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There are two things that hurt this industry badly.
1. Greed.
2. Youtube.
Greed in the form of cross sales, card banging and shady billing practices caused many people to be wary of joining. They might have joined once, but then got hit for a $100 in cross sales and will never join again. That is no different than having a guy standing at the exit of Walmart and punching everyone in the face as they leave the store. Most people won't come back knowing they are going to get hit every time they shop there.
Youtube's simple existence caused problems because it didn't take long for someone to say, "Huh. . . I should make a porn site like that." This industry has been in a race over the last 10-12 years to see who can give away the most content and thus control the most traffic regardless of the cost. The TGP industry took it up a big notch, but the tube sites were the nuclear bomb to the TGP's semi-automatic rifle.
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