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Originally Posted by MisterPeabody
Well, it's an amazingly simple business, when you think about it: sell sexual images and videos to (mostly) men who crave ejaculation. But as free porn continues to drown us all it's getting harder and harder to figure out how to sell what used to be easy to sell.
I do often wonder if the smart ones in this business were the ones who sold and got out back in 2007 or so.
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In a funny way, I think ironically maybe even
because people mistrust the online adult industry in general, it tends to be less scamtastic than similar businesses. Or at least, I have had some pretty major VC-funded "mainstream" online companies work awfully hard to scam people out of chump change. In online adult, someone stops paying and they are pretty much done in a few weeks. I started off in magazines and online is pretty awesome comparatively. Just the speed of cashflow in online adult helps keep people honest.
There are a lot of businesses it has sucked to be in since 2007 though. I mean, freaking megacorp McDonald's couldn't get the normal access to capital they require to do business normally.