Originally Posted by BlazeMaker

celandina,
Your observations are probably correct.

I would add content producers probably melt away because they are sick of getting their time wasted by content buyers who have nowhere near the budget needed to produce anything of quality, and quickly realise it is just not worth trying to shoot for the vast majority of adult sites at a professional level.

When a budget is actually offered, I usually just shake my head because it is not enough for me to load a battery into a professional camera and turn it on, let alone organise and pay for good talent, crew and equipment, locations, post production, transfer costs etc.

Fortunately I can survive because I have real world commercial clients that appreciate the difference between a professional production and something shot on a cell phone.