View Full Version : The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread
jennalohan
08-19-2019, 08:16 AM
is it dead for anyone else today? It was busy yesterday even with sm and the contest going on, now today is busy as fuck ;(
dead doesn't even begin to describe how BAD it is today. I'm not even making minimum wage hourly.
I'm lucky if 2 people an hour talk to me. i have walls of in and outs. August is usually pretty crappy but the1st part of august was killer for me. I was able to pay off all my credit cards, invest in a business I'm working on and buy all the expensive low carb goodies one can dream of. but holy smokes, crazy how up and down webcam is. the only thing keeping me from losing my mind is how awesome the beginning of the month was. I'm ready to lose my shit. Hang on, it gets better (least i hope. lol)
ravenskyy
08-19-2019, 10:31 AM
The time wasters are out and about today. I've been online for 3 hours and I'm ready for food and a nap. I've done some shows, but my hourly average is less than I need it to be if I'm going to make my daily goal. Also, I've been telling guys to rate me and they don't. It really isn't that difficult, if you liked your damn show, then give a bitch 5 stars!
Girly_Girl
08-19-2019, 10:53 AM
The time wasters are out and about today. I've been online for 3 hours and I'm ready for food and a nap. I've done some shows, but my hourly average is less than I need it to be if I'm going to make my daily goal. Also, I've been telling guys to rate me and they don't. It really isn't that difficult, if you liked your damn show, then give a bitch 5 stars!
When mine defaulted to 4 stars from being gone so long, I offered a free bj video if they rated me a 5 and also had it in my room topic...seemed to help
euro_princess
08-19-2019, 11:00 AM
I want to complain about something that's been bugging me. So I feel like the negativity goes here right? Well has anyone ever gotten a member to spend above a 3 status? I have soooo many that I think are close to 4 and then they just stop spending/popping in and out, saying hi or not or just hanging out and not tipping/taking for shows. I want my first 4 :( what do you do to spice it up so they keep coming back?
From the back of my mind, 4 I think is over 2.5K, while 5 is over 5-6K.
3 is over $500.
I have a few of 5s and those been with me for years.
Don't invest too much in "client status". Some new girls bank without having regulars as 5s.
kendallkushxo
08-19-2019, 11:34 AM
Are you guys talking about the numbers next to their usernames? On streamate.
I had like maybe 1 or 2 4s
I kinda miss one of them, cuz we'd do actual fun shows, they were into music and we'd jam out together and they would teach me songs on guitar.
kamiliam
08-19-2019, 11:45 AM
From the back of my mind, 4 I think is over 2.5K, while 5 is over 5-6K.
3 is over $500.
I have a few of 5s and those been with me for years.
Don't invest too much in "client status". Some new girls bank without having regulars as 5s.
I think 5s are more like 10k, it takes a long time for a 4 to turn into a 5, way longer then any others. All my 5s have been with me for years
ravenskyy
08-19-2019, 12:18 PM
Came back after taking lunch. It's dead asf!
euro_princess
08-19-2019, 01:34 PM
I think 5s are more like 10k, it takes a long time for a 4 to turn into a 5, way longer then any others. All my 5s have been with me for years
Hmmm. You might be right. I went and checked one of my 5s and he's at 14K (he was the easiest to add up, likes long shows). Can't remember when he switched to 5, but he was at 4 for some while.
LoraDoll
08-19-2019, 01:55 PM
This ll be the most hateful period i think. These losers online just doesnt interact, no matter what. EVERYBODY sit in my room quietly or only in and outs, for hours, hard to reach minimum goal. it s just fucking dead day after day after day.
What is wrong with these losers?
izshadow
08-19-2019, 03:21 PM
Block finger is working hard on CMD today. I freaking HATE when someone is like we can do cam or texting, which do you enjoy?
Makes my eye twitch. I dont care! Tell me what the fuck you want!
