View Full Version : The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
SylvySinclair
10-05-2016, 01:03 PM
I have escorted and cammed, not a dancer though and in my humble opion, when u want money, u work 12hs a day no matter in what niche. i was like that and i still am. difference is, that i prefer much better to cam than escorting. my opinion though.
Kristen_Krystal
10-05-2016, 01:38 PM
I have escorted and cammed, not a dancer though and in my humble opion, when u want money, u work 12hs a day no matter in what niche. i was like that and i still am. difference is, that i prefer much better to cam than escorting. my opinion though.
Me too Sylvy - Retiring from Escorting was like a great weight being lifted from me (Literally) - best thing I ever did :)
Camming & Phone Chat allowed me to be able to retire x
LoraDoll
10-05-2016, 01:43 PM
"You, with your vast knowledge of everything vagina related, should go teach them how to be a great stripper/escort."
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I died. :D
Chellyinparadise
10-05-2016, 01:51 PM
Her opinion about camming is as beneficial as the guys who come into our room to tell us how to do OUR JOB and we all know how we feel about that. haha
winnipeg
10-05-2016, 02:24 PM
Hmm a very slow day. What is going on? I am new to certain sites but used to cam at a well known site about 10 years ago. I made more 10 years ago than I am at the moment.....it's just awful!
LoraDoll
10-05-2016, 02:28 PM
yea, slow shit here too.
xxxGothBarbie
10-05-2016, 03:14 PM
Idk. But, these guys with a #1 just sit in my room, even though I'm in a show, or even a gold show . Then, instead of joining, they wait until I come back to chat, then boom...they leave.
Sometimes I think that they can see my shows without paying. New guys who just sit in my chat do this too.
It creeps me the fuck out.
Oh, and I only give 1 video to guys that join my Gold Shows.
I had 2 different guys come into my room last night claiming I had no video & I thought they meant they couldn't see me LoL they got pissed when I said that & left LMAO oops , I didn't know we could give videos.
Bristol
10-05-2016, 05:07 PM
One guy on CB told me the site wasn't letting him buy tokens and text was lagging bad. Grrr.
Genoveve
10-05-2016, 05:08 PM
In my first opinion I said that dancing is much better.
I've danced AND cammed. I think camming is better for many reasons. Now quit your "lousy way of making a living" and start camming instead.
hyori
10-05-2016, 08:22 PM
How the fuck do strippers and escorts put up with the gross, smelly, out of shape men that grope and beg? I have a hard enough time dealing with those guys virtually and I don't see them or feel them touch me. Goddamn, I wouldn't last 5 minutes in a club or with some john. I'd throw up or hurt the customer very badly.
It's the same with porn, how the fuck do you let some guy you are not at all attracted to, let him inside of you? Fuck, just the thought makes me want to put on a chastity belt and lock myself up in a convent. Ugh.
Diamond Dust
10-05-2016, 08:37 PM
Let's face it from what I have read you have to be available 12 hours a day. Now I have never done camming. I have thought about it but the bottom line is it would be like being an airline attendant 12 hours a day the stress builds up.
12 hours a day!? I cam 12 hours a week. Being kind of unavailable is part of my hustle, baby. Keeps me in private and out of free chat.
hotmodel
10-06-2016, 12:00 AM
12 hours a day!? I cam 12 hours a week. Being kind of unavailable is part of my hustle, baby. Keeps me in private and out of free chat.
I've noticed that too! Sometimes the less your on..the more you make..your regs end up missing you..go figure 🤔 I swear..when I'm like ok, im putting in tons of hours and staying consistent..I make less rather than just jumping on at random times and for however long I stay busy..weird! We're damned if we do and damned if we don't ugh 😩
AnotherLily
10-06-2016, 12:15 AM
^ This. I announced that I was going on vacation, did a countdown. Came back and had my best week ever, in the middle of summer.
