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Miss_ShaSha
07-11-2019, 03:13 PM
Im giving it one last shot. But Im def not gonna drain myself for a useless day....tomorrows Friday and I BET its bangin'


Work that shot like a hoe needing $2K for rent and a car note. I believe in you girl. Shake them tits like tomorrow won't come hahahaaaa.



Just finished my shift and only had one private after the two shows I had during my first hour on. That private was cut short when SMConnect disconnected it and he didn't come back. I made low goal today but if not for the two regs that came by earlier, I'd be logging off with 8$

I'm not religious but JESUS!! take the wheel !! Oh lawdy!! I'm just sitting here laughing cause this level of lameness with work is a joke to me right now.
Off tomorrow so here's hoping for a good Saturday.

Girl, you made low goal. YES!!! Small wins, like Dahlia stated, are worth celebrating. Happy for you.

I just got an exclusive with a sissy slut I haven't seen in 3 weeks who I was just thinking about this AM. WILD! I'm now just above minimum wage for my hrs streamed hahahaaaa. Win fo sho. Fuck, it's slow but it's also funny. I had 8 hrs planned, but I've got wine and I think I'll cam 10 hrs today just to see if this day turns around.

Enjoy that time off. xoxoxo

Miss_ShaSha
07-11-2019, 03:44 PM
well, i took Sha's advice and decided i was just gonna relax and be funny and interactive as I can with shitty traffic, and the 3rd guy in my room took me to a 21 minute show of just....talking. Only made $60 after that, today, all in all regardless BUT i will take that over the $19 I was at. Still sucks tho. I was gonna shoot for $300 more between now and Saturday but I dunno if thats doable unless tomorrow is stellar. We shall see.


Yessss! Dayum, it's more than you had this AM when you woke. Hell yeah fuck yeah. I'm all giddy over here.

Miss_ShaSha
07-11-2019, 03:48 PM
6 hrs and 54 min and I'm at $54.91 on SM. HOLY SHIT hahahaaaa this is laughable, but I'm still holding out for my biggest spender to hit my room and stay so long his nut destroys the head of his cock.

I'm gonna STFO cause WTFnot, right? It can't get any worse. I've got veggie straws zesty ranch and a glass of wine plus a cookie. I can do this for a few more hours before I have to rest.

Camming sucks but I'm pulling for a STFO that makes it rock.

Teddy_Bear
07-11-2019, 04:28 PM
Hmm 40hrs streamed and my hourly on Streamate is $5 an hour :O

At this point I'm just completely flabbergasted.

AishaX
07-11-2019, 05:22 PM
Bad day today. Felt tired and lethargic and not really up to do much. But I mustered the will to get on cam. Sometimes just being on cam can get my spirits up. You know. Then today, I get my stream set up with OBS and everything seems to be working fine then as soon as I get on CB ... everything just fails all at once. Plus of course this is the day purple and deep purple names come in for that first five minutes. I just give up for now. Maybe I need a more stable computer... one purpose made for camming to really have a smooth experience?

Good CPU good GPU for encoding, not cutting edge just good...but cheap... then to give the whole thing over just to caming. IDK.

DahliaSimone
07-12-2019, 09:16 AM
How tf is today even worse than yesterday? Its Friday, for fucks sake.....next to Sunday, Fridays almost always my guaranteed good day....doesnt help that SM is running like garbage for me. Laggy, black screen for some dudes, just running like garbage when my stream health appears normal....not a peep on indy either....ugh. Its gonna be a long, long day

Ginnyyy
07-12-2019, 09:32 AM
The look of disgust on a guys face when he finds out im trans in the middle of a show is gut wrenching. Be glad you dont hafta deal with that shit. Granted, he's dumb as shit, but still....I dropped my confidence somewhere in the scuffle and am gonna have to try hard to pick it back up. How can one job make you feel so sexy and beautiful and desirable one minute and the next make you feel like a monster?

You shouldn t even care about the look on his face. Is HIS FAULT he jumped to sneak peek in your private without bothering to check your profile for a few seconds. Even on phone, it only takes a little while to see the relevant info.


EDIT: I just read your last post where you were saying that guy was the one who took you private. Still, his fault for not checking your page.

