Tip Your Cam Models
Back in May I wrote about the evolving sex-cams business, in which competition is leading to more and more “free show” perks as models perform on publicly-accessible feeds for free or for tips, as a sort of loss leader to attract paying customers for private shows.
Last month the live-cam model and performer Finley Blake apparently got fed up with all the non-paying non-tipping lurkers watching her feed waiting for her to do something fun for free. So she staged a one-woman cams-performer work stoppage and went on strike:
The sign reads:
I will not talk to you. I will sit here in silence and stare like 99% of you do.
Support artists. As cam models we are artists, performers, videographers, video editors, graphic designers, companions, entertainment, friends, confidantes, photographers, social media experts, and more! We perform for you, entertain you, produce content for you.
You pay for sports tickets, movies, videogames, music, art… You can pay for us too. You ♥ porn, right? Support us and we can keep providing entertainment and content.
Tip models. Say Hi. Stop being assholes.
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Very seductive, for a very narrow section of her audience.
Companies who send junk mail, even with directed marketing campaigns, are delighted when they get a 1% response and the actual business that is generated is a lot less. I understand it is difficult to be a human advert hoping for responses but it is a business. If it is unbearable for them the camworker needs to change their business model to less free and more paid and private. Though they would probably need some USPs like a great personality, extreme loveliness or some circus tricks to make that work by ensuring that a customer becomes a repeat customer. Or singing something seductive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmn2HXuf7xA
Or, if they want to emphasise that it is a business transaction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfSe8UxR9kg
There is a reason that clerks in bookshops don’t stand in the street and call passing windowshoppers nasty names.
Saying Hi is probably intimidating to a lot of users because it is so easy to come across as creepy when the conversation is variations of “You’re cute”, “I love your …” and “great cuntwork” (or indeed when you’re a sad, lonely man at all). How do I find a camgirl who is into talking about aromatherapy and gardening?
I have watched premium rate telephone-based cams and in the intervals between calls some girls get bored and pouty and some just get bouncier and smilier and more seductive. Though they usually put their clothes on after a while with no calls. A day when their usual paying customers are all with their families or down the pub must seem like a personal judgement on their attractiveness. Hopefully they are paid well for the difficult job.
The only thing I can compare it to in my own life is hitchhiking. I used to do it a lot. It can be tedious when no-one stops but you don’t stop smiling.
Hug, I agree it’s a little bit odd, and reveals something of a mismatch between the performer’s view of her business model and the apparent structure of the platform on which she’s trying to carry out that business model.
The ability to watch the public feed for free is a loss-leader offering built into the platform. It’s what draws in the potential customers, offering the performer a chance to sell them something (a more interactive experience).
I don’t fully understand the complaint that the audience isn’t tipping. Being there for free is what got them in the door; now it’s the performer’s job to sell them on tipping during the public show or taking the show expensively private.
Instead she seems upset that they aren’t paying just for the privilege of watching her sales pitch.
That said, any performer will tell you that a “dead” audience is unpleasant. If they won’t comment, won’t chat, won’t tip, and don’t exist as anything but a raw number at the bottom of the screen, it’s probably no fun trying to sell in that environment. I can understand getting fed up.
I agree with everything you said. However, television is the same for having a majority dead audience and most of those performers cope with just hearing from the enthusiasts. I expect you just have to believe they love you but are dumbstruck by your talent.
I would also add that 99%-99.999% of “artists, performers, videographers, video editors, graphic designers, companions, entertainment, friends, confidantes, photographers, social media experts” never get paid or sufficient pay to profit from those pastimes.
I used to know buskers who could get £200 an hour but they were skilled musicians who knew their audience, researched where to play and what to play.