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Quick question: How far does your camscore typically drop after your new model status goes away? Because I just finished my first week, and I'm in the 1900s and I'm pretty happy with it. Can I expect it to start dropping really quickly, or is there a way to stop that from happening?
Camscore is calculated mainly based on tokens per hour on cam. So you want to keep (or raise) the amount you make while you're broadcasting after you lose new model status to keep your score up. There is a more in-depth look at camscore calculations in the models only section here.
 
I was watching a new model last week, think she was very clever with how she used her new status.

No show time, countdowns and such, until she got to know some of the members... A "Let's get to know each other" philosophy. When she had many members later on in her time on she took group for an hour. She was building a following of members for when her new status ran out.
 
I am currently starting over again on MFC after having an account for over a year with no use, I'm hoping that I still have new model status since I only have gone on for about 2 hours last year. Do any of you think I do?

I've read a few different things. I've read from models it's your first week after your first broadcast and in the MFC info it says your first 10 hours of broadcast time.
 
Quick question: How far does your camscore typically drop after your new model status goes away? Because I just finished my first week, and I'm in the 1900s and I'm pretty happy with it. Can I expect it to start dropping really quickly, or is there a way to stop that from happening?

No, you are fine if you have regulars. If not, it may drop down to the 1400 or 1500 range if you have some bad nights but maybe not. I see girls who don't have regulars keeping theirs anywhere between 1500 to 2000. It sounds like you took advantage of your new status so you'll probably be doing better than me soon.
 
I've read a few different things. I've read from models it's your first week after your first broadcast and in the MFC info it says your first 10 hours of broadcast time.
New status depends on who is viewing you, the default is 7 days ... members may select, never show new status, 3 days, 7 days, 30 days, 60 days or 90 days.
I suspect (others can correct me if I am wrong), that the 10 hours of broadcast time that you refer to is when MFC official have you beginning on the site, before then you can wait.

Ordering model search is also dependent on who is viewing you, Camscore is the default ... members may select to sort models by, camscore, number of people, alphabetically, order logged in, newest on site, or random.

MFC also can let you highlight certain groups of models, models you may like is the active default. When you visit another model's room below it on the homepage MFC calculates 10 other models you may enjoy who tag as similar.
The top 10 most popular rooms and the other highlighted groups (trending and so on) are also available in the side bar.

What this means is that in addition to members using a preview feature, the side bar or an active search to find models, that these defaults will play a big role in new members finding you, depending on how many of these members keep their default settings.

Advice to new models regarding MFC placement, use your new status well (the aim being to make regulars for when it ends), maintain camscore where possible, think carefully about your tags, get active/ do your thing and the right members will find you eventually.
Keep in mind placement only matters for attracting new members to visit, you will determine how many will stay/ revisit, the more regulars you can maintain the less important it will become.
 
I am currently starting over again on MFC after having an account for over a year with no use, I'm hoping that I still have new model status since I only have gone on for about 2 hours last year. Do any of you think I do?

It used to be that you had new model status for 10 hours, but now it's 1 week from the day of your very first broadcast. Unless the member viewing you has changed his/her options of viewing new models to 30 days, 60 days, or 90 days - but even then you still won't have it as your account is a year old.

Therefore, I don't think you'll have new model status - I think it would be best if you tried to delete your account and make a new one, but that doesn't always work.
 
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Thank you for this post it's super helpful! I just joined this site, I've always wanted to do some kind of sex work not for a living but just for fast money. I was actually wondering if anyone had any advice on how to hide your identity, and I know there's a chance that someone you know can find you but whatever safety precautions there is out there I would love to try them. I'd like if no one found it, but if they did I'd probably get over it. Also does anyone know any caming sites that let you block certain states? I read that you can block area codes and even countries from viewing your broadcasts....
 
Thank you for this post it's super helpful! I just joined this site, I've always wanted to do some kind of sex work not for a living but just for fast money. I was actually wondering if anyone had any advice on how to hide your identity, and I know there's a chance that someone you know can find you but whatever safety precautions there is out there I would love to try them. I'd like if no one found it, but if they did I'd probably get over it. Also does anyone know any caming sites that let you block certain states? I read that you can block area codes and even countries from viewing your broadcasts....

Hey Soph!

