Reality check

[yummybrownfox]

Yup sorry. I'm new here.

I think you meant to quote JerryBoBerry's post. Not CrazyCatLady's post.

 

[jonhcutem]

This is a very interesting topic and I agree with you 100%. But..who cares? There's many celebrities who have had nudes or sex tapes released and they end up find. I don't think family members would make a hard effort to locate anything anyway.

I would agree with this BUT we, cam models are WAY different than famous/super star people. I mean, each one of us is a grain of sand in a gigantic desert.
Famous people can handle it because they have TONS of money and they can do business elsewhere, while we, cam models, we can't (maybe i am generalizing....). Ok, some cam models don't care if people find out, some do care, it is relative yes. Plus if you do cam modeling as a part time and want to have a normal life (work, family,...) you may put that in serious risk.
Besides, don't cam models have short carrers? Like, it is part of the cam modeling carrer... after maybe 4-5 years you are no more interesting or due to external reasons?

 

[THE MOLLIE MARIE]

after maybe 4-5 years you are no more interesting or due to external reasons?

Maybe some cam performers quit after that amount of time, but there are plenty who do not. I am not sure why someone would suddenly stop being interesting to viewers just because they have cammed for a specific amount of time. Even if regulars have come and gone, new members join cam sites every single day, you will always be new to someone.

 

[fandango]

Maybe some cam performers quit after that amount of time, but there are plenty who do not. I am not sure why someone would suddenly stop being interesting to viewers just because they have cammed for a specific amount of time. Even if regulars have come and gone, new members join cam sites every single day, you will always be new to someone.

You've obviously never heard of the 5th cammiversary curse which as of right now is totally a thing.

 

[papichulo80]

Sure some cammers are able to do it long term and be successful over a number of years but obviously the percentage that do that is small.
I think burn out and the physical/emotional toll causes as many to leave as them being not such a fresh face.
I've seen numerous times on here that it's a high reward job with a high opportunity cost. Any job with those qualities is not going to be sustainable for a large number of people.

 

[AmberCutie]

Sure some cammers are able to do it long term and be successful over a number of years but obviously the percentage that do that is small.
I think burn out and the physical/emotional toll causes as many to leave as them being not such a fresh face.
I've seen numerous times on here that it's a high reward job with a high opportunity cost. Any job with those qualities is not going to be sustainable for a large number of people.

I agree. I'm about to celebrate my 7 year cammiversary this summer but I think girls who make it this long are a minority.

 

[EspiKvlt]

Speaking of it being there forever, this is exactly why I warn people to make sure this is REALLY what they want to do before they start doing it, because story time! I was almost fired from my vanilla job.

The girl that ran the school paper at my university decided she wanted to do a piece on me and what I do for a living. I wasn't even camming at the time, either. I was solely doing photo shoots and amateur porn. But anyway, she does this piece on me, and I thought it was a great opportunity for people to see the truth about my job. Then the paper comes out and to my surprise, it's the cover story, and a photo of me dressed as sexy Poison Ivy is right there, covering the front page, underneath huge letters that say "SEX SELLS."

I was pretty excited. I was on the cover of the paper. I mean, who wouldn't be?

Then my job calls me up a week later and tells me to come in an hour early. Lo and behold, it was about the paper. They put it into my permanent file and said, "We aren't going to fire you right now, but if anyone - your coworkers or customers - come to us to complain about this, you're gone."

So, long story short: I tell newbies in this industry to make ABSOLUTELY SURE they can handle the pressure of basically walking around with a huge scarlet A the rest of their lives.

 

[KellyHeart]

I agree. I'm about to celebrate my 7 year cammiversary this summer but I think girls who make it this long are a minority.

It takes a lot of creativity and commitment to make it as a cam lady long term.

Like Amber, I am celebrating 7 years as a cam girl in July and I have been very blessed to have such an awesome following. I have introduced a few ladies to the cam world and one looked at me and said "I thought this was supposed to be an easy way to make money..." I was never more outraged! Not only is it not an easy way to make money, you are also making yourself vulnerable. Your personal info can be leaked, your naked pictures and videos live forever, family and friends may cut you out of their lives because they do not agree with what you are doing, you get looks of judgement or pity after telling people what you do to earn your living. The list can go on and on. The point is, you need thick skin and a whole lot of self confidence and esteem to make it in this business. Camming is more of a lifestyle for long term entertainers, not just a way to make a few extra bucks.

