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Monday, 20 January 2025
All Time Most Popular Post in 2024 (MPP3)
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Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Most Popular Post of 2024 (MPP2)
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| KW - The Farm |
Above: KW's 'The Farm' headlined the first 'Milking Factory' article,
which was the most visited of all the posts at mitchmen in 2024.
The table below lists the top 20. Commentary notes follow.
(Titles have links to the original posts ).
TABLE 1 - Top 20 Posts at mitchmen (in 2024)
Rank (last yr) | Title (+link) | Total Hits | Last year | Pub Date | Note |
1 (1) | 5355 | 7506 | 2017 | 1,5a | |
2 (2) | 4338 | 7187 | 2018 | 1, 5b | |
3 (3) | 2671 | 4332 | 2008 | 1 | |
4 (6) | 2572 | 2316 | 2008 | 1 | |
5 (5) | 2169 | 2551 | 2020 | 5c | |
6 (12) | 2001 | 1420 | 2018 | 1, 4 | |
7 (4) | 1936 | 2604 | 2012 | 6 | |
8 (9) | 1489 | 1502 | 2019 | 5 a | |
NEW | Ain Postolos - Milking Factory Recruits | 1475 | - | 2024 | 2 ,5 |
9 (8) | 1314 | 1549 | 2020 | 5c | |
10 (10) | 1170 | 1466 | 2018 | 5a | |
11 (-) | 1127 | 552 | 2023 | 3 | |
12 (11) | 1100 | 1437 | 2010 | 1 | |
13 (19) | 1088 | 1092 | 2020 | 5b | |
14 (13) | 999 | 1350 | 2020 | 6 | |
15 (18) | 965 | 1098 | 2018 | 5a | |
16 (-) | 955 | 763 | 2017 | 4 | |
NEW | 955 | - | 2024 | 2, 5b | |
17 (-) | Etienne/Stephen – Index to Articles | 933 | 786 | 2016 | 4 |
18 (-) | Art by Shenguanlin | 929 | 501 | 2023 | 3 |
19 (15) | 916 | 1200 | 2020 | 6 | |
20 (-) | The Art of Homoeros -1 (Beefcake Boys) | 911 | 779 | 2018 | 4 |
(Stats collected on 31st December 2024)
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Since this table covers all 2000 posts at mitchmen, you would expect it to be quite volatile with new visitors bringing different interests to the fore, but in recent years it has been remarkably stable. In 2024 the 3 most visited posts were exactly the same as last year, with the first two well ahead of everyone else.
The rest of the top 10 were also the same but shuffled positions, except for 'Homoeros - Art of Crucifixion' which entered the top 10, rising six places to No 6. It replaced The Art of 'Muscle' Matt -1 which dramatically dropped out of the top 20 altogether after a run of popularity in the last couple of years.
Amazingly, two of the top 10 articles date from as far back as 2008 and none are more recent than 2020. This blog is retrospective in character but it's remarkable that so many of the classic fetish artists, like Brick, Cavelo and Mike Carcel, remain more popular than the many accomplished, newer ones. They share the same characteristic of being 'old-fashioned' art created by hand, not a keyboard. Computer techniques but don't seem able yet to capture that elusive element of authenticity and personality that creates lasting appeal. At the same time the repetition is a little depressing, I don't want this blog to become stale and fossilised!
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As usual, I have hived off 2024's new posts into a table of their own (MPP1) because their initial flush of visits can mask the wider picture. I have shown where they would
have appeared, however, with entries in orange. Onlt two qualified, 'Ain Postolos - Milking Factory Recruits' would have taken 9th position leaving 'IFNB Newsletter' to share a revised 17th spot with Chirenon's enslaved Air Force Boys. It's hits in the second year and onwards that separate the new wheat from the chaff but, encouragingly, last year's winner of the new post category - 'Slave Training 11 – Cockaphobia' did well again, finishing just outside the top 20. The 2022 winner 'Brick's Slave Academy' also finished in the top 30.
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In this sea of tranquillity, Shenguanlin managed to make a splash with two new entries at 11 and 18. His articles from 2023 were the only ones in the top 20 more recent than 2020. The first of his them probably got an extra boost from being part of the popular milking factory series (see 5 below). His art is high fetish and hits the button in the earthiest way imaginable. His brand of domination might not be everyone's cup of tea (if I may use that expression) but it's welcome here.
