Originally Posted by crockett

You are still not catching the point I was making. When this forum was busy with adult business it was because of affiliates. Affiliates made the porn world go round and round because everyone needed them. There were thousands of affiliates looking for programs which meant there were program reps here, there were designers trying to sell designs to p eolle building galleries or tgps or blogs. There was traffic guys selling traffic to guys building these same sites. There were guys selling scripts to manage those sites or their traffic. There were guys selling content as both pictures, vids or even writers ect..ect..

All this revolved around the affiliate model which no longer exists as it did, that all went away and so did the business related posts because there is no need for them anymore as that era is dead..


Those guys who were pushing $50/sales to gain affiliates killed this industry.. They kept pushing higher and higher numbers to attract affiliates to pay out those sales they needed to make more money per join and thus they started banging cards with x sales. Eventually someone figured out his numbers and realized he could buy up traffic sites and content sites programs and bang the fuck out of the cards making a quick money grab while never updating sites and that's what he did..

He single handedly destroyed the affiliate model and half the people on this board were kissing his ass while he did it. How many programs did he buy up and kill on his own? There were also outside pressures at thevsame time that opened up traffic directly to site owners or the models themselves that never existed before..

It became very easy for models to sell direct to buyers through sites like myfreecams or even Reddit or Instagram and so on.. in the end it all killed the role of the affiliate webmaster which was the bulk of the user base here at gfy..

Do you remember why gfy was here in the 1st place? It was the affiliate support board for adult.com

That's why there is no business topics, because there is no business to be had be by the people who used to create them. Many of us saw this happening earky on and tried to push to get the forum to go more mainstream but no involvement from the owners killed that idea.

So now it's mostly dead other than those of us who argue about stupid shit to troll each other.. the people who consolidated this industry into a few hands dont need to post here so all that's left trying to post business stuff are those still trying to hang onto the scraps of what once was.