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Originally Posted by
Lovelyx
Why not??? *snip*
Shy can't cam at all because she's got a really bad case of the flu. She's been making clips at least, but that's not exactly the best income for bill paying.
Edit; It's one thing to be recovering from surgery and still being able to chat on cam. It's another to try camming with flu symptoms.
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Yikes!!! flu symptoms...no, no definetely she cannot even do phone sex online stuff....I'm sorry and I wish things will be easier for her, I didn't know she have flu, but I do hope she recover fast.
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Originally Posted by Decalyn
Shy can't cam at all because she's got a really bad case of the flu. She's been making clips at least, but that's not exactly the best income for bill paying.
Edit; It's one thing to be recovering from surgery and still being able to chat on cam. It's another to try camming with flu symptoms.
Yeah, this week I have only worked Saturday and today, coz I was sick. No guy wants to see a teary snottery mess. X
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Originally Posted by
Vlodina
Yeah, this week I have only worked Saturday and today, coz I was sick. No guy wants to see a teary snottery mess. X
Sorry you've been sick. I was gonna say that if you're still a little sick, you could make a Clips4Sale video out of it. LOL. :P
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Originally Posted by
Vlodina
Yeah, this week I have only worked Saturday and today, coz I was sick. No guy wants to see a teary snottery mess. X
I've actually seen clips of snotty sick messes on c4s, I think they sell LOL :) Hope you sick people feel better soon!
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I did some little clips of me sneezing, coughing and blubbering, but still need to put them together into a compilation! ;-)
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Camming sucks right now for me simply because I am losing my patience on SM. I don't know if it's because I'm exhausted and cranky, but interestingly, I am really enjoying camming on my night site. SM guys, I just, I can't. I can't deal with the silent lurkers, the guys who get butthurt when I won't get naked for free, competing against $2 gold shows, constantly getting kicked off, the 25 second wankers, and just the quality of guys on there overall. I don't want to quit camming in general but I am so close to saying a big "Fuck You" to SM. I'm even thinking about trying MFC again which I swore I'd never do. I am just so over SM!
Phew, I feel better now that I got that out :)
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It's really draining right now to me.. I never used to have to beg guys for shows before the recession.. I worked on many cam sites... as soon as i went back to free chat .. here came another paying customer.. i sat in free chat for a total of 5 mins max at a time before recession.. now it's god knows til when.. not used to free chat beggars at all.
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Camming sucks right now. I've been on for 4 hours total between a few sites and I've had 2 privates!! 2 fucking privates!! And today must be national save a ho day because the self appointed heroes are coming out of the wood work like never before. They're such hypocrites, bashing what I do yet they're right along with me engaging in the very activity that they're looking down on! What sense does that even make? It's like saying rap is the devil's music while blasting NWA in the background. Like how do you expect me to take you seriously? Ugh...
Rant over. For now.
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Kalypso
Camming sucks right now. I've been on for 4 hours total between a few sites and I've had 2 privates!! 2 fucking privates!! And today must be national save a ho day because the self appointed heroes are coming out of the wood work like never before. They're such hypocrites, bashing what I do yet they're right along with me engaging in the very activity that they're looking down on! What sense does that even make? It's like saying rap is the devil's music while blasting NWA in the background. Like how do you expect me to take you seriously? Ugh...
Rant over. For now.
omg!! i know right?? i don't like the guys who sit around and spend money on you .. and pretend to treat you like a person.. then after they spend a bunch wanna see you naked.. that drives me nuts.... i try not to care cuz that's what i am doing here.. but it's hypocritical.
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Yeah, I can't deal with the slow times in between privates. It's cool if members are talking and interacting, but dude, don't sit there for 10+ minutes silently judging me. How am I supposed to interact with my room when No One will talk? Unless they *like* watching me sit there talking to myself, looking all schizophrenic and shit :)
This morning I made more on MGF than I did on SM. That has Never happened to me before. Sign of the times, maybe?
Nah, I don't mean to be all doom and gloom, SM really is a great site, but I personally don't know if I have the patience for it now when I remember how different it used to be a few short months ago.
I'm off to go look up threads on how to bump up my abysmally low MFC score.
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Oh goddam this streamate! I tried my brand new account and I don't even get creepers or freeloaders. It is so dead for me, that I got one freeloader, and I was happy for it, cause he talked to me at least! I use the encoder, and guess what, I got a sweet guy, who only commented a wow at me, and came in pvt right then, and after a minute the encoder disconnected. Great! I made 1 dollar so far.
