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izshadow
01-11-2023, 09:36 PM
Was in a show, he left and then my cam was black and now I can not connect back to my room. And had to restart my cam.
ggminx
01-12-2023, 03:49 AM
Did the site just go down for any one else? In the middle of an exclusive and boom error , try to reconnect and site cant be reached, closed room tried again then the log in page cant be reached
Edit : back up again for me now
this is me now! forever spinning circle or did not connect
eta: decided to take a break and finally was able to get on after
JustMilfnAround
01-12-2023, 08:48 AM
Cool, so the last few weeks have been dead AF and now a contest next week. FUCKING LOVELY!
Susperia
01-12-2023, 09:09 AM
Is anyone else's time online messed up? It's not showing the hours I worked Sunday or Monday. Sun and Mon are still showing up in my earnings report.
Yes, mine is. Showing I only worked Tuesday, when I worked Monday and Tuesday.
BrookeRide
01-12-2023, 03:32 PM
sorry to ask this ? again but has any one noticed last since about 8pm pacifc a change in there sight placement?
arielloves
01-12-2023, 03:49 PM
Cool, so the last few weeks have been dead AF and now a contest next week. FUCKING LOVELY!
To be prepared for future contests if you look under “contest leadership” for the previous contest and then click “show more contests” you’ll be able to look at the previous years contests dates. They generally don’t change much. It goes back many years. You can use that as a guide to pre block off contest week estimate dates so you’re not surprised when they pop up and can be better prepared. I usually block those estimates off so I know that the weeks beforehand I should be working more since contest time is usually dead. Hope that helps!
BrookeRide
01-12-2023, 07:28 PM
no one elses placment is way off by several rows?
wonderland1
01-12-2023, 08:08 PM
^^^ Yes, something is going on, I noticed my placement was off a bit last night but thought it might be because I took a week off. Then I looked around and other peoples placement and theirs seemed much different than their "usual" spots, too...strange. It seems they "shuffle" us around from time to time with no rhyme or reason...
BrookeRide
01-12-2023, 08:35 PM
I messaged Liz cause I am norm on the first show and im on like row 8th or 9th and i have noiticed other girls who are notm in the first on like row 3 or 4 , it started last night like at 5 pm paciific
thns for getting back to me thought I was going crazy lol
BrookeRide
01-12-2023, 10:16 PM
ErikaXstacey has your placement been way off too since yeasteray at like 4pm paicific
izshadow
01-12-2023, 10:23 PM
Lord even sitting here watching top models with zero people in their room is making me want to curl up and die.
naughtybabe1
01-13-2023, 12:04 AM
I'm all fucked up on placement too. My ass is in the middle of the 3rd page! WTF?? At my work i'm at the bottom of page 1 or middle of page 2. The hell is this shit? Damn it. Pisses me off
JoyJoyJoyJoy
01-13-2023, 01:30 AM
No, I have not heard of anyone using KGB. If KGB can guarantee placement that definitely is a key factor. I saw Bo and Gina on Streamate a while back. The site's traffic is not even a fraction what it was on Streamate "back in the day", and when they paid me decent money as affiliate webmaster. I do not know if Kristin Kavallari, Sammy Brooks and others are still camming. Key Lime Pie (changed her name to Katie something, not sure of the name) was super interesting. She used to give some of the best shows in the biz along with several others, they were amazing. There was many of us used to chat on the old yahoo messenger. I miss that. But, as of the last 6 years, it seems that the HUGE top models from Streamate are only on once in a while or have left the biz. Or maybe they are just using only fans and brought their fans to their own sites where they get 70+% as their cut. Wonder what happened to Nikki Ferrari, Candi Cruz and so many of them.
JustMilfnAround
01-13-2023, 08:03 AM
no one elses placment is way off by several rows?
I'm usually mid front page and was on page 2 yesterday. Really wish they would stop doing this shit. A lot of us worked hard to get our placement so randomizing it is insulting.
bigbum
01-13-2023, 08:56 AM
Was in a show, he left and then my cam was black and now I can not connect back to my room. And had to restart my cam.
