View Full Version : The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
EllieGold
07-27-2015, 08:59 PM
When a user comes into your Cams room with the name "GodsGifttoWomen" with $1 in his account. Sheesh. Happy Monday everybody!
AnotherLily
07-27-2015, 09:24 PM
Between glitches ( guys getting no picture but can see my text) , time wasters (guys that can't take me pvt due to "lack of privacy" but want to park their ass in my room ) and the fuckers that want to wait until the last possible second to take me pvt just UGH camming not only sucks tonight, it's blowing cum bubbles.
christylive
07-27-2015, 09:42 PM
And to think I was annoyed I couldn't cam cause I've been sick... Of course i didn't miss anything... This entire summer I think has been a prank and at any moment now the camera crew will pop out and so will the regular customers that have been m.i.a for the last 90+ days
EllieGold
07-27-2015, 09:46 PM
18 dollars in 3 hours... oh brother. Might as well quit now and start a fast food job (sorta kidding) but seriously. Going to camathon each night through this week.
NervousBeaver
07-28-2015, 06:31 AM
I started making clips yesterday... I'm filming anything and everything... dying my hair, voyeur shower, eating, ignore clips, pee clips... right now I'm filming myself while my feet are up on the table and I'm ignoring the camera... When I'm gonna have a good amount of videos I'm gonna open a clips4sale. Camming is a waste of time right now so I'll put my focus elsewhere.
Glamourmilf
07-28-2015, 12:29 PM
So pissed when people who say they are my 'friend', ask me to take off work to help them run their errands!
This one chick who has a sugar daddy and doesn't have to work, doesn't/won't get the concept that camming and doing phone sex is an actual job! It's my living, and I can't take multiple days off to help her, when her sd will.
I explained that it is a sales commission job, how even though I'm logged in, that it doen't mean I'm going to make any money.
She's STILL trying to pull a guilt trip on me.
She admits that she's loney, and how even her kids won't talk to her anymore.
She loves a lot of drama, and commotion around her, and that's why I am her only friend left.
Does anyone else have people in their life that don't understand that camming is work?
If so, how did You get it through their thick skulls?
Horny
07-28-2015, 01:31 PM
I'm making clips too and looking at other things like phone sex and any other add ons I can find.
Is it normally this seasonal? Last week was alright at the beginning but this week is terrible. MGF is good but they are all in the U.S.
EllieGold
07-28-2015, 02:25 PM
I'm feeling like I got a streak of bad luck. My husband just got paid $100 from a client of his and already lost it by accident. It fell out of his pocket on our way to the store. Got to make up that extra $100 because money doesn't grow on trees right lol.:(
Cutie101
07-28-2015, 05:27 PM
Streamate is eating my mood, nerves and patience lately.
I just can't believe. IT's been more than 4 years since I had SUCH bad days in a row!!
The only good nights in the last 2 weeks were sundays where I made $200 each. The rest...I'm too ashamed to say...
Thanks God I just paid my car lease and now I'm done with that. I spend all my savings but my car is paid and for the moment I have no major bills. Just rent and other small bills (phone, internet, etc).
The only thing that pisses me off is I can't save anything because the earnings are too low. And I was planning to make/save $30000 untill january for house.
Oh well...I guess I will delay the time.
Niccol
07-28-2015, 06:14 PM
I have had the last 4 days really bad, too. Don't know what the hell is going on? Last week was pretty good and I thought things gonna pick up again, but again this week things are bad. Damn, I am thinking about going back stripping again. I stopped stripping 3 years ago and thought I'll never even consider it again, but I am slowly getting closer to the point to reconsider. When I was stripping I made a hell lot of money, much more than I do camming, but camming is just so much more comfortable. However it's just fucking depressing to sit there hours and hours and don't make the fucking money I deserve. It's been only those last weeks (last week was OK though), but it's getting to me. By the way, just made 1 private for 2 minutes and another big spender gave me a 1$ gold! How great is that!!!!!!!!!!