Ginnyyy
07-12-2019, 09:49 AM
That reminds me of the times when the webmasters on Imlive did not know what else to do to bring members in and they were advertising me (and others) as trans girls. And people were coming in private and asking me to show them my cock. I really wished I had a cock back then, haha. I was thinking about how I can invent something and put a dildo in some skin colored panties to make it look like I have a cock hahaha .
So see, it happens the other way around too. People are never happy, we have to keep our confidence up no matter what and navigate through all the shit to get what we need.

There was an IFriends girl pretending to be trans there and I only heard of her years after cause and only because she was banking there. She was not showing nudity so I guess she was keeping some sort of strap-on toy in her panties, to have a visible bulge, at least.

AishaX
07-12-2019, 10:03 AM
The look of disgust on a guys face when he finds out im trans in the middle of a show is gut wrenching. Be glad you dont hafta deal with that shit. Granted, he's dumb as shit, but still....I dropped my confidence somewhere in the scuffle and am gonna have to try hard to pick it back up. How can one job make you feel so sexy and beautiful and desirable one minute and the next make you feel like a monster?

Yeah, I know that one. The guys who don't know when we're trans... then if post op the ones who know we're trans but ask to see it. Like ... IT is all they want to see. From what I can tell guys don't really look at the bio all that much. A good bio isn't a waste of time. It matters in between shows, but when on cam...what's seen on cam seems to be all that matters.

As for me, today hopefully my computer will behave itself.

XSelinex
07-12-2019, 11:26 AM
I never saw SM so dead. I just sitting without any members in my room or potentials.

BubblyBlonde
07-12-2019, 11:42 AM
I just don’t have the energy or patience to deal with this shit right now. Blaming it on 5 planets in Retrograde and it being eclipse season.

Going to Yoga. Taking it easy. This will pass!

Miss_ShaSha
07-12-2019, 11:42 AM
I never saw SM so dead. I just sitting without any members in my room or potentials.




Right. But to be fair, it's been like this for two weeks for me. I mean, some days I wanna pull my fuckin hair out after 2 hrs cause it's so damn slow and NO ONE is entering my room.

I sit and wait it out with a smile. It takes lips of steel tho. This ain't no easy job in the summer LEGIT!

DahliaSimone
07-12-2019, 01:31 PM
Not today, Satan. I noped tf out after I hadn't made a penny by my lunch break. All in all, I haven't had the worst week, but goddamn today was awwwwwful. Gonna kill it tomorrow tho. I hope lol. Anyway...fuck it. Weed n YouTube here i come.

Miss_ShaSha
07-12-2019, 01:41 PM
I'm sorry doll. Hey, roll a fat one and puff puff pass girl. I'm dying over here. It's like pulling teeth. I'm making goal, but fuck I feel like a goddamn desperate ho screaming for exclusive. Doesn't work. I gotta take another break LOL.

liz_
07-12-2019, 01:44 PM
SM is a ghost town really but I made 0.3$ today :)) 1 guy keep coming to my room 3 days in a row already. He watched the free teasing video I posted there and tip me 1 gold :)).

I made 12$ slit cam though. Now I take a nap till night shift central time.

Girly_Girl
07-12-2019, 07:01 PM
After seeing how dead it was today, now I don't feel guilty for taking off and going to Six Flags with my daughter and getting to spend some time with her!!!

izshadow
07-12-2019, 07:53 PM
Glad to see I didnt miss much. I dont feel good at all but come tomorrow, I have to be back at it. Hopefully I can get some good sleep. I have to be out in the heat three days a week and I'm noticing I'm having issues getting on cam those days. I'm just so icky.

BubblyBlonde
07-12-2019, 10:06 PM
I had to log off early today, and just before I did I got a Skype customer. I was like “I gotta go!” Sucked! But it just proved LOA works. I gave up and had zero resistance. Wish I had that all the time!

izshadow
07-13-2019, 12:44 PM
Skype is pissing me off today. Guys cant find me and I cant find them and one guy eventually did get a message through to me on Skype then it kicked him off and SM is a freaking ghost town still.

SuperPookie
07-13-2019, 03:19 PM
I'm getting scared as I've made 52 yesterday,38 today and these are full days across multiple sites. I finally get a show on SM & the site boots him before he gets charged

Miss_ShaSha
07-13-2019, 03:42 PM
^^Legit: it took sooooo many hrs to reach my goal this week. I'm currently at 57 h 9 m. I've never cammed this much just to reach a goal. I think that's what it's gonna take to swim this summer.