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The other 3 'new' entries were actually returning to former glories. 'Etienne's Article Index' at 17 dates from 2016 and was unexpectedly top of this chart in 2020. It's resurgence is probably attributable to the flurry of articles at the blog related to his 'Sailor Beware' story, notably Planet Gay's re-interpretation of the desert trek inflicted on the captive, Navy boys.
Planet Gay's article also helped to pull Chirenon's Air Force boys back into the top 20 for the first time since 2020 (at 16). I used his image to promote the subject of desert abductions on 'X' and it seems to have drawn some new admirers. More about 'X' in the summary at the end of this post.
Homoeros' crucifixion images have an enduring popularity but his more vanilla work in the 'Beefcake Boys' post was last in this chart in 2020. It's the lead article for my series about him so it will tend to attract readers with an general interest in his work, they were prompted this year by the sexy 'Ross in Trouble' images that I featured in January.
Dropping out to make way for these new entries were - Homoeros Gallery Guide, Enslavement Art by Planet Gay, Exciting New Slave Academy Pictures by Brick, and The Art of Tentakun.
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The 'Milking Factory' series has been hugely popular at this blog for several years now, so much so that it's hard to find something new to say about it! No 1 in the series finished in top spot again this year. It benefits from being the entry point for the whole series, but other MF articles claimed 4 more positions in their own right and together they made up 25% of the table. That's not even counting the new article (featuring AI images for the first time) by Ain Postolos.
The IFNB series is smaller, only 3 articles, so claiming 2 places in the chart (again not counting the newest one) is arguably an even greater achievement. It's in the nature of this field for talented artists to disappear without trace (having shot their load you might say), but this one, with his dry, witty commentaries is particularly missed. I attempted to emulate his style in IFNB3, but it's not the same.
Amalaric shouldn't be forgotten either with 2 articles steady in the top 10 reflecting the continued popularity of his photo manipulations.
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The table is completed by a trio of talented artists with very different styles. Priapus of Milet is a familiar name here, a long time champion in the 'all time' table. He has moved with the times and it's hard to credit that his very modern style originated back in 2012. He's probably the greatest story-teller since Tagame, but with a more sophisticated, almost cosy line in threat and sexuality.
Brosfate at one time was the great rival to Amalaric in this table. He has slipped behind a little this year but his art too has evolved considerably and it's continued, deep-rooted popularity is well attested by 2 entries in the separate New Post category (MPP1).
Black Prof is a relative new boy but his cartoon-based bondage imagery is a visual delight. He exploits the medium to add drama and clarity. It's not really 'gay' art at all but he has the clever knack of making it seem so.
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9 different years are represented in this year's table. There are no
photographic entries this year, but 5 are by photo-manipulators. 6 are by renderers, 7 by traditional artists (I have included Shenguanlin here) and 2 cartoonists. Together they represent the usual, eclectic range of interests.
The
mitchmen 'Index of Artists' page recorded 11710 hits in 2024, up 16% on
2023,but in line with the long term average. It would have easily taken
top place in the top 20 table. I'm glad visitors are still finding
the index useful and hope it will lead many more newcomers to a
fantastic heritage of gay art they didn't know about. Perhaps reflecting
that phenomenon, the 77 individual articles which registered increased hits reads like a revival of all the old classics:- Naomichi (+283%),
Manflesh, Etienne (Sailor Beware), Nath66, Ehrlich, Rex, Homoeros,
Quaintance, Teddy of Paris, Tom of Finland, Tagame, Sabian and Ulf. They were
interspersed with a gaggle of my own captioned images.
Overall hit counts at the blog, however, declined further this year by 20%. I believe this is mainly due to Google imposing sign-in barriers and also perhaps to the rising popularity of other outlets. I suppose my opening comments might also be taken as implying that recent articles may not as interesting or original as they used to be.
The decline prompted me to engage in some promotional activity by starting to post 'tasters' regularly on 'X', which has become a haven for fetish artists of late. I was surprised by the traffic levels there and initial results gave me much food for thought. The captioned image, 'After The Parade', which I posted on both platforms in December has presently attracted 85 hits on blogger and 1,300 on 'X'. An image from 'Cowboy folio No 8' has 136 hits on blogger and 403 (plus 4 'likes') on 'X'.
