Buzzfeed does Camming

[Sevrin]

With MFC's Ashe_Maree. Pretty positive, imo.

 

[LacieLaPlante]

Man those youtube comments though. It kinda brings you back to reality of public perception.

 

[JessieWolfe]

Those youtube comments reassures me that it's a good thing the majority of people in my life/family dont know what I do for a living.

It's disgusting how society responds to cam models. It's 2015 gosh dernit.

 

[Sevrin]

Yeah, the commenters can't seem to agree whether she's a slave or a chick who's getting rich doing nothing.

 

[hontom]

Man those youtube comments though. It kinda brings you back to reality of public perception.

There are plugins that remove Youtube comments. It will vastly improve your youtube browsing experience. Seriously. The comments section of Youtube is pretty much a soapbox for mouth breathers.

 

[swagger]

Man those youtube comments though. It kinda brings you back to reality of public perception.

There are plugins that remove Youtube comments. It will vastly improve your youtube browsing experience. Seriously. The comments section of Youtube is pretty much a soapbox for mouth breathers.

I can honestly say my life would be better if I'd never read a single youtube comment on anything. If an asteroid hits our planet, our only hope is that it takes out 99% of all youtube posters.

 

[RosalieDay]

I have to physically hold myself back from reading comments. I'll never learn.

I adore Ashe Maree. I think the video was short and sweet. Even though I'm in the same business, my first thought is mooooore! I want to see more! As if I'm just learning about it.

 

[BlairLuxe]

Ashe is so cute. I can't deal.

I really wish that I hadn't looked at the comments on youtube. It was really discouraging. Especially everyone saying she can't be a feminist because she gets naked on the internet. She can do whatever she wants with her body because it's HER body. I can't think of a reason that's anti-feminist. It's so weird to me that people are so threatened by a woman doing something that makes her happy and not letting society tell her that her sexuality is wrong.

 

[LilyMarie]

The third-best rated comment is

Guys, being a nude camera model doesn't contradict her feministic beliefs. Feminism is equality to women and men on all grounds; how does this particular job contradict this? In fact, if it was a male executing the same actions as her, they wouldn't be getting "hate" over the Internet. That's double standards. Just like how men are allowed to be polygamous, aka have multiple partners, and be called a player. - Player is a neutral to an even positive term, it doesn't have negative connotations. However, if a woman is polygamous, she's a slut, a whore and she should be ashamed of herself. Don't you see all these social medias shaming women for sleeping around, but not men? Or how the social medias always post shit like "SMH YOU HOES AINT SHIT" because they fell in love with a guy, who only used her to sleep around with? Realize your hypocrisy, be more open minded.

and as long as that's the case I still have hope for humanity. ray:

I thought it was a great video, I thought she presented herself very well.
I can't really see where the part about her health and self esteem issues fits in, but they probably had some concept and wanted to make it a portrait of Ashe, rather than a report on being a cam model.

 

[AmberCutie]

I thought it was a great video, I thought she presented herself very well.
I can't really see where the part about her health and self esteem issues fits in, but they probably had some concept and wanted to make it a portrait of Ashe, rather than a report on being a cam model.

I assumed the health part was in there because on the flip side of how awesome the job is, they wanted to show the downside of the negativity cam girls have to deal with, (haters, trolls, etc.) A lot of the hate spewed at her is about her body, and her body is super thin because of health issues, while haters just assume she has an eating disorder, which I'm sure is hurtful.

That portion also shows how human cam girls are, too, in that they may be dealing with crazy medical or other personal issues behind the scenes, but many viewers would never know due to the happy façade put up while broadcasting.

 

[Callalisa]

I thought the video was great and Ashe is so beautiful! Seeing all of the hate in the comments about her being a feminist yet camming is so annoying. So many people don't understand what being a feminist means..

Also, for anyone that didn't see her room last night, someone tipped her 10,000 tokens. Go Ashe! :shock: :dance:

 

[Poker_Babe]

A lot of the hate spewed at her is about her body, and her body is super thin because of health issues, while haters just assume she has an eating disorder, which I'm sure is hurtful.

