Is the webcam dying?

[dark_woman]

my job has been getting worse and worse for the last 2 years. Sometimes there are good shifts, but overall it's terrible. last night I worked for 4 hours and earned only 48k Chaturbate, as well as other sites are not working well. Is anyone else observing that the job has become very bad?

 

[yummybrownfox]

my job has been getting worse and worse for the last 2 years. Sometimes there are good shifts, but overall it's terrible. last night I worked for 4 hours and earned only 48k Chaturbate, as well as other sites are not working well. Is anyone else observing that the job has become very bad?

ONLY 48k? Was that a typo? Because that many earned tokens on CB in 4 hours is fantastic.

 

[Wuggie]

ONLY 48k? Was that a typo? Because that many earned tokens on CB in 4 hours is fantastic.

I imagine there's a T missing in it, so 48Tk

 

[BlackWizard]

For me is something weird. Lets say on wednesday in 4 h i earned 33 tkn, yesterday in total on cb 5025 , i was doing show for 3 ,5 h because one man was all the time tipping for toy contr4ol, i saw many new guys who never sen before and who clicked follow cuz i saw the star close to nickname but after all day and so active show at the end of day my number of followers didnt change. Not even 1 more , and im curious wtf ;d its not first situation like this.... was many new guys because yesterday i was streaming in different time as usually. Where are those followers and why is so hard to get new ones even if you had good shift with tokens??

 

[tokensarentforkids]

Should be asking if the trans category is dying, since I think it's a different business (there don't seem to be many guys "falling in love" with trans models, for example).

 

[dark_woman]

Should be asking if the trans category is dying, since I think it's a different business (there don't seem to be many guys "falling in love" with trans models, for example).

lol dude in 2018-Have they stopped being interested in trans models? Maybe it's still about the war and the crisis? because starting in 2022, the work is especially terrible. also, my friends, the model girls, also told me that their work has become worse. Check out at least 1 page of trannies on chaturbate. Next time, it's better to keep quiet than write nonsense.

 

[Epitome_XxX]

my job has been getting worse and worse for the last 2 years. Sometimes there are good shifts, but overall it's terrible. last night I worked for 4 hours and earned only 48k Chaturbate, as well as other sites are not working well. Is anyone else observing that the job has become very bad?

Camming for the avg. male is very ded, i think camming is certainly on a down-trend, very little innovation and never any push for the less popular models, among others reasons; the war/ inflation, recovery from the "pandemic era". The majority of the 10 - 20 website owners have simply been comfortable padding their pockets and not thinking of any new ideas that will inject some life into the industry, new players are needed. I would love to release a cam site for fat people, it's sorely needed. Looking into it, as i type this. I was very into building sites back in the day, and did OK, issue was i was sick with Lyme disease, for many years and had to abandon the hard work for healing. Eyeing a come back. I have alot of good ideas. Hope i can.

 

[yummybrownfox]

I imagine there's a T missing in it, so 48Tk

Yes, 48 tokens is what I thought she meant too, which is why I asked her is it a typo? And she's posted in this thread since I'd asked that question, but hasn't responded.

 

[dark_woman]

Да, я тоже думал, что она имела в виду 48 жетонов, поэтому я спросил ее, не опечатка ли это? И она написала в этой теме с тех пор, как я задал этот вопрос, но не ответила.

sorry yes 48 tkns

 

[LilyLaughing]

As a cam performer nearing 50, I can say that people have been claiming the industry is dead or dying since at least 2002. If you didn't get into online porn in the 1990s when it was brand-new, the rest of us are like miners after the gold-rush. There's still gold, it's still valuable, but the posters (banner ads/landing pages) make it seem easy to strike it rich.

Slight tangent: if you ever think your job is too hard, visit an old mining museum. It can bring a whole new level of appreciation and gratitude to life if you are lucky enough to be able to work from home and set your own rules.