 

[Rayne]

Hey long term ladies! I'll be hitting my 7th year in Dec ^_^

SO much has changed over the time I've been camming, I know you ladies have noticed it too. I've seen so many models come and go.
I've helped about 10 girls get into camming through my years. I've told them that its harder than it looks and that you need to be dedicated or you won't make it very far. I've done my part to help them get off to a good start (twitter promos, and g/g shows), and only 1 of them made it over a year. And she quit last month.
Its a bit scary, really. Like, I wonder if I were to just start today, I don't think I'd make it long. The only reason I feel I'm still floating around in camland is because I got established so long ago, when it wasn't 'quite' as brutal as it is today. :hide

 

[Bimbombastic]

This is a great post! Thanks everybody for sharing all your thoughts and experiences. I'm looking into camming for a long term thing in my life and I am accepting the risks may come with it.

I've been thinking about privacy for a while, but my vanilla self has been posting pictures and stories about myself for so many years in the Internet that i personally don't think it would hurt me at all. It also helps that I do have a very understanding husband and he every now and then asks me why I don't start to camming. I'm still in the research time but more I read more I realize what I will want to do with camming and this thread is absolute one of the most important readings I've done in a while about camming.

Many thanks!!

 

[Finebrush]

I have a very strange relation with the cams world. Am not a consumer/user, (had some social-experiment type of curiosity for a very short while, then got bored of it) but have two very good friends who are models. So, my relation is mostly gather info and help for them. The thing is, for the contact I have with this and the pages, seems models do enter and leave the job a lot. But yep, there are some long time runners. In my view, those rarely will go away (even some do, come back after some time..). They are established and somewhat comfortable in the job. Yet though, It's a world of difference between models doing well and people trying hard, earning just the minimal to pay the bills. The two cases I deeply know are the latter. And the burn out has been near often, over not 7 years, but close.... Just they're like in a cycle, as, when you don't do well, for some is not very enjoyable, but they sort of think they wouldn't be able to get into different challenges (not speaking in general, only about what I know, friends that talk to them, etc). This -saving the distances and job differences- happened to me working as tech guy and designer during 7 years. Was in the idea it was too risky trying sth else, the more I got used to my routines, the harder I'd thought would be a change... Until I started a second activity in my free time, helped me to see I could do sth different. Some employers tend to value people changing job and profile often when they read your resume (too often is way more negative in their view, though) as a good thing, indeed (they think you are a dynamic and ambitious person... is a bad generalization, though). IMHO, it's all a bit of cliche, in both directions. A person who gets confy in a job during 7 or 10 years is developing a lot of skills, and will be able to do anything else. But why would he/she, if things go well... I indeed became a freelance as my job situation was going by a terrible path, not my fault, but the company's and mostly the general external situation... Would have stayed another 7, easily...

Unless one is more of a "cold" customer, (and a lot of users look for more than just pure "sex-only" fantasy...IMO, lots of lone wolves hang in MFC lounge or in model rooms for other reasons, but that's my personal opinion...) , I'd even bet people DO prefer to have their favorite(/s) model(/s), who they get used too, rather than new ones. Just as they like to keep their old friends, probably. This is IMO one of the reasons why it is harder for some of the new models to break in. But I might be terribly wrong. Is not my job, I am just an external observer, with two great friends working at it. The fresh face matter might work only for a portion of users, or, a temporary state of mind even of the users that usually prefer to have their regulars. I'd say, overall people prefer known faces and personalities. (even if they know is a theater and none is the real personality ). Even more, just as a brand, product, or site tends to be preferred what you know already for long, and might as well be globally accepted as the "place to go". Not only for charming (well, appearance of it-rol play) friendship. (while I think the latter is the key)

About privacy and info dumped in the net, I always try to be careful. Not that 100% security is EVER possible, we're all kind of giving too much info constantly... But IMO, with that attitude, camming is absolutely impossible; that's simply why a person with my way of thinking would never be able to do cams, but, actually, to be sincere, nor any sort of work similar to that (actor, singer, journalist, etc). Some people hate to be in the spot, being famous (ie, me), and others truly enjoy it, and are absolute naturals at it, no hassle. So... In the end just a bit of common sense is what might be needed.

 

[LexiBangz]

This is a great post. There are pro's and con's to every profession. This however never seems that alarming until you have someone contact you after searching through multiple (completely unrelated) websites with the intention of meeting you in real life and not taking no for an answer. This recently happened to me. Tough stuff....

Models. You need to realize this right now. ANY time you put something on the internet, it is there FOREVER. It can never be eliminated, and eventually it will be found by someone who you'd rather not find it.