People used to think that my mom never fed me enough throughout my childhood, and then people thought I had an eating disorder through my teens and as a young adult, because I was always very skinny. It didn't matter how much I ate, I would never gain any weight. It made me feel very self conscience about my body as well, and I hated it.
But all that changed after I hit 30, now I'm longing for the days when I could eat any and everything I wanted, regardless of how often I worked out. LOL

 

[Alexandra Cole]

Great video.

There's something about sex work that seems to trigger everyone's personal issues. They never seem to take any information in, so it doesn't matter what she does or says, or who she is as a person. They just see nude + money and they explode with self-righteous indignation, and then use her - or their idea of her - to feel important on the internet with their important opinions about all the important things they don't understand. YouTube really does seem to collect the dregs of the internet.

 

[JoleneBrody]

Ashe is a great ambassador for the cam world.

 

[EveGunn]

gosh! i can't get over how amazing this video is, and it is refreshing to see someone, especially someone who is so well spoken, talk about the realities of camming, along side the amazing parts.
i feel so much of what she says,(about camming as well as body image and personal struggles) i'm just the worst with sharing and articulating my feelings!

re: youtube comments;
i can only re state what a bunch of you said, it's just a place for people who only have courage behind a keyboard to be as loud as they are ignorant :insert futurama meme here:

 

[Gen]

This was really interesting and cool to see! Ashe is totally eloquent and lovely. I was super curious when she was talking about young girls following her on Instagram; I was looking at Brina's twitter once and seeing a ton of teenage girls listing her as their girl crush or talking about how much they wanted to be her/look like her. Gotta be kind of strange to have that on your camming persona.

Thanks for sharing!!

 

[SexySteph]

The video was amazing! It definitely had a more personal feel, which I wish documentaries and tv shows about camgirls would have more of.

I want to add though that I'm incredibly disappointed that BuzzFeed didn't post this on their Facebook page. They seem to post every article and video they do but I guess this one was too controversial.

 

[Deleted member 16664]

Personally, that would take a lot of guts for me to put myself *that* out there like Ash, but it's inspiring that she found the confidence to shoot that video. Good for her and that was probably a very smart business move on her end.

 

[Esther_Fae]

I thought the video was great and Ashe is so beautiful! Seeing all of the hate in the comments about her being a feminist yet camming is so annoying. So many people don't understand what being a feminist means..

Also, for anyone that didn't see her room last night, someone tipped her 10,000 tokens. Go Ashe! :shock: :dance:

I was there for that tip. It wasn't for 10k....add a zero onto that...... Ashe has some amazing and very supportive regulars.

 

[AsheMareexoxo]

Hey! Thank you Amber for letting me know about this thread and thank you to everyone who has left really positive responses!

I can't tell you how nervous I've been throughout all of this, how skeptical and scared I've been, pretty much since I first received the email proposal. For the first week I told my boyfriend and the only friend I told that I wasn't going to do it. I didn't trust myself to be an informed/aware enough cam model to speak so publicly about our work, especially with an audience I'm completely unfamiliar with, beyond the inevitable living hell that is the comment section. I was also skeptical about what the documentarian wanted, seeing that this video piece was a part of a series on...web fame lol. Immediately I thought, why the hell would anyone who simply was interested in fame get into sex work? 'Leak' a sex tape or some nudes, sure, but sex work as your means to fame? What? Why?

So, we emailed back and forth about my hesitations, what I really wanted to make clear, like 'don't get in this for the fame or pretty things', knowing the direction of the other video pieces, and he was open to everything. I was still hesitant, but I think after a week of him reminding me he was still open to the project and always reassuring me that my points were things he absolutely wanted in the piece, I said okay.

We talked about so many things that day, we had well over an hour of footage of me just blabbing in my cam room. A lot of the questions did focus on my personal experience with 'being nude on the internet'/being a cam model, my tumblr and what I discuss there (thats how the body image thing came up), but I also got to talk about a general description of what cam models do, what is unique about our work, what we have to juggle while online, how much effort goes into social media/marketing yourself, how my experience is not representative of sex work/our work specifically even and shouldn't be taken as such etc. It was always meant to be a 5 minute video, and I was horrible at wording the questions into my answers, so I felt the documentarian might have struggled a bit with what clips/answers were best to use/still made sense with my horrible introductions to wtf I was talking about. While body image was only one of the many things we discussed, I think maybe they felt it would resonate with a larger audience beyond sex workers, and I'm personally okay with it. Despite how utterly terrifying it is to tell thousands of people that you have body issues when you're naked on the internet lol.