Then another wanting to play games on cam and when I asked him what kind of games, it started turning in to a novel of what he wants. Okay so it sounds like something I can do and would drag on for some money but then he is like "Are you following me?"... instant block. I'm not going to listen to you explain everything to me and set a scene for free. You can screw off.
izshadow
08-19-2019, 03:26 PM
Oh and to add to that, another guy on there wanted to have a 3 way with me and another girl with all these requests and when I finally agree, he says for 5 mins. GTFO!!!!!
izshadow
08-19-2019, 04:35 PM
I'm going to just vent in here today apparently. When I was a "new model" on CMD, I was getting really nice shows left and right. Now today, once the status went away, its been all trash lately. I just got another guy from on there wanting to give me $100 to paint my nails black, wear all black and my makeup all super dark goth and then ruin it by the end of the show and have it running down my face. Dude, first of all its 2019 and most all makeup is waterproof, second, even for that type of money, I'm not chancing getting my clothes and/or comforter destroyed, even if I lay a towel down. Then he is like I once sent a girl an amazon order filled with like dollar store makeup cause that stuff runs. Well good for you and her, I'm not her.
*bangs my head on the wall*
LaraLee
08-19-2019, 05:45 PM
dead doesn't even begin to describe how BAD it is today. I'm not even making minimum wage hourly.
I'm lucky if 2 people an hour talk to me. i have walls of in and outs. August is usually pretty crappy but the1st part of august was killer for me. I was able to pay off all my credit cards, invest in a business I'm working on and buy all the expensive low carb goodies one can dream of. but holy smokes, crazy how up and down webcam is. the only thing keeping me from losing my mind is how awesome the beginning of the month was. I'm ready to lose my shit. Hang on, it gets better (least i hope. lol)
It will pick up again in a few weeks. You are smart for paying off your bills when the money is good.
BubblyBlonde
08-19-2019, 07:37 PM
Block finger is working hard on CMD today. I freaking HATE when someone is like we can do cam or texting, which do you enjoy?
Makes my eye twitch. I dont care! Tell me what the fuck you want!
Then another wanting to play games on cam and when I asked him what kind of games, it started turning in to a novel of what he wants. Okay so it sounds like something I can do and would drag on for some money but then he is like "Are you following me?"... instant block. I'm not going to listen to you explain everything to me and set a scene for free. You can screw off.
CMD is full of time wasters. And you’ll even see a once paying customer become a scammer so make sure you check the CCL each tome. A serious customer will add me and it goes like this:
Me: Please let me know what kind of show you are interested in.
customer: I want JOI.
Me: Great! How much time do you
want?
Customer: I want 10 minutes.
Then I tell him the price which should not be a surprise it’s on my profile and send a link back to CMD for payment.
If they start asking too many questions, get too elaborate with role play scenarios, take too long to respond. Usually they are not serious.
My customer who apparently died a few months ago just recently came back to life. But he’s already banned for chargebacks.
ravenskyy
08-19-2019, 09:28 PM
So.....I did some math. I've been keeping track of my income, hourly average and hours worked on SM. And it looks like I'm going to be working 12 hour days, just to meet my goals. Fuck. Me.
I do NOT cam just so that I can work 12 hour freaking days. :banghead:
BubblyBlonde
08-19-2019, 10:05 PM
So.....I did some math. I've been keeping track of my income, hourly average and hours worked on SM. And it looks like I'm going to be working 12 hour days, just to meet my goals. Fuck. Me.
I do NOT cam just so that I can work 12 hour freaking days. :banghead:
Yesterday it took me 6 hours to make what I used to make in 2 hours on a Sunday. Definitely have to STFO for a long time to make it work.
jennalohan
08-20-2019, 01:33 AM
It will pick up again in a few weeks. You are smart for paying off your bills when the money is good.
Thank you doll i really appreciate that. i hurry up and jumped on the 1 good weeks earnings this month because i knew it was like a rare unicorn. We all know august sucks major. if i'm not mistaken quite a few ladies had a banging 1st part of August. And yes, it's just a matter of time before it rains money again. :grouphug:
freya_jade_
08-20-2019, 03:53 AM
What the fuck was up with tonight? Streamate was alllll freeloaders. Alll beggars. Alll lurkers. Alll guys who clicked the porn site ads and really thought there were hot girls in their area wanting to fuck TONIGHT. Like really, who is THAT fucking stupid to really think there are websites full of beautiful girls just waiting around for a guy to be in their area so she can go fuck him, for free, just because he clicked an ad on a porn site?
