Yup, you have a point there. You can have all the flashy shit you want to have, but the site must ultimately convert, that's true.
And my sites do..... even with your ole bargain basement content....... rotfl... I have some sites that have had members since December of last year, and you know why? I give them what I SAY I am giving them. I don't buy this fancy, hegely expensive content and then put that on the tour and put the "bargain" content in the members areas, my members get well more than what they paid for when they get in those members areas.
As far as the 24 yr olds in pigtails being teens? Well, being as I am a 40 yr old woman and have a 20 yr old daughter that I STILL see as a 5 yr old sometimes. It is a bit tricky for me to judge between the teens and 24 yr olds sometimes. I have never been too slick with the whole teen thing, and for my teen site, I had to go outside my own program to gather some people that DO teens to tell me exactly what was teen and what wasn't. I bought some content that was being sold as teens once and I had that on there........ I later found out that they weren't teens at all, but I thought they were because to ME, they looked like teens. lol
With the help of some very good teen promoters, I got it all worked out and am so thankful I did, because I had NO idea that what I had wasn't teens, they looked like it to ME....... LOL