LittleLexi
10-06-2016, 12:21 AM
I hesitate to insert my opinion because the last time I tried I got slammed. My opinion is that camming is a lousy way to make a living and takes up so much of your time that the stress of being online builds up to the point where you either cry or dump on the clients as a method of stress relief. Let's face it from what I have read you have to be available 12 hours a day. Now I have never done camming. I have thought about it but the bottom line is it would be like being an airline attendant 12 hours a day the stress builds up. In my first opinion I said that dancing is much better. Now I probably said that in a very crude way or on graceful fashion. I apologize. But the fact is that while every adult entertainer builds up this psychologic emotional stress over time, the working hours are less hence the emotional stress is less. I believe the money is better dancing and since everyone has their own boundaries it is easier to set those boundaries when you dance. This is my opinion, please don't dump on me. Again I have never cammed. It is just the blogs that I read that make camming sound For shit. the amount of money that cam girls make is quite variable. I believe that the people on this website are probably very attractive which is why they make a lot of money on good days.
The girls who are not that attractive probably make crap.
I dance and I escort. I work less hours, I have time to myself and I am able to treat the clients better. I strongly suggest that you think about dumping this job and trying another angle
I'm convinced that you're a man who spends a lot of time with escorts and at strip clubs who resents cam girls bc you can't actually get your hands on them so you continue to come into this thread and try to tell cam girls who are already having bad days that they should just quit and strip and escort instead. I've read through your old posts and the biggest red flag was you insisting that cam girls should quit camming bc "the world needs more strippers and escorts".
Horny
10-06-2016, 04:46 AM
OMG!!! First no money this morning through bloody Payoneer and now sat on SM for two hours for $44 when normally I would be well over $100 today is rubbish
Sixes
10-06-2016, 07:19 AM
I'm convinced that you're a man who spends a lot of time with escorts and at strip clubs who resents cam girls bc you can't actually get your hands on them so you continue to come into this thread and try to tell cam girls who are already having bad days that they should just quit and strip and escort instead. I've read through your old posts and the biggest red flag was you insisting that cam girls should quit camming bc "the world needs more strippers and escorts".
the phrasing and the way the sentence structures are broken down seems like a man to me too. the motive for this "opinion" makes no sense either, coming from strippers. why would strippers and escorts want more competition? lol
:O
pixiepower329
10-06-2016, 08:09 AM
I've done all 3-- so let me give a brief opinion of all of them.
Dancing-- I've worked many... MANY 10 hour shifts as a dancer, as that was the standard schedule at one of the clubs I worked at. Lets see, 10 hours in a smoky room (I don't smoke). Dealing with a bunch of drunk bitches because booze is the only way they can cope with the men constantly trying to grope at them. Dealing with asshats who think that 3 couch dances in the VIP means that I should be trickin' with them. Dealing with pimps on the recruitment hunt. Having to pay back a good chunk of the money I make to the DJ, the bouncers, the bartenders, and the house. Having complete instability. One night.. you might make 1k, the next night, you could go home owing the house.
Escorting-- When you are touring, you are generally availabe 12 plus hours per day. Never knowing exactly what is on the other side of that door. Wondering if your 2pm appointment is actually a cop or CI. Wondering if the guy coming at 7pm is going to attempt to kill you. Having to constantly lie to others in your life because what you are doing IS illegal. Having a variety of men touch and pull at you. Sometimes going to a city and absolutely losing your ass financially.
Camming-- I'm currently working in camming. Nobody ever touches me. The cops are never at my door. My room isn't filled with smoke or drunken bitches. I'm not breaking any laws. I can share what I do with the people who matter most. Yeah, the money is never very stable for me... but I still make decent money. I work about 40 hours per week, which is what I'd be doing if I wasn't in the industry at all.
Its really no contest for me.
Glamourmilf
10-06-2016, 08:32 AM
How the fuck do strippers and escorts put up with the gross, smelly, out of shape men that grope and beg? I have a hard enough time dealing with those guys virtually and I don't see them or feel them touch me. Goddamn, I wouldn't last 5 minutes in a club or with some john. I'd throw up or hurt the customer very badly.
It's the same with porn, how the fuck do you let some guy you are not at all attracted to, let him inside of you? Fuck, just the thought makes me want to put on a chastity belt and lock myself up in a convent. Ugh.
