mutantdonut said:
TKLovely said:
Hopefully he's learned his lesson: Don't tell cam girls how to do their job.
...or in any walk of life or in any profession really... Never give advice when no one ever asked for it.
It makes the advice-giver look like a try-to-be-know-it-all while having a condescending feel toward the person or people receiving it.
Pretty much. People forget that just because camgirls all work on the same website that not all of them can have the same success as others. It's similar in ways to acting. Most actors/actresses barely get by and struggle/need an extra job, some make a decent enough living to live by, and then some make so much you can't get your head around it.
Sometimes you look at some of these people and you think "but they're not even that good looking or that good an actor!" So what's the reason for them being cast in a certain film? Well, a large part of it is luck of the draw and persistence. They might find someone casting for a role just likes their look even if it's only their opinion. Just like with camgirls they start getting successful because a few members who happen to have money to spend happen to like those girls. You can get lots of other amazing camgirls and think "everyone loves them and they're so much more attractive than the top models! Why are they not as successful?" The answer is often as simple as though they may be loved, their regulars don't have the income to tip them big bucks, therefore they must wait and hope one day someone with money will take a fancy to them.
There is no ultimate remedy for any job. There is good advice (which this is not), which consists of no personal opinions and only things like "try and keep your cool and stay friendly, if you feel in a bad mood with members take a moment to calm down", "Try not to feed trolls and just use the ban/ignore button" or "Use decent lighting and webcam", you know, stuff like that, this forum is full of it, though we keep it in the models only section. It has all sorts of info about how to deal with bad members, about how camscore works, and all sorts of other ideas that models have tried out and found successful.
Good advice isn't personal. You can't tell everyone that if they make themselves to your personal likes that every person in the world will suddenly love them, it's the most retarded thing in the world to say.
People act in many situations that they know best about a profession they know nothing about. My mother for example is a best selling author, she's also taught creative writing, and she still gets idiots (usually men) who come up to her acting all pompous saying stupid shit like "why don't you write something like Harry Potter? That J.K. Rowling is doing pretty well..." Clearly not realising the thousands of books on the market that are similar to Harry Potter which haven't done nearly so well, and of course that my mother isn't even writing children's fiction but adult fiction which is a much larger market. Some people do amazingly well, it doesn't mean it's super easy to get that sort of success in any job. Unless you're someone who knows and has been working in the industry successfully for a period of time you're just not qualified to try and tell others how to do their jobs.
I think one of the reasons people get easily confused about these boundaries on camsites is because they can see us all lined up on one screen, they can see just how much money some models are making, and they can't seem to grasp why some models are doing better than others so they think there must be a fool proof plan and of course that if a model isn't a "top model" they suddenly need their help.
Guys who want to give camgirls advice, just keep in mind, a model with a 1000 camscore is probably still earning considerably more than you are. And unless you have some form of super job (which if you are then if you like a girl you should be tipping her for what you like), chances are any model with a camscore higher than that is earning a lot more than you per hour. She's a big girl, she's doing alright, if you want to help her then tip her, if you want to see her in pigtails sucking a rubber cock, tip her or take her private, don't try and pass off that if all girls do this one thing that they'll suddenly be tipped by all other guys, because that's just total bullshit!
Other than that if you really want to see her succeed, send her here, because this place is a goldmine of real advice which actually will make a camgirl more successful if she applies herself.
*grin* it was REALLY satisfying.