Posting at X requires a lot less effort and it's a good exercise in brevity for me, but it's format is not suitable for in-depth articles like this, so I don't envisage defecting there completely. There is some evidence that my posting there has improved footfall at this blog where visitors face exactly the same entry barriers as X. Hopefully the superior image display of blogger will keep them interested once they find me. Only time will tell. There's now a growing trend now, for artists to move on from 'X' to BSky Social which is a similar platform without the uninvited political views. I'll wait and see in that department.
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Next time I will reveal the most popular mitchmen post of all time, based on cumulative hits,
To look at other charts for earlier years just click on the MPP label at the foot of this post.
Thanks to all of you for your continuing interest and support of mitchmen blog.
Keep the restraint tight in 2024!
Wednesday, 8 January 2025
Most Popular New Post of 2024 (MPP1)
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| Ain Postolous - Dungeon Bondage |
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The table below lists the most popular of the new mitchmen posts during 2024. I'm sticking with last year's method of simply counting hits with a mention of other factors in the notes.
(Titles have links to the original posts, column 4 shows hit rate ranking
On mobiles the table is best viewed by turning your phone sideways)
TABLE 1 - Top 20 New Posts of 2024 at mitchmen
Rank |
Title (+link) |
Total Hits |
Hit Rate Ranking |
Pub Month |
Note |
1 |
Ain Postolos - Recruiting Workers for the Milking Factory | 1475 | 1 | July | 1 |
2 |
IFNB 3 - Naked Bodybuilders Newsletter | 955 | 9 | Feb | 2 |
3 |
Art by Aizenhower |
744 | 12 | Apr | 3 |
4 |
Art by JomsViking 1 |
735 | 17 | Jan | 4 |
5 |
Defeated Army Enslaved |
698 | 13 | Apr | 4 |
6 |
Enslaved Sailors by Planet Gay |
635 |
2 |
Jul |
1 |
7 |
Art by Catweazle |
633 | 7 | Jun | 6 |
8 |
Milking Factory R&D (No18) |
594 | 3 | Jul | 5 |
9 |
Milking Factory 16 by Gorounaoki |
571 | 14 | Apr | 5 |
10 |
Brosfate 5 – The Art of Control | 546 | 4 | Jul | 6 |
| 11 | Mitchell's Cowboy Folio 8 |
516 | 18 | Apr | 4 |
12 |
Captivity Art by Eclyom | 508 | 16 | May | 6 |
13 |
The Art of Uruonurun - 1 Heroic Endings | 503 | 5 | Aug | 3 |
14 |
Brosfate – Recent Highlights | 484 | 10 | Jul | 6 |
15 |
The Art of Uruonurun – 2 | 461 | 6 | Aug | 3 |
16 |
Vintage Bondage – James Seely | 459 | 19 | May | 7 |
17 |
Homoeros – Ross In Trouble | 453 | 21 | Feb | 6 |
18 |
Art by JomsViking 3 | 449 | 20 | Mar | 4 |
19 |
Roman Prisoners of War | 429 | 15 | Jul | 1 |
20 |
Etienne's 'Sailor Beware' and Royale Studio | 428 | 23 | Jan | 1 |
(Stats collected on 31st Dec 2024)
NOTES
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1.
2024 was the year AI art really made its mark and Ain Postolos was the runaway winner of the 'Most Popular New Post' with the 'Recruiting Workers' article, a group of images which I cunningly wove into the Milking Factory saga, although strictly speaking, they are not true factory depictions. His winning total comfortably exceeded last year's winner (as did the runner-up). A separate Ain post with a better 'factory' feel - 'Milking Factory 19' failed to make the cut, but his present popularity is underlined by the continuing success of his debut post at mitchmen. 'The Season of Chastity' from Christmas of last year racked up 589 hits in 2024 alone, a total which would have propelled it into the top ten if I had admitted it. Its hit rate would have placed it just inside the top 20. This artist's work is extraordinarily sexy and he shares Absolut Bleu's love of exaggeration to almost unpublishable lengths. However, AI can trap artists into churning out more of the same, I hope he will broaden his range of subjects in the new year.
