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Strawberryblonde
02-03-2022, 10:51 PM
Can anyone explain to a non-american model what does this mean? It means that now it's the time americans have to pay for the 2021 taxes?

Maybe that's the reason why most of customers aren't active and spending right now?

UK self-employed citizens also usually pay their tax January 31st, that's the deadline for tax return submission. They then pay another chunk July 31st often however this is less than January.

Halestorm
02-03-2022, 11:21 PM
So maybe that's the reason why everyone is avoid spending much right now. They might have to pay a lot of it taxes

kamiliam
02-03-2022, 11:49 PM
So maybe that's the reason why everyone is avoid spending much right now. They might have to pay a lot of it taxes

short answer esp for the working class; is that they are waiting for the tax documents so they can file their taxes and hopefully get a refund that we and they need. If they are like us-1099 and/or wealthy, they use the documents to determine with a tax professional what they need to pay. See unlike many other leading nations we make it a little game even though the irs knows the tax burden. So lots of people either need the money the government was holding or need it to figure out their budget. Taxes aren't due till april, but the sooner you get it in the sooner the refund comes.

DeepThoughts
02-04-2022, 12:28 AM
The winter Olympics just started... think it goes for 2 weeks - last time I cammed during the Olympics it was DEAD AF!

No way any guy out there is choosing the Olympics over a wank!! :D :D :D This isnt effecting your sales I promise. You are over thinking it.

SapphireXO
02-04-2022, 06:45 AM
Can anyone explain to a non-american model what does this mean? It means that now it's the time americans have to pay for the 2021 taxes?

Maybe that's the reason why most of customers aren't active and spending right now?

The American tax season is January-April. It takes through February to get all your tax forms from employers, banks, and investment firms. Then by mid-April you have to file or request an extension.

LoverOfBoobs
02-04-2022, 07:50 AM
I'm new on Streamate. Where should I start?

CatBBW
02-04-2022, 07:58 AM
I'm new on Streamate. Where should I start?

Read the guides, read the rules, read this thread from the start, make sure you are in charge of your room (don't let the freeloaders dictate what you should do), and mostly: LOG ON. The best way to learn and earn is to get some experience, and for that you need to be streaming.

Good luck, and post again with any specific questions you have :)

JustMilfnAround
02-04-2022, 10:30 AM
No way any guy out there is choosing the Olympics over a wank!! :D :D :D This isnt effecting your sales I promise. You are over thinking it.

Bless your heart.... I've been camming for 7 years, and have spreadsheets that track days, time, money made and traffic and there is a noticeable decline in my income during the olympics. Do you document your hours, earnings, etc to be able to notice patterns sweetie?

Also, probably best not to accuse someone of overthinking when your username is "DeepThoughts".

whirlerz
02-04-2022, 10:38 AM
The super bowl is on this weekend, in the US I guess?

naomi_doll
02-04-2022, 10:39 AM
The super bowl is on this weekend, in the US I guess?

It's the 13th.

whirlerz
02-04-2022, 10:44 AM
It's the 13th.

Ah, ok, thanks! Late this year...

Randomly losing my connection

seicento
02-04-2022, 11:16 AM
RTT doesn't appear anywhere for me, now video resolution shows where RTT used to show before. The problem is, my video resolution doesn't go any higher than 960x540 and it been like this all day. Switched 3 cams, rebooted, took a long break and came back to the same issue. My internet is great so it's not that. Anyone else?

Dahlia Fallon
02-04-2022, 11:18 AM
RTT doesn't appear anywhere for me, now video resolution shows where RTT used to show before. The problem is, my video resolution doesn't go any higher than 960x540 and it been like this all day. Switched 3 cams, rebooted, took a long break and came back to the same issue. My internet is great so it's not that. Anyone else?

No RTT here either, I have dropped from 1920x1080 to 1280x720. Haven't changed a thing on my side.

seicento
02-04-2022, 11:26 AM
No RTT here either, I have dropped from 1920x1080 to 1280x720. Haven't changed a thing on my side.

I wish it was at least 720p for me. AW picks up 720p so it's not my end. I normally have 1080 on SM. I hate this stupid site, especially this week. Like the lack of traffic wasn't enough to get on my nerves I wasted an hour today trying to fix something that's not my end.

whirlerz
02-04-2022, 11:29 AM
I was in free chat, all of a sudden, cam screen went black, I stopped show & rebooted, so weird.