Yes, you can block states / provinces / countries from viewing your broadcasts and profile on the majority of cam sites. Myfreecams, Streamate, and Chaturbate let you do this, and probably most others.

To hide your identity on cam, make a fake performer name and never use your real name. Don't tell them what city you live in or make a fake city. You can even have a fake birthday, but that may be unnecessary.

For high security precaution (optional), Turn "location services" off on your smart phone and get a VPN (fake IP address) on your computer.

Do not ever use any photos you post on your personal social media (Facebook, Instagram, etc) on your cam site or cam Twitter. They can be reverse image searched on google instantly ; Google has this feature that will show you every other page on the web that contains the same photo. This could lead cam clients to your personal Facebook page or website or wherever they may find your personal info, or friends and family to your cam page. Take new pictures for cam with your smart phone, but turn geotagging off on your phone (a standard feature that reveals your location in an image of you.)

Just in case your real name slips out, make your personal Facebook page (the one as the real you) private - set it so only friends can see any detail. Any random person will still be able to see your profile and header pic, so change them so they are generic pics that don't have your face in them. That way, if anyone found your real name and searched for you on Facebook, they won't even know what account is yours without a pic of your face to confirm.

Google yourself. If your real name does slip out, you will be googled. Make sure there is no websites that have your address or phone number.

For e-mail purposes with camming, use gmail to make a whole new email account. Gmail does not reveal your IP address (location) - other email may.

Once this is all done, have fun and welcome to the world of adult webcamming :D Feel free to send me a private message on here if you have more questions.
 
I am not sure if this is the right thread or not... but what sites would you ladies recommend for beginner cam girls? And which ones allow you to keep your image? So I can avoid the sites reposting my videos and pictures on other sites without me taking legal action.
 
Thank you for this post it's super helpful! I just joined this site, I've always wanted to do some kind of sex work not for a living but just for fast money. I was actually wondering if anyone had any advice on how to hide your identity, and I know there's a chance that someone you know can find you but whatever safety precautions there is out there I would love to try them. I'd like if no one found it, but if they did I'd probably get over it. Also does anyone know any caming sites that let you block certain states? I read that you can block area codes and even countries from viewing your broadcasts....

Look into signing up for Katy Boleyn's daily pay service. There's info about it here (by clicking the links below). I like ImLive and Cams, and yes, you can block states on those sites. Most cam sites (if not all) allow you to block states though. It's pretty cool to be able to get paid daily, and not have to wait a week or two weeks for your money.

https://boleynmodels.com/category/boleynmodels-program/
https://boleynmodels.com/sitepayouts/
 
I am seeing more and more often lately that ladies who do not have verified model status are coming to ACF looking for help. While there are guides and resources in the model's section totalling hundreds of thousands of words, this isn't very useful for someone who has to wait a few days to see them. In an industry where many newcomers are hoping to make cash in just a day or two, this is hardly helpful. So I thought I would put together a new guide in the public section with some handy info!

There are a lot of links in this post to model's only posts for further reference, but hopefully it will still be helpful to people without MO status.

If any of you ladies ever get verified model status, there is a lot of new info to comb through. If you want to expand your cam knowledge, I believe these are the best threads to start with, in order of importance:

New Model Mistakes (a thread where models share their past mistakes)
Camgirl Success Troubleshooting (help with everything from getting members to come to your room to pre-cam anxiety, earning tokens, doing better privates, and more; a great place to start)
MFC Camscore Info (if you want to cam on MFC, you need to read this)
Coming up with show ideas (a crash-course guide in thinking up show ideas, mostly for ladies on MFC but useful on any site)

As this is a public forum, I am going to predict that in the comments, there will be a lot of people who disagree with a lot of what I share. From the rules that are enforced to how hard a model has to work to make good money, people are going to disagree and cite proof to the contrary (whether or not they have cammed a day in their lives :p). However, it would be silly to try and write a guide to the exceptions of commonality. I believe that this guide is accurate for the majority of new models.

For new MFC models:

If you are planning on camming on MFC, you NEED to understand how the camscore system works. I do not believe MFC is a good site for beginner models, which I argue in this post. If you are interested in camming as a career and want to take a more serious approach, I would highly recommend you get experience on a website like Chaturbate before you make the switch to MFC.

