Hmmm... That article is full of shit, at least when it comes to the many, hard-working free-site and gallery-creating webmasters, even smaller TGP owners. Branding? What, your sponsor? Please, that's not making ME any money. The probability of me getting a sign-up, from someone viewing my free site/gallery/TGP, just because they've heard good things about the paysite I advertise is not too overwhelming. I can certainly agree that there is a certain amount of branding going on in the business, when it comes to the bigger names, but that branding is more targeted towards webmasters, the busy little ants, than towards the surfing public. I mean, come on, do you really think the big TGP's/Link Lists would get that many submissions just because their sites look good?
Would sponsors make that much money if it weren't for the gallery sbmitters? Plus, what do the mainstream webbies know anyway? They're fucked up in their heads, that's why they're going under. Never seen/heard of so many bankruptcies in my entire life. I understand that the IT business is experiencing growing pains (amazingly enough, after so many years), but how come the adult business keeps going, while many mainstream Internet businesses hardly break even?
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Respect,
DamageX