& just now, after a show, I went offline for a bit.
The camera just showed my background, it took awhile for it to go back on, so I closed the page & went on again from my dash.

Genoveve
02-04-2022, 11:48 AM
Mine was stuck on 1440xI forget for a while last night. One time last week it was stuck at that res for a long time, maybe even the whole time I was streaming. Nothing on my end has changed.

FloridaSunDoll
02-04-2022, 12:25 PM
my stream is noticeably laggy and choppy last night and today. No one else seems to notice it but it bothers me. Screen went black a couple times too but came back immediately. All my stats are normal and internet is great. it's definitely on the sites end bc I dont see the delay in my streaming software. only on SMconnect

whirlerz
02-04-2022, 12:30 PM
my stream is noticeably laggy and choppy last night and today. No one else seems to notice it but it bothers me. Screen went black a couple times too but came back immediately. All my stats are normal and internet is great. it's definitely on the sites end bc I dont see the delay in my streaming software. only on SMconnect

Ah, thanks for that info, sounds like what's going on with me!

whirlerz
02-04-2022, 01:47 PM
Trying to log on, my cam froze, cut out a couple times, and then an error to log on, waiting on a restart

Eta: Seriously glitchy, tried more than a few X's errors and etc. >:(

Finally on, after many tries, we'll see how it goes ::)

whirlerz
02-04-2022, 02:13 PM
OK, I'm wearing out this thread, I just had a private cut super short w/c2c :( going to report

Eta I just reported

Genoveve
02-04-2022, 02:15 PM
^^^You sure it's not your webcam or your usb port that your cam is plugged into? That's what happens when mine are acting up.

emkato
02-04-2022, 02:19 PM
Only on streamate can you tell a room full of guys that you are super horny and they all leave immediately. Goddamn this site has gone downhill big time. I hope whatever CEO that gets our 65% is sitting pretty :)

whirlerz
02-04-2022, 02:23 PM
^^^You sure it's not your webcam or your usb port that your cam is plugged into? That's what happens when mine are acting up.

I guess it could be, what should I do tho?
I used to have one of those adaptors, you can plug multiple things besides cam into it..

I only have 2 ports, I just changed to the port on the other side, it's ok for now, but yeah it was doing that on both sides

Genoveve
02-04-2022, 02:44 PM
I guess it could be, what should I do tho?

Find out if that is the issue and if it is you need a new cam.


I used to have one of those adaptors, you can plug multiple things besides cam into it..

I only have 2 ports, I just changed to the port on the other side, it's ok for now, but yeah it was doing that on both sides

An adapter won't help if the cam is bad or if it's plugged into a bad port.

I find that bad webcams and ports are more likely to disconnect when you move the camera, although once they're really far gone they will disconnect while they're sitting still. Can you try streaming with your built-in webcam for a bit to see if it disconnects?

whirlerz
02-04-2022, 02:45 PM
I just bought the cam, about a month ago..

Thank you for trying to help

Des
02-04-2022, 03:03 PM
I guess it could be, what should I do tho?
I used to have one of those adaptors, you can plug multiple things besides cam into it..

I only have 2 ports, I just changed to the port on the other side, it's ok for now, but yeah it was doing that on both sides

It can be the adaptor. I have one for my keyboard and mouse and sometime I need to change the port where I plug the mouse cuz it stops working. When I see is not working I just plug the mouse in other port ( I have 4 on the adaptor ) and the mouse is working again. When it stops working again I just move it back to the other one and is working again . The keyboard doesn't stop so often as the mouse but it does stop once in a while. For the cam I always plug it directly into the computer port, I don't use the adaptor for it.

AcidYellow
02-04-2022, 03:04 PM
Still the same. Sometimes Stream quality goes from excellent to fair then poor, and video resolution is changing all the time, my internet is good¡ 1440x810 then jumps to 960x530 during the whole time Im online ....Idk why the heck they dont leave the things how were before, +traffic sucks. Oh also Ive noticed this once someone takes me pvt, bitrate goes to Sh#t

Genoveve
02-04-2022, 03:32 PM
Site definitely acting up. Traffic just starts and stops, when I first started my stream no one was coming into my room at all and I had to restart it to fix it. Bitrate keeps dropping into the yellow, cycles back up and then drops again which has always been indicative of the bitrate issues being on SM's end and not mine.

whirlerz
02-04-2022, 04:00 PM
It can be the adaptor. I have one for my keyboard and mouse and sometime I need to change the port where I plug the mouse cuz it stops working. When I see is not working I just plug the mouse in other port ( I have 4 on the adaptor ) and the mouse is working again. When it stops working again I just move it back to the other one and is working again . The keyboard doesn't stop so often as the mouse but it does stop once in a while. For the cam I always plug it directly into the computer port, I don't use the adaptor for it.