 

[MarieElise]

It's not dying, but it's been slower due to wars and economy for over a year now (I've been doing this 9 years straight now, and this last year I've had to work the hardest besides year 1). Financial advisors say things should pick up again, economy wise mid 2025. This is an election year, people feel insecure election years, and tend to spend less.

I feel like things will pick up. I don't think this industry is recession proof, as was once proposed. But I also don't think it's going anywhere in the long run.

A lot of us are having a lot of genuine fun, and connections that we aren't really free to have in our everyday lives. So I seriously doubt anything is dying.

I've been a member, and sometimes only observer, on forums this whole time. Every year people say it's dying. I've never agreed that it's even slowed down, other than this last year or so. It's a tough industry with a high turn over, and high burn out rate. In general, the longer a model has been around, the less hard they tend to get hit by the ebb and flow of economy. So I am sure newer models are having it harder than ever. But even vets ( veterans not veterinarians) are acknowledging the slow state of thing this last year or so.

 

[Highlander884]

Yeah I wouldn't say it dying from a viewer point of view.

Something I have noticed with the front page ladies I follow though is that its taking them longer to get hundreds of viewers in their room.

Obviously the more undressed someone is, the more likely they r at increasing viewers but there's always been loads that would log in before it got to that.
Put it another way before it would take less then 10 mins before they appeared on the front page because of amount of viewers. Now it's more like 30+ mins, girls that only joined this year, and girls with loyalists and have over 100k followers.

 

[Vixxen81]

Hey everyone, I don't want to point out the super obvious thing here but EIGHT states require government ID for potential customers to access porn sites. A lot of people aren't going to understand they just need to log in and it automatically bypasses it and others won't remember using a VPN can bypass it all entirely. It's also graduation/wedding/family trip season. (Yeah I know some don't think that's a factor but it is, or that there is always going to be something.)

Use your hash tags, use your room subjects, goal lines, tip menus, keep notices short and sweet. Guys aren't here to read, they're here to play.

 

[Miss_Lollipop]

We need a PSA public awareness campaign about vpn usage

 

[dark_woman]

I had a good shift tonight) Thank you all for the reply. I must say that lately I have been very lazy, I may not work for 10-15 days. I think I should start working like before 5-6 days a week) Regarding vpn, I am from Russia and almost nothing works here from sites for webcam models, so I have been using vpn since 2019, but 90% of VPNs do not work in Russia because Russia also blocks vpn connections. I managed to find a couple of VPNs that work and I use them.

 

[RainForest]

I had a good shift tonight) Thank you all for the reply. I must say that lately I have been very lazy, I may not work for 10-15 days. I think I should start working like before 5-6 days a week) Regarding vpn, I am from Russia and almost nothing works here from sites for webcam models, so I have been using vpn since 2019, but 90% of VPNs do not work in Russia because Russia also blocks vpn connections. I managed to find a couple of VPNs that work and I use them.

Great to hear!

It's my understanding that the more time you dedicate to camming, the better your ranking will be. Especially if you have a fixed and optimized schedule. By optimized, I mean learning which time slots during the day work best for you token count wise.

 

[Miss_Lollipop]

I had a good shift tonight) Thank you all for the reply. I must say that lately I have been very lazy, I may not work for 10-15 days. I think I should start working like before 5-6 days a week) Regarding vpn, I am from Russia and almost nothing works here from sites for webcam models, so I have been using vpn since 2019, but 90% of VPNs do not work in Russia because Russia also blocks vpn connections. I managed to find a couple of VPNs that work and I use them.

The issue with VPNs is not for us as models, but for members.

If you have a lot of clients in the USA then many of them will be affected by these new restrictions on their access.

 

[dark_woman]

Проблема с VPN касается не нас как моделей, а участников.

Если у вас много клиентов в США, на многих из них повлияют новые ограничения доступа.

Да, я это для них понял. Я просто хочу сказать, что использовать VPN несложно.

 

[Miss_Lollipop]

Да, я это для них понял. Я просто хочу сказать, что использовать VPN несложно.

