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Stripper social media culture, 'mentors', dancer apps, etc. - thoughts?
We just talked about clubs trying to force girls to use their social media to promote the club. Now I'm curious what everyone's thoughts are on the current culture on those sites amongst the girls themselves. I just recently got onto IG more actively and what I'm seeing is making me feel like a salty old sea captain.
First, the stripper meme pages. Some are hilarious. Some are... trashy. The girls are referring to customers as 'tricks', joking about doing cocaine and stealing wallets, etc. I've heard girls in the dressing room talking the same way, and I suspect it comes from IG. It's like they are literally promoting the idea of being a thief and ripping customers off and I don't think that can be good for the industry. No wonder young dudes think they've got one up on us when they don't spend money...
Second, the 'mentors'. Strip & Grow Rich/Rebecca Avalon used to be the only one (and she actually had an original system of sorts with color coding the customers). There are SO MANY OF THEM NOW. I've seen the advice floated on here from some of them (Racks to Riches most recently and her insistence on doubling your dance prices because Maserati vs Toyota). Some is good, some is meh, some is shit. A lot of what they sell is just stupid shit like spreadsheets that you can make in MS Office in 2 minutes.
Overall though I don't get why girls are paying for this advice. Such info can be found on SW for free or even from sales websites. It feels like these 'mentors' are cultivating a fake illusion of a support system/community and a lifestyle (ex. all the LOA type motivational quotes & pink rhinestone-y themes) whilst preying on other dancers. This rubs me the wrong way a bit, especially since there is no way to know if the 'mentor' is legit. For all we know, they could have never danced in their life.
Third, has anyone seen this Dancers Resource app?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetwb.../#6207f6ce1853
I downloaded it and it is janky as hell and has missing or wrong info for 80% of the clubs in my state. It is very obvious it was made by student interns (I would bet unpaid ones, as the founder claims she didn't have the cash to develop it). It feels like they half-assed everything as far as information. Yet she's charging girls a monthly subscription to join the discussion board area of it... For what? There is 10x as much info on SW just from the last 2 years. This is not the only free discussion board for dancers (there's at least 3 on Reddit alone) plus there is plenty of discussion on other social media pages. Again, feels vaguely like just one more person trying to cash in on dancers.
Anyway, I'm curious on everyone's thoughts. I feel like there is a split in mindset between the ladies that frequent this board, as well as long-time dancers I know personally, versus the current generation of girls. Maybe I am just jaded and too serious :D
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Re: Stripper social media culture, 'mentors', dancer apps, etc. - thoughts?
This topic is why I avoid the well known Facebook groups for dancers in my region- one of the admins for a FB group that's crazy popular in the Midwest bragged about setting up a "friend" of hers to be robbed. (Girl is an out of control drunk in addition to being a pathological liar.)
Right at the moment IG is basically Diet Facebook- makes sense, since it is owned by Facebook. People promote music, products and services on IG. One of my friends is a fashion blogger and uses IG for both swag (free) and extra income in addition to her day job.
Strip clubs can use it BUT if I was a dancer putting photos on there I would avoid putting anything too personal on there.
As a side note to this - a LOT of people who make a living in the tech and IT sector actually REFUSE to buy their kids Smartphones. The "royalty" of the Tech sector experienced the first wave of dubious gifts that arose from constant Internet access and excessive screen time (ruined marriages, kids scoring drugs via chat rooms or FedEx, wife like typing finding the password you hid under the keyboard and reading all the emails to Side Chick Number 3, etc...)
As a result they have families that are "plugged in" to eachother, to borrow a ad line from retailers that sell tech equipment. Because.....for some badly parented souls and lonely kids, the glow of that Smartphone screen has replaced the glow of a bonfire in the back yard with family and neighbors. Nowadays Gen Z kids often end up working out their problems (both serious and not so serious) via chat apps or texts IF a responsible adult is not around.
So IMO the IG thing that strip bars do is a shorter version of the "roster case" that small strip bars used to post in the foyer of a bar- "The Upcoming Attractions." It's just life, it's just business.
