When I logged on today I noticed new posts in the latest "extras are bad" threads. I also noticed some new posts in the MFC (MyFreeCams) threads. It occurred to me in reading the comments on MFC vs. Streamate you see a lot of the same arguments for clean vs. dirty dancing but in the other direction.
Most dancers agree that MFC is cleaner in terms of what women are expected to do. As one of the camgirls put it something like, "MFC allows me to make a good living without ever having to shove my fist up my ass". The degree to which MFC can be cleaner in some cases can be quite extreme. For example as I'm writing this #32 on this month's Miss MFC contest is a women whom I like watching and I don't have a clue what her breasts even look like; the most she's ever flashed since I've watched her is thigh and cleavage. I consider her a pantomime not really even a stripper, she calls and considers herself a burlesque entertainer. She won't do privates, groups or true privates. Yet in public rooms she's hitting her $25 per 5 minutes goal in almost every 5 min cycle I've watched her. I've seen another women who is doing $1-2k day and she isn't even making the top 100 yet. #15 at the time I'm writing this doesn't do nudity in public, nor groups, not anything but TruePrivates and has rather strict rules in those. etc... So clearly MFC makes it possible to earn money without extreme sex.
On the other hand... when you read the MFC threads here there is quite a lot of complaining from women who have lower camscores about the complexity of the shows. The women with camscores in the 3000+ range obviously plan their shows in advance. Given the setup times, the planning time, creating editing... videos, creating custom chotskies for their rooms, responding to regulars, ... it wouldn't shock me if they are doing 2 hours offline for every hour online. And of course they maintain a regular schedule, do long shifts of several hours. Work 4+ days a week... all the things associated with a normal job. They are hosting a TV program with nudity, not showing up to a camsite to do a few private shows when the mood strikes them. And so most of the women (cam models) when actually confronted with the choice seem to prefer less money, less headache, more flexibility from the other sites where they don't have to work the room so intensely. Given the choice they go for more sexual content and less seduction even at the cost of a lower hourly wage.
Seeing this back to back for me the analogy to ITC extras is obvious. "Clean girls" have to work harder to get their dances. They have to do a much better job in being seductive. Selling champagne rooms in air dance clubs is far closer to what MFC women are doing than what Streamate women are doing. Those airdance corporate clubs don't exist in large numbers today for reasons of governmental policy. So women working in 2012 in actual physical strip clubs don't have the MFC style option. But I do find it interesting that many of the cammers on the very same site take the opposite opinion. When these women are actually confronted with the options in front of them and the reality of what it takes to appeal the mind or the heart of their clients and not just be a mechanism to relieve an erection, most women would rather relieve the erection. And what's interesting is they would rather do this, even for less money. They know the top MFC are making bunko money. Extras women don't post here, but the MFC threads when you look at them are the apologetic for extras with some obvious substitution. Women after women on the cam threads pretty much says that she wants the steady regular quick money that comes from selling a bread and butter cam product rather than having to engage in complex marketing and make herself into a stand out individual with a real fan base.
Obviously there are some places this analogy does break down. There are few legal differences between what happens in MFC and what happens in Streamate, and those that do exist since Streamate has tighter controls on public porn might even break in Streamate's favor. No one is going to get an STD from Streamate or MFC. So does anyone agree, disagree, think I'm nuts in my analogy...? Do you think those two breakdown kill this analogy? Dancers and camers I put this in blue because I didn't want to seem trolling, but feel free to weigh in.



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Just as they don't buy tokens they also don't follow lots of other models mostly. The basic structure is the basic structure. Its not hard to see the top girls don't want privates because they are making far more in public chat. At the same time 60 / token / min even at $.05 / token = $180 / hr. There aren't many women here making enough money on MFC to be indifferent to privates. I think there are some 3s in my hierarchy.



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