To all the new faces (affils) around here, welcome and here's the deal.
The adult biz is a lot of competition for an ever growing smaller pie, tightening ratios, traffic which is very competitive and small (everyone clawing at the pie) profit margins.
Tubes (they were inevitable with technology and tube script software venders pushing the way to riches) gave it away and killed ratios for all but the very savvy, long established or highly consolidated.
If I was young I would go drive truck or something. The porn biz is tough as nails to earn a dollar anymore for a noob with no resources.
With that said good luck to all the new affils I see around here.
Anything is possible. The real question is. How bad do you want to succeed in this biz? Cause it is only a job now. No easy money for the vast majority of us affils.
It wont be easy and it will have a major price as you give the best working years of your life to this, most people think, dieing biz.
There will always be money made but is the price to pay now too great for the returns. I think for a young, smart guy with no real knowledge and nothing to invest but his time, the answer is yes.