EllieGold
07-28-2015, 06:39 PM
You know you're having a crappy day when your earnings are less than what you sold in clips today. Cam Earnings: $3 Clip Earnings: $6. Fuck... Sticking it out 6 more hours...
ivybunny
07-29-2015, 01:29 AM
Damn Ellie, I feel you. Literally had the worst shift earnings I've EVER had. Glitches and I NEVER get glitches. I have to MOVE and I don't know how I'm going to make this money :(
And I think I got my first model-on-model bashing tonight. Some asshole comes in and is like "Look at that big ass forehead" "Look at those fake lashes. Fake extensions." "Look at that hole for a mouth"
A) I actually have too small of a forehead. I'm Asian. We're known for having literally no brows. Like an anti-brow. So that made no sense. B) I don't wear fake lashes. Or mascara. In fact, being Asian I have pretty thin and short lashes. Again, no sense. I have long hair, but I'm the most lazy person ever. I have long hair because I'm too damn lazy to go to a salon, I sure as hell am not gonna use extensions. C) Wut. Maybe if I'm Liz Lemon, but not I, sir!
All of this to mean that I'm pretty sure some idiot model is going around copypasta-ing this to everyone because it makes literally no sense, esp for me, and because who else has the time to be a dick to a model, esp one who is WAY more amiable than most are in the face of this FUCKING drought?
I usually ban once every 10 shifts or so. 4 in one night. Whuuuuuut.
Sigh... SM you're forcing me to find more eggs for my basket. Oh how I love/hate you. You are my Bobby Brown.
Truebebeblue
07-29-2015, 09:20 AM
I really picked the wrong month to return to camming. It's been ROUGH. Here's to August !
sweetgapeach
07-29-2015, 10:32 AM
Sigh... SM you're forcing me to find more eggs for my basket. Oh how I love/hate you. You are my Bobby Brown.
CLASSIC!! Too funny! Thanks for making me smile...
AlexiaRoss
07-29-2015, 12:00 PM
Damn Ellie, I feel you. Literally had the worst shift earnings I've EVER had. Glitches and I NEVER get glitches. I have to MOVE and I don't know how I'm going to make this money :(
And I think I got my first model-on-model bashing tonight. Some asshole comes in and is like "Look at that big ass forehead" "Look at those fake lashes. Fake extensions." "Look at that hole for a mouth"
A) I actually have too small of a forehead. I'm Asian. We're known for having literally no brows. Like an anti-brow. So that made no sense. B) I don't wear fake lashes. Or mascara. In fact, being Asian I have pretty thin and short lashes. Again, no sense. I have long hair, but I'm the most lazy person ever. I have long hair because I'm too damn lazy to go to a salon, I sure as hell am not gonna use extensions. C) Wut. Maybe if I'm Liz Lemon, but not I, sir!
All of this to mean that I'm pretty sure some idiot model is going around copypasta-ing this to everyone because it makes literally no sense, esp for me, and because who else has the time to be a dick to a model, esp one who is WAY more amiable than most are in the face of this FUCKING drought?
I usually ban once every 10 shifts or so. 4 in one night. Whuuuuuut.
Sigh... SM you're forcing me to find more eggs for my basket. Oh how I love/hate you. You are my Bobby Brown.
I have been getting similar comments lately. Since I started camming in November last year, I rarely ever got any rude remarks in my room. It seems since I started twitter, and camming more etc, now I get "look at this fake whore" or "omg what a slut" a coupl;e of times a cam shift. I thought it was just some nasty men being losers, but maybe it is models.
AlexiaRoss
07-29-2015, 12:01 PM
Damn Ellie, I feel you. Literally had the worst shift earnings I've EVER had. Glitches and I NEVER get glitches. I have to MOVE and I don't know how I'm going to make this money :(
And I think I got my first model-on-model bashing tonight. Some asshole comes in and is like "Look at that big ass forehead" "Look at those fake lashes. Fake extensions." "Look at that hole for a mouth"
A) I actually have too small of a forehead. I'm Asian. We're known for having literally no brows. Like an anti-brow. So that made no sense. B) I don't wear fake lashes. Or mascara. In fact, being Asian I have pretty thin and short lashes. Again, no sense. I have long hair, but I'm the most lazy person ever. I have long hair because I'm too damn lazy to go to a salon, I sure as hell am not gonna use extensions. C) Wut. Maybe if I'm Liz Lemon, but not I, sir!
