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I've Decided: Porn Is NOT Dead
We're coming up on just my fourth year in business as "Mister Peabody World" so I feel like I can say with a certain amount of certainty that porn, or the adult industry if you will, is not "dead". It's not even dying. In fact, I'll go so far as to say it's motherfucking FLOURISHING.
I've been a member of GFY for a few years now and have read most of the threads saying our industry is dying or already dead. Adpat or die, the tubes are killing us, free porn is everywhere, etc etc. But I can honestly say what's really happening is not "porn is dead/dying" but rather this truth:
DIFFERANT PEOPLE ARE PROFITING FROM PORN TODAY THAN WERE TEN YEARS AGO.
Once the Internet took hold everything changed. Deep statement huh? I know - but it's true. I don't want to sound like the ubiquitous Paul Markham here but before the Web a handful of companies 'controlled" the filming and distribution of porn. Even when the Net started to become a daily addiction for the masses a few old school visionaries jumped on board and got a head start on what would happen next:
Amateur porn. Yup, that's what did it. Suddenly anyone with access to a cheap video camera and a USB port could suddenly film their own porn and sell it on the Internet. So porn went from "pornstars" to "everyone's a star!" a la American idol.
Meanwhile, the tubes said 'fuck it' and went on a 'user-uploaded' rampage. the Web was flooded with oodles of free porn and the DMCA merry-go-round started, leaving established internet companies scrambling.....
Okay great - but how is any of this "flourishing"? Think about it: more people go on the Internet daily. Millions upon millions of people visit the PornHubs and YouPorns of the world. MANY of them buy SOMEthing while many do not. But we're talking MILLIONS of people here, every damn day...
Today we have cams making millions, and dating making millions, and traffic being sold in the millions, ad buys totaling (as an industry) in the millions, and clip store filled with amateur producers making a decent living, hundreds of thousands of paysites, billing companies pack the trade shows (they must be processing millions), blogs galore, video on demand, mobile porn, DVDs are still being filmed....
No, porn is not dead or dying. More and differant people are profiting from it. For those in this industry going on ten years or longer it must FEEL like times are worse and I'm sure they are for these people. But ask someone who's making a living via porn on the Internet in 2012 when they were struggling doing something else a few years ago (like myself). For these people a clip store or a paysite could be a Godsend. Now times these small-time producers/webmasters by hundreds of thousands and that's where "the good times" went.
So what's a porn man (or woman) to do? Grab what you can with both hands and adjust your expectations. Porn is still a great way to make a living or some side income. Maybe the dream of being a Hugh Hefner or a Shap is over with (and I'm not convinced they're not the same person), just like a rock band shouldn't dream of becoming another Stones cause that will never happen again either.
So stay encouraged my online friends!
Porn is NOT dead. Long live porn!
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