Lol! Add this to the many reasons I love You Hyori.46157
hyori
10-06-2016, 02:43 PM
^^ thanks Glam, I love you too! Seriously though, kudos to the courageous and brave sex workers who can deal with johns in the flesh! May they all be safe!
^^^ I am with you here, the physical contact with these guys would turn me off soo bad, i am very sensitive regarding smell, taste, touch etc and i cant enjoy sex with somebody i dont have feelings for and know he has feelings for me, i hardly manage doing my job on cam so yeah, the girls are indeed brave.
seashell
10-06-2016, 04:04 PM
I've danced and cammed. It took me several years after attempting camming to decide that I liked it, but I now think I'm a convert. As others have said, the hands-off nature of camming alone is worth it. Not to mention the convenience factor of doing it whenever/wherever, having my eggs/baskets more spread out, and a thousand other reasons that help me keep my sanity far easier than any other job I've had.
I dabbled in escorting, but that is most definitely not for me. Nope, I'll take sitting in front of a computer any day. <3
SkoomaQueen
10-06-2016, 04:22 PM
Kudos to girls who can just type. My roommates are home and I can't do audio, they know I cam but these walls are paper thin and I don't want them hearing me. I've been typing today and it is not working out for me. The traffic has been good but, when I type for a few seconds too long my resting bitch face comes on and it's not a good look for me. Can't seem to stop it. Keeping at it, but it's frustrating.
Promised
10-06-2016, 04:26 PM
How the fuck do strippers and escorts put up with the gross, smelly, out of shape men that grope and beg? I have a hard enough time dealing with those guys virtually and I don't see them or feel them touch me. Goddamn, I wouldn't last 5 minutes in a club or with some john. I'd throw up or hurt the customer very badly.
It's the same with porn, how the fuck do you let some guy you are not at all attracted to, let him inside of you? Fuck, just the thought makes me want to put on a chastity belt and lock myself up in a convent. Ugh.
I've never escorted, but I have danced (I can't really dance, but I worked at the strip club anyway lol) And to tell you the truth I always went for the older, not as attractive types. A young hot guy would walk in and all the girls would just swoop down on him, and after shaking their ass for 10 minutes might get a couple dollars, but i'd go for the 70 year old they all left at the bar and leave with everything he had in his wallet :) Really those types were more attractive to me, because they understood it was a job and wanted to help me without near as much work as the attractive guys. Cute guys were always "bend over, shake it, can you swing upside down with a bottle between your legs?" the older ones just hand me a fifty and talk about how they are taking the wife to bingo later lol.
xxxGothBarbie
10-06-2016, 05:06 PM
Ugh sooooo glad I'm not dancing anymore! I avoided camming bc it seemed hard to learn the niche & to figure out initially but I got over that when I realized my depression from the shitty clubs I was getting hired at was creating for me. Not only that but with camming I can be my current weight & not have anxiety about what guys or other dancers think or say about me while performing. I used to get fucked with bc I was always a bigger girl & guys always chose smaller girls in the clubs which was embarrasing to me. With camming I feel 100% safe in my own domain, not worrying about paying anyone out at the end of the night, or having to commute my poor car miles & miles away. The best thing I love about camming is the fact that if a guy is being a dickhead or weird I can just ban him :) Priceless IMO ~
seashell
10-06-2016, 05:20 PM
Kudos to girls who can just type. My roommates are home and I can't do audio, they know I cam but these walls are paper thin and I don't want them hearing me. I've been typing today and it is not working out for me. The traffic has been good but, when I type for a few seconds too long my resting bitch face comes on and it's not a good look for me. Can't seem to stop it. Keeping at it, but it's frustrating.
Haha, I know what you mean about the faces while typing! I have the same problem and I actively try to keep my mouth open on cam so I don't get that bitch-frown. Lol. I definitely prefer having audio, but you gotta do what you gotta do!
Cutie101
10-06-2016, 10:12 PM
Camming sucked in the past 3 days.