So really I am in a bad fucking mood right now and angry at these dumb as shit men. I didn't come anywhere close to meeting my goals, and I reeeallly needed to. I'm so fuckin angry at how entitled these guys were tonight. I'm just tired.
Kileycorrupt
08-20-2019, 06:29 AM
Decided to get online 4 hours early to try and make the 25 hours for bonus and I’m already pissed.. lots of traffic but no one wants to say hi or they all ask to meet up. STFO I keep telling myself
Marina Starr
08-20-2019, 07:04 AM
LOOOOOL, They honestly, truly believe that. These are the same losers that think they got pussy lining out the door for them from New York to New Mexico, Mississippi to Tennessee, Missouri to Wisconsin, Florida to Indiana, all over the states, nationwide, worldwide.
What the fuck was up with tonight? Streamate was alllll freeloaders. Alll beggars. Alll lurkers. Alll guys who clicked the porn site ads and really thought there were hot girls in their area wanting to fuck TONIGHT. Like really, who is THAT fucking stupid to really think there are websites full of beautiful girls just waiting around for a guy to be in their area so she can go fuck him, for free, just because he clicked an ad on a porn site?
So really I am in a bad fucking mood right now and angry at these dumb as shit men. I didn't come anywhere close to meeting my goals, and I reeeallly needed to. I'm so fuckin angry at how entitled these guys were tonight. I'm just tired.
DahliaSimone
08-20-2019, 07:22 AM
2 in and outs in half an hour....does not bode well
melanielive
08-20-2019, 10:40 AM
Yesterday and today are SUCKING for me....
I do 8 - 10 hrs x day ( no streamate nor any free chat site, I work all indy sites) but I have a toddler to watch and it s hard!
I m lucky hubby works from home and he can watch him for me but when he gets older and understands things it s gonna be very hard for me to do cam and phone.. I ll have to do it when he s at school only ughhhh
NitaBaby
08-20-2019, 10:43 AM
Can't really tell what the cause of this shit is tbh. Is it because it's august? Is it because it's the END of august and school has started? Is it because I never bank during the morning anyway? Did I become a part of the ugly community in the last 24 hours? Who tf knows dude.
DahliaSimone
08-20-2019, 10:52 AM
Welcome to the Ugly Community. Here's your button, snacks are on that table over there, feel free to eat as many as you want since you dont need to watch your figure anymore. Have fun and dont look anybody in the eyes. Stay ugly, my friend.......jk. Im super bored and literally have nothing to fuckin do. This is, no joke, the deadest day Ive ever had in 3 years on SM.
DahliaSimone
08-20-2019, 10:52 AM
I'm 99% sure Im actually dead and nobody will tell me.
NitaBaby
08-20-2019, 11:04 AM
lmao. At least you spoke to me as soon as I came to the door. These hoes act like saying "hi" is equivalent to adding me to their will. I just want your last paycheck, bruh. That's it.
NitaBaby
08-20-2019, 11:09 AM
Think I'm just going to leave my cam running even though it's dead asf. Just to rack up those minutes and get that bonus this week. Might backfire and push me further down the page due to the paid minutes/stream minutes ratio gap getting too wide. Might not give af.
MissAliss515xx
08-20-2019, 11:45 AM
Well, I will GTFO just for 2 hours and exposure, than nothing more. I've hit my monthly goal but I feel I need to be on at least 5x a week to have exposure and SM IS FREAKING DEAD. Thanks for a whale on CB I made low goal but jesus it's dead dead.
Miss_ShaSha
08-20-2019, 11:53 AM
I'm 99% sure Im actually dead and nobody will tell me.
I speak fluent GHOST. Nah, girl, you still got a pulse...but FUCK, these guys act like English is foreign when they clearly American.