MyFreeCams FAQ:

What is the camscore and why is it important?
Camscore is the default ranking system for all models on MFC. In the webcam sex industry, default ranking is extremely important. It does not guarantee minimum earnings, but it is a great predictor of how much traffic a model will get - which she can then translate in to earnings (read the model's only stickied post on "being realistic about what a high camscore will get you"). Basically, camscore is how many you tokens you earn per hour, over a sixty day average. The more tokens you earn per hour, the higher your camscore will be. What other models on the website make influences how many tokens per hour you need to maintain a camscore of 1000. Nothing else contributes to your camscore. Ratings/admires do not count. Friends list adds do not count. Small tips do not lower your camscore. Offline tips do not help your camscore "more" except by improving your token/hour ratio.

How long does New Model status last and why is it important?
New Model status (NMS) is a short period of time where new models on MFC are listed with a bright yellow tag on their avatars. Typically, new models receive a great deal more traffic than they normally would. It is commonly considered that NMS is critical to make or break your camming career, and if you waste that time, you will have a more difficult experience on MFC. Many models are surprised and upset when their NMS wears off and suddenly, instead of 100 people in their room they are seeing 5.

New Model status on MFC used to last for ten broadcasting hours. Now, members choose how long they see models as being new (3, 7, 14, 30, 60, and 90 days). At the time of this post, members being able to rank new models as they choose is a new feature and it is yet unseen if this will make new model status less important or not.

Which rules are okay to break?
MFC very infamously does not enforce the majority of its rules. This can lead to confusion about which rules are "okay" to break and which are not. I started a thread in the MO section to get input from other models, and this is the culmination of those thoughts [link to that thread: here].

In general, these rules are fairly strictly enforced and breaking them will most likely result in getting a warning or your account being banned:
♥ Men on camera for any reason.
♥ Sexual relations with men, even off-camera (in the same room while camming).
♥ Minors, children, babies; may not be on camera or in the same room.
♥ Bestiality, or animals/pets on camera in a sexual or provocative context.
♥ Illegal drugs, or drugs that may be perceived as illegal in other locations. (Pot does not seem to be a bannable offense)
♥ Rape (most host websites like MFC, C4S, and others, will not allow simulation of rape to be displayed)
♥ Incest (sexual relations involving family members). [This includes incest role-play and fetish grey areas such as Daddy dynamics]
♥ Violence, blood, torture, pain, erotic asphyxiation, or any actions associated with bringing harm to yourself in any way (many models engage in, and totally get away with, mild to moderate sadomasochism, without blood play)

The following rules are sometimes enforced and sometimes not enforced, but you should probably play it on the safe side:
♥ Menstrual bleeding.
♥ Breastfeeding or lactation.
♥ Unauthorized persons (persons for whom we do not have proper name and ID on file.) - I have had female friends on cam with me for hours with no issue; other models have had their accounts suspended almost immediately for someone briefly coming on screen.
♥ Sleeping, "passing out". (I can't remember the last time I heard of someone getting in trouble for this)
Hypnosis (lol wut?)
♥ Discussing or arranging prostitution or escort services. (you can probably get away with it)
♥ Urination, defecation, "going to the bathroom", enema play, vomiting. (on the riskier side)
♥ Penetration of the vagina or anus with items not meant for sexual stimulation (e.g. bottles, baseball bats).
♥ Fisting.

The following rules are almost never enforced or are literally never enforced:
♥ Excessive consumption of alcohol or other legal or prescribed medicines or narcotics.
♥ Illegal or unsafe activity of any kind.
♥ Actions that may be deemed obscene in your community.
♥ Masturbation, penetration, using sexual toys or devices, cunnilingus, or other hardcore sexually explicit activity (in public chat).

A grey area:
♥ Public shows (shows where you are in a public location such as a library). Even though they involve illegal activity and often have strangers, including men, on cam, they do not seem to be in the red zone.



MFC requires a lot of personal legal info to sign up. Can I trust them?
In short, yes, you can. Hundreds of thousands of models have signed up with MFC and I have never even heard a rumor of MFC leaking or spreading the info of models. It may make you uncomfortable, but remember that if MFC was not a legit site, they would not require so much information to verify you :)

How much are tokens worth?
Every token is worth $0.05 USD. If you earn 20 tokens, you earn $1 USD. If you earn 2000 tokens, you earn $100 USD.

