Guest12345 said:
For some whales (big & frequent tippers), I think they get off on (for-lack-of-a-better-term-and-I-know-this-is-horrible-in-advance) "tip-coaching" new girls into being their type of models. Most established models have a certain room vibe and type of model they are (public shows? videos? TruPrivate only?) that no amount of tokens will change. But, some big tips regularly for a new model might fundamentally change how they run their room. For example, 4,000 tokens to crazysysy won't make her do a public cum show, you'll get to initiate a group (if that)! But 4,000 tokens will probably convince a new model to try something she may not have considered before.
This part is extremely true, although I wouldn't call these tippers "whales", and as far as I can tell for the most part they leave the model when she's no longer "new".
When I was a new model I got a few reasonably good tippers/private takers who showed me the ropes of myfreecams. Seeing as most of them totally disappeared with my new model status (even though they still clearly frequented the site) I am pretty sure a large part of what they enjoy is checking out new models, getting some privates from them, looking after them, teaching them about the site etc and then once that model is ok moving on to another new model. These members aren't the bad ones, in fact the member who took me in lots of privates in the beginning I owe a lot to, he didn't tell me how to do my job, he just got me to create a basic account and showed me round the site and directed me to ACF. Which at the time I looked at but didn't actually join until later on. Obviously as we went and watched top camscore models I had a completely unrealistic idea of how myfreecams worked.... and suddenly thought I would be earning insane amounts per hour!
There are a lot of less honourable members who visit new models though, those ones are usually the ones who hope to manipulate etc.
I think part of the reason people get excited about new models is you know that if a girl does well at the beginning then she can very quickly become a top model. I can't even comprehend how epic/overwhelming it'd be for that to happen to a brand new model, but, it does happen for a few lucky ones! If a model seems like she might become a top model members want to see what she was like at the beginning.
The other reason, which I think is hilarious, is that members want what they can't have. For example, me and a camgirl cammed together, it was very fun and got some attention, but no one was tripping over themselves about it. Then the next day she cams with another girl, I'm still around, I get bored and come and say hello. All the members can see is the side of my leg.... yet "oh my god!!! who's the girl in the denim shorts?!!! we want to see her!!!!" and they even start tipping and getting more enthusiastic.... of course, the next day when me and the girl cammed together for real, no one was fussed again. I know it's part of basic human nature to want something you're not allowed (like in this example I wasn't actually camming, so they wanted me), but seriously, I think humans give themselves far too much credit, because that shit was retarded.