Miss_ShaSha
08-20-2019, 11:54 AM
Welcome to the Ugly Community. Here's your button, snacks are on that table over there, feel free to eat as many as you want since you dont need to watch your figure anymore. Have fun and dont look anybody in the eyes. Stay ugly, my friend.......jk. Im super bored and literally have nothing to fuckin do. This is, no joke, the deadest day Ive ever had in 3 years on SM.
LMAO, if you blogged your daily cam experiences, you'd make bank! Girl...youre funny!
MilfSM
08-20-2019, 01:35 PM
Camming rocks is so dead lol... Not looking forward to tonight. So so bad.
ravenskyy
08-20-2019, 02:29 PM
I wanna scream! Today has been painfully slow, on top of some other bs that I dealt with this morning. I was hoping that today would be good, in spite of my shitty ass morning. I guess that was too damn much to ask for...
DahliaSimone
08-20-2019, 03:20 PM
Im not even halfway to low goal. Im not even halfway to halfway to low goal. Im also now so pissy i could rip a dudes heart out and eat it in front of him. So....maybe fuck this day?
izshadow
08-20-2019, 05:57 PM
I almost lost it on a dude on Skype asking me for a voice chat session (no cam) and wanted me to ask him sexually awkward questions. Dude, I have a 10 min minimum and you have given me nothing, even when I ask for a couple examples. I'm not physic! Fuck! And I'm not a cop either so a minimum of back to back questions will be brutal cause I already know you are going to give me one word answers which means I have to think up like 100 questions.
Sigh. I dont even have rent. I just am trying to hard to remember why I'm doing this. I have to do this. I cant work outside the home and no other job can pay me what I could potentially be making doing cams and phones. I know it will be okay in the end but moments like this just make me homicidal. I'm just so over the stupidity!
BubblyBlonde
08-20-2019, 06:15 PM
I almost lost it on a dude on Skype asking me for a voice chat session (no cam) and wanted me to ask him sexually awkward questions. Dude, I have a 10 min minimum and you have given me nothing, even when I ask for a couple examples. I'm not physic! Fuck! And I'm not a cop either so a minimum of back to back questions will be brutal cause I already know you are going to give me one word answers which means I have to think up like 100 questions.
Sigh. I dont even have rent. I just am trying to hard to remember why I'm doing this. I have to do this. I cant work outside the home and no other job can pay me what I could potentially be making doing cams and phones. I know it will be okay in the end but moments like this just make me homicidal. I'm just so over the stupidity!
What would be a sexually awkward question? I would have made him pay then once the show started ask what he considers awkward. Also I just googled that and nothing came up. A pig problem is a lot of insecure guys come to us and either don’t know what they want or are afraid they are boring if they just want vanilla. My best customers know what they want and get straight to the point.
New guys seem to look at our Menu’s like it’s a restaurant and they’re like “I’ll try the Lobster” when they know they would rather enjoy the steak.
izshadow
08-20-2019, 06:34 PM
What would be a sexually awkward question? I would have made him pay then once the show started ask what he considers awkward. Also I just googled that and nothing came up. A pig problem is a lot of insecure guys come to us and either don’t know what they want or are afraid they are boring if they just want vanilla. My best customers know what they want and get straight to the point.
New guys seem to look at our Menu’s like it’s a restaurant and they’re like “I’ll try the Lobster” when they know they would rather enjoy the steak.
I straight up deny guys that dont know what they want. It usually ends with bad feedback for us from them cause we couldn't figure them out. I did ask him for a couple examples and he responded back with "Ask me anything you wanna know about, I will give you honest answers".
I ignored him. He didnt answer my question, I'm not playing that 100 question game. Ugh! I want to flip my desk.
NitaBaby
08-20-2019, 07:01 PM
I straight up deny guys that dont know what they want. It usually ends with bad feedback for us from them cause we couldn't figure them out. I did ask him for a couple examples and he responded back with "Ask me anything you wanna know about, I will give you honest answers".
I ignored him. He didnt answer my question, I'm not playing that 100 question game. Ugh! I want to flip my desk.
