jmcb420

If anything really hit GFY where it hurts it was the turn that the industry itself took when tubes became prevalent...

The GFY I first found was a madhouse of awesomeness. Trolls, and noobs have always been a part of this place, but the tubes were the official catalyst that brought GFY here.

Before tubes, it was possible for someone with no experience at all to buy up a few domains and share in the wealth... Because people use to pay for porn. It was too nice to last, and tubes murdered it. Affiliate sales dried up because the proggies they pushed were all available for free...

Eventually people needed to decide between sticking it out, or cashing in and running. After I had six straight months of downward trends, I did just that. I sold my sites, sold all my content, and walked away. I never got to the point where I was a proggie owner, I was just a good, solid middle man that did my thing and knew when the time to go had come.

I suspect now, that a lot of then GFY was exactly the same. Good middle men, the vast majority, and this was where we hung out. The tubes, and the industry reaction to them killed the middle man outright.

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