Two other AI posts made the top 20 - Planet Gay's reworking of an image from Etienne's marvellous 'Sailor Beware' story (at 6) and some images from 'Roman Prisoners of War', an anonymous artist (at 19). The Planet Gay post actually finished second in the 'rate' table, which takes account of time since publication. Coincidentally, it's subject, 'Sailor Beware' featured in another post (at 20) that presented fragments of a rediscovered, original version from the 1960s and linked it to Royale Studio's 'Shanghai'd Sailor' storyette (also newly-unearthed this year from early beefcake magazines). Posts about Royale Studio have now moved to the new Royale and Hussar blog.
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There was a case of déjà vu next in the table with 'IFNB newsletter', the third in my series of articles about the 'International Federation of Naked Bodybuilders'. It finished as runner-up. I attempted to re-create the original fantasy and feel of the now-defunct IFNB website in this article and am pleased that it went down well with the fans who sorely miss the wit and craft of the original author. It's already showing signs of longevity, posting more hits in December than any other month since it was posted in February.
3
Third spot this year somewhat surprised me. Aizenhower's art veers between truly sensual imagery and outright cartoonery with fetish interests occasionally blended in. It's good, otherwise I wouldn't have featured it here, but doesn't strike me as blockbuster material. However, his result speaks for itself.
Uruonurun has a similar cartoon-driven style, but his hunting ground is 'young superhero' territory rather than Aizenhower's more romantic, retrospective fantasies. Uruonurun' s images are much more sexy, however, and seemed to be enthusiastically received by mitchmen readers. He got two articles into the table, and at one point I thought he was going to have a tilt at top spot. They ended up at 5th and 6th in the hit rate table, but only made 13th and 15th positions based on total hit counts.
4
Traditional, pencil on paper art was well represented this year by JomsViking with two posts that finished at 4 and 18 (with a third, Part 2 just missing the cut). It gives him a valid claim to be regarded as 'Artist of the Year', especially if you side with the AI nay-sayers! His comic style takes some getting into, there's no colour, the individual images are small, and he doesn't set out to be pretty, but there are some sexy gems lurking amongst the frames and the underlying abduction storylines are compelling
More traditional art is also represented in the table by my own 'Cowboy Folio No 8', placed at 11. I regarded the two images in this post as interesting ideas that hadn't developed into full pictures, but I polished them up for publication and gave them an AI gloss and am delighted with this result. A number of other posts in this series were also well received and one of my attempts at pure AI art, 'Experiment with a Swimmer' almost got into the top 20, scoring 406, so it's been a satisfying year for me. Both these were probably bolstered by some exposure on 'X', of which more in the next post
Perhaps the most surprising event this year was the first appearance of a truly traditional, painted, 'old master' artwork in the table. I think it's the first to even figure in the blog, let alone the top 20 table. 'Romans Under The Yoke' by Glyre headlined the 'Defeated Army Enslaved' post, which finished in 5th position. His treatment of the extraordinary mass humiliation of the Roman Army was as sensationalist as my post title, with fearful men passing under the severed heads of their comrades, so it's perhaps not so surprising that my readers should enjoy it! By chance, it happened to appear at almost the same time as the 'Roman Prisoners of War', some AI art (at 19) which perhaps shows there's never anything truly new.
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Milking Factory posts have dominated this table in recent years, and they took 3 places this year, including Ain Postolos in top spot. Arguably though, Gorounaoki in 9th place was the most authentic of them, with a row of restrained captives giving their all, whereas 'R&D' in 8th position and Ain at the top illustrated 'behind the scenes' processes. I expect to see more fireworks from this series of posts in the 'all-comers' and 'all-time' tables.
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Despite the AI-surge (if you'll pardon that expression), rendering
continued to be well represented in the table led by another newcomer, Catweazle at 7 with his man v
monster mini-epics which rely on the popular, fetish theme of 'man in mortal
danger, dressed only in skimpy clothing'. His images are not
gay nor overtly sexual but are nevertheless very sexy, and I accorded them 3 articles, unable to leave the subject alone. 'Leaves you wanting more' is an accolade for any artist.
Brosfate returned with two articles at 10 and 14 illustrating his continued progress in refining his technique with some truly stunning, new imagery. He made his name with 'Captured Soldier' but recent work has featured some promising domination storylines which only lack a similar dark intensity and maturity in the visual concept.
Some of Eclyon's art (at 12) will have been familiar to old hands, but I was pleasantly surprised to discover some experiments with epic-style, historical scenarios that bore comparison with PlanetGay's enslaved Egyptian adventurers.
