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out campaigns can attest, also branded
and presented to off-the-shelf mainstream
consumers.
Because they want it, they desire their
objects of adoration, of... desire.
They just want them packaged in a more
palatable manner.
Venus rises from the ashes
So has the standard, classic, traditional
form and format of the online porn destination
changed? Completely?
Have the means and methods of how
webmasters make money online become
obsolete?
Well, yes and no.
The model has been turned on its head
however. As has the role of the model.
Video sex chat returns the inner essence
of its subjects, of the models, the chat hosts,
the new objects of veneration, by engaging
the viewed and the viewer in a relationship
beyond black-wrapped videotape, DVDs, and
sticky magazine pages.
Whereas webcams used to be an extra, a
frill, added to a members’ area for a variety of
purposes, nowadays it is the static content, the
clips and pics, which have become that, and
the novel but “static” content has taken a back
seat to the interactive, web 2.0, live or nearly- shows and even general non-camcentric
so experience of following and engaging with
the actual creator of that content.
Creator and creative
This is both the good and the bad of the
webcam experience. The content provider,
the model, must be much more committed,
engaged and involved than in the past. No
longer will just a few hours and a thematic
photo/video session be enough of the
performer’s time. They have to be up and
attentive at the lense or screen & keyboard
for entire evenings, every day for a scheduled
number of days.
It can’t just be faked or phoned in.
After they’ve had their live cam sessions
(and hopefully archived them), they’re often
involved in its promotion and dissemination.
Then there’s branding, and marketing, and
attending the new webcam trade shows
(and awards), as well as standard industry
conventions.
One of the best aspects of this new
camcentric porn economy is how everybody
can keep operating remotely, even in these
times of lock-downs and social distancing.
And profiting from the business. Affiliates
can still refer, SEO experts can still optimize,
content writers can still write, and so on and
on...
This new economy also focusses on the
models in a way that adult never did in the
classic model. Sure, the models, the porn
actresses and actors, were the focus and
locus of fans, producers, and agents, but these
used the fame, popularity and brandability
of said to market and aggrandize their own
careers and bank accounts; nowadays, the
live cam models are not only empowered to
market themselves, but to take the reins and
pound their own paths to success, from solo
models sites they manage themselves to the
ultimate hiring of third-parties such as booking
and contract agencies - taking full control of
their careers, lives and destinies.
Cam models, once known as “chat hosts”,
such as Little Red Bunny, are now being
featured as the celeb hosts of cam award
events, such as the YNOT Awards.
Along with sister and brother sites like
VNALive, IMLive, Chaturbate, and Flirt4Free, a
new pantheon of Cyber-Venuses & Adonises
and girl-next-door-Aphrodites has formed,
and where once the sublime in nature was
repressed into hidden filth and forbidden
smut by Popes and other guardians of social
decency, it has now risen from the ashes of
pornography to an everyday elevated state of
grace our ancestors would have appreciated.
Because they lived with their gods and
goddesses every day.
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