I made a promise to myself and to my boyfriend that I wouldn't read any youtube comments when the video came out. I have not broken that promise and by the looks of some of your responses, I'm sure glad I've not done so. While I'm pretty used to the 'feminist? cam model? HOW YOU DO?' bs because of tumblr, I still don't care to read all of the negative things I've received over the years in one mass section lol. Although, I've also been told that there are some reasonable people responding, and thus far I've only received TWO nasty messages. TWO, and one apologized later lol. I know the comments are probably really judgemental, ugly, sexist, deragatory, infuriating piles of poo, but I really wish you could all read the absolutely wonderful messages I've received in support of what we do and our right to be who we are (ya know, real people) while also being cam models.

These messages, this thread, and all of the model support I've been shown all over social media, I cannot tell you how relieving its been for me. I understand that I'm one of the luckiest mother-f'ers to get into camming, and that much of my success and exposure can easily be attributed to my many priveleges I did nothing to earn, that others can never experience, so its been a relief that none of what I said came off as if I'm not incredibly aware of that. That was a huge fear. I love our community so much and I would never want to even unintentionally spread ignorant/priveleged ideology about our work that only continues to misinform and perpetuate the hate in our audiences/society.

Anyways, my hope is that sharing this with you all will at the very least be interesting, but if the spark in media interest with camming continues, my experience might be helpful for some of you who may get approached. I also realize its entirely impossible for some cam models to welcome that kind of exposure, another privelege I haven't earned and that some will never experience, but I want you to know that your thoughts/feelings/opinions on our work do not matter any less because you cannot speak out about them publicly like I can.

Thank you again for all of the really kind responses & thank you again Amber for letting me know about this thread!

 

[mynameisbob84]

Bullet points!

- I've never been in her room but she comes across as being incredibly level-headed, eloquent, and wise beyond her years. And she's very pretty.

- I really liked that she spoke about the negatives of camming as well as the positives. I think she did a good job of stressing that for her, the positives outweigh the negatives, but that might not be the case for everyone. As annoying as "documentary" pieces about camming and sex work that dwell only on the uglier side of the business are, I think pieces that glamorise camming unconditionally without even paying lip service to the drawbacks that can arise from sex work can be pretty damaging too. This found a nice balance without ever going too in depth and I'd be interested in watching a longer cut.

- I wondered if the "friend" she mentioned who reported her images because she was "too skinny" in them (do they actually remove images based on something like that?) was legitimately concerned and unaware of her medical condition, or was just trying to be a dick.

- The YouTube crowd, by and large, seem to be puritanical dimwits, misogynistic dudebros, jealous, angry women masquerading as feminists, porn-guzzling hypocrites, and ignorant poop-faces.

EDIT: And there she is! Hello (sorry Ashe, I started my post before you appeared, otherwise I wouldn't have spoke about you as if you weren't there)

 

[AmberCutie]

- I've never been in her room but she comes across as being incredibly level-headed, eloquent, and wise beyond her years. And she's very pretty.

Bonus: she also does a mean Gagnam Style in a panda suit on occasion.

 

[Jessi]

Yaaaay Ashe is on the forum :hello2: :dance:

 

[Sevrin]

Oh, and one other thing worth mentioning. I really like the part with Mr.AsheMaree. They were pretty great together.

 

[Artaeus]

- The YouTube crowd, by and large, seem to be puritanical dimwits, misogynistic dudebros, jealous, angry women masquerading as feminists, porn-guzzling hypocrites, and ignorant poop-faces.

Because of that comment alone, I read (some of) the bottom half of the page. I now have a headache and there's blood on my desk... :angry-banghead:

As for the clip, I quite liked it. Cam models are *real people* :-o :icon-eek: Who knew!?!?

 

[Leon_Omega]

I want to add though that I'm incredibly disappointed that BuzzFeed didn't post this on their Facebook page. They seem to post every article and video they do but I guess this one was too controversial.

Facebook is notorious for swinging the suspension-mallet whenever too many people report adult content on their site (I know someone who got suspended once because they had uploaded a picture that contained their 7 year-old daugter without a shirt on) It could be because of that more than any controversy.