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From £12K per year to £8K per month: The success story of a Cam Model
Here is another cam girl successful story, which can encourage many others to take the plunge and give it a go. Emily Kathleen, 27 yo, has gone from practically homeless to now holding an agency with 550 models employed, and that in just one year!
Emily was working as a customer advisor during the pandemic in 2020 where she earned just £12K per year. During the lockdown she decided to try her luck as a cam girl, on the first night she earned £400, which is more than she would normally earn per week. Currently she’s earning a huge £8K per month, which dwarfs her old £12K salary.
Some may be surprised to discover that this is not just about Emily stripping off her clothes on a webcam, she also gives her clients what is called the ‘girlfriend experience’, this typically includes chatting, flirting and forming a relationship with them.
It didn’t take long for Emily to fall in love with her new job, so then in May 2021, she set up her own cam girl agency called High Society Models, and she now has almost 550 models working for her.
Emily is an advocate for the empowerment of her models, and looks don’t matter, she will employ all shapes, sizes and ages, and help the women to become free from their old low-paying day jobs.
She’s now started a TikTok page about her new agency, it already has 12,000 followers. She says “Webcamming has completely turned my life around. I was practically homeless a few years ago about to lose my council flat. I can’t believe where I am now, and I absolutely love what I do and it helps that I earn really decent money. It’s not for everyone, but I found my calling and became my own boss. I want to try and break the stigma around the industry and show how empowering this work can be for women.”
While working in her office job, she had found the ‘pressure’ of Covid too much and so got signed off with stress. She says “I have never been ill from stress in my life! It was a very difficult time. I had nothing to lose so I thought I’d give webcam modeling a go. It was scary leaving my job, but I found something I loved doing.” In Emily’s new role, she would turn on her laptop every day and keep her clients entertained via her Internet connection. Some clients simply wanted to chat. Altogether it was on average around 20-30 hours per week of work.
She explains “I strip and have fun with them if I feel comfortable. I provide a ‘girlfriend experience’ which is about building an online relationship with someone. Men are there to speak to an actual person – otherwise they could go and watch porn. I would chat to them, flirt and just have a laugh.”
With her new-found knowledge and power, she decided she wanted to financially empower other women too, so that’s when she started up her own webcam agency.
Emily explains “I wanted my models to have full control over videos and outfits. In webcamming, nudity is preferable but not essential. Most important to me is that they feel comfortable and empowered by what they’re doing.
“We have women of all shapes and sizes – one of our biggest earners is a size 20 girl. We even have couples who do webcamming together. I still can’t believe how much I love my job and the fact I’m not living paycheck to paycheck anymore. I want to help women gain confidence and live a better quality of life by finding the same financial freedom I did. It’s completely changed my life – and I hope I can do the same for others.”
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The First Camgirl and the rise of the Live Cam Industry
In April 1996, Jennifer Ringley began the popular website JenniCam. She was the first real full time online webcam girl and she continued the webcam until 2003.
Jennifer was in college, studying computer engineering. She saw a webcam for sale at a tech store. Webcams were a relatively new technology at the time and so she bought one. Then she realized she didn’t have anything interesting to record. And so, she turned it into a learning project. She launched her site, Jennicam, to give herself a programming challenge. She was seeing if she could write a script to maintain a live-stream site. Her initial script uploaded a still image every 15 minutes to her site.
Previously, live webcams transmitted static shots from cameras aimed through windows or at coffee pots. Ringley’s innovation was simply to allow others to view her daily activities.
In June 2008, CNET hailed JenniCam as one of the greatest defunct websites in history.
Regarded by some as a conceptual artist, Ringley viewed her site as a straight-forward document of her life. She did not wish to filter the events that were shown on her camera, so sometimes she was shown nude or engaging in sexual behaviour, including sexual intercourse and masturbation. This was a new use of Internet technology in 1996 and viewers were stimulated both for its sociological implications and for sexual arousal. Surveillance became conceptual art, as noted by Mark Tribe in ‘New Media Art’: In Web sites like JenniCAM, in which a young woman installed Web cameras in her home to expose her everyday actions to online viewers. . . surveillance became a source of voyeuristic and exhibitionistic excitement. . . Institutional surveillance and the invasion of privacy have been widely explored by New Media artists.
One day, Jennifer got a call from her website provider saying she owed them $300 in overages. She realized this site was becoming something much bigger than expected. Traffic quickly became enormous. She eventually got more than 100 million views in a given week. Jennicam later inspired shows like Big Brother, and other “voyeur-tainment” sites.
The possibility of sex had enormous appeal to readers. She noticed that anytime she was changing clothes, her traffic would go to the moon.
Why did she quit? Jenny said was simply tired and wanted her own life. At Jennicam’s peak, she averaged 7 million views a day. Jenny learned, before most, that living in the public eye of the internet has enormous peaks and valleys. The drama is tenfold. The praise is thick and colorful. And the daggers come out quickly.
The emerge of Sex Camming
Sex camming emerged along with the development of web cameras and streaming technology in the middle of the 1990s, and spread along with broadband internet in the 2000s. Along with the digitization of the entire sex industry, sex camming has become a global business. Although today there are hundreds of sexcam sites operating worldwide, the market is dominated by the oligopoly of a few companies.