Agreed!! I think there are so many people that just won’t realize that it’s an option though

 

[Vixxen81]

Agreed!! I think there are so many people that just won’t realize that it’s an option though

Or that it's free.

 

[BlackWizard]

The issue with VPNs is not for us as models, but for members.

If you have a lot of clients in the USA then many of them will be affected by these new restrictions on their access.

i start being happy that on streamate im recommended by regions which means most eu guys. how girls do you think? Did you really noticed decrease of US members? I mean shall i put more attention on lets say eu evning shift instead of eu night (to be on americans evening)?

 

[Vixxen81]

i start being happy that on streamate im recommended by regions which means most eu guys. how girls do you think? Did you really noticed decrease of US members? I mean shall i put more attention on lets say eu evning shift instead of eu night (to be on americans evening)?

Never hurts to try. I started logging in earlier to catch more of the European guys in their time zones because of a lack of American guys in my room.

 

[HeadyRaven]

A tangent but does anyone think AI (or more specifically, "AI girlfriends" or "AI cam models") will ever be a threat to real models? I personally can't see it but then again I also would not have expected some other trends to happen. Could visuals and interaction one day become so realistic that it would satisfy all those intangibles that the customers want in relating to cam models? It seems a long way off but you could definitely envision sites suddenly making a lot more money by not needing human performers anymore. Maybe this is just my techno-paranoia.

 

[Smoothie]

A tangent but does anyone think AI (or more specifically, "AI girlfriends" or "AI cam models") will ever be a threat to real models? I personally can't see it but then again I also would not have expected some other trends to happen. Could visuals and interaction one day become so realistic that it would satisfy all those intangibles that the customers want in relating to cam models? It seems a long way off but you could definitely envision sites suddenly making a lot more money by not needing human performers anymore. Maybe this is just my techno-paranoia.

I feel like a segment of viewers will take a liking to AI, just like any other variant of porn or cam performance (whether it’s a fetish or a preferred medium) has its own audience.

But personally, I would be surprised if it made a significant dent the popularity of real human cam/porn performances. In this genre of entertainment, I think the human aspect of it is more important than it might be for other industries dabbling in AI. Something to be said for knowing that’s a real person performing on the other side of the glass.

 

[AussieCosplay]

A tangent but does anyone think AI (or more specifically, "AI girlfriends" or "AI cam models") will ever be a threat to real models? I personally can't see it but then again I also would not have expected some other trends to happen. Could visuals and interaction one day become so realistic that it would satisfy all those intangibles that the customers want in relating to cam models? It seems a long way off but you could definitely envision sites suddenly making a lot more money by not needing human performers anymore. Maybe this is just my techno-paranoia.

It's a completely different thing.
That's like asking if the fleshlight becoming popular would impact on sex doll sales.
In reality many people will try both and some will just use their hand.
Those who prefer one or the other are looking for a different experience and the one that doesn't want a real human interaction probably wasn't going to be a customer anyway.

 

[AussieCosplay]

i start being happy that on streamate im recommended by regions which means most eu guys. how girls do you think? Did you really noticed decrease of US members? I mean shall i put more attention on lets say eu evning shift instead of eu night (to be on americans evening)?

Morning Wood crowd is also surprisingly solid (pun definitely intended)

 

[BlackWizard]

Never hurts to try. I started logging in earlier to catch more of the European guys in their time zones because of a lack of American guys in my room.

I will try too!

Morning Wood crowd is also surprisingly solid (pun definitely intended)

oooh great ! Tomorrow i will try mornings again cuz anyway i have some plans so it will match my plans hihi also i loveeeeeeee getting up earlier just always earnings were better for me at later shifts . But if wil be good i woulod be more than happy, i will enjoy more sun etc Of course i will try few days because wednesday can be lazy, so i wont give up after 1 day, will gonna test it whole week. Thank you girls for motivation to become morning bird

 

[dark_woman]

Project Melody
This model seems to be an AI or something else on chaturbate, this is a cartoon staff that repeats the movements of a person. It seems to me that she is already less popular than at first because a webcam is primarily a human model