Thank GAWD I make self care my bitch. I mean: eating clean, hydrating optimally, getting 8 hrs rest, and meditating. If I wasn't doing these things I woulda burnt out this week.

Hang in there. It's tough on SM, if that's where you're streaming, and I fear it won't get any easier.

I'm sending you real good vibes, doll. Sticking through it thus far is admirable. Way to go.

pippapippa
07-13-2019, 07:33 PM
Tonight is completely dead for me. I made three times as much in 2/3 of the time yesterday.

Marina Starr
07-14-2019, 09:07 AM
57 hours in a week? That's hardcore :)


^^Legit: it took sooooo many hrs to reach my goal this week. I'm currently at 57 h 9 m. I've never cammed this much just to reach a goal. I think that's what it's gonna take to swim this summer.

Thank GAWD I make self care my bitch. I mean: eating clean, hydrating optimally, getting 8 hrs rest, and meditating. If I wasn't doing these things I woulda burnt out this week.

Hang in there. It's tough on SM, if that's where you're streaming, and I fear it won't get any easier.

I'm sending you real good vibes, doll. Sticking through it thus far is admirable. Way to go.

Miss_ShaSha
07-14-2019, 01:21 PM
^^Girl, I surprised myself. I kept getting good sleep and a positive frame of mind made it bearable.

THANKS!!!

Girly_Girl
07-14-2019, 03:38 PM
I don't know wtf is wrong with me today but I am just so freaking emotional today. I just started crying on cam and had to log off. I have been a cam girl for about 5 years and I feel like I should be further than where I am or making more money. I barely get by and I am so damn sick of it. I've tried raising my rates and they bitch about it. Last summer was not this slow for me. I can look back in my note books and I was making anywhere from $2600 to $3000 with less hours AND only working Monday thru Friday. I HATE working weekends. FUCKING hate it! I feel like I am working my life away....for what??? I get up at 5:30 to 6 every morning, get on cam and work till 1 pm, take a shower and nap and then back on cam till 6 pm Mondays and Fridays. I try to take off at 1pm on my other days but if I didnt make my low goal I have to work later in the afternoon or that night to atleast make low goal.

I was gone for 4 months and was hoping that I was done for good with camming but had to come back to it May 1st. I am still working on a way out but I have no idea how long my exit plan will take. I have 2 laptops, one I use strictly for streamate and then I have another one for my other cams that I split cam with. On the laptop that I am split camming with, I don't have very-soft installed anymore but I didnt before I took a break either. But for the last few months I keep getting members on chaturbate tell me that my cam is blurry. I'm wondering if that could be part of the reason my income is lower? Its weird tho cause I can check my feed on my other sites at the exact same time my room is blurry on cb and the other sites look fine?? So I cant figure out if its cb or if its my laptop? My laptop is a gaming pc with an I7 and fast internet too. I've asked several times in the cb thread if anyone elses feed is blurry but I havent gotten an answer, so idk

I just know something has to change cause I can't keep going like this again, I feel like I am heading for burn out again if something doesnt change ;(

Bananabunny
07-14-2019, 04:18 PM
I'm going through a break up right now and I don't feel like camming at all but I gotta pay bills. Took off 4 days but it didn't really help. Cried during a private fingering show today but I hid my face all show long. I can't bear to fake smile during this time. It isn't camming that sucks, it's my private life. I'm an emotional mess right now. This was my first relationship after all and we almost had our first year of relationship. I wanted to go on more summer dates. Eat more yummy food together and laugh a lot, sitting by the lake and forget about my shitty cam customers who are cheap. Now this all is being shattered. And I'm back to being isolated and alone. I can't wait to go to school in february finally. I need distractiooooooooooon so baaaaaad.

Miss_ShaSha
07-14-2019, 04:25 PM
I don't know wtf is wrong with me today but I am just so freaking emotional today. I just started crying on cam and had to log off. I have been a cam girl for about 5 years and I feel like I should be further than where I am or making more money. I barely get by and I am so damn sick of it. I've tried raising my rates and they bitch about it. Last summer was not this slow for me. I can look back in my note books and I was making anywhere from $2600 to $3000 with less hours AND only working Monday thru Friday. I HATE working weekends. FUCKING hate it! I feel like I am working my life away....for what??? I get up at 5:30 to 6 every morning, get on cam and work till 1 pm, take a shower and nap and then back on cam till 6 pm Mondays and Fridays. I try to take off at 1pm on my other days but if I didnt make my low goal I have to work later in the afternoon or that night to atleast make low goal.