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Hmm. I’ve always wondered at the motives of girls who brag loudly about ripping off customers. Occasionally, one may get away with small stuff here and there like quoting the wrong # of dances you gave to a drunk guy. But other times, I wonder whether they were BSing. Like they actually *did* suck him off but claim to finesse him somehow to deny the truth to others and perhaps even herself. Just theorizing though, and I could be wrong.
Me personally, if I was robbing from customers, I’d keep that to myself.
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I do enjoy Rebecca Avalon, and her community there. At this point, I doubt I’ll bother with anyone else though.
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Sadly saying, it seems like any group that tries to have a dancers review thing going, tends not to flourish too much. It’s weak on this site as well. But it’s understandable girls may be hesitant to be fourthcoming with info, especially from smaller clubs where they can get identified. Politicking nightmare.
Dancers resource is especialy a waste of money cause ever since last December, dancers are now able to read reviews for free from TUSCL. Sure TUSCL isn’t useful for everything, but at least one can pick up info like a club’s vibe and stuff.
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Re: Stripper social media culture, 'mentors', dancer apps, etc. - thoughts?
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StellaRose
Hmm. I’ve always wondered at the motives of girls who brag loudly about ripping off customers. Occasionally, one may get away with small stuff here and there like quoting the wrong # of dances you gave to a drunk guy. But other times, I wonder whether they were BSing. Like they actually *did* suck him off but claim to finesse him somehow to deny the truth to others and perhaps even herself. Just theorizing though, and I could be wrong.
Those dancers are either Man Haters or methheads.
TUSCL has a lot of goofy shit posted on there but the reviews are pretty straightforward.
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StellaRose
Dancers resource is especialy a waste of money cause ever since last December, dancers are now able to read reviews for free from TUSCL. Sure TUSCL isn’t useful for everything, but at least one can pick up info like a club’s vibe and stuff.
Interesting, I did not know that. I wonder why they implemented that. Maybe to cut down on those of us who would write fake reviews to get access, haha.
Edit: I just looked and they require photo verification. Nope. Not sending them a picture of myself to link to such a site, even if it doesn't have to be public...
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Selina M
Interesting, I did not know that. I wonder why they implemented that. Maybe to cut down on those of us who would write fake reviews to get access, haha.
Edit: I just looked and they require photo verification. Nope. Not sending them a picture of myself to link to such a site, even if it doesn't have to be public...
Face and nudity can stay out of the verification. So not too bad imo, though I have noticed other girls get discouraged too at that. And as for the motives, it’s to encourage more dancers to use the site, to encourage men to use that site more as well. (So that they subscribe and pay money)
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Also on social media and mentors. I hope one of them can start coming out with more lists. Like of up-to-date practical info on accountants, plastic surgeons, sex work friendly mental health professionals, etc and less of this law of attraction stuff.
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StellaRose
Face and nudity can stay out of the verification. So not too bad imo, though I have noticed other girls get discouraged too at that. And as for the motives, it’s to encourage more dancers to use the site, to encourage men to use that site more as well. (So that they subscribe and pay money)
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Also on social media and mentors. I hope one of them can start coming out with more lists. Like of up-to-date practical info on accountants, plastic surgeons, sex work friendly mental health professionals, etc and less of this law of attraction stuff.
OH this reminded me- everyone, his mom and her closeted lesbian aunt reads TUSCL now. They cracked down on verification for legal reasons (everyone hates litigation lollll)…
I know Facebook is the Wal Mart of social media now, but they and Yelp are good for info about plastic surgeons, mental health professionals, community organizations and so forth.
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Re: Stripper social media culture, 'mentors', dancer apps, etc. - thoughts?
Eh, free market capitalism. Nobody's tricking dancers into buying pricey lessons. Though if you're a consumer (especially since you're buying classes in this sense) you should definitely do your research on all the options just like anything else.
Personally I think the stripper "classes" are really only worth it if you don't have the time or effort up to write up your own notes to reference. You are paying for information that has been readily available for free for YEARS, but how much of that information is neatly compiled into a ready to use, ready to read format, often with a "workbook" to accompany it to keep track of how it's affecting your earnings, vs scattered all over the web and takes more time to look up and read up on? As a general rule, consumers will always pick what's easy vs what needs a little bit of effort, so the paid lessons are worth it to them, especially with a little bit of branding + convincing thrown in.