For example, any time you are on cam, you should assume that images or videos of that cam show will be recorded and put on the internet forever. I'm talking private shows, group shows, and ESPECIALLY public shows. It's already the case that MFC owns the rights to all of said imagery and video, and can do with it what they like.

You may not like it when members record your shows and upload them to different places on the internet, and you can try hard to get those images taken down. Sometimes you may find that you are even successful with getting an instance of something taken down. But the truth is, once it's out there it is impossible to fully retract. All it takes is one person to have saved a copy of it before it got taken down, and it can be reposted again. There is jack shit you can do about it, so it is not worth your time trying to take it down. It will only delay the inevitable, and could in fact speed it up by pissing people off and making them post it more.

A lot of models use location-block in order to block people from their hometown and surrounding area from seeing them. This is a decent short-term solution, but in the end, it's pointless. There is absolutely no way to guarantee that people from your home town will never find out. All it takes is one time for someone you know from real life to be travelling out of state and see you online, or see your pictures. It is also easy for technically-savvy people to use a proxy to get around location blocks. The point is, location block is only a temporary solution, and there are ways around it. You will be found out. It is only a matter of time.

Let's say you're super lucky, and during your several-year stint as a camwhore, you are never found by someone you know in real life. You think you're off the hook? Along with all the imagery MFC has recorded of you and could sell at any point in time, you can bet that random members (and guests!) have taken lots of imagery too. It will be on the internet forever. 40 years down the road, your kids will stumble across naked pictures and videos of you on the internet. It's going to happen. This is reality, and there is nothing you can do to change it.

The point? If you don't want your friends and family to find out you're a camwhore, then don't become a camwhore. Don't want your grandkids to see videos of you anally fisting yourself? Then don't become a camwhore. Don't want the local authorities to find out you're a camwhore? I think I'm becoming redundant here.

Do you think your real-life identity is secret? All it takes is ONE person you know from real life to find you on MFC and leak your identity. It's going to happen eventually. Hopefully it won't happen for a while, but you need to be prepared for the day when it does happen, because mark my words, it will.

Once something is on the internet, it is there forever. Making an attempt to change that fact only makes you look stupid.

 

[Sean Gugerty]

Wow, I can't imagine having to deal with the inevitable reality that eventually everyone in your inner circle will find out about your web camming. Definetely a door you can't open once it is closed :/

 

[Finebrush]

Sorry to hear that, LexiBangz. I don't frequent much around here, lately. I 'd just take every caution possible. I have known two models in RL, they're now good friends (and I know everything about them, even where they live... Scary? Well, they don't have any sort of risk, at least coming from me... But I have told both that it was a too crazy move from them...). With some guys is not dangerous. But with what tends to be out there these days, I'd say it is more than risky . IMO, if the guy gets obsessed, best is not to react strongly either. No interaction (no insult/confrontation either if can be avoided) at all, he might end up forgetting and moving on to the next target... These guys do feed and get worse with reactions(positive or negative)... Sometimes might work to be just distantly polite, but not too cheerful, not super friendly. I dunno, is very complex, and depends on every case. There are lots of different crazy types...

 

[Guy]

Speaking of it being there forever, this is exactly why I warn people to make sure this is REALLY what they want to do before they start doing it, because story time! I was almost fired from my vanilla job.

The girl that ran the school paper at my university decided she wanted to do a piece on me and what I do for a living. I wasn't even camming at the time, either. I was solely doing photo shoots and amateur porn. But anyway, she does this piece on me, and I thought it was a great opportunity for people to see the truth about my job. Then the paper comes out and to my surprise, it's the cover story, and a photo of me dressed as sexy Poison Ivy is right there, covering the front page, underneath huge letters that say "SEX SELLS."

I was pretty excited. I was on the cover of the paper. I mean, who wouldn't be?

Then my job calls me up a week later and tells me to come in an hour early. Lo and behold, it was about the paper. They put it into my permanent file and said, "We aren't going to fire you right now, but if anyone - your coworkers or customers - come to us to complain about this, you're gone."

So, long story short: I tell newbies in this industry to make ABSOLUTELY SURE they can handle the pressure of basically walking around with a huge scarlet A the rest of their lives.

Did you quit that job after that?

