Oh... where do I even begin...?
1. Anything unrealistic. Bad story lines, preposterous positions, bad acting, bad dialogue.
2. Inconsistencies. If the idea is that it'll be a disciplinary spanking (especially if it's a parental scene), then for fuck's sake don't end up grabbing her ass, fondling her or zooming on her vagina!
3. Combining spanking with other activities. I'm a purist, so other aspects of BDSM leave me cold, some of them disgust me.
4. Fake spankings and those that are too mild but are advertised as "severe", "extreme" "brutal". Often I see these adjectives and then there's a mediocre hand spanking that barely leaves any mark. Or a more severe implement is used but the spanker obviously holds back a lot. A prime example would be ATP - if someone gave such a high number of belt lashes and those lashes were serious, the girl's backside would be black and blue by the end. Instead they often just drop the belt on the bottom, which is barely marked even after more than 100 lashes. If one isn't prepared to use a severe implement, or the spankee can't take it, then don't use it. Period.
5. It ties up to the first point, but a 40+ woman playing the part of a teen girl... I mean: come on! There are plenty of examples of girls well over 20 who could play that part very well (Brandi, Jessica, so many others from RSN or Lupus, GBS etc.), and there are other types of scenes that a mature woman can play.
6. Similarly: spankings that are too mild. I know that a vast majority are fans of bare hand OTK spankings, but I'm not one. To me it's not believable. We're not talking about toddlers or pre-teens (I hope!!!), and in my mind hand spankings over the knee given to anyone older than that is just ridiculous. Please don't come explaining to me that you spank so hard and she cries and the butt is red, I know all that shit, I've been lectured about it by many people on many similar forums, but I also have experiences, sad and traumatic ones from my childhood and my idea of a serious spanking is informed by those events.
7. Slow, ceremonial and measured spankings. As I said above, my likes and dislikes, my notions of what is realistic are defined by my experiences and according to those spankings are a lot less ritualized, formalized, there's no waiting and walking around and stupid blah blah blah between each swat or lash. Whenever I see that I lose patience, I stop watching the video.
8. Paddles. I know that in America they are a very common tool, but I live in a different part of the world and to me the idea of someone buying or making, keeping such an artificial object is just weird, it doesn't feel natural to me. Also, I very much dislike the idea of a big stiff board being used (and yes, I know that lexan is different, but not different enough to me, not to mention that it's even more artificial than wood).
9. That bloke from the Russian Slaves (and related) videos. He's creepy AF.
10. Miss Sultrybelle... I can't stand her theatrics and stances.