I had this issue 2 days ago. I thought it was my web cam breaking. interesting.. .anyone else still having this issue from time to time?
BrookeRide
01-13-2023, 09:40 AM
I'm usually mid front page and was on page 2 yesterday. Really wish they would stop doing this shit. A lot of us worked hard to get our placement so randomizing it is insulting.
Its so frustrating. its not even like will move you just one row its like several and seems to be for no reason at all. Did this just start for you like 2 days ago also?
JustMilfnAround
01-13-2023, 10:25 AM
Its so frustrating. its not even like will move you just one row its like several and seems to be for no reason at all. Did this just start for you like 2 days ago also?
It did - I just looked at the front page and it's a hot mess.... Nobody is in their usual spots.... My room was so dead I just logged out.
It's a double bind - need to stay on to make $ since placement sucks, but it makes your placement worse long term by staying online in a dead room....
emkato
01-13-2023, 10:29 AM
Am I the only one who is still in my usual spot? lol
BrookeRide
01-13-2023, 10:48 AM
LIZ got back to me this morning and said she would ask tech support. i told her it wanst just me . ill let ya guys know if i hear anything
Strawberryblonde
01-13-2023, 12:07 PM
I had this issue 2 days ago. I thought it was my web cam breaking. interesting.. .anyone else still having this issue from time to time?
A few weeks ago I posted about my screen going black but was thought to be my laptop. Restarted and streamed It has been absolutely fine since then , but I haven't been on haven't streamed for the last 3 days.
Dreamqueen
01-13-2023, 12:21 PM
I'm usually mid front page and was on page 2 yesterday. Really wish they would stop doing this shit. A lot of us worked hard to get our placement so randomizing it is insulting.
I didn't even think to check my placement until last week, because I'm usually in the 1st or 2nd row in my category.
Was shocked to see that I was at the bottom of the page and God knows how many pages back I was on the site.
No traffic and only a few regs who didn't buy shows or even tip.
After being loyal to Streamate for 13 years, I find this insulting.
Not going to waste my time on here anymore.
Sad.
It used to be such a great site.
I try to upload a video to give it to a member after approval and once i click the button "Submit for approval" i get an error message i dont know what it means and what causes it. any idea pls, can u help? Ty!
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Panthera
01-13-2023, 01:45 PM
streamate is down for me...
Edit: ok, is back up now, it was down for like 5 mins. Guess it had the hiccups. Contest week coming, ya know...
naughtybabe1
01-13-2023, 04:57 PM
The first few weeks after the holidays always have sucked big time. People are broke and getting back from travel. I'm just SO glad I splitccam with stripchat. It's saved my ass after the slowwwww days on SM. Ugh
bigbum
01-13-2023, 05:50 PM
A few weeks ago I posted about my screen going black but was thought to be my laptop. Restarted and streamed It has been absolutely fine since then , but I haven't been on haven't streamed for the last 3 days.
i had the issue again today because there was no one in my room and so i chcked and sure enough my screen was black.
but overall i ahd a great night. but def keep an eye out for that. because i was about to buy a new web cam . and clearly it wasnt the cam.
BrookeRide
01-13-2023, 05:57 PM
i had the issue again today because there was no one in my room and so i chcked and sure enough my screen was black.
but overall i ahd a great night. but def keep an eye out for that. because i was about to buy a new web cam . and clearly it wasnt the cam.
how has your placement been the last 2 days?
Halo88
01-13-2023, 06:07 PM
No, I have not heard of anyone using KGB. If KGB can guarantee placement that definitely is a key factor. I saw Bo and Gina on Streamate a while back. The site's traffic is not even a fraction what it was on Streamate "back in the day", and when they paid me decent money as affiliate webmaster. I do not know if Kristin Kavallari, Sammy Brooks and others are still camming. Key Lime Pie (changed her name to Katie something, not sure of the name) was super interesting. She used to give some of the best shows in the biz along with several others, they were amazing. There was many of us used to chat on the old yahoo messenger. I miss that. But, as of the last 6 years, it seems that the HUGE top models from Streamate are only on once in a while or have left the biz. Or maybe they are just using only fans and brought their fans to their own sites where they get 70+% as their cut. Wonder what happened to Nikki Ferrari, Candi Cruz and so many of them.