Members pay at least $0.0675 per token, and usually as much as $0.08 cents.

How much money can I expect to earn on MFC?
This entirely depends on you. Some models make very good money from the get-go ($100+ a day), while many others never seem to do well. It has been estimated that the highest earners on MFC make at least five digits (USD, not tokens) a month. There is more discussion about actual number amounts on this thread.

I have estimated, and never heard an argument to the contrary, that the majority of webcam models earn around $10 or less per hour. On MFC, the vast majority of models make less than $20 per hour. For many women, this is not enough to offset the inherent dangers of the job.

WHERE IS MY MONEY?!
♥ If you get paid by check: It can take up for 3 weeks for your check to arrive in the mail. This is, IMO, the worst payment option to select.
♥ If you get paid by direct deposit: It takes 2-4 days (usually 3) for most models to receive direct deposit payment. Remember that if the 1st or the 16th of the month lands on a weekend or holiday, your bank will take extra time to process the payment. Therefore, sometimes it can take up to 5-6 days for your entire payment to process.


Making money: why should anyone give you money?

This may sound a little mean, but don't take it personally.

Why should anyone give you money?

Women are not deserving of money just because they have tits and a vagina.

You are not going to be the hottest woman on whatever site you join. You are not going to be the most interesting or have the best body. You are not going to fill a niche market that nobody has thought of before. There are going to be twenty models online at any given time who are better looking than you and who will give it away more cheaply than you.

If you think you are going to join a camsite and succeed just because you were the prettiest girl in high school, I'll see you when you quit three months from now.

Models who are the most successful and make the most money are the ones that work the hardest. They work hard to make it look like what they are doing on cam is effortless. On MFC, they are the ones who have 14 hour work days and never take days off or have vacations. (Although I know of more than one model who works so many hours a day, it is interesting that many members do not believe this is true)

If your plan is to join a camsite and earn $50 or so a day; yes. You can do that with not a whole lot of effort, and probably not a lot of hours! But if you are hoping to make hundreds a day, then get ready for long months of tears and sweat. The simple fact is that the only thing which will differentiate you from the crowd is how hard you are willing to work. I have only heard of one model, ever, who made very good money without putting hard work in - and this was a second hand story :) Here is another way to look at it: I have been part of ACF for about 18 months at the time of this post. I have spent many hours of my life reading the stories and daily thoughts of other models. I have never ever in that time ever heard any model ever say, "it is so great that I make so much money with so little effort!". Ever. Yes, models who work hard do often enjoy periods of ease where their online shifts seem to flow easily and they don't have to "hustle" as hard, but that is always broken up by periods of hard work and difficulty. It may not be the hardest job in the world (I certainly do not believe it is), but you still have to work hard at it.

If you don't want to work hard, you can still make money. But you won't be making amazing money or even especially good money.

Advice to new career cam models:

I started another thread in the model's only section and got a lot of responses for the top advice veteran models would give to newbies. Before I put in their responses, here is my best advice:

Think about how you want to cam when you are successful. What do you want to be doing?
Do that starting on your first day on cam.


If you envision yourself as being the perfect non-nude model, then don't start off doing public cumshows because you don't know how else to increase your room counts. Likewise, if you envision yourself being a posh and exclusive model, don't sell your shows and content for ultracheap. If you want to be an easy-going low-key model, don't build up a posh and exclusive room and then expect everyone to be okay with it when you suddenly change your style.

Start camming with your eyes on your endgame. It's the best way to avoid big mistakes and to not get in the way of yourself.

Now, other the advice of other ladies!































Three common MFC scams

♥ "I'm an MFC admin and I need to speak to you on Skype." He's lying; report him.
♥ "I'm very experienced at watching other models be successful, and if you Skype with me I'll share their secrets with you." The best he will do is share common info with you that anybody could figure out. There are no "secrets" to being successful at camming.
♥ Fake tips: On MFC, when someone actually tips tokens, a ringing sound plays and the color behind the member's name changes to be yellow. It is common to scam new models by typing "has tipped 100 tokens!" or by posting an image which appears to be a legitimate tip.

How can I be successful on MFC?