All of this to mean that I'm pretty sure some idiot model is going around copypasta-ing this to everyone because it makes literally no sense, esp for me, and because who else has the time to be a dick to a model, esp one who is WAY more amiable than most are in the face of this FUCKING drought?
I usually ban once every 10 shifts or so. 4 in one night. Whuuuuuut.
Sigh... SM you're forcing me to find more eggs for my basket. Oh how I love/hate you. You are my Bobby Brown.
I have been getting similar comments lately. Since I started camming in November last year, I rarely ever got any rude remarks in my room. It seems since I started twitter, and camming more etc, now I get "look at this fake whore" or "omg what a slut" a coupl;e of times a cam shift. I thought it was just some nasty men being losers, but maybe it is models.
Horny
07-29-2015, 12:05 PM
I have a guy on adult work who comes in my room every time and is horrible and nasty apparently it's what I want.. I totally ignore and he gets nastier and nastier it's quite funny who could be bothered to do it? I would think they might have worked out that by the nature of this job most of us have pretty hard skin!!
lolabunny
07-29-2015, 03:38 PM
Man, I hope tomorrow is better, this week has been awesome up until today....
Horny
07-29-2015, 03:55 PM
I've had someone on Twitter trying to recruit me for chaturbate saying how busy that is compared to AW etc doubt it somehow. Only place I'm busy MGF and that is stretching busy!!
HurricaneRed
07-29-2015, 04:31 PM
I bet I had the same person contact me too! Random chaturbate dms, suuure. Legit.
Susperia
07-29-2015, 08:52 PM
I just posted in the camming rocks yesterday, because it did, but today camming sucks.....where is the traffic SM? I'm getting to the point where I don't wanna log on there anymore. Its giving me anxiety....am I gonna have a rotation of in and outs or am I gonna sit in an empty room for 10 minutes... The only reason I do is because of the weekly pay.
redsubsally
07-29-2015, 10:27 PM
I just did my first show ever and received nadda. I had my prices out, people were in my chat, but no one tipped for anything. So it was a nice chat with some people, but geeze! I was on for roughly two hours. I wasn't expecting a lot but to receive nothing was a huge downer.
EllieGold
07-29-2015, 10:35 PM
Camming sucks because it's so inconsistent... $250 one night, $5 the next. What gives? Hubby has an interview for a great paying job. I want out of this nightmare right now. Camgods I need you this week :)
doublerainbow
07-29-2015, 11:23 PM
I just rearranged my whole room, got a noisy air conditioner (still better than being forced outside due to heat), changed my hair... and because of all this, I've been too anxious to get on cam. Damn perfectionism drives me crazy! I know logically it's better to log on and at least make myself available to earn money (money I desperately need right now), but if I'm not at least 85% positive of a good outcome, I can't get myself to try. A noisier room and different look makes me scared to get on cam and bomb. My only comfort is seeing people posting in this forum so I can tell myself I'm really not missing that much anyway. The anxiety will pass.... it always does... but when it's here it really makes being a cam model suck all the dicks.
ivybunny
07-30-2015, 01:56 AM
Ugh I've only done 16 hours on SM? It feels like 30 being so slow...
My average hourly this week is a solid $10 less than my worst EVER, and that's including short shifts. Unbelievable. Literally 2/3 of my average before. Sigh... I'm gonna go sleep before I wake up and do a 24 hour camathon...
IvyAdams
07-30-2015, 04:55 AM
What is going on this week SM? Seriously, it is first row and crickets... impossible to make money when it's like this. I can't wait until this slump is over.. I'm sure I'll appreciate the good times even more when they come back around.
Staples
07-30-2015, 05:03 AM
SM has been rough for sure! I've heard that July is the worst month for camming. Thank god it's almost over.
nattyfetish
07-30-2015, 06:40 AM
From nada to prada ... Or the otherway around: from prada to nada... That's camming this days ! I just took my second coffee because this heath is killing me (makin me feel tried/soft): i dance, i tease, i am so fucking hot ! It does get me privates but it will waste me in no time & i feel like vomiting my coffee up haha (never dance after you just ate/drank lol). Please -days when money came without evan moving a strand of hair- come back !
