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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
Yes I know full well what porn was like pre-tubes (and pre-Internet as I wrote for Penthouse magazine and reviewed porn video tapes LOL). But this matters NOT. I cannot invent a time machine. I cannot get into the porn biz five years earlier than I did thus riding that "Golden Era" to sweet retirement.
I began in earnest in 2008, during the biggest bank crisis since the Great Depression. EVERYONE said it was a race to zero. Did that stop me? Hell no! Unlike you I did not/do not sit around pining for the good ol' days. I had/have different metrics I equate with success NOW, in 2020 and beyond.
You keep saying smugly the "occasional sale". Do the math, you say - yet are terrible at doing the maths. If I have 100 websites and just a quarter of them make just 1 sale a day how many is that? Class? What if some of them made MORE than a single sale a day? Class? What if I had 200 sites? 300? 400??
You think so small Paul. A single website is so much different than a giant network of sites. Can a single new paysite go from zero to a million a year in revenue in 2020? Sure - with enough resources, and that includes affiliates. Not many want to do this however as there is a bigger return for many on those startup costs but it can be done. How do I know? Because paysites - new ones - keep opening, week after week after week.
Thing BIG Paul! Like the size of your ego.  |
Never use the word "if" to prove a point. Because it means you don't.
So there are as many affiliates, doing as well, making as many sales as there was 15 years ago. Boards are flourishing, GFY is as active as ever and there's no shrinkage in the porn affiliate game.
The reality and I won't use the word if. Are boards have died through lack of use, GFY is slower than it has ever been, ad space on boards no longer paid the bills and there are no new ones opening.
Tubes taking out a billion surfers daily by supplying them free porn has reduced sales. That does not mean no sales are made, it means less are made. The next big section are the premium sites, Brazzers, Met-Art, etc. They soak up a lot of sales. The figures you say "if" you did are more in line with one of those sites the reality is you don't.
But you're this personal when I point out a fact that 1,000 of affiliates have migrated to the mainstream, got into other jobs or doing less. So let's take out the personal and look at the state of the industry. That is that for porn the affiliate side is shrinking.
I cannot get into the porn biz five years earlier than I did thus riding that "Golden Era" to sweet retirement. So you admit is was possible to retire on the money made pre Tubes.
