Fake Case Study About FakeHospital.com

As a friend of mine once said: "You can't stop stupid people from saying stupid things." That should be the byline of XMediatrends and its staff. I was approached by the people behind this sham via email today, 5 days before this they intended to publish a Fake Case Study about my company. They told me that I could either rush to provide them with real information that might be useful or that they would publish this fake study on their own without my involvement. Their draft article is full of factual errors, had the name of my company wrong, makes broad conclusions based on a border-line retarded view of too few facts and worse. In fact, they should have used FakeCaseStudy.xxx as the domain for this mess of an article.


In my emailed replies I explained to them repeatedly that they do not have my consent to use my company name, any data I have posted or any other information about my business in their article. I also pointed out that their conclusions are baseless and that they would be presenting their readers with a bunch of nonsense that has no value. As I told their editor via email "You along with Paywit will be laughed out of the industry if you print what you have written. Your assumptions in the case study astound me." These are not journalists or industry insiders, they are a clueless couple of parasites who provide nothing.


For those who are not yet aware, Xmediatrends is run by a guy who uses the name 'Paywit' on XBIZ.net and GFY.com. If you go to either and read the many threads where he attempted to participate, you will quickly see that he is someone who should be reading articles and not writing them. On countless occasions he has posted nonsense, been called out by people who are actually in this business and yet he continues to argue with everyone for no apparent reason. Unfortunately he is not a board troll, he is worse than that. He is a parasite who hopes to profit by launching a newsletter that preys upon the openness of XBIZ, GFY, YNOT and adult industry site owners. Honestly, I doubt anyone would really mind all that much if he were qualified to do it well... but as you can see from his attempts, he is not qualified for much of anything.


All they have done is poorly scrape industry message boards like XBIZ.net and GFY for data points that were shared by business owners intending to help other business owners and webmasters. Then they attempted to cobble together some kind of "bogus analysis" like a five year old might attempt to build an article with some duct tape and a few drawings in crayon.


Why does this bother me, and why should it bother you?

When I reply to industry webmasters on message boards, sit on panels or do interviews with real media outlets, I provide a lot of information. So do many other business owners in the adult industry. That free exchange of information is part of what makes this industry fun and profitable. Implicit in that arrangement is a level of trust that the information will be used for the purpose of discussion in the threads, or by actual webmasters to improve their own sites. Having Paywit and Xmediatrends running around scraping things out of context, adding a layer of pure nonsense on top of it and trying to sell it to advertisers as a real news source is dangerous. It will make people like me post less often and with much less candor. It makes it harder for XBIZ or GFY or YNOT and other serious news outlets to get access to real information. It disconnects webmasters from each other... and it benefits nobody.


Please consider the source if you do choose to read this Fake Case Study. Better yet, consider the source and choose not to bother reading it. When I asked a friend how to handle this threat, he suggested I could probably pay them off as a sponsor and tell them to keep my name out of their grip entirely. That may have been a wise move, but it would not have been best move for my company or the industry I do care about. So, I've decided instead to lay everything out in the open as I usually do, and I hope the industry will do the right things to allow me (and many others) to continue laying things out in the open in the future.

[_Richard_]

sounds like free advertising!

[Relentless]

Just saw this elsewhere....

Based on reputation alone and assuming all this is true, wtf is Paywit thinking...

I write articles often for news media outlets. If someone asks not to be included in a story, I politely move along and come back to them for other future stories. I could see it if this was News, but this is at best an editorial "case study" about a company that doesn't want to be included in one. Not only is this kind of behavior by Xmediatrends idiotic from a journalistic point of view, it's a horrifically bad business move to start threatening the people you hope to interview. I am so glad I have nothing to do with that publication. I'm also troubled if someone is scraping adult boards for quotes to be used in publications that damage the ability of adult boards to get thoughtful people to participate.

Did you mention this to Theo/Eric/etc ?

[AdultKing]

Is this the Pay With a Kiss guy ?

[Relentless]

Originally Posted by AdultKing

Is this the Pay With a Kiss guy ?

Correct.

(PS - As a side note I sent you an email... didn't get a reply yet AK. You can reach me on Skype or ICQ any time.)