The ones you are mentioning was 10 years ago. Most of those successful models retired and I love that for them. I am retired but still go cam for fun occasionally, just because I love so many of my long time regs. It is no longer a hustle, a job... but a little side fun.
I don't have time to browse the site anymore but I'm sure there are many entertaining models on SM these days too.
I love seeing newer models doing challenges and goals here, that's awesome! It reminds me of the days when I did the same.
waogtrain
01-13-2023, 07:16 PM
If we get paid via ACH transfer in the US, can we deduct that fee when filing taxes?
h0ttie
01-13-2023, 08:03 PM
^I think they deduct it before they pay us ..so no
izshadow
01-13-2023, 09:40 PM
No, I have not heard of anyone using KGB. If KGB can guarantee placement that definitely is a key factor. I saw Bo and Gina on Streamate a while back. The site's traffic is not even a fraction what it was on Streamate "back in the day", and when they paid me decent money as affiliate webmaster. I do not know if Kristin Kavallari, Sammy Brooks and others are still camming. Key Lime Pie (changed her name to Katie something, not sure of the name) was super interesting. She used to give some of the best shows in the biz along with several others, they were amazing. There was many of us used to chat on the old yahoo messenger. I miss that. But, as of the last 6 years, it seems that the HUGE top models from Streamate are only on once in a while or have left the biz. Or maybe they are just using only fans and brought their fans to their own sites where they get 70+% as their cut. Wonder what happened to Nikki Ferrari, Candi Cruz and so many of them.
Nikki is still here. I know Shea left to go to OnlyFans and turn strictly content creator. Which is where a lot of the models are turning to and I get it. I wish I could do that but for me, it is way more work. But that is what is happening to them.
euro_princess
01-13-2023, 10:00 PM
Whatever happened with Streamfans? I haven't seen any more info since they posted on Twitter way back in May.
I was invited to test it and it was a major downside. I’m not putting sweat and tears into a platform that will have non existent conversion (I have both OF and Fansly and my clicks on the 2nd one are less than half).
Right now they are implementing something called Kwikys, which is supposed to be a nude version of Tiktok, but there are already a shit ton of other platforms with NSFW short clips (TikTits for example, which are scams and never remove stolen content).
Kwikys (makes my brain melt that someone tried reinventing the wheel with that name and actually got paid for it) will be used for promoting StreamFans. They were looking for performers willing to make nude tiktoks worth $25/clip. But I declined the offer, I’m not getting paid $25 for content that will make them way more money on the long run. My branding is worth more than that to affiliate myself with their product.
euro_princess
01-13-2023, 10:22 PM
The ones you are mentioning was 10 years ago. Most of those successful models retired and I love that for them. I am retired but still go cam for fun occasionally, just because I love so many of my long time regs. It is no longer a hustle, a job... but a little side fun.
I don't have time to browse the site anymore but I'm sure there are many entertaining models on SM these days too.
I love seeing newer models doing challenges and goals here, that's awesome! It reminds me of the days when I did the same. Keep hustling girls!
I’m a veteran and have retired from live camming. I feel like at this point with social media dominating the business, investing my time into promoting makes more money than entertaining men directly. There is still money to be made with camming, but I don’t know anyone that makes 6 figures per month from it, compared to content creation.
Some examples that were top models on SM and have transitioned to OF are SubmissiveLexi and AubreyDiamond, both now have different strange names and do social media full time.
Joining a studio is definitely not needed. I can say if you are committed and have good selling skills, you’ll get to the top on your own. No studio has the ability to convert all models into top earning ones, actually for every high earning performer they probably have 10 more medium and low performing. Which proves how little impact studios/agencies have in the end.
izshadow
01-13-2023, 11:40 PM
Was in a show and he was tipping and taking it slow and I was so freaking excited and then I got this....