I was gone for 4 months and was hoping that I was done for good with camming but had to come back to it May 1st. I am still working on a way out but I have no idea how long my exit plan will take. I have 2 laptops, one I use strictly for streamate and then I have another one for my other cams that I split cam with. On the laptop that I am split camming with, I don't have very-soft installed anymore but I didnt before I took a break either. But for the last few months I keep getting members on chaturbate tell me that my cam is blurry. I'm wondering if that could be part of the reason my income is lower? Its weird tho cause I can check my feed on my other sites at the exact same time my room is blurry on cb and the other sites look fine?? So I cant figure out if its cb or if its my laptop? My laptop is a gaming pc with an I7 and fast internet too. I've asked several times in the cb thread if anyone elses feed is blurry but I havent gotten an answer, so idk

I just know something has to change cause I can't keep going like this again, I feel like I am heading for burn out again if something doesnt change ;(



Not having the answers is so frustrating. I'm so sorry to hear this. When a slump happens we get so upset. The fact that your cam is blurry and no one can confirm similar experience has probably got you feeling alone like an island. This is a wretched feeling especially since your livelihood is on the line. Can you speak to tech support for your ISP? Perhaps it's a small fix.

I'm not sure what else to suggest. This has got to be the most helpless feeling ever. I'm sorry.

Girly_Girl
07-14-2019, 07:15 PM
Not having the answers is so frustrating. I'm so sorry to hear this. When a slump happens we get so upset. The fact that your cam is blurry and no one can confirm similar experience has probably got you feeling alone like an island. This is a wretched feeling especially since your livelihood is on the line. Can you speak to tech support for your ISP? Perhaps it's a small fix.

I'm not sure what else to suggest. This has got to be the most helpless feeling ever. I'm sorry.

thank u, and it is a very helpless feeling especially knowing its hurting my income

izshadow
07-14-2019, 08:21 PM
Had to take tonight off of cams because I almost passed out today from doing some hard labor out in the heat. Plus we had to put a horse down at the farm and it flooded back memories of when I had to unexpectedly put my heart horse down in 2017.

I did turn my PSO lines on though and I get this message.... No cam now ?

From the guy that I made almost $400 on this week and I was excited to potentially have as a regular but to me he came across very snippy and demanding that I wasnt on tonight. Sorry but we have lives to. I sent him a chat back that I would be on cams tomorrow day/night but not tonight, just my phone lines. I got no response.

I just hope he isnt one of those demanding "soft findom" guys that actually is demanding cause they want you all to themselves. I am starting to think his fetish is a cover for actually wanting to be a secretive dom and having control of a women cause of the money they flash around. Sorry dude. Not going to fly with me. My time is my time. We are never going to meet, I'm never going to be your friend unless you are paying me on my cam/phone line and you will have my time when I say I am available.

I see girls on here sometimes talk about guys like this and I guess I've been lucky I never actually met one till now. Sigh.

KatM
07-15-2019, 09:17 AM
WoW, SM is a ghost town lately, i came over here cause people didn't comment about it on SM vent thread and i am getting sick to be the one complaining about that site but i see i am not alone, u guys find SM dead as well so it's not just me thank God, i got scared last nite for how bad and dead it was.
I don't know what is worse, a contest or this deadness?!?
This summer is going to be tough!

anonamiss
07-15-2019, 01:24 PM
Had to take tonight off of cams because I almost passed out today from doing some hard labor out in the heat. Plus we had to put a horse down at the farm and it flooded back memories of when I had to unexpectedly put my heart horse down in 2017.

I did turn my PSO lines on though and I get this message.... No cam now ?

From the guy that I made almost $400 on this week and I was excited to potentially have as a regular but to me he came across very snippy and demanding that I wasnt on tonight. Sorry but we have lives to. I sent him a chat back that I would be on cams tomorrow day/night but not tonight, just my phone lines. I got no response.

I just hope he isnt one of those demanding "soft findom" guys that actually is demanding cause they want you all to themselves. I am starting to think his fetish is a cover for actually wanting to be a secretive dom and having control of a women cause of the money they flash around. Sorry dude. Not going to fly with me. My time is my time. We are never going to meet, I'm never going to be your friend unless you are paying me on my cam/phone line and you will have my time when I say I am available.