The final render contributor is our old friend, Homoeros at 17. My 'Ross in Trouble' post was insubstantial, simply drawing attention to his new series, which felt like he was striking new ground in terms of the intimacy and intensity of the punishment scenario. That it should do so well is a tribute to the popularity of Mr H.
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A photographic entry took top spot in this table last year, but this year's sole representative of that genre (excluding the IFNB photoshop post) was the first part of my profile of the vintage model James Seely, which finished in 16th place. I confess that I was captivated by his expressive face and sexy physique, and am relieved that it seems I'm not alone!
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This year's table features articles based on photographs, comics, cartoons, renders, traditional art and AI. The wealth of gay, artistic talent enhances all of our lives in difficult times. Long may it continue!
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Next time - The most viewed post of all the posts at mitchmen during 2024.
A big, big Thank You!
to all my readers for your interest in my blog,
I hope mitchmen has managed to divert you from the tribulations of the world in 2025
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
from mitchmen blog
Tuesday, 30 January 2024
Most Popular mitchmen Posts - Summary of previous winners
As a postscript to my annual mitchmen awards for popular posts,
here is the updated list of the previous winners, with links to the winning articles.
Most Popular Post During The Year
at mitchmen (Table MPP 2)
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| Kalabro - Milking Factory |
Above, Kalabro's contribution to the winner in both 2023 and 2022
2023 The Milking Factory - No 1
2022 The Milking Factory - No 1
2021 IFNB A Fantasy World of BodyBuilders
2020 Etienne/Stephen - Index to Articles (i.e. articles at mitchmen)
2019 IFNB A Fantasy World of BodyBuilders
2018 A-Z of Fetish Artists - Cavelo
2017 Priapus of Milet - 1
2016 A-Z of Fetish Artists - Cavelo
2015 A-Z of Fetish Artists – Mike Carcel
2014 My Initiation
Most Popular New Post of the Year
at mitchmen (table MPP 1)
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| Brick - Slave Academy |
Brick was the winner in 2022
2023 Slave Training 11 - Cockaphobia (GIF)
2022 New 'Slave Academy' Pictures by Brick
2021 Come and Get It! (Royale Studio Archive)
2020 The Art of Amalaric – 1 A Slave To Passion
2018 IFNB A Fantasy World of BodyBuilders
2017 The Milking Factory (No1)
2016 A-Z of Fetish Artists - WooDunArt
2014 A-Z of Fetish Artists - Tagame (Part 3)
Most Popular mitchmen Post of All Time
(cumulative totals, table MPP 3)
A trainer proudly shows off the results achieved by his protégé.
from IFNB, winner of this category twice running.
2023 IFNB – A Fantasy World of Bodybuilders
2022 IFNB – A Fantasy World of Bodybuilders
2021 Priapus of Milet - 1
2020 Priapus of Milet - 1
2019 Priapus of Milet - 1
2018 A-Z of Fetish Artists – Mike Carcel
2017 A-Z of Fetish Artists – Mike Carcel
2016 A-Z of Fetish Artists – Mike Carcel
2015 A-Z of Fetish Artists – Mike Carcel
2014 A-Z of Fetish Artists – Mike Carcel
2013 A-Z of Fetish Artists – Mike Carcel
1480 @end2023, 1144 @end2022, 542 visits @end 2021
Friday, 19 January 2024
2023 Most Popular Post of All Time (MPP3)
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| They're All Winners! |
Above, art by this year's winner for the second year running, IFNB.
mitchmen blog was first published in 2008 and ten of the sixteen years since then are now represented in this survey, the missing years between 2008 and 2022 are shown below
Drained but victorious contestants pose with their enormous trophies and their cups.
There will be a third IFNB post soon, watch out for it.
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According to my Blogger 'hit stats', out of all the mitchmen articles published to date,
According to my Blogger 'hit stats', out of all the mitchmen articles published to date,
those registering the most total hits since publication are as shown below.