Horny
07-30-2015, 02:19 PM
I didn't bother last not because aw has been so bad. Tonight I'm sat and not a thing about to abandon ship and do some vids this is getting me nowhere at all not a sniff. Roll on August!!
LaylaLovely
07-30-2015, 02:31 PM
Omg...it's so slow....I can't take it.i can't sit in fc anymore I logged off.. I'm very upset at myself :(
Horny
07-30-2015, 02:32 PM
I'm about to go the same way one in group asking if I was an escort again READ THE FAQ's!! At least they seem to be busy!!
Niccol
07-30-2015, 03:17 PM
So I went to work a shift in my ex strip club yesterday, and I made about the same in this shift than I made camming the whole last week, and last week wasn't even too bad camming. Since this week is absolute horror, I will stick with the strip club for a few months to make some bucks and then come back camming. I have had it, those last weeks just were too frustrating.
audritwo
07-30-2015, 03:30 PM
Camming isn't something where you'll make a but load of money instantly. Some people do rarely experience that, but others we worked our booties off to earn a higher income. With camming, you need to be consistent to get more $$$.
Horny
07-30-2015, 03:46 PM
I'm doing really well with MGF and building some nice regulars up. I like that you can be proactive I just find AW very frustrating as you just have to wait and I find in free I can't seem to convert them to pay. Maybe I might try another site and see if it suits me better while AW is so quiet.
MissQuirk
07-31-2015, 12:47 AM
I'm sorry I post in this thread all the time omg. I just have nowhere else to vent >__> No one feel obligated to read this please! lol
This is totally not camming related at all
But like, I'm really tired of feeling like boyfriend isn't into me. It's ruining my self confidence.
Things are finally settling down for us, we figured out an apartment- BF got confirmation he's up for a promotion and is getting full time hours that can easily take care of us whether I cam or not....
Like we should be having sex >__>
I dunno if that sounds stupid but like..i ALWAYS have to initiate which is driving me insane. It makes me feel like I'm unattractive or doing something wrong or our sex is bad. It never WAS bad, we were having sex once a day at the very least.
Our first anniversary is in a few days. I dunno if this is just stuff slowing down, like if I should expect it. But it sucks.
Here's a TMI-ish situation that sparked me writing this:
We were kind of hinting at each other all day that we were super excited to get home and enjoy being together and have sex and that everything felt so positive etc.
And then we get into bed and he gives me a backrub, I ask him to grab me a water (because I was half naked) and he comes back with weed, my water, and nail polish
(He likes to paint his nails okay, don't judge I think it's cute as fuck)
I'm being ultra careful with what I put near my vagina recently bc I hate HATE yeast infections and I don't love the idea of fingers with nailpolish on them near there >__>
He asked what nails he should paint and I was like "haha welll if you plan on touching me at all tonight maybe you should hold off" (I know, totally unsexy, whatever) and he literally SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS and painted them. :/
So we lay down to go to bed, and he's like rubbing my thighs/butt and I asked him to stop. Honestly because I don't want him to touch me right now. I feel rejected AGAIN.
We've had talks about this but then he says "I'll be more respectful to your needs" and that makes me feel gross. Like now I'm pressuring him to have sex with me.
Now I can't sleep so I'm in the living room and he knows something is wrong but I really don't want to talk about it with him. Not only because it's uncomfortable, but because I've had the conversation before with him like 4 times and it's not going to do anything, so what's the point of making myself feel even more awkward and rejected? Plus he has to work in 9 hours so I just want him to get some sleep.
He's so perfect in every single way and things were fine before but now..idk. He calls me cute, and pretty...but never any like sexual compliments. Never any "I want you" or "your ass looks amazing in that" or anything. I just want to be desired by someone who isn't a nasty ass cam customer.
What if this is how he just IS? The honeymoon phase is over and he's naturally not as sexual as I am. Then what do I do? The guy is literally perfect for me in every other way. He's terrified of the idea of an open relationship so it's not like I could get that type of attention elsewhere. I don't even want it elsewhere. I want it from him again, and not just like twice a month or only when I initiate. This blows.