Same. I ignore any variation of the "tell me what I want" game. Even the guys that ask what I do in private......depends on what you want, asshole. Unless you're going to pay for everything that I mention, why are you asking empty questions? I sell wombats in private. What are we going to do next?
pippapippa
08-20-2019, 07:32 PM
I’ve been online 90 mins and I’ve made $23. I had one show in which I made all that money. I've literally gone one hour with no one speaking to me. I’m not working nights again this week. At least people talk during the day.
BubblyBlonde
08-20-2019, 07:50 PM
I have a regular who constantly changes his name to try and trick me, but I put in notes who he is. Today he came in as BrokeFreeloader and asked me to “show boobs”, then a shit ton of compliments. I told him compliments mean nothing to a cam model unless they come with Gold. He says, “I got nothing.” I feel like I should have blocked him, but I was trying to give him a chance to not be a dumb ass. Sometimes good customers turn into real pieces of shit!
NitaBaby
08-21-2019, 01:34 AM
At least people talk during the day.
What people?? :banghead: I'm starting to believe that the way you hustle during the day needs to be completely different from the way you do it at night. That's the only explanation I have for why I am received soooo much better when I work late. But let me get 8 hours of sleep, shower, turn on cam, and smile at these guys at 9am sharp....crickets.
ravenskyy
08-21-2019, 08:21 AM
Stop coming into my room and wasting my time. Tip or be banned. I'm about to start saying this to everyone. I'm so sick of people thinking that the whole $5, that they spent weeks ago, gives them the right to keep coming into my room for a free show and convo. Fuck off you cheap cunts!
LaraLee
08-21-2019, 08:33 AM
I have a regular who constantly changes his name to try and trick me, but I put in notes who he is. Today he came in as BrokeFreeloader and asked me to “show boobs”, then a shit ton of compliments. I told him compliments mean nothing to a cam model unless they come with Gold. He says, “I got nothing.” I feel like I should have blocked him, but I was trying to give him a chance to not be a dumb ass. Sometimes good customers turn into real pieces of shit!
I take notes on every guy that comes in my room. The 1st time they come in my room I write their name, the 2nd time I just put a #1 and so on. That way I can keep track of how many times they come in and if they never tip or do shows I can call them out on it. I'll be like "hey bigdick you have been coming in my room for 3 months with no shows/tip, why?" They will either leave or tip. It helps to weed out the freeloaders
Glamourmilf
08-21-2019, 08:33 AM
Can't really tell what the cause of this shit is tbh. Is it because it's august? Is it because it's the END of august and school has started? Is it because I never bank during the morning anyway? Did I become a part of the ugly community in the last 24 hours? Who tf knows dude.
Yeah, it's bad. Really really bad.
All those girls on here that said there's no such thing as summer slowdown?
And you know who you are.
Will you please come and help all of us that are struggling?
Because in 9 summers on cam, it's always slow for me.
Will you let know us know what we are all doing wrong?
Because, if there's some secret to making bank during the summer, I'd PAY You to know what it is.
But, you'll have to show me your paychecks.
Because I call bullshit.
Thank You ever so kindly.:flirt:
NitaBaby
08-21-2019, 08:53 AM
"Summer slow down doesn't exist"
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EricaErotica
08-21-2019, 10:07 AM
What we are experiencing now is NOT summer slowdown. I wish it was, but it's NOT. It is actually the growing fears of another economic recession. To put things in plain English, last Wednesday a very important and historic indicator of a pending recession materialized. The 10 Year Treasury Yield inverted and dipped below the 2 Year Treasury Yield. This move has preceded EVERY recession over the last 50 years. When this event happened last Wednesday, the Stock Market tanked by 800 points. Yesterday, the Stock Market lost 173 points.
