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Originally Posted by Shap
Vexes. I hate threads like this. That's just me. I hate when people don't think the world of us. So obviously this thread has ruined my day. The situation was spun completely out of control and has been interpreted 100% not what I was wanting. That's my own fault for letting that happen. Not much I can do.
That said threads like this are unfortunately usually good for business. The affiliates that are responsible for 80 to 90% of our sales are very close with us. Most of them are businessman that have been faced with the situation we are facing. They know it's no easy situation and you can't always be the good guy. We've never had a negative thread hurt our business. It just doesn't happen. The core of our sales and traffic is with people that don't care about what anonymous gfy folk think. They care about the $$$$ we make together and that's it. On the other hand today for some reason everybody that didn't know about SexTube and GayTube knows about it now and many of them are hitting Michael up for advertising buys.
They say no publicity is bad publicity. I hate bad publicity but when it comes to GFY I can honestly say that saying has been true for us.
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Shap, I'm truely very sorry for my comments in this thread. Earlier I pointed out that you advertise on a copyright-infringing tube site,
http://www.tnaflix.com, but your employee pointed out that it was an affiliate. I should have known that you'd, never, ever, ever advertise on a tube site that profited from copyright infringement. Not even Youporn.
Also, I can tell you're pretty torn up about all this publicity you're getting, and how you're getting such a raw deal with your lawyers advising you to take a domain/site that benefits from search terms that your own site can't rank in the top three for. It's hard, I know.
And even though you put up a brave front here on GFY, I know you're wiping your tears away with 100 dollar bills while bitter-sweetly enjoying that tropical sunset and lamenting your decision to get into the adult industry in the first place. I feel your pain.
If you need someone to talk to, I'm always at my computer working tirelessly to develop sites on domains that maybe one day your legal team will advise you to take too.
My ICQ number is 418194907.