Originally Posted by Relentless

Just saw this elsewhere....

Based on reputation alone and assuming all this is true, wtf is Paywit thinking...

I write articles often for news media outlets. If someone asks not to be included in a story, I politely move along and come back to them for other future stories. I could see it if this was News, but this is at best an editorial "case study" about a company that doesn't want to be included in one. Not only is this kind of behavior by Xmediatrends idiotic from a journalistic point of view, it's a horrifically bad business move to start threatening the people you hope to interview. I am so glad I have nothing to do with that publication. I'm also troubled if someone is scraping adult boards for quotes to be used in publications that damage the ability of adult boards to get thoughtful people to participate.

Did you mention this to Theo/Eric/etc ?

What really concerns me is that on the thread that Paywit scraped the information, he asked me to post an update of the FakeHospital.com stats around 1 month after we launched. Of course, I believed this to be for the benefit of the thread. I was too busy to respond at the time. But thank god, because obviously, Paywit had other motives for using that information.

Yes, I have written to Theo and also Alec.

Originally Posted by AdultKing

Is this the Pay With a Kiss guy ?

Yes he is, and I also refused to take that product. Maybe this is his revenge

[AdultKing]

Originally Posted by Ruseful

Yes he is, and I also refused to take that product. Maybe this is his revenge

I believe he's been shopping that idea to file lockers and other less than reputable sites.

Originally Posted by AdultKing

I believe he's been shopping that idea to file lockers and other less than reputable sites.

It would not surprise me as he has alienated the adult industry.

[Klen]

With success hate coming too,if people hate you then you know you made it lol

[lucas131]

hello robert. please can you look and maybe explain my strange stats with your program?

https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1135621

i know, of course, no problems on your side, but i will be really happy to know your opinion about it ... thank you much

Originally Posted by lucas131

hello robert. please can you look and maybe explain my strange stats with your program?

https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1135621

i know, of course, no problems on your side, but i will be really happy to know your opinion about it ... thank you much

Its JT, not Robert. I have asked you on that thread to email me directly with your aff id etc so we can look into the issue that you are seeing. Only you are seeing this and you repeatedly post on any thread that I participate in with the same issue. again, my email is jt at ruseful . com. Please email me.

[lucas131]

Originally Posted by Ruseful

Its JT, not Robert. I have asked you on that thread to email me directly with your aff id etc so we can look into the issue that you are seeing. Only you are seeing this and you repeatedly post on any thread that I participate in with the same issue. again, my email is jt at ruseful . com. Please email me.

excuse then, jt i am sure some emails will solve totally nothing. i will just take you into my new test joins project and will let you know the results ... that will be the best for everyone

Originally Posted by lucas131

excuse then, jt i am sure some emails will solve totally nothing. i will just take you into my new test joins project and will let you know the results ... that will be the best for everyone

ok And is this a product you are looking to promote to the industry?

Just knowing your aff id would be good, then I can have my webmaster look into your account. I have no idea who you are apart from the guy that posts about issues on my program and insinuates malpractice.

[bluebook18]

Originally Posted by KlenTelaris

With success hate coming too,if people hate you then you know you made it lol

I second that

Originally Posted by bluebook18

I second that

I third it

[bluebook18]

Originally Posted by Ruseful

I third it

I've replied to the mail

[The Porn Nerd]

As a former journalist (I love saying that, please excuse me - mostly because there IS no 'journalism' anymore, or not much of it, as JT's experience shows) I learned very quickly how to protect sources and what information was on 'background' and what was for publication. (To show how old I am: back then (1986-1999) we had these people called 'Fact Checkers' who would actually sit there and go over your copy line-by-line to ensure accuracy. For anything 'questionable' we also had a 'Legal Department'. Today? We have the Internet!)

Sorry you had to go through this JT. When you're running a business, and growing as fast as you are, it's hard to do everything. You must constantly feel "under the gun". I know I do and I'm a tiny % of your size. Some serious advice: vet everyone, always ask for examples/references and if you yourself are going to be a "face" of Ruseful then never, ever interact with anyone about your business unless you are relaxed and as stress-free as possible. Oh, and always smile. Haha!!

But hey, as they say: there's never any bad publicity.

Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd

As a former journalist (I love saying that, please excuse me - mostly because there IS no 'journalism' anymore, or not much of it, as JT's experience shows) I learned very quickly how to protect sources and what information was on 'background' and what was for publication. (To show how old I am: back then (1986-1999) we had these people called 'Fact Checkers' who would actually sit there and go over your copy line-by-line to ensure accuracy. For anything 'questionable' we also had a 'Legal Department'. Today? We have the Internet!)

Sorry you had to go through this JT. When you're running a business, and growing as fast as you are, it's hard to do everything. You must constantly feel "under the gun". I know I do and I'm a tiny % of your size. Some serious advice: vet everyone, always ask for examples/references and if you yourself are going to be a "face" of Ruseful then never, ever interact with anyone about your business unless you are relaxed and as stress-free as possible. Oh, and always smile. Haha!!

But hey, as they say: there's never any bad publicity.

I started breeding my first puppies in 1986

Actually, I set the company up in 2 modules, production and website. We have managers responsible for each and they have their teams below them. So I am not involved in too much of the day to day, and only speak with the 2 managers, and 99.9% of that is via email. I am certainly not someone who micro manages, my head would literally explode if I was. I do enjoy going on location though, enjoy being around the crews, but I am a bit of a loner when it comes to work. I can't work when others are around me as the slightest interruption will make me lose my trail of thought. My attention span is very narrow too, I can't watch TV and rarely watch a whole movie. I honestly blame YouPorn for that and watching 100's of scenes a month, doing my homework looking for a new niche, or how to improve on whats already out there.

And this morning, was supposed to be a great morning, our new doctor was shooting his first scene for FakeHospital.com. The 3rd email I opened was the one about the article and it REALLY bothered me and with every one of their responses, my day got worse.

[robwod]

JT: Most here probably don't remember how successful Luke Ford was in alienating himself from the industry. While not entirely the same situation, it is somewhat of a deja vu moment all the same. In my opinion, discretion and journalistic integrity are not exactly strong points here. In Ford's case, he was also met with a few lawsuits as a result. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Ford

You have to be a special kind of person to get yourself alienated from the adult industry. And it sounds like your experience with Xmediatrends points towards them being on the fast track to alienation.

[AdultKing]

It's worth noting that this idiot's (Paywit) website for this project also goes to a parked page.

[Paul]

Originally Posted by Ruseful

And this morning, was supposed to be a great morning, our new doctor was shooting his first scene for FakeHospital.com. The 3rd email I opened was the one about the article and it REALLY bothered me and with every one of their responses, my day got worse.

You should consider hiring a Lawyer or Solicitor to deal with this BS, that way you won't have to waste your time and energy on it.

[bean-aid]

Originally Posted by Ruseful

Its JT, not Robert. I have asked you on that thread to email me directly with your aff id etc so we can look into the issue that you are seeing. Only you are seeing this and you repeatedly post on any thread that I participate in with the same issue. again, my email is jt at ruseful . com. Please email me.

I just looked at the thread... you didn't respond in it.

This one... https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1135621

I suppose a different one? But something about teencat keeps going, until the truth is told. And I hold him in high regard for it.

I guess pay with a kiss is getting the wrath of xbiz now?

Do they now have moderators and one of them being jeff dillioniare? so fucking funny
Just add wizzo to the mix and you will have a monopoly...

[The Porn Nerd]

Originally Posted by Ruseful

I started breeding my first puppies in 1986

Actually, I set the company up in 2 modules, production and website. We have managers responsible for each and they have their teams below them. So I am not involved in too much of the day to day, and only speak with the 2 managers, and 99.9% of that is via email. I am certainly not someone who micro manages, my head would literally explode if I was. I do enjoy going on location though, enjoy being around the crews, but I am a bit of a loner when it comes to work. I can't work when others are around me as the slightest interruption will make me lose my trail of thought. My attention span is very narrow too, I can't watch TV and rarely watch a whole movie. I honestly blame YouPorn for that and watching 100's of scenes a month, doing my homework looking for a new niche, or how to improve on whats already out there.

And this morning, was supposed to be a great morning, our new doctor was shooting his first scene for FakeHospital.com. The 3rd email I opened was the one about the article and it REALLY bothered me and with every one of their responses, my day got worse.