Table 1 mitchmen Articles With Most Hits Since Publication to end 2023
Posn (last yr) | Title of Post (& link) | Year of Pub'n | Cum Hits | Hits in 2023 |
1 (1) | 2018 | 51,757 | 7187 | |
2 (2) | 2017 | 51,385 | 7506 | |
3 (3) | 2012 | 44,375 | 2604 | |
4 (4) | 2008 | 36,621 | 2316 | |
5 (5) | 2010 | 34,495 | 1437 | |
6 (6) | 2018 | 24,857 | 1466 | |
7 (8) | 2018 | 23,187 | 1145 | |
8 (7) | 2009 | 22,957 | 824 | |
9 (9) | 2016 | 21,657 | 786 | |
10 (10) | 2010 | 19,701 | 624 | |
11 (11) | 2009 | 19,328 | 811 | |
12 (14) | 2020 | 15,865 | 2551 | |
13 (20) | 2008 | 15,409 | 4332 | |
14 (12) | 2010 | 14,752 | 718 | |
15 (16) | 2019 | 14,393 | 1502 | |
16 (13) | 2009 | 13,889 | 414 | |
17 (15) | 2015 | 13,781 | 761 | |
18 (17) | 2018 | 13,048 | 1420 | |
19 (18) | 2009 | 12,313 | 872 | |
20 (19) | 2009 | 12,129 | 729 |
Stats compiled 1/1/24
This year it was pretty much 'as you were' in the all-time table of hits. At the top of the table, Milking Factories-1 closed the gap behind IFNB after surrendering No 1 position to it in 2022 and at the present rate it will be back to neck and neck this time next year. As in 2022 these two are fast pulling away from the rest of the pack, now a long way behind them. Related posts, Milking Factories 3 & 4 also consolidated their places in the top 20 table. The follow up article on IFNB, 'IFNB Revisited' however is still way behind this group at No 80, but it recorded a creditable score of 1,587 in 2023 and rose 16 places.
There were no new entries at all to the top 20 this year and only one change in the top 11 positions with Homoeros Gallery Guide (now 7th) swapping places with Jotto (now 8th). This rise was despite the Homoeros post putting in a faltering performance compared with previous years (after registering a 75% fall in hits). Homoeros' other top 20 article - 'The Art of the Cross' - dropped back to 18th but is still scoring well and has articles in it's sights for overtaking.
The chasing pack are headed up by 3 former Number ones. Priapus of Milet is secure in 3rd place but the long standing rivalry between Cavallo (4th) and Mike Carcel (5th) is not yet over, Mike slipped further behind in 2023 but the gap is still only one year's worth of present hit rates. There's another big gap behind the top 5 who are unlikely to be disturbed for a while.
The meteoric rise of Amalaric's - 'A Slave To Passion' moderated in 2023, rising only 2 places to 12th place but with a top 5 hit rate nevertheless. He's now coming up against some formidable historic totals which will take some chipping away. He's also being chased hard by Brick, well placed to overtake him in 13th position. Brick had the best rise in the table, 7 places, interest in him having been revived by a marvellous stream of new work posted at MetalbondNYC. My A-Z article covers his earlier work.
Other classic artists Malex, Franco, Martin of Holland, The Hun, Kalabro and Julius were all shuffled down by the newcomers and though they didn't have vintage years they mostly posted hit counts that would have rivalled the winner of the 2023 'new articles' table (MPP1).
The entry level to this all-time top 20 is now 12129 about 1,000 more than last year. That increase alone exceeded all the scores of the 2023 new posts and the cumulative total of IFNB is now fifty times the total of the 2023 winning new post.
The leading outsider threatening the present residents for next year is the same as last year - The Art of BrosFate – 3 at 22 (up 2 places). Further down, Enslavement Art by Planet Gay jumped 165 places but there are no obvious, immediate challengers for the top 20 places.
The mitchmen 'Index of Artists' page reached 87,590 hits at the end of 2023, a 13% rise (compared with 19% last time). It would have earned top spot in this ranking if I counted it as a post.
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mitchmen blog was first published in 2008 and ten of the sixteen years since then are now represented in this survey, the missing years between 2008 and 2022 are shown below
- 2013 – The nearest is still my 2nd article on Mike Carcel at 51 (50)
- 2014 - The Art of Baron is at 30 (29)
- 2021 - Come and Get It! at 77 (76)
- 2022 - New 'Slave Academy' Pictures by Brick jumped to 194 from 356, with 1239 hits in 2023
- 2023 - Slave Training 11 (Cockaphobia) has yet to score enough hits to register in the table, I don't count scores less than 2000 hits. However it is at least 500 places away.
