Pretty much in accordance with what I have been thinking about tubes.
Granted I had stepped away for over two years, so I might not be as observant as someone right in the thick of things.
This tube shit is parallel to the TGP/MGP concerns. The difference is that this is affecting EVERYONE instead of JUST gallery submitters, usenet, email, bbs marketers etc.
Eventually, just as you say, every single webmaster will have tubes up - the surfer will find themselves in the same spot they're in now - go try to find porn and get jerked around somehow and get frustrated.
It used to be, the surfer would get frustrated and signup.
Now, the surfer gets frustrated and says fuck it, I can go jerk for free without the headache of figuring this shit out and after I'm done I'm gonna eat, watch TV or do some other shit that doesn't include signing up to your shit.
So, on one hand this is par for the course for adult shooting itself in the foot once again; but the speculation is over. Eventually people are going to know THE site to go find ANYTHING for free. We've been able to recover from most foot-shooting incidents, but in this instance we're blowing the whole foot off.
Which is fine. Dirty Dane said it best: Choose - limit - tease. Fact of the matter is - when you get a surfer in your network, you control his attention. ACTUAL selling; business and marketing sense is RARE in this industry. Everyone thinks they have it, but 90% have more traffic or money than sense - and eventually that won't be enough.
So, I guess my point is, the sky IS falling - but only for those of you who cannot keep your heads down & just work your shit and rely 100% on the hard work of others to keep bringing money into your pocket.
