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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
I've listened to this "New Blood" line for years. The Internet was new blood. Well the new blood is now old blood, didn't take long for that to happen.
The truth is the new blood comes into this industry thinking it's easier than it is. Not just today, it's been happening for 30 years I know of. Some of us survived by listening and learning. Most didn't because they didn't listen and learn.
so what would new blood bring to the online porn industry? A better way to give the product away for free. Well we've definitely been good at that for the last 10 years.
A better way to shoot, design, create a paysite? That's like saying someone who has never driven a car can drive better than an experienced driver.
A new niche that has never been thought of? The Internet never made that possible. Girls were taking their own porn pictures with Polaroids and video tape cameras. Homegrown were buying the videos 15 years ago, I think, and magazines were printing the pictures 20 years ago.
The Internet is just another vehicle to deliver porn. It CAN deliver more niche porn because of the low costs of publishing. but I've not seen any niche that wasn't produced 15 years age produced on the Internet.
What the Internet did do, is allow more people with less skills to open a website or drive traffic. And give away tons of free porn.
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Homegrown started selling homemade porn in 1982. That makes the company almost 30 years into the amateur niche.
I agree with what you are saying - so much of what many people here think is unique others were doing well before that.
Amateur has changed more in relationship to people's owning more advanced cameras and the ability to edit their material, the natural progression of becoming more accustomed to shooting too. It is like the difference between someone learning to use a blunderbuss back in the 1500's versus someone using a laser scoped rifle today.