So right now Americans (and people all over the world) are holding on to their cash VERY VERY tightly. They are scared of this pending recession. And it's coming. Now we ALL have the proof. I have spoken about this since September/October 2018. People doubted me last year when I said it was coming. I said you need to wait about a year or two before the economic calculations and formulas are there that point to it. And we ALL got what we needed last Wednesday. So it is here. It will not be officially announced for another 9 - 12 months. All I can say is start moving into additional income streams. Make sure you are ready for what is coming. Because this one will not be a good one. It will be pretty devastating.
Glamourmilf
08-21-2019, 10:24 AM
I had an intuitive counselor many years ago, tell me something, that to THIS day serves me well.
What was it that he said, you ask?
He told me, "When you say something, watch how other's jump in to try and prove You wrong."
BEST $100 I ever spent.
EricaErotica
08-21-2019, 10:29 AM
You are not wrong at all. There is indeed a Summer Slowdown. Most businesses experience it between May - August.
It is not exclusive to the adult industry.
What is going on this year is different.
It is not the traditional Summer Slowdown.
This is Summer Slowdown Because of Recession Fears Slowdown.
Panthera
08-21-2019, 10:43 AM
What we are experiencing now is NOT summer slowdown. I wish it was, but it's NOT. It is actually the growing fears of another economic recession. To put things in plain English, last Wednesday a very important and historic indicator of a pending recession materialized. The 10 Year Treasury Yield inverted and dipped below the 2 Year Treasury Yield. This move has preceded EVERY recession over the last 50 years. When this event happened last Wednesday, the Stock Market tanked by 800 points. Yesterday, the Stock Market lost 173 points.
So right now Americans (and people all over the world) are holding on to their cash VERY VERY tightly. They are scared of this pending recession. And it's coming. Now we ALL have the proof. I have spoken about this since September/October 2018. People doubted me last year when I said it was coming. I said you need to wait about a year or two before the economic calculations and formulas are there that point to it. And we ALL got what we needed last Wednesday. So it is here. It will not be officially announced for another 9 - 12 months. All I can say is start moving into additional income streams. Make sure you are ready for what is coming. Because this one will not be a good one. It will be pretty devastating.
I may be on a good vibe right now but I feel I should say this: during economic recessions, the sales of the luxury items increased. Every time! This is google-able (I invented that term, yes). Camgirl shows are luxury items. So we are safe... to a certain extent. I've been through the last recession and I swear it was not that bad for me. It was more that everyone was bitching about recession and we were all convinced it's gonna suck for us, so we all had that vibe, but if I check my stats in those times, it was really ok.
It has to do with the mindset too: see yourself as a luxury (sell yourself like the best medicine for taking a man's mind from recession lol), trust that it's gonna work for you AND think of a plan B at the same time. Oh and of course, one thing that all of us should be always doing: save as much as we can because you never know, recession or not, this job is NOT granted.
NitaBaby
08-21-2019, 10:45 AM
Honestly not even in the mood for "the sky is falling" talk. People always find an extra few dollars for food, family, and fapping.
EricaErotica
08-21-2019, 11:00 AM
We are not a luxury item. Luxury goods are products that are not essential but are highly desired and associated with wealthy or affluent people. They are bought for several reasons: to support self-worth and status, or for the product's quality and craftsmanship.
Most of our customers only make $30,000 - $60,000 annually. They are not luxury consumers. That is why they are holding on to their cash right now.
Also you cannot compare the last recession to what is coming on the horizon. People actually were optimistic and hopeful that the country would move in the right direction with the new president at the time when that one occurred. Now not so much....
I may be on a good vibe right now but I feel I should say this: during economic recessions, the sales of the luxury items increased. Every time! This is google-able (I invented that term, yes). Camgirl shows are luxury items. So we are safe... to a certain extent. I've been through the last recession and I swear it was not that bad for me. It was more that everyone was bitching about recession and we were all convinced it's gonna suck for us, so we all had that vibe, but if I check my stats in those times, it was really ok.
It has to do with the mindset too: see yourself as a luxury (sell yourself like the best medicine for taking a man's mind from recession lol), trust that it's gonna work for you AND think of a plan B at the same time. Oh and of course, one thing that all of us should be always doing: save as much as we can because you never know, recession or not, this job is NOT granted.