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    Thanks Minnie!! I don't own a TV so I'd have had zero idea about this otherwise. I am downloading it right now and am about 6 mins into watching it...

    Ohhhh god I hope this doesn't piss me off!!! >.< I hope it's okay. Shit I hope this doesn't mean a ton of girls end up signing up.




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    I wish the audio wasn't so off. interesting documentary though. I know a lot of us share at least some of their struggles.

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    I'm watching it right now as well, I'm about 20 minutes in. I like it so far but I really hate how they've disclosed earnings. But I can relate with the struggles. I hope they mention all of the disadvantages throughout the video.
    Quote Originally Posted by Procrasturbator
    Can we use "cramming" as the official new word for when you procrastinate too long and try to cram a whole pay period's worth of work into the last couple days?
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    Like, I'm happy having my sexy pr0n everywhere, but I don't really want a bunch of clips of me popping balloons in diapers all over the place XD

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pearl_Sugar View Post
    I really hate how they've disclosed earnings.
    I KNOW RIGHT? Argh, fuck's sake. -_-




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    Okay, I finished it. Great documentary but they leave out so much. There needs to be more negatives, especially if they're mentioning income. They didn't include a huge variety of girls either. But not bad.
    Quote Originally Posted by Procrasturbator
    Can we use "cramming" as the official new word for when you procrastinate too long and try to cram a whole pay period's worth of work into the last couple days?
    Quote Originally Posted by TheTiffanyTracy
    Like, I'm happy having my sexy pr0n everywhere, but I don't really want a bunch of clips of me popping balloons in diapers all over the place XD

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pearl_Sugar View Post
    Okay, I finished it. Great documentary but they leave out so much. There needs to be more negatives, especially if they're mentioning income. They didn't include a huge variety of girls either. But not bad.
    I completely agree. IMO they mentioned waaaaaaaaaaay too much about like... insane earnings. Way, way too much.

    Like the girl who what? made like £300 by playing Xbox naked!? That certainly isn't common, but that doc makes out that it's simple to make so much ££££ so easily. I hated that.

    Also I cringed when one of the girls said about how she channels a genuine hatred for men during domination fetish roleplays! Arghhhh. Wonderful. But nm.




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    I downloaded it thinking it would fix the audio issue but it didn't there was a part where I was shaking my head of the porn star/escort/webcam model but then I realize it was her own experience coming through to make it seem like she chosed a bad path.

    over all it was pretty well done, and I Couldn't tell which sites these girls worked on it kept repeating how much they charge per minute which was a little annoying. and they kept talking about their longer shows 30 minutes or longer which was a annoying as well, and they kept trying to repeat how these girls want to leave and do something else well what if that is just a temp plan or an idea that doesn't happen.
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    Quote Originally Posted by minniesoporno View Post
    Couldn't tell which sites these girls worked on
    From the shots they showed of their screens, they were all on AW. As far as I have noticed, the rates they mention are EXTREMELY high for AW. The website actually gives you a warning if you put your rates that high! It's not like you're in trouble, but they have all these business building tips, and if you put your rates up too much, you get a tip about how your rates are atypically high. LOL!

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    Its not a BAD documentary, but why do these documentaries always talks about how ~*college is the way out!*~. Like... do you know how many webcam girls HAVE degrees, or already HAVE another business on the side they are happy with? I really think vanilla world people's brains overload at the fact that other people are making more money than they are, have a more fulfilling life than they do (more free time, more $$$ for leisure, no boss, etc), and are probably happier than they are. So they justify it by being like OH BUT SHES DESPERATE AND ONLY DOING THIS TO PAY FOR COLLEGE.

    No. You will still see these same girls on webcam after they graduate. Who would give up a good-paying job they like and are doing well with? They will just do other things on the side. Or marry rich. Such is life.


    Also, this is like the what? 6th or 7th webcam and/or porn documentary that has been released? I'm not trying to be mean here, but I SWEAR the only girls who ever regret webcamming or doing porn are the ones who fuck with their face and start to look like a cat, or ones who look too alty/non-mainstream enough to make the amount of money they want or something? That happens in literally EVERY documentary. And then everyone else is happy they did it and banked.

    The alty girl (Sammi the lesbian girl?) in this documentary kept complaining about how she didn't want to webcam. And all the ex-pornstars who look like the cat lady, or get 5,000cc implants are like the ones ones in these documentaries that complained.

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    I thought compared to a lot of documentaries about sex work, this was pretty well balanced. Yes, I agree that they should have talked more about the low earnings days and had a larger variety of models. I liked that they had sort of a balance of girls: one that regrets it and wants to get out, one that loves it, and one that seems a little new and delusional (maybe? I didn't think that "glamour" modeling was quite as risque as the photo shoots she was doing...?).

    I especially liked the 2nd girl who loves camming and feels that this is what she naturally is called to do. You so rarely see that point of view in any sort of production like this. My husband and I always end up after watching anything (movie or documentary) about any type of sex work, because it always ends up so poorly for the girl(s). So it's nice to see a happy sex worker. Yeah, she's having trouble getting a boyfriend, but she's also 24 and has plenty of time to work that out.

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    Am I the only one who flipped when they seen the Microsoft life cam ? I hate that cam , always makes me look like shit and is fuzzy as hell all the time.

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    Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed it, but are those girls on a 'no free chat' site? Or did they just skip that dreadful part of camming?
    If there's no free chat required in England, I'm going to move there! Lol! Plus, non nude is popular? And where were the sex toys scattered around their camming area? I didn't see any, unless I missed the masterbating part.
    Maybe I'm doing something wrong, because I'm not even close to making a quid a week.

