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Originally Posted by Shap
Some of those sites may want 5 min clips. I'm guessing the smart ones. The other guys won't. And reality is the guys who won't are making it harder on the others to compete for those surfers. You have to find a balance.
One of the beauties of GayTube is how many TRUE amateur videos we have. We have a TON of long video clips but we don't have very many STUDIO long video clips. I think that is a key. We provide a good product that is competitive and still leaves the customer hungry (and willing to pay) for more. Straight tubes don't have that advantage because amateurs aren't uploading to most of the straight tube sites the way they upload to GayTube.
Btw I'm not interested in being the Captain. One of the downfalls of porn is many owners use it as a means to get money and once they hit their target they are GONE! It's not exactly the most socially rewarding industry and for many entrepreneurs I believe that is one of the problems. Many of the true entrepreneurs use porn to load up the bankroll and then make a run at mainstream where they can be proud and get the public stroking to satisfy the next level itch (the level after financial security is achieved).
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Many excellent points here Shap, many. I like what you said about amateurs uploading - cause that's how I started out, as an amateur - and if the aforementioned tubes (other than YouPorn, which is awesome to us) would allow more AM content (that converts, of course) instead of all this endless studio crap (no offense BROgrams/content shooters) then perhaps the tide would turn a little. Some of the tubes - I won't mention them 'cause they ARE affiliates - have rejected this site to be on their tubes:
www.chubbyblondy.com/index1.html
Now here we have a 100% REAL amateur couple, from Tuscany, Italy. He works in the
Chianti fields, picking fucking
wine grapes, I kid you not, while she stays on the farm with the animals. he comes home and every night - EVERY
single fucking NIGHT dammit - she 'fulfill his fantasy', and they tape it. i have hundreds of videos from them i can't even convert fast enough to put on their site. The more you watch their shit the more you like them - they have real italian style, and humor - and you fall in love with them. At least I did! They're absolutely wonderful ppl with low expectations as for success who just do this 'cause they love it/each other.
4 out of the 5 big tubes won't touch them. An Italian amateur who will
show her face? That alone is gold. Nope. So that's a big problem, too, not just the length but the
type of content.
And I can't really bitch about the 'leaders' or 'smart entrepeneurs' who want to 'use' porn to finance their mainstream dreams/goals because that's what I intend to do, too (eventually). Shit, I'm a fucking
cartoon chatacter and shoot all my own stuff from the waist down because I don't necassarily want ppl knowing who I am/what I do. As others have said, this is both a problem and a typical situation, given the nature of adult, the ease of entrance, low overhead, etc.
In the end, we ARE, as AmputateYourHead said, wild animals, and we're all gonna do what we, ourselves, feels is best. Good luck to us all.