♥ Price yourself according to what you are worth. This may sound mean, but be realistic about it - few models are worth 2000 tokens for a shot of vodka, and few models are worth $100 to take their shirt off (with a bra underneath, of course!). Don't worry with your prices being cheap if you are making an overall amount of money that satisfies you.

♥ Get on cam at the same time every day for 3 hours. Do not take days off. Do not get on late. If you get on early, stay till the end of your shift. Granted, very few models actually do this... and very few models are at the level of success they really want.

♥ Don't freak out. Any camscore above 1000 is great. When I started on MFC, I was happy as long as my camscore stayed above 1k, and I was able to put in more hours and make more money overall because of it. Don't stress out over a bad shift or two.

♥ Make and sell videos. Get online with a goal; get online to work. Keep in mind what members want to see - just because something is fun for you does not mean it is fun for the men who pay your bills. When you get online, you should be ready to work and geared up with things to sell for members who are interested. Getting online just to hang out because it's fun (and it totally is fun!) is not going to help your career any. Hang out in a member's room, work in your model's room.

♥ Smile and be happy. It is amazing how long you sometimes have to look on MFC to find a chick who looks like she wants to be there. Be the woman that looks like she wants to have a good time.

Alternatively, read this thread to learn success skills for MFC!

(Readers et all: I unfortunately did not have as much time to work on this guide as I would have liked. I hope future readers will add their two cents and extra help in the comments!)
Hey I'm a new cam girl and I was just curious if it's ok to get naked in public chat and do cum shows and if so how many tokens is good
 
I am not sure if this is the right thread or not... but what sites would you ladies recommend for beginner cam girls? And which ones allow you to keep your image? So I can avoid the sites reposting my videos and pictures on other sites without me taking legal action.

Hey Violet! I started on Myfreecams and from my impression, it is NOT a beginner site. Some people luck out and understand right away how to hustle on there (By building deep and complex relationships with members, spending a lot of time online, spending a lot of time designing and updating your profile, managing and updating a twitter account, creating games / ideas / raffles to keep your show interesting, filming sexy videos of yourself to sell, running "countdowns" and creating room topics, knowing your personal boundaries and being firm about them with members who want you to do things you're not comfortable with, knowing who you are and the best way to brand / sell your image on the site, figuring out the right prices for you for a WIDE VARIETY of things, and more.)

Understanding all of that stuff right off the bat AND then actually pulling it off is HARD.

I would reccomend Streamate.com as the most straightforward, easiest site to manage with the least amount of work to do in your time offline.
 
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Hey I'm a new cam girl and I was just curious if it's ok to get naked in public chat and do cum shows and if so how many tokens is good

Hey girl, do you mean on MFC?

It's totally cool to do those things there.

For new models, I think 1000 tokens to naked and 2000 to cumshow is nice, but some people charge less and some people charge way more - guys are used to the prices being varied from model to model. Just decide what amount of money you feel is fair to you.
 
Hey girl, do you mean on MFC?

It's totally cool to do those things there.

For new models, I think 1000 tokens to naked and 2000 to cumshow is nice, but some people charge less and some people charge way more - guys are used to the prices being varied from model to model. Just decide what amount of money you feel is fair to you.
Thank you so much for the reply and yeah I don't think I'm charging enough I keep lowering because I'm not getting tipped I guess I'm not talking about tips enough I'm too nice I always feel bad for asking for money
 
Thank you so much for the reply and yeah I don't think I'm charging enough I keep lowering because I'm not getting tipped I guess I'm not talking about tips enough I'm too nice I always feel bad for asking for money
I have the same problem. I am having a really fun time in my room, but there are not so many tips coming in...I try avoiding talking about tips or money because I do not want to come accross as a greedy bitch or someone that needs money (although I do :p )... But it seems its not about camming in my room but just a fun chat box... I find it hard to find the balance between having a fun room with a good atmosphere for everyone AND receiving tips and having a more sexy atmosphere, where guys want to tip me because they want to see like this or that....
 