CatBBW
07-31-2015, 09:32 AM
I log out of my cam stream whenever I get a phone call ... but today I didn't realise I hadn't logged back in after speaking on the phone, and THREE HOURS passed before I realised I wasn't logged in, and the only reason I noticed was because the phone rang again and I went to log out, only to find I was already logged out. THREE HOURS of sitting here wondering where all the men were.
*cries*
pippapippa
07-31-2015, 06:47 PM
I have had almost no one come into my room in the past thirty mins. What the fuck?
Horny
07-31-2015, 10:31 PM
Sorry to hear that pippa but kind of glad it's not just me I can't believe I'm getting omethjng at all. Even on the last page I was making money some nights a lot it's mad and so annoying.
For the last few days, I've been sitting here watching how people is logging in and logging out on SM. WHAT.THE.HECK. argh
audritwo
08-01-2015, 11:04 AM
HANG IN THERE LADIES!
Remember in 3 weeks summer vacation will mostly be over
Also in 5 weeks, financial aid will go through.
MyRealNameIsWeird
08-01-2015, 02:25 PM
This is seriously so fucking dead. :(
I'm enjoying waves of sadism from catching peepers and other freeloaders and staling their dollars, though.
MyRealNameIsWeird
08-01-2015, 02:27 PM
I've also taken a tip from a few girls and am making videos in my spare time. Eternal money for my lousy summer is a fair swap.
Glamourmilf
08-01-2015, 02:36 PM
[QUOTE=CatBBW;2785733]I log out of my cam stream whenever I get a phone call ... but today I didn't realise I hadn't logged back in after speaking on the phone, and THREE HOURS passed before I realised I wasn't logged in, and the only reason I noticed was because the phone rang again and I went to log out, only to find I was already logged out. THREE HOURS of sitting here wondering where all the men were.
*cries*[/QUOTE
Ugh! I've done that, and the worst was when I forgot to log out of a dispatch pso line, and I got charged over $50 because we're supposed to answer the phone before the 2nd ring. Damnit! I'm so overly cautious now that it takes the fun out of it.
SexyLittleThing
08-01-2015, 04:37 PM
I've read a few last pages in this thread and I gotta say that I'm glad I'm not the only one with problems (earning money) :(
Can someone please tell me will this shitty period (no pun intended) of making NO MONEY on SM ever end?? Please, someone - please! My last summer was far better than this one. This is just total waste of time, make up and energy... I can't go on like this :(
TrifilinCamHo
08-01-2015, 04:52 PM
Wondering if the few SM viewers who do pop into my room today can physically see the soul/energy being sucked out of me. Fuck this garbage summer yo!
Blovely
08-01-2015, 07:55 PM
I've read a few last pages in this thread and I gotta say that I'm glad I'm not the only one with problems (earning money) :(
Can someone please tell me will this shitty period (no pun intended) of making NO MONEY on SM ever end?? Please, someone - please! My last summer was far better than this one. This is just total waste of time, make up and energy... I can't go on like this :(
I don't think things are slow just because its Summer. SM is having a shit-ton of glitches, they have been going on for at least 2-3 weeks. So Summer + glitches is making it really hard to make money. I'm sure models and customers have contacted SM about the glitches but who knows if SM is acknowledging them and who knows when they're going to fix them. It seems like we just have to wait it out.
christylive
08-02-2015, 07:16 PM
thank GOD SM isn't my only egg in my basket cause FUCK has it been pure shit the last few months. one thing this summer has taught me is to have multiple streams of income! #LESSONS
LaylaLovely
08-02-2015, 07:35 PM
I keep saying its slow.. It slow.. It's slow... But when I look at the numbers I'm making the same amount of$$$ on all my other sites except sm...looks like it's an SM isolated issue only.
pippapippa
08-02-2015, 09:01 PM
I went from thirty four percent in paid chat for my first two hours on cam to eleven percent in my next two. The only reason why I made my goals this weekend is because a regular has sent me about $400 over the past few days.
SimoneGray
08-03-2015, 03:20 AM
I'm not sure what's happening, but Sundays just aren't what they used to be in Winter for me..I make a third of what I would make in the Fall/Winter months these days. Seriously all I want to do is just fast forward to October.