I see girls on here sometimes talk about guys like this and I guess I've been lucky I never actually met one till now. Sigh.

it sucks to have to get rid of guys who spend good money on you, but it's worth it for your sanity if they're being demanding assholes. I've had to do it for regs who have spent five figures on me when they start getting possessive. They're always surprised to get blocked because they think they have a hold on you if they've spent a lot of money. But IDGAF; there are always new guys to turn into big spenders. If a guy starts acting entitled to my time or gets weird/jealous if I'm doing a show with someone else, he gets one warning (most of the time) then he gets the boot. Though there are exceptions with no warnings, haha. I once had a guy threaten to dox me because I was in an hour long show with someone else; he entered into the private show and (invisibly) demanded I exit for him so we could do our usual 30 min block session, and I (politely) refused and said he could come back later if he'd like. To my surprise he said something like "do it or i'm going to out you and ruin your career you stupid whore." LOL bitch please. Instablock right there. And I did it all silently with a flirty smile - the other guy in the private had no idea that happened, lol.

SapphireXO
07-16-2019, 01:23 PM
I don't know wtf is wrong with me today but I am just so freaking emotional today. I just started crying on cam and had to log off. I have been a cam girl for about 5 years and I feel like I should be further than where I am or making more money. I barely get by and I am so damn sick of it. I've tried raising my rates and they bitch about it. Last summer was not this slow for me. I can look back in my note books and I was making anywhere from $2600 to $3000 with less hours AND only working Monday thru Friday. I HATE working weekends. FUCKING hate it! I feel like I am working my life away....for what??? I get up at 5:30 to 6 every morning, get on cam and work till 1 pm, take a shower and nap and then back on cam till 6 pm Mondays and Fridays. I try to take off at 1pm on my other days but if I didnt make my low goal I have to work later in the afternoon or that night to atleast make low goal.

I was gone for 4 months and was hoping that I was done for good with camming but had to come back to it May 1st. I am still working on a way out but I have no idea how long my exit plan will take. I have 2 laptops, one I use strictly for streamate and then I have another one for my other cams that I split cam with. On the laptop that I am split camming with, I don't have very-soft installed anymore but I didnt before I took a break either. But for the last few months I keep getting members on chaturbate tell me that my cam is blurry. I'm wondering if that could be part of the reason my income is lower? Its weird tho cause I can check my feed on my other sites at the exact same time my room is blurry on cb and the other sites look fine?? So I cant figure out if its cb or if its my laptop? My laptop is a gaming pc with an I7 and fast internet too. I've asked several times in the cb thread if anyone elses feed is blurry but I havent gotten an answer, so idk

I just know something has to change cause I can't keep going like this again, I feel like I am heading for burn out again if something doesnt change ;(

I can totally relate. I've only been working about 50% of the month now for almost 6 months. I used to be such a die hard with a strict schedule but now I just can't be fake horny or personable all the time. It's exhausting. Try updating your resume and set up interviews at several temp agencies in your area. You can always work part time some where to update your work history and still cam 4 hours or so a few days a week to stay relevant.

Miss_ShaSha
07-16-2019, 02:16 PM
I will say it: camming sucks this moment and has for 4 hrs and 29 min. I'm at a sad 32% of high goal. DUDE...hardly anyone is saying hi, and although I need to feel grateful a handful of guys have stated they faved me, I can't help but feel like WTF is going on?

It's slower than a ghost on a shot of thorazine and it's not gotten better since I meditated. SHIT...this just might be one of those days where I got my fishing pole in the water for 6 hrs before getting a goddamn bite.

THROW ME A BONE SM!!! A girl has a goal to reach. Hahahaaaaa DAMN. I know the LOA don't work this way, but FUCK it SUCKS right now.

To be continued...

Will STFO, but DAYUM!!!

anonymous camgirl
07-16-2019, 03:11 PM
I actually haven't had a bad day in over 2 weeks.. maintained a good attitude. today takes the cake.. I couldn't really stay in character.. went back in my calendar and saw the 16th is typically a bad earnings day for me.. uggh

NitaBaby
07-16-2019, 03:40 PM
I actually haven't had a bad day in over 2 weeks.. maintained a good attitude. today takes the cake.. I couldn't really stay in character.. went back in my calendar and saw the 16th is typically a bad earnings day for me.. uggh

Interesting...:thinking:

anonymous camgirl
07-16-2019, 04:13 PM
I went back an entire year.. how is the 16th for you... been on cam for 17 yrs but never tracked certain days.. but it's the day after a bi weekly pay period.