@DanniSynn @Nausica22 - this was my struggle too on myfreecams. As a new model, I unknowingly started with higher than average prices (much more than what I quoted you before). This attracted bigger tippers who saw my higher prices as me being more valuable (which was silly, but it's just pyschology) and I did well! But then everytime it got slow, I lowered and lowered and lowered my prices to draw men in, until the only men I was attracting were cheap ones, who wanted so much for their 50 tokens lol. Whereas most big tippers wanted nothing for their 5000 tokens. I lost the big tippers, who suddenly percieved me as cheap..

So, my takeaway from that was to keep the prices that you feel you deserve and do not budge on them. Just wait it out until someone comes along who will pay that - it will be better in the long term.
 
I am seeing more and more often lately that ladies who do not have verified model status are coming to ACF looking for help. While there are guides and resources in the model's section totalling hundreds of thousands of words, this isn't very useful for someone who has to wait a few days to see them. In an industry where many newcomers are hoping to make cash in just a day or two, this is hardly helpful. So I thought I would put together a new guide in the public section with some handy info!

There are a lot of links in this post to model's only posts for further reference, but hopefully it will still be helpful to people without MO status.

If any of you ladies ever get verified model status, there is a lot of new info to comb through. If you want to expand your cam knowledge, I believe these are the best threads to start with, in order of importance:

New Model Mistakes (a thread where models share their past mistakes)
Camgirl Success Troubleshooting (help with everything from getting members to come to your room to pre-cam anxiety, earning tokens, doing better privates, and more; a great place to start)
MFC Camscore Info (if you want to cam on MFC, you need to read this)
Coming up with show ideas (a crash-course guide in thinking up show ideas, mostly for ladies on MFC but useful on any site)

As this is a public forum, I am going to predict that in the comments, there will be a lot of people who disagree with a lot of what I share. From the rules that are enforced to how hard a model has to work to make good money, people are going to disagree and cite proof to the contrary (whether or not they have cammed a day in their lives :p). However, it would be silly to try and write a guide to the exceptions of commonality. I believe that this guide is accurate for the majority of new models.

For new MFC models:

If you are planning on camming on MFC, you NEED to understand how the camscore system works. I do not believe MFC is a good site for beginner models, which I argue in this post. If you are interested in camming as a career and want to take a more serious approach, I would highly recommend you get experience on a website like Chaturbate before you make the switch to MFC.

MyFreeCams FAQ:

What is the camscore and why is it important?
Camscore is the default ranking system for all models on MFC. In the webcam sex industry, default ranking is extremely important. It does not guarantee minimum earnings, but it is a great predictor of how much traffic a model will get - which she can then translate in to earnings (read the model's only stickied post on "being realistic about what a high camscore will get you"). Basically, camscore is how many you tokens you earn per hour, over a sixty day average. The more tokens you earn per hour, the higher your camscore will be. What other models on the website make influences how many tokens per hour you need to maintain a camscore of 1000. Nothing else contributes to your camscore. Ratings/admires do not count. Friends list adds do not count. Small tips do not lower your camscore. Offline tips do not help your camscore "more" except by improving your token/hour ratio.

How long does New Model status last and why is it important?
New Model status (NMS) is a short period of time where new models on MFC are listed with a bright yellow tag on their avatars. Typically, new models receive a great deal more traffic than they normally would. It is commonly considered that NMS is critical to make or break your camming career, and if you waste that time, you will have a more difficult experience on MFC. Many models are surprised and upset when their NMS wears off and suddenly, instead of 100 people in their room they are seeing 5.

New Model status on MFC used to last for ten broadcasting hours. Now, members choose how long they see models as being new (3, 7, 14, 30, 60, and 90 days). At the time of this post, members being able to rank new models as they choose is a new feature and it is yet unseen if this will make new model status less important or not.

Which rules are okay to break?
MFC very infamously does not enforce the majority of its rules. This can lead to confusion about which rules are "okay" to break and which are not. I started a thread in the MO section to get input from other models, and this is the culmination of those thoughts [link to that thread: here].