(reason: user must contact support)
Did he just hit his limit or why would SM tell him he has to contact support?
h0ttie
01-13-2023, 11:59 PM
Was in a show and he was tipping and taking it slow and I was so freaking excited and then I got this....
(reason: user must contact support)
Did he just hit his limit or why would SM tell him he has to contact support?
yep thats the limit, msg them and tell them support will raise it
Halo88
01-14-2023, 08:04 AM
There is still money to be made with camming, but I don’t know anyone that makes 6 figures per month from it
I’m a veteran and have retired from live camming. I feel like at this point with social media dominating the business, investing my time into promoting makes more money than entertaining men directly.
This is 100% true! Social media is where the BIG money is now.
idgaf_luvr
01-14-2023, 01:06 PM
Wonder what happened to Nikki Ferrari, Candi Cruz and so many of them.\
Candi was one of my favs. Ava Alexander too. I hope they're doing great now a days.
BrookeRide
01-14-2023, 01:17 PM
is every omes placemnt still as messed up as mine? i wrote liz again asking and she said still waiting to hear bnack from the tech. i dont know if she works today but i wrote her again as the contest is starting in a few hrs
JenniTS
01-14-2023, 03:13 PM
Got my stuff straight setting up to cam for the first time in 2 years.... Butterflies!!
Any advice?
JenniTS
01-14-2023, 03:14 PM
Trans too it's a niche. It used to work for me but idk now haven't done this in a while
bigbum
01-14-2023, 03:33 PM
how has your placement been the last 2 days?
ive never checked my placement. however ive been earning a lot lately. so that's good.
but the black screen thing was happening again today. anyone else having that issue?
bigbum
01-14-2023, 03:34 PM
ive never checked my placement. however ive been earning a lot lately. so that's good.
but the black screen thing was happening again today. anyone else having that issue?
because I have the geoblock on and even with a vpn and I don't have a customer account with vpn to check
Genoveve
01-14-2023, 08:16 PM
So I always have background music playing via youtube in another tab when I cam, and it seems like sometime within the last few weeks, maybe even months, customers have lost the ability to hear what is playing in my other tabs? I have a reg that I always listen to music with and I just play it on youtube and turn it up, and now no matter how loud I make it he doesn't hear it at all. It first happened a few weeks ago and I thought it was some weird glitch, but it's still happening. I have also tested it with two more regs and they say they can't hear it. I also haven't had a guy comment on my music in free chat for a long time which is unusual looking back.
Strawberryblonde
01-14-2023, 11:24 PM
So I always have background music playing via youtube in another tab when I cam, and it seems like sometime within the last few weeks, maybe even months, customers have lost the ability to hear what is playing in my other tabs? I have a reg that I always listen to music with and I just play it on youtube and turn it up, and now no matter how loud I make it he doesn't hear it at all. It first happened a few weeks ago and I thought it was some weird glitch, but it's still happening. I have also tested it with two more regs and they say they can't hear it. I also haven't had a guy comment on my music in free chat for a long time which is unusual looking back.
Doesn't streaming YouTube use bandwidth ?
Strange that music isn't being picked up by your mic, I have seen this happen with streamed fitness classes (using zoom).
giuseppezanottis
01-14-2023, 11:49 PM
So I always have background music playing via youtube in another tab when I cam, and it seems like sometime within the last few weeks, maybe even months, customers have lost the ability to hear what is playing in my other tabs? I have a reg that I always listen to music with and I just play it on youtube and turn it up, and now no matter how loud I make it he doesn't hear it at all. It first happened a few weeks ago and I thought it was some weird glitch, but it's still happening. I have also tested it with two more regs and they say they can't hear it. I also haven't had a guy comment on my music in free chat for a long time which is unusual looking back.
maybe try playing it off your phone or an external speaker instead? i had this issue also and had to switch to using my phone, which is kind of annoying as i imagine the sound quality isn't as great, but seems to have fixed the problem
ggminx
01-15-2023, 01:18 AM
So I always have background music playing via youtube in another tab when I cam, and it seems like sometime within the last few weeks, maybe even months, customers have lost the ability to hear what is playing in my other tabs? I have a reg that I always listen to music with and I just play it on youtube and turn it up, and now no matter how loud I make it he doesn't hear it at all. It first happened a few weeks ago and I thought it was some weird glitch, but it's still happening. I have also tested it with two more regs and they say they can't hear it. I also haven't had a guy comment on my music in free chat for a long time which is unusual looking back.
