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| Jordan James & Harvey Bridgestone |
My annual custom of evaluating the most visited new posts of the year has given me more food for thought than usual this year after a dramatic fall in the number of recorded visits. The stats tell me that visitors are down by 25% for the blog overall but most of the entries in the table below show hit totals and a cut-off score which are just below half of the same position last year. This seems to be a continuation of a trend which I noted last year where views of new posts fell but visits overall were stable. There's an obvious message for me here about recent posts! There have been no new major reviews this year to set alongside past 'block busters' like Amalaric, the Milking Factory series and the IFNB phenomenon. I will be hoping to regain lost viewers in the New Year.
Meanwhile I must thank all the readers who continue to show their interest in mitchmen blog!
The table below lists the most popular of the new mitchmen posts during 2023. I'm sticking with last years method of simply counting hits with a mention of other factors in the notes.
(Titles have links to the original posts, column 4 shows annualised hit rate ranking).
On mobiles the table is best viewed by turning your phone sideways
Rank | Title (+link) | Total Hits | Hit Rate Ranking | Pub Month | Note |
1 | Slave Training 11 - Cockaphobia (GIF) | 927 | 1 | Jul | 1 |
2 | Platoon69 by Jero | 698 | 12 | Jan | 2 |
3 | 666 | 14 | Jan | 3 | |
4 | 608 | 11 | Mar | 5 | |
5 | 596 | 10 | Mar | 2 | |
6 | 567 | 3 | July | 1 | |
7 | 552 | 4 | Jun | 4 | |
8 | 547 | 2 | July | 2, 5 | |
9 | 538 | 13 | Mar | 6 | |
10 | Abduction Art by ApostlXXX | 535 | 9 | Apr | 4 |
| 11 | 527 | 7 | May | 4 | |
12 | 513 | 15 | Mar | 6 | |
13 | 506 | 6 | Jun | 4 | |
14 | Art by Shenguanlin | 501 | 5 | Jul | 4 |
15 | 479 | 18 | Feb | 7 | |
16 | Most viewed post of all time (to 2022) | 475 | 20 | Jan | 3 |
17 | 470 | 8 | May | 4 | |
18 | Kidnapped (Art by Mitchell) | 465 | 16 | Mar | 3 |
19 | 450 | 17 | Mar | 2 | |
20 | 449 | 19 | Feb | 2 |
Photo-manipulations have always been amongst the most popular posts at this blog in the past - notably Priapus of Milet and Amalaric. That torch this year was carried by two less well known artists, Beverley and Teracles (from the late, lamented Chained Muscle site). Their dramas of capture in the jungle made 15th position, a testament to the inherent appeal of putting scantily clad images of real men into unusual scenarios of danger. It's a technique that neither rendering nor AI can emulate - not yet anyway!
Honourable Mentions 1
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| Chenz - Police Experimented |
There were 3 other contenders from late 2023 which did not make the cut in time, but scored impressive hit rates which and would probably have gained leading positions given more time.
Chenz-X-Chen's vivid, AI scenes of muscled captivity (Oct 23) would have taken 2nd position based on hit rate alone. DragonTattoo (also from Oct) whose built-in comforts for Astronauts are not only highly original but sexy on more than one level would have been 3rd. DGG's more conventional renders, somewhat in the style of Oztangles, (posted in Sept) would have been 4th.
Of course these rates will not be sustained over a full year but all three were within 30 hits of making the table in their own right. It remains to be seen whether these impressive performances will continue.
Honourable Mentions 2
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| Black Prof - Cheated of Victory? |
There were also a number of articles from the previous year, 2022, which were too late to make the cut in their own year of publication but would have scored highly in this years chart.
Thus 'Tarzan Captured' by Black Prof (Aug 2022) has scored 1854 hits in the 15 months since publication and 1060 in 2023 alone, enough to take top spot.
Abduction Art by Jero (Nov 2022) has scored 1078 to date, 626 in 2023, worthy of 4th position at least.
I have admitted examples like this to the table in previous years but there seems to have been a sea change in visitor patterns this year that makes it a case of comparing apples with pears and so I have decided to limit their ranking to 'might have beens'. The 'all-comers' list for 2023 will put their performances in a wider context.
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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