Guro community is much smaller than BDSM, furries, or swinging. It's really a tiny subset of S&M.

It's also very fragmented, in part because we keep getting deplatformed. Social networks, web hosts, advertisers, venues don't want to associate with our content. BDSM and furry basically have PR teams to increase their social acceptance. Guro is a much harder sell.

So the English community is spread over many tiny hubs like forums or subreddits or discords that don't connect. A main hub was tumblr, which kicked us out recently. Gurochan feels much less active and diverse than it use to be. I thank the current mod team for resurrecting it, but each shutdown disrupts the community.

Japan actually has cons, meetups, stores, etc. It's a different cultural attitude to sexually violent media where guro comms can take root and not get kicked out.

I also think guro fans can be normal or messed-up/scary, but on average, we're more messed than those with other fetishes. The reason is obvious. What would you expect?