Thank you.

I don't use adaptor, I have one around, not sure where it is..

My previous cam went out, so I bought the Logitech 933e from best buy, they overcharge me, but I nneded it right away..

I was eying this on new egg56586

Site seems ok for right now, slow biz wise

wonderland1
02-04-2022, 05:14 PM
Hi everyone, this is my first post. I have been reading through the threads for a few weeks and they are all very helpful. I have been on SM about 2 months now. I'm in my 50's, this is new to me.

However, I was wondering if someone can please explain why certain members come into our rooms with the following names like "user 1234" or "member 1234", for example? Why dont they have their own made up name?

Also, can someone explain the "potential members" at the bottom of the screen? (I'm assuming these a people who are not logged into an account?) How many "potentials" do you have at a time, on the average, and do you acknowledge or address them?

Sorry for all the questions. And thank you all.

kamiliam
02-04-2022, 07:43 PM
In Freechat they are now (back to?) listing “contact support” as a reason the user left. You can feel the interface/site fuckery in the air.

That was a thing when they rolled out the reason they bounced, then went away. Am I remembering that right?

DeepThoughts
02-05-2022, 07:52 AM
Hi everyone, this is my first post. I have been reading through the threads for a few weeks and they are all very helpful. I have been on SM about 2 months now. I'm in my 50's, this is new to me.

However, I was wondering if someone can please explain why certain members come into our rooms with the following names like "user 1234" or "member 1234", for example? Why dont they have their own made up name?

Also, can someone explain the "potential members" at the bottom of the screen? (I'm assuming these a people who are not logged into an account?) How many "potentials" do you have at a time, on the average, and do you acknowledge or address them?

Sorry for all the questions. And thank you all.

Heya Chica. Welcome to the site! You are correct on both accounts. Members with these types of names can change them but they havent so they just get the auto generated name and the potentials are just people watching you who are not signed in (some of them maybe fellow cam models from this board. I love to call out and say hi to them spying on me :) )

Hope you are enjoying the site and making bank!!! $$$

tashiepuck
02-05-2022, 08:58 AM
How's traffic for everyone today ??? Is the February 14 contest yearly ?

whirlerz
02-05-2022, 09:04 AM
It's been so so, I was just off for an hour, talking to my landlord,..

I got a gold menu tip, a couple shows, some weirdos, the usual...

Some damn errors when I tried to sign back in

bigbum
02-05-2022, 09:20 AM
Only on streamate can you tell a room full of guys that you are super horny and they all leave immediately. Goddamn this site has gone downhill big time. I hope whatever CEO that gets our 65% is sitting pretty :)

ive seen one of our boss's insta.. lol. i always research who i am doing business with.
i cant throw shade because i dont really know how much time effort work he put in to get where he is so I cant judge.
i hope they pay liz well.
my theory is sites like SM make more off the affilate marketing clicks that dont get paid out that they do on us.
instead of paying out the affiliates the contract agreement of the clicks they bring , they shave some of that affilate commission for themselves, well atleast in my case thats what happened.

the streamate end of the business i have zero complaints. most of that is thanks to liz and the team over there.
our payments arrive on time, we have traffic for the most part, we get help when we need it from liz within hours of asking.
35% i am sure is reasonable after you subtract all the taxes, office buildings, staff, servers, costs, computer systems, its a huge operation they are running. the taxes alone.. we all trip over paying our taxes.. now imagine theirs! i mean they could throw in 5% more or something, that would be great, but hey.

its the cambuilder side that well.. i dont work on that side for a reason. i wont post publicly why but.. it left a bad taste in my mouth to say the least.
i was so disappointed.

the biggest scam is like chaturbate affilate ect, they maybe pay out 1 out of every 100 people you send to them. so many people talk about that online
all of those affilate sites they never really pay you out how many clients you really send just a small % of it to "keep you motivated"

all affilate marketing is a HUGE SCAM IMO

emkato
02-05-2022, 09:53 AM
ive seen one of our boss's insta.. lol. i always research who i am doing business with.
i cant throw shade because i dont really know how much time effort work he put in to get where he is so I cant judge.
i hope they pay liz well.
my theory is sites like SM make more off the affilate marketing clicks that dont get paid out that they do on us.
instead of paying out the affiliates the contract agreement of the clicks they bring , they shave some of that affilate commission for themselves, well atleast in my case thats what happened.

