. Hive is a new service with growing pains, but it seems open and ready to use. Mastodon has been around for. Few years but the learning curve to set up seems odd (I’m setting up an account now).

I’m doing a poll. If you are either leaving Twitter or looking for a backup option just in case, where are you going? I want to create a hub here where I can share info on where guys are going and hopefully find your undies buddies another service should something happen. Take the survey Below