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Originally Posted by cosis
It sucks to hear, and I use to get pissed whenever anyone would say it but the truth of the matter is adapt or die. Tube sites are the future of porn. And paysite will eventually have to cater to them just like they did to TGP's in the past.
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I cannot speak for every tgp out there. I have produced tgp's since 1999. pornfuck.com was my first, Digitaldivasonline.com is the present incarnation of 13 tgps. I have owned 36 lifetime.
Tubes are a TOTALLY DIFFERENT beast than we ever were. Our goal was the goal of our sponsors. To convert. If you did not, we would not have wasted bandwith on you, if you were a paysite, or unless you had something to offer that we wanted. This was pre automated script bullshit. I'm talking webrings and the time when adultcheck was king. Emailing for text trades, the good ol days so to speak.
Think TGP with a password/~krack forum. That is the modern incarnation of an illegal tube.
Tubes that are just dumbasses piss us off too. We are not in some "secret league with tubes" or anything. Am I the only one still speaking for TGP's?!? There are not that many of us left. Other TGP's that were very good friends of mine, pre digitaldivasonline.com, about 80 percent of them are gone in the wind. It's kinda sad.
There was, at one time a great camaraderie between TGP owners. Many of my friends in that game are gone. I am planning on installing a legal tube on DDO to further promote my affiliates and such. But as I posted in a previous thread a couple of weeks ago. Tubes are the natural progression. It is a testament of the amazing laziness of the modern porn surfer. They are not necessarily leaving us, (tgp's), rather they are just checking back less and less, when they get done surfing new shit, they come back and check us out again. We, TGP's are still a "comfort food" for porn surfers. But times are changing people. I will always keep digitaldivasonline.com updated and shit, it's not even complete yet. Although I have changed my business model from a tgp to an index and directory, again, adapting or dying.
In the end, you catered to us and still do, because we put your name out there in ways you could not even fucking imagine. And many times, "brand named" some of your ungrateful asses
and put you on the map! When the big players started the game in 2002 to see who could have the most free shit in their webmaster areas, some of my fellow TGP owners went ape shit and some of us did not and remembered our place in the cycle and kept moving shit forward. All of this tube shit was not our fault. It was the natural progression of easy access, better options and the allure of streaming video.