I've only personally ever paid for Rebecca Avalon, and it greatly helped not only with my hustle but helping me narrow down the type of information to look for on free sites like SW and reddit. If that makes sense. So yes it was worth it to me.
I also have my own notepad on my phone (want to change to a notebook and pen soon as writing things down helps you remember them) full of hustle tips and tricks, most from online forums, some from books & web articles, to reference to at any time. I guess it is my own stripper mentor program made by me and tailored for me. But it took a LOT of time and trial & error and finding out what worked for me personally to get it perfected to something that worked. If stripping weren't my main income and I had other things to prioritize in my life, I can see where the programs could be helpful. Not everyone has the time to compile so much information themselves, but still wants to invest in their stripper career, again my point of choosing time over $$$
With all that being said I saw a mentor program for like $800 and never in a million years would I pay THAT much lol
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I've had an experience like this with online sex work too ^. I was being "hustled" or shall I say hassled LOL into buying a dancer/camgirls package of the big secret to success on creating a snap chat & or IG for my camming work. I laughed it off & just ignored it, but I'm sure if I wasn't as up to date with the know how of all that noise I would've thought about maybe purchasing her secret of how to make so much $$$ on there with her special tools LOL.
If you've got the time to research marketing & what not then save yourself the $$$ and just do it yourself. Hell, in my early days of stripping , I knew nothing about sales & with experience came knowledge :) What did I pay? Nothing.
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I downloaded thedancersresource just to read club reviews, that section is free. I agree the app crashes often and there's not much activity on it. I've come across the creator of dancer's resource in person, she sometimes to comes in to dance at one of the clubs I also dance at. Seems like she's really working hard on promoting her app. I remember one day she shot a commercial/promotion for it at our club before opening hours.
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I hate ALL of it . Lol.
Maybe I'm old, but I don't need a dancer FB or IG . ;/
The ability to hustle and a google voice # for regulars should just BE enough.
Then again I'm at the " end " of this adventure and headed towards my 4th or 5th ( most likely final ) retirement .
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Re: Stripper social media culture, 'mentors', dancer apps, etc. - thoughts?
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lightningfarron
Eh, free market capitalism. Nobody's tricking dancers into buying pricey lessons. Though if you're a consumer (especially since you're buying classes in this sense) you should definitely do your research on all the options just like anything else.
Personally I think the stripper "classes" are really only worth it if you don't have the time or effort up to write up your own notes to reference. You are paying for information that has been readily available for free for YEARS, but how much of that information is neatly compiled into a ready to use, ready to read format, often with a "workbook" to accompany it to keep track of how it's affecting your earnings, vs scattered all over the web and takes more time to look up and read up on? As a general rule, consumers will always pick what's easy vs what needs a little bit of effort, so the paid lessons are worth it to them, especially with a little bit of branding + convincing thrown in.
I've only personally ever paid for Rebecca Avalon, and it greatly helped not only with my hustle but helping me narrow down the type of information to look for on free sites like SW and reddit. If that makes sense. So yes it was worth it to me.
I also have my own notepad on my phone (want to change to a notebook and pen soon as writing things down helps you remember them) full of hustle tips and tricks, most from online forums, some from books & web articles, to reference to at any time. I guess it is my own stripper mentor program made by me and tailored for me. But it took a LOT of time and trial & error and finding out what worked for me personally to get it perfected to something that worked. If stripping weren't my main income and I had other things to prioritize in my life, I can see where the programs could be helpful. Not everyone has the time to compile so much information themselves, but still wants to invest in their stripper career, again my point of choosing time over $$$
With all that being said I saw a mentor program for like $800 and never in a million years would I pay THAT much lol
Oof yeah I have no idea how much some of these girls charge but there's definitely some that are insane.
I mean that's fair, that people are too lazy to go digging through mounds of advice and taking notes and would rather pay for it neatly compiled. It's like going to school I guess, there will be people who buy notes off someone else and those who read the textbook and write their own. In the end though I think dancing is also like school in the sense that the people who bought notes & tried to take the shortcut don't do as well. It's better to have pulled your own notes while understanding the context they come from.