Fuck it.
xxxGothBarbie
10-07-2016, 12:02 AM
Camming sucked in the past 3 days.
Fuck it.
Ya the last 2 days were slow for me as well :/ Both my rooms were empty on & off times which was very odd bc one of my sites usually isn't. Hopefully this weekend will rock :)
LoraDoll
10-07-2016, 12:10 AM
Hopefully this weekend will rock :)
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I feel like, I can't wait... :D
Blovely
10-07-2016, 08:48 AM
Camming sucked in the past 3 days.
More like 3 weeks.
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anonymous camgirl
10-10-2016, 01:42 PM
well everyone must be doing really well since the last post was 10/7...lol... I am feeling some serious slowness today!.. was it bad today? hard for me to tell when I started camming during the unemployment hour of 2pm EST
winnipeg
10-10-2016, 01:48 PM
Hella slow again :/ I must just attract cheap ass men who want it all for nothing.
SylvySinclair
10-10-2016, 02:01 PM
I didnt post to not get boring....lol same shit, slow as fuck! lol
hotmodel
10-10-2016, 02:48 PM
well everyone must be doing really well since the last post was 10/7...lol... I am feeling some serious slowness today!.. was it bad today? hard for me to tell when I started camming during the unemployment hour of 2pm EST
I wanted to post in here last night after my shift of 7 hours and a total of 10.00! But didn't want to be Debbie downer lol! Your not alone! This has been going on for awhile for me but I'm only on two private based sites..I think I need to go back to Streamate..I'm surviving not thriving ugh..just crazy how I was once doing well and it's just been constant weeks of crap..gotta add more sites..I guess? But then again I hear girls who run tons of sites that are having slow times too ugh
anonymous camgirl
10-10-2016, 02:54 PM
I am on 10 cam sites.. still doing well but not as well as I was since July!.. August and September and now October kind of sucks as well. when will it end.. I have big responsibilities.. I am trying to pay off 17k of debt, my son needs a new car, we need to move, I need to pay for a ceiling and a shed and new refrige and new stove.. etc etc.. tons of huge expenses.. so barely getting by or just $500 extra for the month is not going to cut it!...
I wanted to post in here last night after my shift of 7 hours and a total of 10.00! But didn't want to be Debbie downer lol! Your not alone! This has been going on for awhile for me but I'm only on two private based sites..I think I need to go back to Streamate..I'm surviving not thriving ugh..just crazy how I was once doing well and it's just been constant weeks of crap..gotta add more sites..I guess? But then again I hear girls who run tons of sites that are having slow times too ugh
hotmodel
10-10-2016, 03:09 PM
I am on 10 cam sites.. still doing well but not as well as I was since July!.. August and September and now October kind of sucks as well. when will it end.. I have big responsibilities.. I am trying to pay off 17k of debt, my son needs a new car, we need to move, I need to pay for a ceiling and a shed and new refrige and new stove.. etc etc.. tons of huge expenses.. so barely getting by or just $500 extra for the month is not going to cut it!...
That's so crazy! That's around the same time it got slow for me too and it just isn't getting any better! Are you on Streamate? I used to love Streamate till every move I made seemed to get recorded and thrown all over tube sites..it's hard to focus on relaxing and trying to give a good show when in the back of your mind it's like hmmmm ok I'm probably gonna have this show come back to haunt me for years to come..so I try to stay off free chat sites but even the private based ones are getting hacked and shows are getting leaked..maybe it's time to pull the plug on Camming for me..if the money ain't there and everything is getting recorded..what's the point? Ugh or maybe it's just this election stuff right now..I hope..praying it gets better
winnipeg
10-10-2016, 03:17 PM
That's so crazy! That's around the same time it got slow for me too and it just isn't getting any better! Are you on Streamate? I used to love Streamate till every move I made seemed to get recorded and thrown all over tube sites..it's hard to focus on relaxing and trying to give a good show when in the back of your mind it's like hmmmm ok I'm probably gonna have this show come back to haunt me for years to come..so I try to stay off free chat sites but even the private based ones are getting hacked and shows are getting leaked..maybe it's time to pull the plug on Camming for me..if the money ain't there and everything is getting recorded..what's the point? Ugh or maybe it's just this election stuff right now..I hope..praying it gets better
Part of the problem is.....some (not all) girls are doing more and more in free. These men just enter free and sit there....waiting for someone else to get the ball rolling.
hotmodel
10-10-2016, 03:23 PM
Part of the problem is.....some (not all) girls are doing more and more in free. These men just enter free and sit there....waiting for someone else to get the ball rolling.
