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Originally Posted by loveinallitsforms69
Can someone in the know enlighten me?
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Essentially tubes came in full force right around the time of the credit crunch which crushed the pay for porn mindset for a full generation (millennials) 2008-2009.
There were hundreds of tubes and aggregators who monetized the content that was "uploaded" by users with dating, live cams and ads. Lots and lots of ads. The content was used without permission or with so many pay-sites, ours included, made the best deal we could and took whatever pittance of traffic they would send our way on an affiliate basis. I uploaded clips, not full videos.
This continued for 10 years or so until they started to slowly realize that if you kill off your supply chain eventually it dries up. Yes, some old chubby swingers will upload their own sex videos, but hot 19 year old college girls "experimenting" at a frat party like to be paid. That is a huge simplification, but generally right.
So a few years ago, the tubes started to sweeten the deal for producers and creators by opening up monetization paths.
Acquisitions and market pressure consolidated the legal tubes to the big three in Xhamster, Xvideos and Mindgeek and a few other fringe tubes.
Visa and MC stopped processing for Pornhub which scared the shit out of all of them.
Now all three are desperately migrating to platforms with memberships of some kind and paying creators and studios on view-share, ad-share, direct sales and mini-memberships.
I work well with all three and I have good and bad things to say about their programs.
But at least they are doing the right thing now and allowing the people that work hard to create good porn to make a good living doing it. I won't let good get in the way of perfect.
Hopefully this puts pressure on the remaining tubes that still allow uploading of content.
I still have clips on some tubes that are licensed to be there, but any of my full videos that are being shown or sold without me getting a cut are illegal and I DMCA them daily.
However illegal tubes still upload my full clips and those tubes are supported by leeches on the biz like The Porn Dude and sadly many dating, cam and ad networks that are given awards by all the main event holders.
The next gen, gen Y has been conditioned via Netflix, HULU and Amazon that you have to pay for content. This bodes well for our industry.