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I Blame Facebook
(Article Contributed By Dino - Posted on July 02nd, 2009)
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Has the current economy effected porn? I think so, but I'm not quite ready to say that the sky is falling quite yet, despite mutterings to the contrary. However, Porn's been back in the news this week with the launch of Google's own Wikki – and once again porn got a bad name when some people added porn links and pictures to Wikki posts. It's nothing new – our content has been used in such ways since the net was first born, it's just that now we seem to be a footnote on the bottom of the news feed.
The outlook is even worse when you consider that out-of-work adult stars are being hired >as playground monitors and then fired because of their past history. A girl's gotta make money somehow, right? We all have to – we all are here to make money, but sometimes that isn't possible and you have to do what you have to do.
Somehow I can't see any porn stars turning up in school staff directories here any time soon, but it's indicative of the current trend, and what a stark contrast to six or seven years ago. Back then there was a new program to promote every week, everyone was desperate for The Hun to publish their gallery and hosting costs were at an all-time high. How the mighty have fallen.
That sounds like a great name for a book actually; Online Porn: How the Mighty Have Fallen
Hmmm. Maybe not.
One article I read this morning blamed the huge popularity of networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook for “distracting” the normal porn-buying demographic and giving them something else to occupy their time with. You know, the time they used to spend rubbing one out and buying a trial membership to your site. Is this true? No one can say for sure but to ignore the impact that these massive social sites have had on every online industry is pure idiocy. Trust me when I say it's only a matter of time before an adult version is released that gives dating sites a run for their money. AFF – this means you.
Gas prices in the US are back up again, so there's one more thing we can blame for the lack of money spent on our products. We can still use the good ol' “It's the economy” chestnut, but that one's going a little ripe too for my tastes. Yes, the US is in a rather bad slump right now that's effecting many EU and worldwide countries, but saying that a failing bank and a botched buyout by the government is going to stop Joe Smith from buying a subscription to his favorite tranny site is simply unprovable.
A better explanation would be that the net has changed, and sadly we have not changed along with it. I've been saying it for years in my articles – our essential and basic business model is still exactly the same as it was 10 years ago. The technology might have changed, the net's gotten more elaborate and our speeds have jumped through the roof, but after all's said and done we're still trying to get people to join closed-access websites with limited or reused content for huge monthly fees.
People wised up. We didn't. That's all there is to it.
On the flip side there will always be a portion of the population that will buy porn online, just as there's always going to be a portion of the population who like buying retail adult DVDs to add to their collection. One can argue that retail is suffering the same fate as us right now, but they have nothing else to offer except the basic product they've been selling for years (if you discount the change in formats across the decades). They don't have a way to change that fundamental format and product. We do.
Take a look around. There's nothing fresh. There's nothing new and the numbers are starting to show it. We can reinvent our industry now or be another “dot-bomb” on the net's time line. That's up to us. No one else is going to do it for us.
Till tomorrow, pimps.
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