Yep I agree! I never did anything in free! I don't even talk lol! I typed until they took me private and I never ever did 1 gold show..it was all true privates that got recorded from Streamate and even Ifriends. When I finally pulled the plug on Streamate I had three pages of videos of me recorded in google under my screenname..took me about a year to get it all removed..thought I was safe on Ifriends but nope..still getting hacked over there too..a lot of Ifriends girls have the same issues with getting recorded..it just seems like we're never safe on any site
anonymous camgirl
10-10-2016, 03:25 PM
OMG I just saw a girl on SM sorting out coupons!...lmao... and I have been doing my budget and cleaning papers off my desk to trash or file.. lmao!
PhatGirlDynomite!!!
10-10-2016, 03:38 PM
OMG I just saw a girl on SM sorting out coupons!...lmao... and I have been doing my budget and cleaning papers off my desk to trash or file.. lmao!
I was just logged on and forgot I was logged on that's how slow my room was.
anonymous camgirl
10-10-2016, 04:12 PM
OMG I just saw a girl on SM sorting out coupons!...lmao... and I have been doing my budget and cleaning papers off my desk to trash or file.. lmao!
This was a top cam girl on the first page, mind you!
CamChik
10-11-2016, 06:00 AM
Wow! Like pulling teeth to get $ this morning. Ugh. Usually no problems but when I can't even get a tip chat show going with 60 mother fuckers in my room that's a problem. Wtf?! I'm usually at $100 by now and I have $4. Fuck! I got up early for this shit?!
AnotherLily
10-11-2016, 08:36 AM
I feel like today is Trash Traffic Tuesday. Is that a thing?
EllieGold
10-11-2016, 08:55 AM
This was a top cam girl on the first page, mind you!
Aw shucks. I thought those coupons were more for us lower page cammodels. lol j/k. I don't even use coupons but I'm seriously considering it. Income isn't as much as it once was and I really hope things change around. I got to save up to move and I'm barely scraping by with bill money. Oy.
Blovely
10-11-2016, 08:57 AM
I am on 10 cam sites.. still doing well but not as well as I was since July!.. August and September and now October kind of sucks as well. when will it end..
That's so crazy! That's around the same time it got slow for me too and it just isn't getting any better! Are you on Streamate?
Its been slow for me since Feburary but things got a little better after I started splitting again. But then shit took another nose dive around 3 weeks ago. Even though I think SM stopped paying for traffic I can't just blame SM because I noticed the traffic on all sites decreased 3 weeks ago.....Cams, Imlive. Its not just camsites either in the clips4sale thread I read a few posts where ladies said their traffic/sales were down. Its really werid that traffic/sales decreased at the same time across the board, especially in fall when it usually picks up. I think there's something going on but I just don't know what.
I'm trying to push through but it feels like it just keeps getting slower and slower. I keep adding more and more sites to split with but it doesn't seeem to make a difference. Its gotten to a point where I've actually started looking at vanilla jobs. I've also thought about going back to school because if it gets to a point where I have to go back into the vanilla world I don't want to be stuck/forced to work minimum wage. But thing is I don't want to take out anymore loans however I can't even afford to pay my way through school right now. Shit I can't even afford to pay all of my bills because of how slow things have gotten.