I use obs to play music into the stream. there's an add-on, application audio capture , you can download from their website. add it to the audio mixer panel inside OBS and it'll play from whichever program you want. you also select your microphone you will use here. use obs as a virtual cam in the smconnect web encoder menu and make sure to select the virtual cam button inside obs as well, in the controls panel. select your microphone in the audio mixer panel.
then get the virtual audio plugin here: https://vac.muzychenko.net/en/
you can select the virtual audio cable plugin inside obs settings > audio > advanced tab
you can add all the audios you want to play on your stream or to have a available on the ready for your stream.
(I have my browser set as a source and a media player and my bluetooth earpiece microphone. i'm always playing delta/theta waves, but sometimes get requests to watch a porn video and while i can't share what i'm watching on my cam screen with them or them holding up a second device or trying to screen share the porn through their end of the cam, i just pipe the audio through the browser. or i can play special requests in exclusives via the browser tab. you can also add special visual effects to your video stream using obs)
select the virtual audio cable inside the settings for microphone on the smconnect webencoder page and it will play from the audio you set up inside obs.
sorry but when you add tags on the movie, you actuall put #, or just
saliva, spit, bj, sloppy, fat cock, tongue, ahegao, etc...
thanksss
damnnn the contest is sucks, for you? seeing top struggling. i won t bring negativity LOL
i m doing lot of content lately and expanding my marteking everywhere however yeahhh half shift was ok, now it is so slowwww
i earnt more on SC ahah
ggminx
01-15-2023, 05:29 AM
damnnn the contest is sucks, for you? seeing top struggling. i won t bring negativity LOL
i m doing lot of content lately and expanding my marteking everywhere however yeahhh half shift was ok, now it is so slowwww
i earnt more on SC ahah
i hear ya! i'm just going to work my normal hours like a normal week and pretend it's not going on even though my hourly is down a lot. it all ends up balancing out in the end
camgirl91
01-15-2023, 11:00 AM
I use obs to play music into the stream. there's an add-on, application audio capture , you can download from their website. add it to the audio mixer panel inside OBS and it'll play from whichever program you want. you also select your microphone you will use here. use obs as a virtual cam in the smconnect web encoder menu and make sure to select the virtual cam button inside obs as well, in the controls panel. select your microphone in the audio mixer panel.
then get the virtual audio plugin here: https://vac.muzychenko.net/en/
you can select the virtual audio cable plugin inside obs settings > audio > advanced tab
you can add all the audios you want to play on your stream or to have a available on the ready for your stream.
(I have my browser set as a source and a media player and my bluetooth earpiece microphone. i'm always playing delta/theta waves, but sometimes get requests to watch a porn video and while i can't share what i'm watching on my cam screen with them or them holding up a second device or trying to screen share the porn through their end of the cam, i just pipe the audio through the browser. or i can play special requests in exclusives via the browser tab. you can also add special visual effects to your video stream using obs)
select the virtual audio cable inside the settings for microphone on the smconnect webencoder page and it will play from the audio you set up inside obs.
Ahhh I want to learn how to do this but I’m so confused already. I’ve seen girls with a super clear audio input from a song, but she’s able to talk alongside it and it sounds so clean.
i am guessing this is exactly what she does.
Is there a simpler way to do it? I’m just really confused by everything above :(
SuperPookie
01-15-2023, 12:19 PM
If we get paid via ACH transfer in the US, can we deduct that fee when filing taxes?
My accountant said yes and I claimed it as a deduction last year so hopefully she was correct.