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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
Also if there is someone here who does over a billion in revenue per year in adult just let me know and provide some basic evidence for that. I'll gladly listen to your anecdotes because if you believe porn is around 10 billion then that means you control at least 10% of the industry. But I don't even think Manwin does that which says something. Who here believes Manwin does over a billion a year? I doubt even Fabian will come on here and say they do. I might be wrong!  |
I don't care WHO does the "reporting" because mentioning figures - 10 billion, 5 billion, 100 million - without actual proof is what we used to call in journalism a "red herring". Meaning: bullshit. People are pulling these numbers out of their asses, it's ALL "guesstimates" based on......what? NO ONE fully or accurately reports income in Adult - NO ONE - so trying to come up with figures is a pointless and misleading exercise in futility.
All this does - polls, articles about decreasing revenues, etc - ALL it does is play to people's alread-established FEELINGS that things are getting worse yet no one - NO ONE - has accurate data to back this up. So we can just throw that 10 billion/5 billion figure(s) out the window. LOL
What we are left with IS anecdotal evidence because - AGAIN - that's ALL we have. Period. Fuck, we can't even research revenue by pulling public tax returns since so many companies aren't US-based. So we can all 'react' to this number or that number but it's in a vacuum, it's not accurate, and all it does is confirm one's 'feelings' one way or the other. It's ridiculous but very entertaining. LOL