To that point, your notes are tailored to you, your persona and hustle style, and your club/city. It's like the discussion about RackstoRiches and all the girls who said "This literally would not work in my club". I'm sure some of the advice is standard and will help anywhere but a good chunk probably needs to be modified or thrown out for each girl.
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SugarCookies
I downloaded thedancersresource just to read club reviews, that section is free. I agree the app crashes often and there's not much activity on it. I've come across the creator of dancer's resource in person, she sometimes to comes in to dance at one of the clubs I also dance at. Seems like she's really working hard on promoting her app. I remember one day she shot a commercial/promotion for it at our club before opening hours.
Eep. She should take a lesson from Poshmark. They tried to promote heavily to get people on it instead of fixing all the shit that users already complained about. They had to cancel their IPO/going public with stocks this fall because sales were down & their 'house wasn't in order'.
DancersResource girl needs to get her app functioning at a better level and with actual information on it instead of promoting it. She's putting the cart before the horse.
I honestly don't think the app (or any other app/site) is that viable as far as getting enough valuable info on it. Girls are protective of their money. We can't trust the owners to stop hiring at an appropriate number of girls, so nobody wants to give out legit info on good clubs lest they get flooded with newbies. Y'all see how bad it is on here, nobody wants to give out info except to established members via PM...
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I agree with all the points made here. But yeah, totally agree that some of them might not even be dancers, how would we know?...or maybe they tried for a short time and couldn't hack it. So instead they're swooping down to the online dancer community to pick up some cash from the ladies. Kind of like a virtual housemarm, one that actually is kinda helpful. But I also feel there's something exploitative about it? For one thing, like somebody mentioned above there's a facade that there's community among strippers that can be attained if you are successful and happy. But really that's just them liking each others' posts on IG. And recommending each other's account to their followers. But if you didn't know better it looks like "heeyyy babystripper ~ if you start raking in cash (thru buying our courses), then you'll be smiling like us and having dancer friends over for a dinner party" or whatever. I do definitely like all the girls who are selling the courses. At least they all seem to definitely have some knowledge.
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Re: Stripper social media culture, 'mentors', dancer apps, etc. - thoughts?
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Selina M
Second, the 'mentors'. Strip & Grow Rich/Rebecca Avalon used to be the only one (and she actually had an original system of sorts with color coding the customers). There are SO MANY OF THEM NOW. I've seen the advice floated on here from some of them (Racks to Riches most recently and her insistence on doubling your dance prices because Maserati vs Toyota). Some is good, some is meh, some is shit. A lot of what they sell is just stupid shit like spreadsheets that you can make in MS Office in 2 minutes.
Overall though I don't get why girls are paying for this advice. Such info can be found on SW for free or even from sales websites. It feels like these 'mentors' are cultivating a fake illusion of a support system/community and a lifestyle (ex. all the LOA type motivational quotes & pink rhinestone-y themes) whilst preying on other dancers. This rubs me the wrong way a bit, especially since there is no way to know if the 'mentor' is legit. For all we know, they could have never danced in their life.
I always tell girls they need to check out this forum if they're looking for guidance, idk maybe they can't process anything that's not a social media app. Yeah some of the girls on twitter be mean as hell to new girls asking them for advice, trying to charge them to answer stupid questions.(Can these people not google?)
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Selina M
Oof yeah I have no idea how much some of these girls charge but there's definitely some that are insane.
I mean that's fair, that people are too lazy to go digging through mounds of advice and taking notes and would rather pay for it neatly compiled. It's like going to school I guess, there will be people who buy notes off someone else and those who read the textbook and write their own. In the end though I think dancing is also like school in the sense that the people who bought notes & tried to take the shortcut don't do as well. It's better to have pulled your own notes while understanding the context they come from.
To that point, your notes are tailored to you, your persona and hustle style, and your club/city. It's like the discussion about RackstoRiches and all the girls who said "This literally would not work in my club". I'm sure some of the advice is standard and will help anywhere but a good chunk probably needs to be modified or thrown out for each girl.
THIS
I have notebooks among notebooks lol and photograph pages to look at at work so people don't see me being a nerd.