During the last twenty years sex camming has become a global and highly competitive industry. Despite the differences between the business models of the various platforms, their general structure is the same: customers, webcam models and third parties such as studios register to the sites, and performers get a share of the money paid by the customers.
Webcams are video cameras that stream or feed videos or images in real-time via a computer network like the internet. The first webcam hit the market in the ’90s. Today, webcams are available in most digital gadgets.
Reports indicate that the making of webcams has become a lucrative industry that is developing every day. In 2019, the webcam market estimated $1.9 billion. The expectations are that the figures will rise every year until 2028. Before introducing the live adult cams, videos got pre-recorded then posted on porn sites or other ideal platforms. Also, porn stars and their clients or viewers communicated via chat, instant messages, and emails. The response to this kind of communication could take time.
The probability of misunderstanding a written message or watching a non-live video is high. But in live adult cams, the engagement is instant. You can ask a question and receive an immediate answer. If you misunderstand something, the other party clarifies to you at that moment.
During a live adult cam, you can see your viewers or the porn actor. In return, live interactions and conversations emerge, triggering confidence and trust between the parties involved. Viewers can also direct instructions enhancing interaction and satisfaction.
This better connectivity makes the adult cam stars more encouraged to do their thing while the visitors always have a reason to keep coming back for more. In turn, the adult entertainment industry expands and creates better content.
Although sexcam sites emphasize a direct, personal relationship between performers and customers in their marketing, there is a complex infrastructure facilitating the work of models, including chat operators and studios where models work, which is partly concentrated on the semi-periphery. Models may register on the platforms individually and work from home, however, they can also work from studios. Romania is the current center of studio-based sex camming: according to unofficial estimates, around 5000 studios operate in the country. Although many studios operate independently, some of them strongly cooperate with particular platforms.
Live adult cams have brought more good to the adult entertainment industry, as illustrated above. People enjoy better connection, content, security, privacy, and satisfaction. In conclusion, webcams have played a significant role in boosting the adult industry’s growth.
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Sharesome Parent Company acquires Nafty
Flame Technologies AG, Switzerland, the company behind the world’s largest sex-positive social media platform Sharesome has announced that it has acquired all assets of the Nafty ecosystem, one of the most recognized Web3 projects for adult content creators, for an undisclosed sum. Flame Technologies and the Nafty team will together pursue their common vision of bringing social media and decentralized finance (DeFi) together.
The Nafty Web3 ecosystem includes a blockchain-based payment solutions API, an NFT marketplace, a content subscription platform, and a crypto-based fanclub.
In the past years, the adult industry saw a power shift from studios and tube sites to independent content creators on social media. But it is increasingly difficult for them to promote NSFW products there. That’s why Flame Technologies developed the social discovery platform Sharesome for content creators where they can advertise their pay sites like OnlyFans.
Sharesome, the only sex-positive social media site, has almost 2M monthly active users and 400M posts viewed every month. Users spend an average of 8 minutes on the site. Sharesome already has a Web3 layer in the form of Flame Token, a blockchain-based token compatible with the ERC-20 standard of the Ethereum blockchain.
To be used on Sharesome, Flame Tokens must be exchanged into Flame Credits. Flame Credits are used as a value transfer mechanism on the platform. Right now, Flame Credits are used for tips and other digital services. Advertising on Sharesome is only paid with Flame Credits.
Flame Technologies’ strategy is to build the utility before the token is listed on an exchange. “A token without a use case has no value. This is why we first created the utility on Sharesome and haven’t listed on exchanges. Although we feel that now would be the right time to do this.”, said Flame Tech Founder & CEO Robert Knapp.
Flame Technologies aims to fully integrate the Nafty NFT marketplace into Sharesome by offering collectible avatars to the entire Sharesome user base. Sharesome would be the third social media network with NFT avatars, after Twitter and Reddit launched NFT-based avatars this year. The team also plans to integrate Nafty’s content subscription platform into Sharesome’s already existing Pro subscription.
Flame Technologies will also announce an exchange program that will allow Nafty Token holders to exchange their tokens for Flame Tokens.
At the heart of Sharesome’s SocialFi strategy are adult content creators, influencers and participants who want better control over their content and the ability to monetize their social media following and engagement.
“I believe that joining Flame Technologies is the best thing that could have happened to Nafty. Sharesome has the necessary traffic to breathe life into Nafty’s platforms. The team of Flame Technologies has shown, time and again, that they care about their users and will do the best for them.”, says Georgi Dimitrov from Nafty International.
“I am super happy that Nafty joined the Flame Family. The acquisition fits 100% into our strategy of gradually adding more Web3 tech on top of Sharesome, our flagship product with almost 2M monthly users. We believe that Social Finance is the solution to a lot of problems that we aim to solve. We’re trying to bring social media to the adult industry, and crypto to social media. With Nafty’s Web3 tech, we just became faster.”, says Robert Knapp, Founder and CEO of Flame Technologies AG.
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