I checked my cammodels link, and I look okay, I don't know why does every one run away from me. IF someone happens to come to my freechat, he leaves in the very the same moment. Like I hear the sound of someone coming in, but they are already gone then.. Grrrrr.
The poor dude, that was kicked off of our pvt, came back 3 times to my free chat, but he came and go as fast as I'm wondering if he was kicked off or what. Then I got a pop up message like: A system error occured.
OMG. I have stable 23-24mbps upload speed, dual core, c910, I doubt it is me.
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@Glasses: Have you tried not using the encoder? I worked on SM yesterday morning and for the for the first two hours using the encoder everything was perfect, I actually did really well as far as privates. Then I had one guy, a regular who has spent money on me before, keep coming and leaving our private chat after 30 seconds. Back in free chat he would apologize and say he didn't know what was happening. I tried logging out and logging back in without the encoder and it was fine for the rest of the afternoon, we finished our private and I got a few more long ones on top of that. I also have good internet speed (28 download, 5.5 upload), sometimes I just think the site/encoder gets a little funky.
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girls tell me.. I just started using encoder... on sm.. i avoided it because it seems very difficult to use when working on tons of sites.. it seems not worth it to log off to do shows elsewhere but SM which depresses me because that means less money for me.. am i wrong?? whats the easiest way to log off and on with this encoder??
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Originally Posted by
CourtneyRaine
@Glasses: Have you tried not using the encoder? I worked on SM yesterday morning and for the for the first two hours using the encoder everything was perfect, I actually did really well as far as privates. Then I had one guy, a regular who has spent money on me before, keep coming and leaving our private chat after 30 seconds. Back in free chat he would apologize and say he didn't know what was happening. I tried logging out and logging back in without the encoder and it was fine for the rest of the afternoon, we finished our private and I got a few more long ones on top of that. I also have good internet speed (28 download, 5.5 upload), sometimes I just think the site/encoder gets a little funky.
It was not better without it either. I tried without it, then with it, then that dude was kicked off of pvt, so I switched to hd t1 cable, but everytime he came into my free chat, he disappeared immediately, and then I had this system error. After it I had to go, I might try it again at night. I don't feel like going on other sites now.
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I'm so over gold shows. It's such a waste of time. I tried everything to make my goal today. I did $5 for 5 minutes, $5 for 10 minutes, $2 for 5 minutes. I would sit on my ass and only do requests when a guy tipped, I'd tease during a whole countdown(which btw my countdowns were 10-15 minutes, and I did one 3 minute one when we were close to goal), I'd keep my tits out during 60% of a countdown, and still NOTHING. The most I got was $20 for one countdown ($6 my cut). This shit is so depressing. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I average about 10 guys in my room at a time, but there are points where I will have as much as 30 in there.
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I'm doing shit on SM lately..
My only retribution really is this: It's my fault. Not. Workin'. Hard. ENOUGH.
I made $158 my first night this week, and then my brain just turned into a muffin and was like "NYEH HEH HEH HEH HAAA! You can chill out for a day now!"
Next day came... Well I made $158 that night... I can chill for another and make up for it! ;D
I logged on the next day and I couldn't make up for it. Like at all. I skipped another day, and now it looks like my payout this week will be something like $260.
Must try harder next time Incantatious. Muffin brain.
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Originally Posted by
Incantatious
I'm doing shit on SM lately..
My only retribution really is this: It's my fault. Not. Workin'. Hard. ENOUGH.
I made $158 my first night this week, and then my brain just turned into a muffin and was like "NYEH HEH HEH HEH HAAA! You can chill out for a day now!"
Next day came... Well I made $158 that night... I can chill for another and make up for it! ;D
I logged on the next day and I couldn't make up for it. Like at all. I skipped another day, and now it looks like my payout this week will be something like $260.
Must try harder next time Incantatious. Muffin brain.
This is me right here. Tuesday and Wednesday are the only days I really made an effort this week. I'm telling myself that at least I used that time to get physically and mentally ready to return to stripping and do an audition but that means jackshit until I'm back in a club
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I hate da cammin' right now. Dreaming of the day when all my other means of income will make my entire weekly goal and I won't have to sit in free chat. That day may never come but fucking dreaming of it.