In general, these rules are fairly strictly enforced and breaking them will most likely result in getting a warning or your account being banned:
♥ Men on camera for any reason.
♥ Sexual relations with men, even off-camera (in the same room while camming).
♥ Minors, children, babies; may not be on camera or in the same room.
♥ Bestiality, or animals/pets on camera in a sexual or provocative context.
♥ Illegal drugs, or drugs that may be perceived as illegal in other locations. (Pot does not seem to be a bannable offense)
♥ Rape (most host websites like MFC, C4S, and others, will not allow simulation of rape to be displayed)
♥ Incest (sexual relations involving family members). [This includes incest role-play and fetish grey areas such as Daddy dynamics]
♥ Violence, blood, torture, pain, erotic asphyxiation, or any actions associated with bringing harm to yourself in any way (many models engage in, and totally get away with, mild to moderate sadomasochism, without blood play)

The following rules are sometimes enforced and sometimes not enforced, but you should probably play it on the safe side:
♥ Menstrual bleeding.
♥ Breastfeeding or lactation.
♥ Unauthorized persons (persons for whom we do not have proper name and ID on file.) - I have had female friends on cam with me for hours with no issue; other models have had their accounts suspended almost immediately for someone briefly coming on screen.
♥ Sleeping, "passing out". (I can't remember the last time I heard of someone getting in trouble for this)
Hypnosis (lol wut?)
♥ Discussing or arranging prostitution or escort services. (you can probably get away with it)
♥ Urination, defecation, "going to the bathroom", enema play, vomiting. (on the riskier side)
♥ Penetration of the vagina or anus with items not meant for sexual stimulation (e.g. bottles, baseball bats).
♥ Fisting.

The following rules are almost never enforced or are literally never enforced:
♥ Excessive consumption of alcohol or other legal or prescribed medicines or narcotics.
♥ Illegal or unsafe activity of any kind.
♥ Actions that may be deemed obscene in your community.
♥ Masturbation, penetration, using sexual toys or devices, cunnilingus, or other hardcore sexually explicit activity (in public chat).

A grey area:
♥ Public shows (shows where you are in a public location such as a library). Even though they involve illegal activity and often have strangers, including men, on cam, they do not seem to be in the red zone.



MFC requires a lot of personal legal info to sign up. Can I trust them?
In short, yes, you can. Hundreds of thousands of models have signed up with MFC and I have never even heard a rumor of MFC leaking or spreading the info of models. It may make you uncomfortable, but remember that if MFC was not a legit site, they would not require so much information to verify you :)

How much are tokens worth?
Every token is worth $0.05 USD. If you earn 20 tokens, you earn $1 USD. If you earn 2000 tokens, you earn $100 USD.

Members pay at least $0.0675 per token, and usually as much as $0.08 cents.

How much money can I expect to earn on MFC?
This entirely depends on you. Some models make very good money from the get-go ($100+ a day), while many others never seem to do well. It has been estimated that the highest earners on MFC make at least five digits (USD, not tokens) a month. There is more discussion about actual number amounts on this thread.

I have estimated, and never heard an argument to the contrary, that the majority of webcam models earn around $10 or less per hour. On MFC, the vast majority of models make less than $20 per hour. For many women, this is not enough to offset the inherent dangers of the job.

WHERE IS MY MONEY?!
♥ If you get paid by check: It can take up for 3 weeks for your check to arrive in the mail. This is, IMO, the worst payment option to select.
♥ If you get paid by direct deposit: It takes 2-4 days (usually 3) for most models to receive direct deposit payment. Remember that if the 1st or the 16th of the month lands on a weekend or holiday, your bank will take extra time to process the payment. Therefore, sometimes it can take up to 5-6 days for your entire payment to process.


Making money: why should anyone give you money?

This may sound a little mean, but don't take it personally.

Why should anyone give you money?

Women are not deserving of money just because they have tits and a vagina.

You are not going to be the hottest woman on whatever site you join. You are not going to be the most interesting or have the best body. You are not going to fill a niche market that nobody has thought of before. There are going to be twenty models online at any given time who are better looking than you and who will give it away more cheaply than you.

If you think you are going to join a camsite and succeed just because you were the prettiest girl in high school, I'll see you when you quit three months from now.