the streamate end of the business i have zero complaints. most of that is thanks to liz and the team over there.
our payments arrive on time, we have traffic for the most part, we get help when we need it from liz within hours of asking.
35% i am sure is reasonable after you subtract all the taxes, office buildings, staff, servers, costs, computer systems, its a huge operation they are running. the taxes alone.. we all trip over paying our taxes.. now imagine theirs! i mean they could throw in 5% more or something, that would be great, but hey.

its the cambuilder side that well.. i dont work on that side for a reason. i wont post publicly why but.. it left a bad taste in my mouth to say the least.
i was so disappointed.

the biggest scam is like chaturbate affilate ect, they maybe pay out 1 out of every 100 people you send to them. so many people talk about that online
all of those affilate sites they never really pay you out how many clients you really send just a small % of it to "keep you motivated"

all affilate marketing is a HUGE SCAM IMO

I hope they pay Liz well, too. I've just had a really bad couple of weeks and lost my patience with the abysmal traffic and needed to vent.

MsJess
02-05-2022, 11:39 AM
i hope they pay liz well.


THIS!!!! Liz has always been so helpful! EVERY single time She's been there with a solution or an asnwer.

Now the percentage of the site is the lowest but I honestly prefer making sales at this % than not making anything at a site that gives me 50% or more lol wasting my time, freeloaders, being recorded EVERY single second I'm on (I know on SM we also get recorded but Personally lately I haven't found anything from my stream pirated so that's great) Also Liz has been super quick to remove anything that I found before. Can't really think of a site that does't really have bugs and runs 100% smoothly all the time for everybody.

minibagel
02-05-2022, 12:49 PM
the streamate end of the business i have zero complaints. most of that is thanks to liz and the team over there.
our payments arrive on time, we have traffic for the most part, we get help when we need it from liz within hours of asking.
35% i am sure is reasonable after you subtract all the taxes, office buildings, staff, servers, costs, computer systems, its a huge operation they are running. the taxes alone.. we all trip over paying our taxes.. now imagine theirs! i mean they could throw in 5% more or something, that would be great, but hey.


...nah. you think other cam sites don’t have big operations? 35% payout is rock bottom in this industry, literally unheard of anywhere else and it’s really NOT justifiable when all other cam sites do the same thing and pay out way, way more. **ETA oh how could i forget ppl outside of western countries get paid 30%. WTF**

Onlyfans has the biggest operation of them all with over 1 million creators, imagine their business costs, all the back end finance dealing with millions of customers. and yet they payout 80%. as do all other fan sites. think Peach even pays out 90%.

Chaturbate is probably the biggest cam site just in terms of models, members, traffic. are they paying out 35%? lol... CB & MFC pay out ~65%, but really with the entire token system being designed in the model’s favor, you could say token site girls get 100% of what they want. we want $5? 100 tokens. $100? 2000 tokens. tokens are a currency that both models & members fully understand, so really we get 100% of what we want and we don’t have to care about the logistics of it, the upcharges the members had to pay to acquire those tokens. especially since the value of a token (to members) changes with every token package. to models it’s always worth $0.05.

35% payout works best and is bearable when *everything* in is order: healthy traffic, no glitches, etc. but when you take all of that that away… that 35% stings like a muthafcker.

everything anonamiss wrote about support in the quote below was spot on. while Liz has been a godsend, support as a whole sucks. they have piss poor communication with us. they have failed to address all the current and ongoing site issues. they fail to address us at all about anything.


Support is part of SMs "team" and they are unreliable inconsistent apes. I once asked general support about allowing a customer to control a lovense toy and they said "no that is not allowed because it is not a Streamate-branded toy." Like wtf were they even on about? No such thing as an SM branded toy. So i had to forward that message to Liz where i also noted their support needs to be better trained on the rules. Her response was simply "yes its fine."

In this new era of the rules being way more strict their team (liz included) shouldnt be giving out unclear answers about what is and isnt allowed. I totally understand the "better safe than sorry" sentiment and reaching out for clarification, but it really is only worthwhile if the information we're receiving is actually accurate. If something is in fact against the rules it needs to be easy to understand and updated on their various new rule pages. It doesnt do anyone any good if one random model receives info from support (like the supposed band tee rule) and no one else is officially informed.

