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Originally Posted by Shap
Paysites started in 1997/1998. From then until now there have been very little changes to the overall model. Pay $19 to $35 a month for access to porn. It was like that in 1997 it's like that in 2016. You get videos and photos for that. Little else. Again nothing much has changed.
Now let's look at every online business. They've all MASSIVELY changed in the past 20 years. In fact most have MASSIVELY changed in the past 2 to 5 years. Paysites can not continue as they are. They must change.
What will happen to paysites operating exactly as they always have is going to be a gradual decline. For some it will be rapid and for others it will be slow. But the decline will happen.
That i am 100% sure of. There is no magical comeback for the current version of what a "paysite" is.
I think there is potential for a new generation of paysite to evolve and come out from this. The reality is more people than ever before are consuming porn. Someone has to create and produce that porn and they have to be paid for the work. How to make it all work is the magic question.
Charging $34.99 a month for 5 updates a week is not the future of porn. That is the past. Now what is the future???
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Cams. Performers have taken the means of production into their own hands. As you say, paying for videos and photosets is old hat, however, cam performers are knocking them out from their profile pages, so there's clearly a need.
It would seem the key to the future is personalised, interactive porn. At the moment, cams offer this. You can find pretty much everything else on one of the big tube sites, or the million other "great new idea" generic tube sites which are churned out every day.
However, I don't think it'll be too long before the performers don't want to be beholden to cam companies either. I'm working on something at the moment, but it's early days.