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Re: Stripper social media culture, 'mentors', dancer apps, etc. - thoughts?
As a newbie stripper hopeful, the forums on this site have been BEYOND helpful for me, as have a lot of veteran members via PM in response to forum question posts I've made. However, with that said, this site was (and still is on occasion) a bit confusing to navigate for a "Gen Z'er" in the sense that forum blogging etc platforms have a very different set-up and use method than many more recently established and/or frequently updated websites and apps. But even with that considered, I personally couldn't see myself paying money for this kind of information when by and large every dancer's experiences, even just from skimming the forums briefly, are so varied based on individual personality, club atmosphere, etc. Unless a service was DIRECTLY communicating with the individual and somehow detailed knowledge on every club in the country firsthand, I can't see it being worth its salt on a level worth paying for. I agree with other posters that almost all the same information and more can be acquired for free if you have at least some starting point and are ready and willing to do some digging.
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VenusRose
However, with that said, this site was (and still is on occasion) a bit confusing to navigate for a "Gen Z'er" in the sense that forum blogging etc platforms have a very different set-up and use method than many more recently established and/or frequently updated websites and apps.
See it all makes sense now, we need to bridge the gap. I can't use this site on my phone for real, it doesn't look or work right (for me)
Yeah it's nothing like an app, it took me some time to learn apps, I blew off getting a smart phone until 2014 because early one's had so many problems I didn't want to deal with it and end up in a money sinkhole with early smart-phone technology. I saw a lot of people having them and they seemed to have nothing but problems and frustrations and I was just like, I'll wait. (I do the same thing with video game consoles, never buy them the year of release because they always end up finding a lot of problems and fixing them and rereleasing the system)
I was actually thinking I wonder what percentage of people actually even still have computers since most everybody has a computer in their hand everyday, I've noticed a lot of people don't bother having actual PCs/Macbooks anymore. /:O
I did a lot of internet programming in the late 90s to mid 2000s and am just clueless about so much of it today. /:O
All the college and everything I learned and knew never did me any good monetarily, dancing has been the only thing that could pay bills and allow me to survive.
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I made a post to get the idea on Racks' content and I did buy the book/course. I think I paid $45 and in my mind, I was like that's fine because I'd spend something like that on an outfit, and it's something I can come back to multiple times. Like lightningfarron said, it was nice to have tips compiled into one place physically as opposed to my OneNote section, since some REALLY good topics are almost a decade (or over) old and things are different now than 2004. The sales tips I don't know, so having a book geared towards sales in that specific industry was helpful! Because I did read on here about being expected to be alone, stay out of the DR drama, and you're not there to make friends; it was like an online mentorship/community since I couldn't ask girls in person.
It's the only thing I've bought, but I've thought about getting mouthpiece books. Then I thought, it just takes practice. Some courses with "the magic question" sound like a scam to me, so I did go for Racks' content on selling, confidence, and rejection comebacks. But I'm in an urban club right now so some of that stuff won't work for me. Upcharging dances--even trying to *get* a VIP room have men looking at me like I have two heads lol.
I think everyone is trying to get multiple sources of income so vets are doing mentee programs, so I'm not mad at it. But some of them are ridiculous. Some of these pages do sound predatory to folks trying to learn the ropes. You can buy all the sales books in the world, but if you don't hit the floor and get rejected and learn, then you feel like you wasted money.
There's also some weird shaming thing about not being a 6-figure maker, and I will admit, I had to sit down and remind myself that the only way people are even able to ADVERTISE this stuff, a podcast, YT videos, etc. is because they've been dancing for at least 3+ years. Chances are very low for me to get 6-figures in the first few months (even year) when I'm still learning how to throw ass in heels without falling on my face and not go hide in the DR when rejected. Not saying it's impossible, but location is important too. You can only go so far considering there are SO many factors to being successful and learning how to adapt. I'm starting to come back on here and go through my archived notes.
Last thing I'll say though that it's the only thing I plan to invest in because I'm tired of mentee videos of money on IG stories every night. It feels like an illusion, and it made me bitter my first month in the club! But the only folks who are talking or sharing videos mainly are vets. On top of the censorship of IG, I'm on Twitter for the most part now!