Dreamqueen
02-05-2022, 01:28 PM
I just got confirmation from support that band t shirts are a copyright violation so they are against TOS :(

56590
56591

This was asked back in Oct.
Did they change the rules?
If so, please direct me to where it says it.
The LAST thing I want is to get suspended for this.

emkato
02-05-2022, 01:31 PM
35% payout works best and is bearable when *everything* in is order: healthy traffic, no glitches, etc. but when you take all of that that away… that 35% stings like a muthafcker.

This this THIS.

Granted I was in a piss poor mood last night, But this is what was going through my head when I made that post. Back in the day when it was constantly busy and thriving I didn't even think about 35% being a low ball number because the money added up so quick that it didn't matter. Traffic was booming, and making money still took work but I feel like I'm streaming into the void lately. It's hard to hustle a crowd when you are dancing in an empty strip club, is how I think of it.

bigbum
02-05-2022, 01:51 PM
...nah. you think other cam sites don’t have big operations? 35% payout is rock bottom in this industry, literally unheard of anywhere else and it’s really NOT justifiable when all other cam sites do the same thing and pay out way, way more. **ETA oh how could i forget ppl outside of western countries get paid 30%. WTF**

Onlyfans has the biggest operation of them all with over 1 million creators, imagine their business costs, all the back end finance dealing with millions of customers. and yet they payout 80%. as do all other fan sites. think Peach even pays out 90%.

Chaturbate is probably the biggest cam site just in terms of models, members, traffic. are they paying out 35%? lol... CB & MFC pay out ~65%, but really with the entire token system being designed in the model’s favor, you could say token site girls get 100% of what they want. we want $5? 100 tokens. $100? 2000 tokens. tokens are a currency that both models & members fully understand, so really we get 100% of what we want and we don’t have to care about the logistics of it, the upcharges the members had to pay to acquire those tokens. especially since the value of a token (to members) changes with every token package. to models it’s always worth $0.05.

35% payout works best and is bearable when *everything* in is order: healthy traffic, no glitches, etc. but when you take all of that that away… that 35% stings like a muthafcker.

everything anonamiss wrote about support in the quote below was spot on. while Liz has been a godsend, support as a whole sucks. they have piss poor communication with us. they have failed to address all the current and ongoing site issues. they fail to address us at all about anything.

the reason i believe CB gives more in terms of tokens is because you have to now bid to be on the front page so they bank from that and models earn less.
also they cheat their affilate partners and scam them all so they make up for it that way. they sucker guys into sending them ppc and targeted traffic for free. they never pay them for the true number of clients they really sent. so the models win more but the markers get scammed on that site.
one way or another someone one is loosing.
just from my experience

bobsandvangene
02-05-2022, 02:46 PM
So this week has been incredibly lucrative for me, but today and yesterday have been DEAD! I made less than half my average hourly yesterday and today all I'm getting are clients telling me they're just 'passing through' - I just cba with them so I'm telling them to fuck off and pass away LOL

Genoveve
02-05-2022, 03:15 PM
Well everybody better stack their paper next week because the one after that is when there's going to be contests, if not a week-long one.

minibagel
02-05-2022, 03:39 PM
This this THIS.

Granted I was in a piss poor mood last night, But this is what was going through my head when I made that post. Back in the day when it was constantly busy and thriving I didn't even think about 35% being a low ball number because the money added up so quick that it didn't matter. Traffic was booming, and making money still took work but I feel like I'm streaming into the void lately. It's hard to hustle a crowd when you are dancing in an empty strip club, is how I think of it.

haha empty ass strip club is right. ya it’s a lot easier to forget about the % when things are good… i can convince myself "it’s fine, it's fine, what 35%?" :') but when there is zero traffic or my damn stream keeps glitching saying i am OFFLINE, you betcha i start thinking about that goddamn 65% cut. i kept getting that offline screen glitch like 5x my last shift tuesday night or whenever i was on. on top of it being dead. so when my stream showed me i was OFFLINE for the last time i could handle, i took my ass offline for real. lol. :rip:

personally the most crushing thing to me is getting tipped or doing a video call on a fan site for 80% and then going on SM getting tipped/ doing the same show, with the same exact rates... and getting 35%. that's when it hits. while MFC has fixed true private rates @ 80 tokens/min ($4/min our cut), most models including myself require a big pretip to initiate the show. and we often get tipped during the show, since it's a tipping site after all. just checked for chaturbate we can now go up to 240tokens/min which is $12 our cut per min. wow. previously it was 150tk/min which was $7.5/min our cut. idk anything about LiveJasmin but i heard they recently increased their payout! when is SM gonna step it up???


