What's your opinion on the part of the post you left out though? Feels a bit like you're simply trying to fuel a fire here by looking at things in a black and white context rather than look at the gray where maybe she didn't actually really do anything than simply brag about being nice when she's fed up with lurkers not tipping even a little bit.
ok ... don't gimmi that 'take a chill pill' shit though, because you're prompting me to reply in more depth than I cared to
I'll try to get all my various related thoughts out...
when I first saw that post I just thought, good for you, you're rich [relatively speaking]. we're not all camgirls (and even camboys don't necessarily make the same kinda bank camgirls do). not everyone has a lavish budget. I can't necessarily afford sushi for lunch, what makes you think I have a porn budget?
Does my simply
being here [in front of your camming stage] mean I ought to? That's a rather ass-backwards perspective to take up:
If you want to musically busk or pornographically busk, don't have a cry that people surfing by spot you and stop to have a peak at what you're up to. You're just an idiot if you begrudge other people for what was
your choice of business model. You're perfectly free to hide offline and post ads in the daily paper offering to do gigs or skype shows instead of doing busking in the streets or camming on public free cam sites. If people get something for free it's because of how you choose to market yourself, so why whinge about it, especially when for all you know they can't afford to give you what you think you deserve? Unless you're choosing to busk in the lobby of a lush hotel, you can't really assume much about your spectators financial means.
if
you can afford $400 a month on porn, lucky you. I'm still working on getting my car legal so I don't get more fines. I don't have a porn budget. I don't even like porn that much. I've never even paid to see pussy IRL, why would you think I care
so much about seeing one particular pussy on a screen, when I can see pussy in general to my dick's content anywhere online for free, that I would pay for it? ...
because you're a straight male, you must be some sort of dick-brained moron? straight females spending money on porn though, wow, you're what every guy should aspire to be like! apparently.
that she comments she's a straight female is just bafflingly idiotic. Are straight men supposed to have more money or something? this isn't the 1950s. Are females not supposed to enjoy porn? If you as a straight woman want to buy porn, good for you. But you may as well say 'I spend $400 on MMA classes every month, and I'm a straight female!', as if we should take it for granted that men ought to do this
if even she--a mere straight female--does it. For, 'tis the true vocation of the male! ... That has no bearing on how other people should spend their money or what they should value. It actually reminds me of La Rochefoucauld's remark on pity:
“Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves”. If you see a camgirl struggling or not being tipped when she 'deserves it' in your mind, you relate to it, and you rely on this business model yourself, so of course you feel an urge to contribute to it. You hope that ethos pervades because it would come in handy for you some day if it did.
suppose I hear a busker I enjoy... do I rush to a store to make sure I can get physical currency to reward him, or do I carry on with my day? maybe I tip him if I happen to have coins on me, but does he really expect people are going to go out of their way over one performance of something people have probably experienced plenty already? it would have to be a pretty special rendition for that. Likewise anons and greys...are you compelling enough for them to want to go and get tks? probably not. I wouldn't feel compelled to tip if I didn't already have tks sitting there. nothing is so amazing to me it's worth that kind of effort. I don't have crazy fandom or fetishes that make me swoon over a musician or camgirl or require me to pay someone to do a song or show just how I like it. So the fact that someone else -- a straight female or not -- has the need (be it anything from arousal to pity) and the means to do so, really has no necessary relevance to other people's lives.
when I first saw the post the tweet came off as mere self-congratulation to me, much moreso than shaming. I guess the twitter jargon for it is #humblebrag. 'I'm so rich I spend more on porn than you have to try to feed your family with, while you quietly perv at girls or beg for titty flashes like some drunken frat boy loser without so much as a beaded necklace to offer'.
'what's your excuse?' - I'm not paid absurd amounts of money for minuscule amounts of effort. I'm not even paid absurd amounts for hard work. (sorrynotsorry, I know younguns love to say 'camming is hard work', but really, I'd love to know what hard jobs are on your CV, and I'd love for you to spend a day failing to meet the work requirements of people who get paid less than you just so you can show up on cam the next day much much happier and more grateful about where you are and what you're doing instead of bitching about it)
'what's your excuse?' - my excuse is that free things are free, and I try not to be dumb with my money (e.g., spending money on things that are free). Isn't this why so many camgirls say 'don't give it away for free'? some guys are willing to tip for you to do something as long as the alternative is your doing nothing. If that's the business model you choose, good for you. you do you. Let others do the same without judgment if you don't want to be judged for your choices. I don't need an excuse. You may as well ask what's my excuse for enjoying the chirping of a sparrow without going in search of bread and berries to lay before its clawed feet in adoration.
