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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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SugarBounce – An adult entertainment ecosystem powered by the token TIP
The multi-billion-dollar adult entertainment industry has a lot of problems, such as unfair pay, discrimination against creators, and breaches of user and artist privacy. Therefore it would be wise for a content consumer and creator to look for alternatives.
One alternative might be SugarBounce, which presents its platform that enables content creators and viewers to participate in the adult industry in a fair and durable way. If the project succeeds in taking over just a fraction of the adult entertainment industry, we can assume that more content creators and consumers will find their way to the platform.
What is SugarBounce?
SugarBounce is a decentralized adult entertainment platform, based on Binance Smart Chain (or blockchain), aimed to revolutionize the adult industry by leveraging the technological advancements of Web 3. SugarBounce is a diverse ecosystem which encapsulates all forms of adult entertainment under one roof through its 6 unique verticals consisting of – adult webcam streaming, an NFT marketplace, crowd funded content platform, decentralized adult content repository, an anonymous payment processor, and much more.
SugarBounce presents a revolutionary take on the multi-billion dollar adult industry, empowering content creators to grow their fan base and monetize their talent. SugarBounce has a unique hybrid model: a decentralized blockchain technical solution combined with institutional safeguards that guarantee copyrights for creators, data safety for users and ensure global access to adult content.
(Current Status)
We launched our first product, Sugar Streams – an adult webcam site, on 28 April 2022. Within 3 months of the limited beta release, Sugar Streams had garnered 10K unique users all across the world with an engagement rate of 67%.There has been a gradual progress since our dApp launch and the odds have been in our favor as a result of collaborated team effort.
Which is the tipping method on the site?
We offer a unique and hassle-free payment structure, users can tip models on the site with Credits.
Credits on SugarBounce can be bought either via credit/debit cards or SugarBounce’s native crypto currency $TIP.
Following our integration with Biconomy, a multi-chain relayer protocol, users can now buy Credits without paying any gas fees on crypto payments and enjoy high-quality, superior NSFW live streaming.
How many models do you currently have on the site?
We have onboarded more than 800 models from all across the world in the male, female and LGBTQ+ and anime categories, post the launch of our revolutionary adult cam site.
Are you interested in any country? Do you plan to work with Romanian models?
We endeavor to expand our horizon across the globe by welcoming cam models from all parts of the world to showcase their talent and empower them with resources to grow their fan base and monetize their art.
Romania is a global leader in adult live camming and there is, without a doubt, an abundance of potential raw talent in the country. We are already working and will continue to work with Romanian models. Very interestingly we have had a couple of Romanian studios who have been with us since launch.
Also with growing usage of cryptocurrencies in Romania, we plan to set up ideal financial structure by implementing crypto payment systems that allow customers to pay for their adult content without any issues, chargebacks or discrimination at the hands of financial institutions.
What is the difference between you and the other platforms?
Well to start with, our streaming network is a completely decentralized Web-rtc based p2p streaming network which only keeps getting better as more and more users come and join the platform. Also very soon we will be introducing a watch to earn feature where users can opt to be a node in our streaming network and then earn monetary rewards while they are on the platform watching their favorite performer stream.
• We also have our own native cryptocurrency $TIP and users can tip their models at very competitive prices.
• SugarBounce is all about storage security and data encryption. Users can enjoy their favorite content without fearing possible identity theft or falling victim to credit card fraud.
• We also have one of the highest payouts for models 0.08$ for every credit
• We are also making drastic changes to our affiliate program where models will be able to supercharge their income to 112%
Why NFT? How do the cam models/creators respond to them?
How do the NFT’s help the models?
NFTs are the current talk of the commerce and are gaining massive exposure in the mainstream crypto market.
Basically what NFTs do is solve the issue of content ownership as NFTs are not just artwork , Today anything can be backed by NFTs from videos to art to even a piece of clothing making it unique and the owner of that NFT can then reap monetary benefits from its sale or trade for life without the fear of duplication and that is why it’s a game changer for models and they should get on it.
SugarBounce is decentralizing the process of creating adult content by returning the power to its rightful owners — the NSFW artists. Another one of our unique verticals – Sugar Markets takes us a step closer in achieving this goal.
In a nutshell, SugarBounce’s NFT platform, built on ERC-721, creates an efficient framework for creators to launch an NFT and earn perpetual income from its resales.
Where do you see SugarBounce in the next 2-3 years?
In the next 2-3 years realistically we would like to be in the top 10 camsites in the world.
Centralization is at the core of the problem of the adult entertainment industry.Be it in terms of censorship or running into a conflict with the banking system or other monopolies. By replacing banking support with cryptocurrency, platforms like ours present an alternative to the age-old centralized financial system.
We endeavor to preserve the anonymity of our viewers and creators and overcome some of the most prominent issues within the traditional adult industry including chargebacks, payment processor restrictions, discrimination at the hands of financial institutions, blocked payments etc. by integrating payments via cryptocurrencies.
Our Ecosystem seeks to disrupt how NSFW content is consumed around the globe in the booming era of Web3 by giving rise to a new economy interconnected with its native cryptocurrency $TIP and brings in an amalgamation of P2P streaming, IPFS, and NFT Tech to bring a never-seen-before NSFW experience to viewers.
Tell us a little about Sugar Starter.
Sugar Starter is a unique never-before- done before crowdfunding platform for newcomers and existing content creators in the porn industry where they can crowdfund their entire journey in the adult film industry and not have to go through the exploitation by middlemen like casting agents and talent managers.
Our one-of-a-kind platform will allow new and existing talent to build niche content proposals that will be listed as a pool on Sugar Starter. Investors will contribute by staking capital in these proposal pools and own this content as NFTs along with the creators. Both the content creators and investors can earn monetization revenue for a lifetime as the owners of the NFT backing the content. While the viewers can watch this content for a predetermined price. Sugar Starter creates a perfect avenue for the NSFW artists to fuel their growth as an independent entity and protects them from capital thefts by industry moguls.
What type of models do you target?
So at this point we are targeting all models . Be it Independent or studio models or models that have a particular niche or models from a particular geographical location . Honestly we want them all. We didn’t want to restrict ourselves to a particular section as we wanted to have a wide range of models and content that we offer on our site.
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