the reason i believe CB gives more in terms of tokens is because you have to now bid to be on the front page so they bank from that and models earn less.
also they cheat their affilate partners and scam them all so they make up for it that way. they sucker guys into sending them ppc and targeted traffic for free. they never pay them for the true number of clients they really sent. so the models win more but the markers get scammed on that site.
one way or another someone one is loosing.
just from my experience

what do you mean 'gives more'? CB has always paid the same as MFC. every token is worth a nickel to the model. i don't know about the whole bidding thing, but you can be successful on CB without being on the front page, so imo bidding to be at the top is prob a fruitless endeavor. not to mention it is voluntary and really has nothing to do with payout. my point was that even CB, the biggest cam site operation out there, does not pay out a meager 30-35%.

bobsandvangene
02-05-2022, 03:48 PM
The lack of interaction from clients lately is driving me around the bend. All of today, they have been sitting and staring and then acting shocked when I'm obviously in a bad mood. Ignore me, and DAMN RIGHT I will ignore the fuck outta you.

t_plush
02-05-2022, 06:03 PM
...nah. you think other cam sites don’t have big operations? 35% payout is rock bottom in this industry, literally unheard of anywhere else and it’s really NOT justifiable when all other cam sites do the same thing and pay out way, way more. **ETA oh how could i forget ppl outside of western countries get paid 30%. WTF**

Onlyfans has the biggest operation of them all with over 1 million creators, imagine their business costs, all the back end finance dealing with millions of customers. and yet they payout 80%. as do all other fan sites. think Peach even pays out 90%.

Chaturbate is probably the biggest cam site just in terms of models, members, traffic. are they paying out 35%? lol... CB & MFC pay out ~65%, but really with the entire token system being designed in the model’s favor, you could say token site girls get 100% of what they want. we want $5? 100 tokens. $100? 2000 tokens. tokens are a currency that both models & members fully understand, so really we get 100% of what we want and we don’t have to care about the logistics of it, the upcharges the members had to pay to acquire those tokens. especially since the value of a token (to members) changes with every token package. to models it’s always worth $0.05.

35% payout works best and is bearable when *everything* in is order: healthy traffic, no glitches, etc. but when you take all of that that away… that 35% stings like a muthafcker.

everything anonamiss wrote about support in the quote below was spot on. while Liz has been a godsend, support as a whole sucks. they have piss poor communication with us. they have failed to address all the current and ongoing site issues. they fail to address us at all about anything.

Hear, hear!

C'mon... Why isn't the payout for GSs, Tips and Wishlist at least 50%? I feel some type of way, watching my GS surpass my goal to like $400 and barely bringing in over $100.
Sheesh, it's hard in these streets.

FloridaSunDoll
02-05-2022, 08:42 PM
The updated model terms a little while back stated models have the right to negotiate a higher percentage pay cut. I’m wondering if anyone has successfully done this? I would imagine you’d have to make the argument that you have a large social media following and you bring them to the site which I don’t have. I’m just curious if anyone has actually attempted to contact them about this since we’re on the topic of the percentage

minibagel
02-05-2022, 08:51 PM
^i did contact liz about it a while ago and she said ‘technically yes you can, but not right now.’ so i’m clinging to this strand of hope

laurielegs
02-05-2022, 11:04 PM
Something definitely not working right tonight. My stream is normally a stready 1080p but keeps downgrading itself and I have not had this happen until tonight.

anonamiss
02-06-2022, 03:27 AM
The updated model terms a little while back stated models have the right to negotiate a higher percentage pay cut. ]...] would imagine you’d have to make the argument that you have a large social media following and you bring them to the site which I don’t have.

models can already effectively do this by using their cammodel referral link. if you bring new customers to streamate and they sign up under your link, you get to keep 75% of everything those users spend on you (the standard 35% plus an extra 40% for the referral), as well as 20% on anything they spend on other models. so theoretically if someone has a large following and can bring even a fraction of new users to streamate, they could make bank without needing to negotiate a higher percentage.