I would love to keep camming but lately I've been seriously thinking about quitting or at least scaling down to part-time. If things get any slower camming will no longer be worth it to me. I seriously wish that I would've thought of and put in place a backup plan when things were poppin because right now I'm pretty much fucked.
anonymous camgirl
10-11-2016, 09:59 AM
That's not what I meant, I meant she is NOT busy.. and she is on the front page on like the third row.. that's what I meant.. lmao.. I haven't used coupons since I became a cam girl.. NO DAYS OFF to bother with such bullshit.. I do clip the digital coupons from publix though.. why not
Aw shucks. I thought those coupons were more for us lower page cammodels. lol j/k. I don't even use coupons but I'm seriously considering it. Income isn't as much as it once was and I really hope things change around. I got to save up to move and I'm barely scraping by with bill money. Oy.
Holly_xoxo
10-11-2016, 10:34 AM
Its been slow for me since Feburary but things got a little better after I started splitting again. But then shit took another nose dive around 3 weeks ago. Even though I think SM stopped paying for traffic I can't just blame SM because I noticed the traffic on all sites decreased 3 weeks ago.....Cams, Imlive. Its not just camsites either in the clips4sale thread I read a few posts where ladies said their traffic/sales were down. Its really werid that traffic/sales decreased at the same time across the board, especially in fall when it usually picks up. I think there's something going on but I just don't know what.
I'm trying to push through but it feels like it just keeps getting slower and slower. I keep adding more and more sites to split with but it doesn't seeem to make a difference. Its gotten to a point where I've actually started looking at vanilla jobs. I've also thought about going back to school because if it gets to a point where I have to go back into the vanilla world I don't want to be stuck/forced to work minimum wage. But thing is I don't want to take out anymore loans however I can't even afford to pay my way through school right now. Shit I can't even afford to pay all of my bills because of how slow things have gotten.
I would love to keep camming but lately I've been seriously thinking about quitting or at least scaling down to part-time. If things get any slower camming will no longer be worth it to me. I seriously wish that I would've thought of and put in place a backup plan when things were poppin because right now I'm pretty much fucked.
Camming has slowed way down for me too and just isn't worth the stress anymore. I stuck with it because with a disability, I didn't know what else I could do because physical jobs (where my work experience was) aren't possible for me anymore. I found a couple of govt agencies that help people with disabilities find work and get re-trained so I'm going back to the vanilla world of work.
It's scary but worth it to not have to deal with trolls, beggars and not knowing if you'll have money to pay bills. Ugh! with all we have to put up with from sites, customers and society, camming isn't worth it unless I'm making good money from it. I'm just going to do an hour a day for some extra pocket money and that's it for me since the program I signed up for helps you with living expenses.
And I agree that all sites seem to be slow lately.
JaneBurgess
10-11-2016, 10:35 AM
I feel like today is Trash Traffic Tuesday. Is that a thing?
It can be a new thing
Tuesdays have always scraped the bottom of the barrel for me. Once in a long while I'll get a decent one. Like a gift. But mostly Tues just = putting in my time/punching the clock. Today it's like a fucking ghost town. I could advertise a $1g pick my nose and fuck my hole with it and I'd get exactly $0.
I wish I had the kind of schedule that I could rotate days and nights to try to switch it up, but I don't.
SkoomaQueen
10-11-2016, 06:17 PM
Tuesdays suck for me most of the time too. I made $8 in an hour and a half, and he actually left mid show because all the dogs started going crazy and wouldn't stop, I guess the wind blew or something, but usually that doesn't happen. Uuuuugh.
Promised
10-11-2016, 06:33 PM
I've only been on for 10 minutes and I can tell today is gonna suck as usual. Already with the "favor for favor" "show me the feet, for private" "can you sort through all your leggings so I can pick one for private"" I've tried being nice, i've tried being a bitc* and nothing seems to work. Do they really think I care if they take me for that 2 minute private after I spend 10 minutes sorting clothes? They act like private is a favor to me lol. It's supposed to be a mutual thing on streamate I don't do anything free in the free chat except talk and I don't beg for privates. I never ask someone if they want to go private ever, I just chat for a few minutes then move on if they are wasting my time, but they seem to think i'm supposed to be so excited at the mention that they "might" take me private I just want to burst into laughter everytime someone acts like that. I'm not searching them out, they found me!