Average hit rates
The total cumulative hits method used for the all-time popularity table above is biased towards older articles which have had longer to accumulate their hits. However, the higher traffic counts in recent years have been eroding that advantage, enabling newer articles to contest the top positions. The table below based on average hits per year since publication, gives a more balanced view of long-term popularity.
In this list I have left out the 2023 posts because they don't even have a full year yet and their initial surge (if you'll pardon that expression) produces ridiculous hit rates that are unlikely to be sustained. They are covered by a table of their own (MPP1).
Table 2
Articles with the Highest Average Hits per year Since Publication
Article | Publicn year | Ave Hits per year | Position (& last year) | 'Total Hits' position |
2018 | 8898 | 1 (1) | 1 | |
2017 | 7481 | 2 (2) | 2 | |
2020 | 4731 | 3 (3) | 12 | |
| Homoeros Gallery Guide | 2018 | 4592 | 4 (4) | 7 |
| Milking Factories - 3 | 2018 | 4432 | 5 (5) | 6 |
2012 | 3790 | 6 (6) | 3 | |
2016 | 3029 | 7 (9) | 9 | |
2019 | 2902 | 8 (10) | 15 | |
| The Art of BrosFate – 3 | 2020 | 2889 | 9 (8) | 22 |
2010 | 2536 | 10 (15) | 5 | |
2020 | 2536 | 11 (12) | 29 | |
2018 | 2430 | 12 (14) | 18 | |
2021 | 2402 | 13 (7) | 77 | |
2008 | 2345 | 14 (13) | 4 | |
2020 | 2163 | 15 (16) | 52 | |
2011 | 2010 | 16 (-) | 236 | |
2021 | 1977 | 17 (11) | 125 | |
2018 | 1943 | 18 (18) | 27 | |
2022 | 1909 | 19 (-) | 194 | |
2018 | 1862 | 20 (20) | 26 |
IFNB and Milking factories topped this table too, testament to their dominating popularity at the blog and here too they are way ahead of the chasing pack. All of the top 6 articles kept their positions but hit rates declined across the board.
Milking Factories occupied 4 places in the table, down 1 but still including No 2 which clung on to 20th position, despite 2 new entries at 16 (Enslavement Art by Planet Gay, which jumped 165 places) and 19 (Exciting new pictures by Brick). Milking Factories - 5 was the casualty from this group, falling to 23 (19). The other was Amalaric – 2 Ancient History down to 22 from 17. Amalaric's other articles in the table (at 3 and 15) held up well. The same was true of Homoeros whose 3 articles barely budged.
A notable riser was Mike Carcel up to 10 from 15, a remarkable reversal of recent trends, thanks to his hit rate holding up much better than it's rivals. Mike actually tied with Brosfate-1 for 10th place but I gave him the better position for his superior consistency.
There were two other big fallers. Art of Roa-1 with it's magnificent headline image (at 17, down 6) predictably got more sober scores this year after it's sparkling debut last time. 'Come and Get It!' was also down 6 places, a phenomenon that can be attributed to the launch of the new Royale Studio blog. This article is the only one in the table based on pure photography but IFNB and Amalaric represent the photo-manips.
The cut-off point for joining this 'hit rate' table dropped a little this year, from 2023 to 1862 hits per year. Two of the articles in the 2023 New Posts table beat that hit rate based on their short existence so far, Cockaphobia would have been 16th and Chen_X_Chen 19th if I had included them, but they probably won't keep that rate up for a full year. Older promising challengers just outside the table are Muscle Matt-1 and Black Prof
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The articles I post to this blog are very much based on my own interests and fancies but the results of this survey do help me plan future offerings. My readers preferences doesn't always match my own (where are Les, JoeT and Link?). Nevertheless it's gratifying to see such interest in the great gay fetish artists who often have a fairly low visibility on the web.
Remember, this comparison is only made for entertainment, since I don't really know how accurate Google's stats are, they don't seem to add up to the overall hits at the blog and I suspect they don't count the activity of people who just browse through the blog roll.
Thanks to all of you for your continuing interest and support.
This annual set of articles is made up of 3 charts
MPP3 - Most Popular Post of All Time (i.e. cumulative performance)
that's this article!
Charts and reviews for earlier years can be accessed by clicking the 'MPP' label below
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