Ahh puppies! I am planning on getting one of those critters soon.....

I'm actually the same way (needing to work alone). For the past few months I've been at home with my family attending to some medical needs so, relatively-speaking, there's more people around (speaking of relatives heh). Locking myself away for a few hours is the only way to get shit DONE it seems. I can't imagine if I had a staff around, always pestering me for this or that...

Get yourself one of those King Solomon rings that says 'This Too Shall Pass". Worked for him; anytime he felt stressed he just looked at his ring. :D

Originally Posted by beaner

I just looked at the thread... you didn't respond in it.

This one... https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1135621

I suppose a different one? But something about teencat keeps going, until the truth is told. And I hold him in high regard for it.

I guess pay with a kiss is getting the wrath of xbiz now?

Do they now have moderators and one of them being jeff dillioniare? so fucking funny
Just add wizzo to the mix and you will have a monopoly...

Actually Beaner, I responded on other threads where he brings the same thing up asking for his aff account. But I found his aff code and we looked at his account and can see nothing wrong. We also did a test join and it worked fine. So, other than the comments other affiliates or web masters have responded too on that thread, I have nothing more to add, but thanks for your concern in the matter.

Jeff, Colin, Relentless etc, doing a good job thus far

[30SalesPlus]

What a fucking pile of shit this paywit sounds like.

Originally Posted by 30SalesPlus

What a fucking pile of shit this paywit sounds like.

Out of courtesy to mr peers on gfy, I am letting you know that I am deleting my profile on gfy and will not be back. I have now done so on Xbiz .net.

I simply do not want to be part of either comuity.

It was nice while it lasted and tanks for all the good banter and laughs. My email it @ Ruseful

[Klen]

Originally Posted by Ruseful

Out of courtesy to mr peers on gfy, I am letting you know that I am deleting my profile on gfy and will not be back. I have now done so on Xbiz .net.

I simply do not want to be part of either comuity.

It was nice while it lasted and tanks for all the good banter and laughs. My email it @ Ruseful

Lol who pissed on your cheerios

[The Porn Nerd]

Originally Posted by Ruseful

Out of courtesy to mr peers on gfy, I am letting you know that I am deleting my profile on gfy and will not be back. I have now done so on Xbiz .net.

I simply do not want to be part of either comuity.

It was nice while it lasted and tanks for all the good banter and laughs. My email it @ Ruseful

In truth, you do not NEED to be a part of either community but now expect the haters to grow.

Best of luck JT!

[Klen]

Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd

In truth, you do not NEED to be a part of either community but now expect the haters to grow.

Best of luck JT!

Actually such move reduce haters,since fabian was kicked out of manwich almost nobody mention manwich now.After all there is a reason why people says "dont feed the troll"

[Alex1776]

Dooooooooont go JT !!!

[Klen]

Originally Posted by Alex1776

Dooooooooont go JT !!!

[The Porn Nerd]

Originally Posted by KlenTelaris

Actually such move reduce haters,since fabian was kicked out of manwich almost nobody mention manwich now.After all there is a reason why people says "dont feed the troll"

Yes but JT is not "out" at Ruseful. Fabian just got, well, deleted (as it were) from Manwin et al.

JT's issue was too honest for his own good.

[Naughty Webby]

It's a shame when trolls cause valuable contributors to leave. If same trolls listened to those more successful than them, and maybe actually worked, they'd be cashing less embarrassing cheques.

[bean-aid]

Originally Posted by Ruseful

Out of courtesy to mr peers on gfy, I am letting you know that I am deleting my profile on gfy and will not be back. I have now done so on Xbiz .net.

I simply do not want to be part of either comuity.

It was nice while it lasted and tanks for all the good banter and laughs. My email it @ Ruseful

I can tell you posted on phone and after midnight your time. The great thing about gfy is many people are cool... some make a lot of money and cool.

I commend you on deleting xbiz account as the forum sucks. The above post quoted appears to be heat of the moment.

Cool thing is... gfy forgets, forgives, and carries on like it should.

[Klen]

Lol he indeed deleted account,though how he will just stop posting.