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Nah, I don't mean to be all doom and gloom, SM really is a great site, but I personally don't know if I have the patience for it now when I remember how different it used to be a few short months ago.
God this is how I feel right now wtf.
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Originally Posted by
anonymous camgirl
girls tell me.. I just started using encoder... on sm.. i avoided it because it seems very difficult to use when working on tons of sites.. it seems not worth it to log off to do shows elsewhere but SM which depresses me because that means less money for me.. am i wrong?? whats the easiest way to log off and on with this encoder??
As far as working with the encoder to do more than 1 site at a time, just email SM support and ask them to put a break button on your account, that way if you get a private elsewhere you can hit the break/pause button and have up to 10 minutes without having to restart the encoder. If you don't make it back within those 10 minutes it will simply disconnect you. One thing that I noticed though, even if you use the break button the camera thing is still taking snapshots, so if you have snapshots enabled the ones that are taken while you are in the private on another site will be displayed. I would also suggest telling support that you prefer to just use one of your profile pics instead of snapshots if you plan to use the break button!
Hope this helps! :)
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I know that this is the camming sucks thread but I just wanna throw in some positivity for you girls. After a couple of quiet weeks last night was the busiest night I've seen on SM in ages, the place was buzzing. I hadn't even been planning to take the day seriously but as soon as I got on cam it was private after private after private. I set a best new hourly rate by 10 bucks, my traffic was huge and the guys were spending.
So keep the faith girls, it does get better! :D
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this is something i've been working out in my brain and the verified section and i wanted to post it publicly but wasn't sure where to post it. i didn't want to start a new thread, so i thought i'd post it here.
i'm not really into positive psychology/name it and claim it/the secret/whatever. so this observation doesn't have anything to do with that. and occasionally i need a place to vent too so i respect that people need to vent about how they're having a shitty day and i love that this thread exists because of that.
but i wanted to throw something out there as food for thought...
why does camming suck? stop and think about it. i see so many girls saying - camming sucks because it used to be easier/more lucrative/whatever. i wish camming was the way it used to be. i don't make as much money as i did last year/ten years ago/whatever.
there is such a thing as longing for the "old days," nostalgia, thinking that things used to be better and actively wishing that they would be the way they were before to the point of being in complete denial about change - to the point that it literally stunts growth (of yourself emotionally, of your business, of the situation as a whole).
anytime there is a massive change or shift in ANY situation, most people experience this. it is an actual psychological phenomenon. it sucks us in and causes us to stagnate. the fact is, things will NEVER be "how they used to be." ever. they might be better or worse qualitatively than they are in this moment, but they will never be THE SAME as they were 1 or 3 or 5 or 10 years ago. wishing for them to be the same is a completely futile exercise, a waste of time, and a vacation in the land of denial. just because our mind is capable of dwelling in the past does not mean that time, or the camming business, can live in the past or move backwards. time and camming are always moving forward. we have to move forward and shift our perceptions.
i think there's value in saying that we have to focus on the positive and adapt or die, but i also think it's important to name the one thing that is keeping a lot of girls from adapting - and that is wishing things could be the way they used to be.
in terms of the causes of the decline people are seeing...so many people throw around different reasons. some of the ones i've heard are: streamate bought cheap traffic, gold shows brought about the apocalypse, other girls are charging low prices and showing pussy in free chat, etc. etc. etc.
the truth is...you cannot control streamate (or mfc or whatever other site). you cannot control who is in your room and whether they spend. you cannot control what other girls are doing. you cannot control the availability of gold shows. so yeah, all of these things COULD be causes, maybe they are, but it really doesn't matter because you cannot control them.
what each girl is doing individually may not be the cause of declined traffic. i'm not saying we should all blame ourselves. BUT...we are all we have control over. so adapt. move forward. focus on what camming's like today instead of what it was like last tuesday or march 31st, 2001. obsessing over how camming used to be and about all the supposed causes of why it's not like that anymore isn't helping your bank account. but i can guarantee that logging in will.
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reading the above post as well as your post in the 'cheating' thread, all I can say is I've really f*&king missed you around here Tiny :goodvibes
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loveshooks
reading the above post as well as your post in the 'cheating' thread, all I can say is I've really f*&king missed you around here Tiny :goodvibes
aww, this made my day :) i missed you too! :grouphug: :goodvibes