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Here to me is the most telling part of this whole discussion. When I think back about my buddy that this thread is about he and I used to talk about paysites. He would tell me how he thought Captian Stabbin was wild or he liked some other site or things like that. Now he talks about tube sites. For the first time since I have been in this business there are porn sites that the public is talking about and knows as houshold type names. Sadly they aren't paysites.
We brought this on ourselves. This industries reaction to things is to give more away. If sales lag, give more away. If traffic dips, give more away. We started with circle jerk sites then made link sites which became TGPs then MGPs then thumb preview TGPs and MPGs and now tube sites. We race to see who can give more away than the next guy.
When I started in this biz we were like the people that give out samples at the grocery store. They give you a bite in hopes that you will buy the full product. We went from giving a bite to giving a small lunch to giving a full dinner to giving a full dinner with drinks and dessert and now we are giving away a full free buffet with a pitcher of ice water in hopes of selling that person a glass of Pepsi.
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