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    Thanks for the link!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Noelle_Noir View Post
    Am I the only one who flipped when they seen the Microsoft life cam ? I hate that cam , always makes me look like shit and is fuzzy as hell all the time.
    Haha I flipped in a good way when I saw it because it's the cam I use! XD It's served me well since 2011, but I've been thinking of upgrading lately.

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    Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed it, but are those girls on a 'no free chat' site? Or did they just skip that dreadful part of camming?
    If there's no free chat required in England, I'm going to move there! Lol! Plus, non nude is popular? And where were the sex toys scattered around their camming area? I didn't see any, unless I missed the masterbating part.
    Maybe I'm doing something wrong, because I'm not even close to making a quid a week.
    It looked to me like they were on AdultWork.. I could be wrong though, but the interface seemed to show a site that looked quite a bit like that.

    A quid in the UK is one pound sterling, which is $1.66. I'm sure you're making at least a quid a week!




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    ^^ Oh, lol! Thanks for clearing that up. I didn't know what a quid was, but I must have heard wrong, because it sounded like a lot.

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    I liked it. I always like how real and up close BBC documentaries are no matter what they are. I would've loved to see more variety. We all aren't ex-porn stars or girls trying to make it as a model. I'm really over the thin type to be honest as webcam girls come in all shapes and sizes. Hopefully one day we'll also have the real truth about webcaming where other things like percentages are discussed, back pain, customer annoyances, and society and porn. Webcamming isn't always so glamorous and that truth needs to be exposed. This one toyed with it but I still enjoyed it. Le sigh...some day.




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    Quote Originally Posted by GlamourRouge View Post

    No. You will still see these same girls on webcam after they graduate. Who would give up a good-paying job they like and are doing well with? They will just do other things on the side. Or marry rich. Such is life.
    I DID! I had a full-time vanilla job that was paying 50k per year with great benefits, and I was on the track to a promotion. I wasn't happy, but content. I started camming on the side, and after 2 months I quit my vanilla job to become a full-time cam model! I wanted a better quality of life. And after a few rough months of figuring it out, I now have MUCH more free time and less stress! I'm a lot happier!

    I'm about to watch this one, but I remember seeing another one on SM models a few months back. I think it was an HBO series or something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glamourmilf View Post
    Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed it, but are those girls on a 'no free chat' site? Or did they just skip that dreadful part of camming?
    If there's no free chat required in England, I'm going to move there! Lol! Plus, non nude is popular? And where were the sex toys scattered around their camming area? I didn't see any, unless I missed the masterbating part.
    Maybe I'm doing something wrong, because I'm not even close to making a quid a week.
    Its free chat optional and anyone from anywhere can work on that site. Its not that busy though. No where neeeeeear MFC or SM. It would equivalent to like... ImLive?

    And probably majority of the UK girls are also escorts and you can make escort bookings through the site. So you get a lot of guys asking if you escort. Apparently AW is the equivalent to backpage in the US for escorts, or so I have been told.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glamourmilf View Post
    Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed it, but are those girls on a 'no free chat' site? Or did they just skip that dreadful part of camming?
    If there's no free chat required in England, I'm going to move there! Lol! Plus, non nude is popular? And where were the sex toys scattered around their camming area? I didn't see any, unless I missed the masterbating part.
    Maybe I'm doing something wrong, because I'm not even close to making a quid a week.
    Yeah it's Adultwork they are on (identical interface when she changed her name, and the sounds of justcamit) and I was amazed they were making that much. I think it may be because they are in the UK and also ex porn stars who promote a ton.

    Most adultwork performers seem to charge tiny amounts of money. Kinda pisses me off they didn't tell a more realistic story (but maybe it's because I'm doing adultwork from the USA and they have more traffic for UK performers)? If I raise prices above the US equivalent of $4 a minute I get no shows.


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    Quote Originally Posted by GlamourRouge View Post
    Its not a BAD documentary, but why do these documentaries always talks about how ~*college is the way out!*~. Like... do you know how many webcam girls HAVE degrees, or already HAVE another business on the side they are happy with? I really think vanilla world people's brains overload at the fact that other people are making more money than they are, have a more fulfilling life than they do (more free time, more $$$ for leisure, no boss, etc), and are probably happier than they are. So they justify it by being like OH BUT SHES DESPERATE AND ONLY DOING THIS TO PAY FOR COLLEGE.

    No. You will still see these same girls on webcam after they graduate. Who would give up a good-paying job they like and are doing well with? They will just do other things on the side. Or marry rich. Such is life.
    That's exactly what I was thinking. No way in hell would I go back to the corporate world. That just seems stupid. I had enough of that crap already, Not many jobs can match the convenience and freedom and money that adult work can provide.


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    Quote Originally Posted by laurielegs View Post
    That's exactly what I was thinking. No way in hell would I go back to the corporate world. That just seems stupid. I had enough of that crap already, Not many jobs can match the convenience and freedom and money that adult work can provide.
    YES!!! Exactly! If I could 'thank' more than once I would!

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    It was Adultwork, and the programme was more about the girls than camming...it unfortunately gave a very unrepresentative view of camming! After the phone sex programme, Adultwork was flooded with new girls, which wasn't matched with new customers. Of course lots of new girls find that it isn't that easy, and the money isn't what they thought it would be, but it still impacts on the existing girls greatly. So we'll wait and see what hits us cammers on Adultwork now...
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    I just finished watching it and I think wasn't a good "camming" documentary. It was more of a "reality T.V" show that follow these girls life. They didn't talk about about the actual camming, or pull out any statistics, they didn't have enough variety. I didn't learn anything about camming at all.

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    It wasn't about camming, it was meant to be about the girls.
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