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It made me laugh. And I really needed a laugh. Life is waaaay too real right now :) Let's be good to each other.
Made me smile too, especially after I had a 23.00 Friday. This thread lets me know that we all have those days. Thanks for putting this realistic thread up :)
Alright.... so sitting online for hours and coming away with $20 or less is funny. Got it. ;) Well hey, if y'all want to sit back and laugh about that who am I to say anything? I just though it looked really insensitive to be like "this is a goal you can participate in! $20!" Because... if you are really making that kind of money it just looks like mocking at this point..."You can't participate in the $500 a week thread? Well here you go, here's a $20 thread for you!" But, that's my perspective I don't expect anyone to share in it.
I agree things get stressful and there needs to be something to laugh about but sitting for hours on end and coming away with that kind of money would make me cry, a lot, not laugh. Because NO ONE should be sitting on cam for hours and only come away with $20 or so. Something isn't right. The "GIF thread" and the "stupid shit I heard on cam" thread are, on the other hand, quite hilarious.
I'm also all over this thread, in a good day. I also haven't been camming so 20 is 100% more than I'm making right now.... planning on changing that starting next week.
I really don't think she was trying to be insensitive. At least that's not the impression I got from it. I think she saw all of the posts from different models saying they've been online for x hours and only made x dollars (and there seems to be a lot of that happening lately), and figured she'd create this thread for the ladies who don't qualify for the $500 thread so they don't feel left out.
And of course, most cam girls aren't gonna be happy making $20/week. But I don't think they're laughing because they really think it's cute or funny. They're laughing because the thread title just sounds ridiculous yet funny. And I think the real feeling is probably 'OMG, this is fucking pathetic and so depressing, but I'm gonna keep on truckin' and laugh it off with my girls, and strive to do much better.'
And I can't believe I just used the phrase "keep on truckin'." Ew....lmao.
0/20 for my goal this week. But I'm staying positive because I was only $20 away from my goal and didn't even log on!
I tried signing in to MFC with this computer I am borrowing and I made 75 tokens, $16.25 to go to reach my goal. I actually made more than I thought I would because I seriously looked like something streaming straight out of 1999 on this thing! Plus I only stayed signed in for like 30 minutes so I should try for longer and beat this goal today.
I'm hoping my money from SM arrives early this week so I can use it for a replacement computer then I will be moving up to the $500 a week thread :)
Ain't funny, ain't serious, ain't right. This shouldn't be the mentality of any cam girl. It's been slow for many of us, but be careful of the way you are focusing your mind, the act of writing it out is a message to the universe that you "only need $20 per week".
I don't think anyone here is at all is seriously making a goal out of $20 per week. It's not so much a mentality as it's just a joke.
I think all of us have a goal that's realistic for our expenses or savings and fall short. Either by our own fault or circumstances out of our control.
This site has really encouraged everyone to make the effort to make the money, but we can't all be in the $500 or $1000 or $2000 a week threads this week, unfortunately.
It's good to laugh at yourself sometimes and not take things so seriously.
I really took this thread as a joke. And laugh a little.
hey sometimes i fit only in this kinda challange, sometimes i fit into >2000. But how badly now really is, but if i will sit for hours it may not help to reach more or if i will sit sad too. We have only one life lets enjoy it.read some nice book, or seek some other way to earn needed money. If i tell the way i earn my money sometimes...but hey it pays my bills!
In bad moment i always always use my creativity;)or go to another cheaper sites, and i make my money.
Cheer up!
Sorry if this is salt in the wounds but the title STILL makes me laugh. I can't wait till things pick up across the board so we aren't dividing ourselves with silliness. Summers slow down every year since I started this ish. I've seen it in other industries as well. It's not just Adult. No I can't say I've only made $20 in one week but have had shifts on one site that this happened. Last night I was ready rip somebodies head off because I was incapable of changing 24 hours in a day to 28. True story. I really considered it and got mad cuz I couldn't change it. I decided to take my type A ass to bed. I've seen the post where people have said that's what they made, and thought "okay I need a back story to this one?", but then remembered that ain't none of my business.