 

[MajesticMelody]

I used to complain about not having parents and family members who were invested into my life, but now the day had come where having a shitty family benefits me. I don't have to worry about pissing off religious family members or letting anyone "down" or anything like that. I told my sis about cam and she does it now. My two older brothers and I are really close, so they know about it. We were always really open and sex was just a big joke so they weren't too shocked about my job. Only annoying part is that they think that just because I cam, that I'm rich and they always have a hand out and reply that I better be glad they're "Allowing me" to do this job.

I am a college student though and have dreams of broadcasting, acting, screenwriting, and film production. When I first began camming about 8 months back, I was worried of being outed until one day, when someone reminded me that I could use it to my benefit; In the field that I'm going into drama, sex tapes, and scandals make you even more popular. The city where I'm from is small and hick and I could care less about the opinions of the citizens who reside in it. So for me, I give 0 fucks about anyone finding out which I know is coming sooner or later.

 

[KBdarling]

You know, all of what you said very well may be true, but as another member said...there is constantly new content being made...new porn is made everyday. The amount of porn on the internet is exponentially increasing....one piece of content is but a drop in the bucket.

Ultimately, there is no true privacy on the internet...for anyone...But also, don't live in fear because that's a shitty way to live. If someone condemns you for a video of you doing a sexual act then they are condemning the nature of humanity.

 

[Mary Caroline]

Models. You need to realize this right now. ANY time you put something on the internet, it is there FOREVER. It can never be eliminated, and eventually it will be found by someone who you'd rather not find it.

For example, any time you are on cam, you should assume that images or videos of that cam show will be recorded and put on the internet forever. I'm talking private shows, group shows, and ESPECIALLY public shows. It's already the case that MFC owns the rights to all of said imagery and video, and can do with it what they like.

You may not like it when members record your shows and upload them to different places on the internet, and you can try hard to get those images taken down. Sometimes you may find that you are even successful with getting an instance of something taken down. But the truth is, once it's out there it is impossible to fully retract. All it takes is one person to have saved a copy of it before it got taken down, and it can be reposted again. There is jack shit you can do about it, so it is not worth your time trying to take it down. It will only delay the inevitable, and could in fact speed it up by pissing people off and making them post it more.

A lot of models use location-block in order to block people from their hometown and surrounding area from seeing them. This is a decent short-term solution, but in the end, it's pointless. There is absolutely no way to guarantee that people from your home town will never find out. All it takes is one time for someone you know from real life to be travelling out of state and see you online, or see your pictures. It is also easy for technically-savvy people to use a proxy to get around location blocks. The point is, location block is only a temporary solution, and there are ways around it. You will be found out. It is only a matter of time.

Let's say you're super lucky, and during your several-year stint as a camwhore, you are never found by someone you know in real life. You think you're off the hook? Along with all the imagery MFC has recorded of you and could sell at any point in time, you can bet that random members (and guests!) have taken lots of imagery too. It will be on the internet forever. 40 years down the road, your kids will stumble across naked pictures and videos of you on the internet. It's going to happen. This is reality, and there is nothing you can do to change it.

The point? If you don't want your friends and family to find out you're a camwhore, then don't become a camwhore. Don't want your grandkids to see videos of you anally fisting yourself? Then don't become a camwhore. Don't want the local authorities to find out you're a camwhore? I think I'm becoming redundant here.

Do you think your real-life identity is secret? All it takes is ONE person you know from real life to find you on MFC and leak your identity. It's going to happen eventually. Hopefully it won't happen for a while, but you need to be prepared for the day when it does happen, because mark my words, it will.

Once something is on the internet, it is there forever. Making an attempt to change that fact only makes you look stupid.

Well that's depressing.

 

[NickT]

You know, all of what you said very well may be true, but as another member said...there is constantly new content being made...new porn is made everyday. The amount of porn on the internet is exponentially increasing....one piece of content is but a drop in the bucket.

Keep in mind that facial recognition software is getting better and better and more widely available. Years after you've given up camming, someone could use facial recognition to find all images of you on the internet. So while it's unlikely that someone at work will just happen to stumble upon an old vid of yours, it's much more likely that a site like tineye.com will allow anyone to find all images that have your face in it.

 

[Finebrush]

Depressing? Nope.... IMO. Maybe the intention is to make the models feel so. The motives behind that, hmm.... It is mostly insulting, and IMO, flawed. I think I hadn't read this post before...

It's already the case that MFC owns the rights to all of said imagery and video, and can do with it what they like.