Interesting...:thinking:

NitaBaby
07-16-2019, 04:26 PM
I went back an entire year.. how is the 16th for you... been on cam for 17 yrs but never tracked certain days.. but it's the day after a bi weekly pay period.


Just because you asked, I checked my stats for the last year as well. I have a reported "$0.00" for the 16th of every month in the last 12 months EXPECT for November (where I earned 30 dollars). I don't even know what to say about that. Some of those days fell on my best cam days, like a Sunday. And still, zero bucks.

anonymous camgirl
07-16-2019, 04:33 PM
Ok, so we are all not working on the 16th next month.... AGREED!!..lmao


Just because you asked, I checked my stats for the last year as well. I have a reported "$0.00" for the 16th of every month in the last 12 months EXPECT for November (where I earned 30 dollars). I don't even know what to say about that. Some of those days fell on my best cam days, like a Sunday. And still, zero bucks.

anonymous camgirl
07-16-2019, 04:34 PM
The 17th I see is not a bad day just sayin' .. they need time to deposit their paycheck I guess..

NitaBaby
07-16-2019, 05:04 PM
Ok, so we are all not working on the 16th next month.... AGREED!!..lmao


HERE, HERE! :drink: lmaoo

LaraLee
07-17-2019, 05:12 AM
I don't know wtf is wrong with me today but I am just so freaking emotional today. I just started crying on cam and had to log off. I have been a cam girl for about 5 years and I feel like I should be further than where I am or making more money. I barely get by and I am so damn sick of it. I've tried raising my rates and they bitch about it. Last summer was not this slow for me. I can look back in my note books and I was making anywhere from $2600 to $3000 with less hours AND only working Monday thru Friday. I HATE working weekends. FUCKING hate it! I feel like I am working my life away....for what??? I get up at 5:30 to 6 every morning, get on cam and work till 1 pm, take a shower and nap and then back on cam till 6 pm Mondays and Fridays. I try to take off at 1pm on my other days but if I didnt make my low goal I have to work later in the afternoon or that night to atleast make low goal.

I was gone for 4 months and was hoping that I was done for good with camming but had to come back to it May 1st. I am still working on a way out but I have no idea how long my exit plan will take. I have 2 laptops, one I use strictly for streamate and then I have another one for my other cams that I split cam with. On the laptop that I am split camming with, I don't have very-soft installed anymore but I didnt before I took a break either. But for the last few months I keep getting members on chaturbate tell me that my cam is blurry. I'm wondering if that could be part of the reason my income is lower? Its weird tho cause I can check my feed on my other sites at the exact same time my room is blurry on cb and the other sites look fine?? So I cant figure out if its cb or if its my laptop? My laptop is a gaming pc with an I7 and fast internet too. I've asked several times in the cb thread if anyone elses feed is blurry but I havent gotten an answer, so idk

I just know something has to change cause I can't keep going like this again, I feel like I am heading for burn out again if something doesnt change ;(

Sorry to hear about your struggles girl, you are not alone. Summer is always a slow time and when they throw in a contest every other week it doesn't help. I've been camming 2.5 year and never made allot of money, but its enough to get by. Camming is changing, its all about selling videos now. Its hard to compete with that. I'm a cam girl not a porn star, so I won't be doing videos. My only advice would be to work your ass off during the winter months so you can be better prepared for the summer slow down. Everyone should have a end game in the back of their minds, I know I do.

KatM
07-17-2019, 06:04 AM
I'm a cam girl not a porn star, so I won't be doing videos.
This exactly, dont want my booty to be plastered all over the internet, i am a cam girl, this means LIVE on cam and that's it.
The videos madness ruined everything, is hard to sell live shows when cam models offer soo much content for cheap or even free.
Gold shows & videos affected this business soo much, in a bad way :(

Girly_Girl
07-17-2019, 06:24 AM
Sorry to hear about your struggles girl, you are not alone. Summer is always a slow time and when they throw in a contest every other week it doesn't help. I've been camming 2.5 year and never made allot of money, but its enough to get by. Camming is changing, its all about selling videos now. Its hard to compete with that. I'm a cam girl not a porn star, so I won't be doing videos. My only advice would be to work your ass off during the winter months so you can be better prepared for the summer slow down. Everyone should have a end game in the back of their minds, I know I do.

thank u! What I dont understand tho is last summer wasn't this slow for me, I split cam and I was making $2600 to $3000 just working 6 ish hours a day except Monday and Fridays I put in longer hours. Which I know isn't really all that much compared to what other girls make BUT I was working less hours to make that amount of money compared to the hours I had to work in the past to make that amount. When I first started camming I was working 6 days a week and 12 hour days just to make that kind of money!