I had days and weeks my first year of camming where I was not seeing a lot come in and then it hit. Thank you wonderful ladies of Stripperweb for getting me thru that mentally and emotionally and for teaching me thru this site. Now, this summer it has been slow for me but I have not been on as much the past couple of months due to other factors of my own doing. lol I had one week in June where I made $4.00. I have really been trying to work on my other "baskets" so that camming was not my only income because of days weeks like that. I love this thread but also love the $500/ $1000/$2000 because it gives me a goal.
As soon as I am back from out-of-town and can get back on my cam again, I am so all over this challenge.
I think it is a very refreshing idea for a challenge and reminds us that we all are so freaking serious about money challenges sometimes. How much you make as a camgirl really says nothing about how good of a camgirl you are. Or if it does, then I haven't made a single penny all week so that makes me the worst camgirl among you all --- so you can take that to heart and a now feel better about your place in the camgirl money hierarchy. ;)
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I feel like I should clarify on the off chance that I accidentally leave this thread in a worse mess then I found it. ;)
temptingmodel is my 'star sister' and her and SarahTime are two of the best hustlers I've ever seen so I completely get where they are both coming from. They are freaking amazing!
But, these days with my unstable health....I am personally not really into being the best anymore and even though I admire the fuck out of them both and I do completely get where they are coming from.....I am just pretty much into just getting through the day and I rather laugh at the majestic and unfair fuckery of life then spend time being miserable about the things that I can't change. Yes this thread is 'the truth' (whatever that is) and yes this thread is a joke. It can be two things at the exact same time. It doesn't have to be one or the other. Just like life. ;)
I get where this is coming from. Honestly, on SM for the last 2 weeks I have made less than $20 for a week, and that is working between 15-20 hours a week. I was saved by working on other sites though, but its been a brutal time. At one point I cried out of frustration. I love camming, it never makes me cry, but the money did.
While I don't think we are laughing at the concept, there does come a point where you do start laughing in a 'laughing but crying too' type of way because you are at your wits end and actually have no idea how to get any more money in besides start doing silly things like $1 Gold Shows.
For those of us who refuse to do this, the reality is that that is one less dollar we have sometimes. I have found over the last two weeks that threads like this do have their place, especially in times of hardship. Sometimes all you need is to feel the camaraderie and know that you are not alone and that its not necessarily your fault that things are terrible. Case in point, cammed Sunday and it was amazing. Why? because vacay season is almost over and my regs are coming back.
This is a business where for six months of the year its bank central and then for the rest of the year its ok. Its like any other job. I have learnt now that I need to save every penny I make during this upcoming bank period so that even if things slow down next summer, I'll still be ok and be able to maintain my normally sunny disposition. Its about how you handle it I guess, and having never had a camming summer before, I admit, I was totally unprepared for this, but I know now.
Thank you for making this thread. It makes me feel less shitty about what I experienced and makes me so grateful for the fact that there are communities like this one, filled with compassionate ladies who support each other, because we all know that this is one tough industry and being alone in it can be hellish. So from my end, even though I might not actively participate in this goal and it will be more of an hourly goal for me, thank you for the thread and support.
If I consistently earned $20 a week, no, personally I wouldn't be camming or clip making, but I found this funny just because sometimes it's just feels like this... like pulling teeth.
I'm not taking this seriously in the sense of "Yes. I must aim to make (in my currency, roughly £12) - not enough to pay half of one bill, not enough to keep me suitably fed for a couple of days" because my reality means I need to make a whooooole lot more than that, and if I took this goal seriously, with this being my main income, I'd be homeless, but heck, some girls don't need to earn more than $20 a week (in camming) for their living. -
Some cam ladies are housewives, maybe ladies with alternative sources of income / another business, partners who are the breadwinners, or camgirls who do this as a way to just make some change. I'm not about to be judge of what someone else makes based on a goal that suits their needs. <3
^^ what she said :) I don't think that any of us ever want to just make $20 a week. This is just support for when that happens.
Get your advert money ready. Fix up those blogs. Get them indexed in the search engines. Spread your links around. Do all of those things now. I find that when I do this during the summer I set myself up for my busiest time of the year. This has been my slowest summer since I started doing this. Phone sex and a mainstream job has saved me. But it's still not enough for what I need. I'm trying though
Of course money for ads can be hard to come by when the money isn't coming in. But blogging is free. I'm gonna work on my web presence.