I guess if there would be understood there's a use that damages somehow the model, o are images used in a hateful way, for blackmailing, or in non compliance with laws, the model could be able to request (even if needed a lawsuit of some sort) that content to be put down. (I have not read MFC TOS lately, but is so actually in any internet site across the web. MFC can put whatever in their TOS, btw, the law is the law. )

Also, a proxy? Hmmm... nah, I don't think so. At least, not the average joe proxy. A VPN, yep, that one could work. I've used VPNs in my job (unrelated to cams, or sex. Industrial secrecy is just one of their many concerns), but not just a software where you have no control about it and that has been done idiot-proof, but doing it with a linux server with all under control by people that know more about security than me (I know a little). And yet so is not bullet proof, either, if all the chain is not taken care very well. A lot of work and trouble for just that, won't be a majority doing that. Plus, most people doing bad things and playing with those toy-tools don't know it makes easier to trace them back....

"camwhore" ? And repeated so many times ? Seems there's a clear intent of insult... is like if there was some intention of revenge here, of some sort (and some dark wish that cam models were prostitutes),...
I know personal details of several models. I'd NEVER, EVER, in my life share that data with anyone. Like me, I think the majority of people with a brain and some sense/morals. Also, the one doing so, might get himself into big trouble. There's a lot of ignorance about laws, (and even ignorance about tech aspects) I know, but that fact wont do anything to help whoever infringes them.

These acts (recording, well actual recording is sth one is allowed from anything that happens on your desktop. Publishing/sharing is what is not allowed and persecuted) are not done by mature men. And I am suspecting, not usually by kids, but by men full of revenge feelings. That can't handle a "no", of any kind, in any situation, virtual or real. Thanks to some model friend, have known some cases. And they're clearly guys that must be studied by science or sth. Or just search for some professional help.

And IMO, mostly... has been mentioned already, but is key... Your grand kids, your whatever... that are LOOKING, searching even, for porn!. In sites dark enough to get that sort of crap. So, if already would be HARD for them to confess (there's a lot of issues for a LOT of people yet to even admit they watch porn) they consume porn of the "fine" type (professional movies, non weird themes, etc) , they'd have to even explain what were they doing in some super bizarre place. At most, you can suspect someone, some time, MIGHT have seen you, but I strongly doubt he/she will tell any one, or even tell you.

Is your internet info for 40 years, etc, etc for ever... you can force most sites to put down anything about you if is info used against you in most cases. And nope, there's cases were info is fully wiped out from any server, just because is blacklisted. And is blacklisted because some actual lawsuit happened, and then word spreads itself about certain vids/models never to host. This happens too with non sex related content where a court/judge order, etc, did intervene.

AND... that fear then in any case should be shared not only by cam models. BUT ANYONE. Literally anyone. You put your photos in Facebook (well, i don't, and nothing like that, but in the end, most people need to, sooner or later, need to be in linkedin, twitter, etc) the administration has a ton of info about you, the secret services, a huge load of companies, etc, etc. Any actress, singer, or even a blog writer can suffer from this stupidity. Even just a woman working in a supermarket, that might have never done a cam show, can have some weirdo digging info or photos of her, and put 'em in not very cool sites... And what about those hateful boyfriends putting online everywhere vids and photos of their ex-girlfriend, for immature revenges.... I think quite differently. If you fall for that pressure you're making the game to the offender. You could not even have a life. I'd just be careful, or don't give a cr4p if some revenge-full lone buddy uploads a video of a cam show to some place where none of the people you really would care about would visit. If is sth that'd be terrible in any case if someone else discovers it (like an extreme show or sth, or if you are indeed very shy, etc)... well, yep, probably would be best idea not to do that kind of show(or not uncover your face, etc). but just like as if there's info you, under any circumstance do not want it to be compromised ever, yep, certainly don't upload then to any place unless really serious encrypting has been used, etc. But part of what these guys want is the models to be scared and conditioned. So, IMO, not good to follow their game. (neither their blackmailing, etc) . Ok, and am not saying this to any model, they know better than any of us, lol. Just talking about that quoted post...

Edit: Srry, KBdarling had said quite of this already, just a bit above...

 

[Finebrush]

lol, was the first post, and I had read it... just, so many pages and time, didn't remember...

 

[KBdarling]

Keep in mind that facial recognition software is getting better and better and more widely available. Years after you've given up camming, someone could use facial recognition to find all images of you on the internet. So while it's unlikely that someone at work will just happen to stumble upon an old vid of yours, it's much more likely that a site like tineye.com will allow anyone to find all images that have your face in it.

Yes, that's very true. It's definitely something to give some thought to.