I am really dreading the contest coming up next week too, in the 5 years I have been on sm I have never seen them do this kind of contest and every top model will be on......guess I will be on pg 50 and working 6 days and 16 hours that week :O:banghead:

I wished I had worked and saved money for the summer but I quit camming from Jan-April cause I thought I had found a way out but didn't happen and I ended up having to come back in May. I really wished I wouldnt have took 4 months off cause now I am having to work all kinds of crazy hours just to make my goal....fucking sucks.

DahliaSimone
07-17-2019, 06:33 AM
thank u! What I dont understand tho is last summer wasn't this slow for me, I split cam and I was making $2600 to $3000 just working 6 ish hours a day except Monday and Fridays I put in longer hours. Which I know isn't really all that much compared to what other girls make BUT I was working less hours to make that amount of money compared to the hours I had to work in the past to make that amount. When I first started camming I was working 6 days a week and 12 hour days just to make that kind of money!

I am really dreading the contest coming up next week too, in the 5 years I have been on sm I have never seen them do this kind of contest and every top model will be on......guess I will be on pg 50 and working 6 days and 16 hours that week :O:banghead:

I wished I had worked and saved money for the summer but I quit camming from Jan-April cause I thought I had found a way out but didn't happen and I ended up having to come back in May. I really wished I wouldnt have took 4 months off cause now I am having to work all kinds of crazy hours just to make my goal....fucking sucks.

Its not a contest next week, its a bonus week. Still gonna be a TON of girls on tho. I wish theyd do more of them, at least balance the bonus weeks with the stupid contests.

PixiieGirl
07-17-2019, 06:34 AM
Tbh I sell videos and do cam and I make far more camming, just my experience tho

euro_princess
07-17-2019, 08:14 AM
I think what matter is readjusting to this industry. Playing it old school won't get you the same money as before. That's how every industry works. Things go in a certain direction and if you want to stay in business, you have to follow it, otherwise, people forget about you, cause you're not relevant for this time anymore.

Do I like making content? Fuck no. Do I still film amateur clips of my feet and tits? Yes, cause it keeps me stay in business and I make money out of it.
Do I like posting useless shit on Twitter? Again, fuck no, I hate it to the moon and back. But I get people on my affiliate links, so it all pays in the end.

Being a cam girl means your body will be forever on the internet, regardless if you do clips or not. You are already there, your intimicy it's dead and gone. You can't say you don't want your body all over google. It's probably there and on a shit ton of torrents, being downloaded for free by people. Can you do something about it? Not much. You can't keep guys from screen recording your show, from posting you all over the internet for extra clicks (so extra money for them). You just can't. So fuck with it. Watermark everything and use it in your favor.


All I'm saying is adapt. We're talking about your income and your happiness in here.

Chica
07-17-2019, 04:32 PM
How's the traffic for you ladies on SM today? for me its almost non existent...

Miss_ShaSha
07-17-2019, 04:53 PM
^^I'm exclusive with SM and it's been SLOW. Many ins and outs and sometimes going 5 min without a soul in my room, but I STFO and when I take a quick break I GTFO and I'm making sales.

It's tough no doubt, and more hrs means more exposure. BUT, it's hard to deny it's very slow. I just keep a positive attitude and WAIT. Girl, it's a waiting game for real.

STFO and they will come. It's hard as fuck, and I've had to take plenty of 10 minute breaks. Stay your course. It's hard but doable. Hang tight. Sending you all kinds of good vibes.

Chica
07-17-2019, 05:00 PM
^^ Thank you, girl!! lots of good vibes for you too!! I am staying my course.

magicgembliss
07-18-2019, 06:11 AM
thank u! What I dont understand tho is last summer wasn't this slow for me, I split cam and I was making $2600 to $3000 just working 6 ish hours a day except Monday and Fridays I put in longer hours.

wait, a week or a month? That's way over $100K..not bad...is that what everyone else is making?