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Originally Posted by MrMaxwell
I never said that it was easy. I said that it was a whole damned hell of a lot easier than setting up a whole cam studio and/or network. They don't have to worry about fuck all. Expenses, traffic, legal issues, processing, carders, etc etc etc.
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I don't think anyone would argue with that. Same goes for being an affiliate. I've never understood the point of reinventing a wheel when you can just sell someone else's.
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They're not mass distributed in the sense that they're going to be in pictures/videos that will be downloaded millions of times or plastered all over the internet on thousands of sites. Yes, their little preview things could be recorded, and some cam sites sell video/pics but this is not the norm.
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That may have true years ago, and one reason why a girl might choose to be a cammodel but not want to be a pic/video model, but these days it seems most major webcam sites provide content/videos/images/random cam streams that can be embedded in any site anywhere in the world.
The model has no control over that, and in fact they're probably largely unaware that their face or cam can be on 1000 different sites all over the internet. Additionally, at any time, the webcam site can use that content in any other way that they want.
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When some lady does a regular porn shoot she'll be downloaded and traded and shared now till eternity and makes the $200-$1000 ONCE. On a cam site she makes that with, what, 1% the exposure? .0000001% the permanent exposure?
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That's one reason why cam models are reluctant to do 'regular' shoots. OTOH they do a lot more work for the money. I don't honestly know regular porn rates, but for that one time shoot they do they get paid
something. A cam performer can stay on a cam all day, standing, dancing, chatting, dealing with fuckwits who want free shows, and still get zero. It's not guaranteed, and worrying about
if you'll make money adds more stress.
Just saying that the idea that girls just hook up a cam, sit on their ass and watch the money roll in is silly; as are theoretical arguments like if she works for XX hours, XX days a week she makes XX a year.
The current
top earning performer on Livejasmin made just under $13k a month. Number 5 made less than 8.5k. Already 36% drop in the space of just 4 places. They have about 2500 performers online right now, and who knows how many active performers in total.
So while a handful at the top can make thousands a month, many probably don't even meet the minimum $100 to get paid. And it's not necessarily because they're 'bad' performers.