Someday, I'd like to live in a world where people are not looked down or condemned for doing as they'd like to with their bodies (given it's not harming others).

 

[Finebrush]

People is gossip and hypocrite about a lot other stuff...Some are actually about... everything. There's imo no point in trying to calculate every option any other human has to try to diminish you... or to even care about it, actually.

 

[Moonnymph]

I have to admit it's completely true, I have a lot of friends on Facebook and I've gotten messages sent to me knowing my CB name and with a screenshot they've taken of me on cam. Awkward right? So I'm starting to be a bit more lax about my cam identity on Facebook. I take risqué pictures so people sometimes question if I cam, without necessarily knowing my username.

 

[TeamMiztress]

Stastically I'd say you're wrong. If you take into consideration the amount of people on earth (7.4 billion) , then the amount of people with an internet connection, then the amount of people watching porn, then the amount of porn websites and videos on the internet, then the amount of people I personally know in real life (not very many, considering) then where I live (middle of nowhere) I'd say the chances of somebody I know finding any of my videos are pretty fcukin slim. My real name is not linked to any of my videos so it's not like they can just search for me and I'm not world famous.

 

[AmberCutie]

Stastically I'd say you're wrong.

Is this what you're disagreeing with?

Models. You need to realize this right now. ANY time you put something on the internet, it is there FOREVER. It can never be eliminated, and eventually it will be found by someone who you'd rather not find it.

Ultimately the point is that a person should not get into this business if the above being true could ruin them. If you come into the adult industry assuming that someone you don't want to know could find you, at least you'll be that much more safe about your actions and the information you share. And at the very least you won't be shocked into horror if and when it does happen.

It's worthy advice.

 

[Mila_]

Stastically I'd say you're wrong. If you take into consideration the amount of people on earth (7.4 billion) , then the amount of people with an internet connection, then the amount of people watching porn, then the amount of porn websites and videos on the internet, then the amount of people I personally know in real life (not very many, considering) then where I live (middle of nowhere) I'd say the chances of somebody I know finding any of my videos are pretty fcukin slim. My real name is not linked to any of my videos so it's not like they can just search for me and I'm not world famous.

Not having your name linked to your porn persona has nothing to do with being found out. Some people "stumble" upon your content and out you, but many girls get outed in different ways:

1) They make the mistake of sending a personal email from their porn email account thinking they were logged in to the other account, and they send this to a friend or family member. So they google your email address and find your twitter or MV page or whatever. Or worse: you send porn content to a member from your personal account so they know your name and find you or out you

2) Facebook/instagram/twitter recommended feature algorithm. They scrub every piece of info from your phone and your computer. If you use two different twitter accounts from the same IP they will probably end up recommending your other account to the followers of your first account. Same thing with google, Facebook, instagram, etc. The only "safe" network is Snapchat.

3) You become semi famous on anonymous boards and they make it their life mission to find information about you and dox you. They will scrub the internet for that information, reverse search every image, and then start linking info one by one. If you forget to turn off your location services when taking a photo with your phone and they accidentally find your location they are crazy enough that they could go through your town's yearbooks just to find you. Shit like this doesn't happen all that often now, but it still does.

There are a million ways you can be found out, so your attitude should always be to cam like people will eventually find out.

 

[Carmita Bonita]

I live on an island in the middle of nowhere.

Still got found out
And recognized X3 in public. Reposted on Facebook that family seen, name and location posted in a forum about my state. i can describe the internet as both and big and small place if that makes sense. Having your real name leaked is a whole other beast.
It seems by theory, it's impossible for every single cam girl to be found out--but meeting a camgirl who hasn't been outed in some form IS a rarity in the community. I've found pirated porn videos of me merely typing in related tags for myself not any name.
It's not so much of a matter of if you get found out, it's when because once you cam you're on the internet forever

 

[TeamMiztress]

Ok well I have been doing this for 10 years now and nobody has found out about me. I don't have a porn email that I could mix up with a personal email, I don't have a facebook account, I don't have a vanilla twitter account. My personal information can't be found online as I have tried to dox myself and it can't be done, I don't live in America where personal records are readily available to anyone who wants them. Maybe in America it is much more of a possibility but over here if somebody you know finds you it would be a massive fluke.

 

[AmberCutie]

Ok well I have been doing this for 10 years now and nobody has found out about me.

Good, that's ideal! Sounds like you've done most everything right, which is also what this thread/forum tries to help cam girls do.

I don't have a porn email that I could mix up with a personal email

You use your personal email for your camming/adult business?