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I’m happy somebody is finally saying something about this....
I’ll elaborate on my opinion eventually but not right now. I have sooo much to say about this wave of “mentors” etc.
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Re: Stripper social media culture, 'mentors', dancer apps, etc. - thoughts?
Firstly, all these mentors/programs claim that they did XYZ to make ALL this money. Prove it. Post your tax paperwork, how much did you really make a year being a stripper that you feel that you have the expertise to charge girls to learn all your secrets? Secondly, clubs/regions/hustles vary greatly so what might work for me in NY is definitely not going to work for me in this small town in the middle of the country, etc.
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Firstly, all these mentors/programs claim that they did XYZ to make ALL this money. Prove it. Post your tax paperwork, how much did you really make a year being a stripper that you feel that you have the expertise to charge girls to learn all your secrets?
Eeeeeexactly how I feel.
I think that's part of why the lifestyle some promote annoys me. They act like the pictures of money and LV bags are 'proof'... Girl, you could be like those dudes who take out their rent money to stack on the table. That bag could be bought on a credit card. You could make the money on one random great night and then take 10 different photos of it. Etc.
Even tax forms could be faked, they could fill them out but not have those be actually the ones they filed.
The loudest, most 'look at me and my expensive stuff!' girls ITC are always the ones who are doing stuff OTC with customers, or are selling drugs, or have a drug dealer boyfriend buying them that shit, etc etc etc. I would not be surprised if some of these 'mentors' also had another stream of income, shall we say, which is again misleading to the girls they're peddling their courses to.
Edit to add: another thought. As far as "how much do you make to feel qualified to tell others what to do".
I personally would bet money that most strippers make within the same range of averages hourly. A huge part of some of these mentor programs is trying to push girls to work more hours. If these 'mentors' are clearing so much more yearly that they feel qualified, it's not due to any sort of epic skill, it's literally just hours in the club AND in that case, the luck of living somewhere that there's money beyond just 10 pm - 2 am.
In the same breath as them trying to shame girls for not working more hours, they'll post a meme joking about doing coke to deal with it. Not healthy & eating up the extra profit anyway ::)
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The house mom always try to talk to me about monetizing my social media account. She’s a big promoter of it, and she seems to actually know how to work that angle really well. She’s been helpful for quite a few of the dancers. Me? I don’t really feel a need to do Instagram, Snapchat, or any of it.
This seems to be more her thing, rather than any initiative of the club itself. She says I’m crazy for not monetizing an IG account… I’m not hurting for money, and I really don’t want to put myself out there that way. You have to remember, I’m not a stripper first and everything else later… quite the opposite.
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Most of those courses are just pigshit peddlers. Racks to Riches and Miss Money Mindset are the only two that I'd even remotely recommend. If you get a Jim Bakker vibe from one of these so-called influencers they're probably peddling pigshit. (To paraphrase Ser Bronn of the Blackwater)
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Selina M
Interesting, I did not know that. I wonder why they implemented that. Maybe to cut down on those of us who would write fake reviews to get access, haha.
Edit: I just looked and they require photo verification. Nope. Not sending them a picture of myself to link to such a site, even if it doesn't have to be public...
You dont have to include your face in the photo. They just have to see enough to verify you're female. I did it looking busted as hell in my day job scrubs. I didn't look at the camera and used a weird angle where you can barely see my face. It got approved.
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Dancer wealth did help me, but let’s all be real at what retail sales job do you routinely get sexually assault on the daily. I know it happens in every industry, but it’s worst in this industry and there’s no HR. I had something horrific happen to a friend the other day, and no one was surprised by it. Being in this industry as long as I have, I wouldn’t help a girl get started and say, “OMG this will change your life you should totally do it.” This Industry can be traumatizing and risky AF. On the flip side, I’m not gonna hate on a woman entrepreneur who is making money from her experience in this industry. I only know 1-5% that start dancing and better themselves. Even if one betters themselves financially, if one is traumatized because of it I don’t think it’s worth it. Which is really up to every individual. I kind look at-for simplicity sake I’m gonna call it sex work-like I treat a girl that asked me about getting an abortion. Your body your choice.