Models who are the most successful and make the most money are the ones that work the hardest. They work hard to make it look like what they are doing on cam is effortless. On MFC, they are the ones who have 14 hour work days and never take days off or have vacations. (Although I know of more than one model who works so many hours a day, it is interesting that many members do not believe this is true)

If your plan is to join a camsite and earn $50 or so a day; yes. You can do that with not a whole lot of effort, and probably not a lot of hours! But if you are hoping to make hundreds a day, then get ready for long months of tears and sweat. The simple fact is that the only thing which will differentiate you from the crowd is how hard you are willing to work. I have only heard of one model, ever, who made very good money without putting hard work in - and this was a second hand story :) Here is another way to look at it: I have been part of ACF for about 18 months at the time of this post. I have spent many hours of my life reading the stories and daily thoughts of other models. I have never ever in that time ever heard any model ever say, "it is so great that I make so much money with so little effort!". Ever. Yes, models who work hard do often enjoy periods of ease where their online shifts seem to flow easily and they don't have to "hustle" as hard, but that is always broken up by periods of hard work and difficulty. It may not be the hardest job in the world (I certainly do not believe it is), but you still have to work hard at it.

If you don't want to work hard, you can still make money. But you won't be making amazing money or even especially good money.

Advice to new career cam models:

I started another thread in the model's only section and got a lot of responses for the top advice veteran models would give to newbies. Before I put in their responses, here is my best advice:

Think about how you want to cam when you are successful. What do you want to be doing?
Do that starting on your first day on cam.


If you envision yourself as being the perfect non-nude model, then don't start off doing public cumshows because you don't know how else to increase your room counts. Likewise, if you envision yourself being a posh and exclusive model, don't sell your shows and content for ultracheap. If you want to be an easy-going low-key model, don't build up a posh and exclusive room and then expect everyone to be okay with it when you suddenly change your style.

Start camming with your eyes on your endgame. It's the best way to avoid big mistakes and to not get in the way of yourself.

Now, other the advice of other ladies!































Three common MFC scams

♥ "I'm an MFC admin and I need to speak to you on Skype." He's lying; report him.
♥ "I'm very experienced at watching other models be successful, and if you Skype with me I'll share their secrets with you." The best he will do is share common info with you that anybody could figure out. There are no "secrets" to being successful at camming.
♥ Fake tips: On MFC, when someone actually tips tokens, a ringing sound plays and the color behind the member's name changes to be yellow. It is common to scam new models by typing "has tipped 100 tokens!" or by posting an image which appears to be a legitimate tip.

How can I be successful on MFC?

♥ Price yourself according to what you are worth. This may sound mean, but be realistic about it - few models are worth 2000 tokens for a shot of vodka, and few models are worth $100 to take their shirt off (with a bra underneath, of course!). Don't worry with your prices being cheap if you are making an overall amount of money that satisfies you.

♥ Get on cam at the same time every day for 3 hours. Do not take days off. Do not get on late. If you get on early, stay till the end of your shift. Granted, very few models actually do this... and very few models are at the level of success they really want.

♥ Don't freak out. Any camscore above 1000 is great. When I started on MFC, I was happy as long as my camscore stayed above 1k, and I was able to put in more hours and make more money overall because of it. Don't stress out over a bad shift or two.

♥ Make and sell videos. Get online with a goal; get online to work. Keep in mind what members want to see - just because something is fun for you does not mean it is fun for the men who pay your bills. When you get online, you should be ready to work and geared up with things to sell for members who are interested. Getting online just to hang out because it's fun (and it totally is fun!) is not going to help your career any. Hang out in a member's room, work in your model's room.

♥ Smile and be happy. It is amazing how long you sometimes have to look on MFC to find a chick who looks like she wants to be there. Be the woman that looks like she wants to have a good time.

Alternatively, read this thread to learn success skills for MFC!

(Readers et all: I unfortunately did not have as much time to work on this guide as I would have liked. I hope future readers will add their two cents and extra help in the comments!)
I really appreciate you getting the time to post all this, im new on mfc and here, i was away for some time and now that im back i wanna try mfc and see how it works for me. i wanted to look up the links u posted, but it seems that im still to new here to have the privilege. lol
anyway im glad to have found this forum and im looking forward to add some experience of my own.
xoxo
 
Thank you for this thread! I took a 2 year absense from MFC and now Im back in it and honestly, I've been making more now than I was as a new model. Its less weird and stressful too, not too many trolls:)
 
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My verified camgirl status came and went in the span of a few days? Anyway, bless this post. I've been camming for sometimes 12 hours at a time, and making like 5 bucks a day, barely reaching topless goals. A lot of traffic, but no tippers (good light & cam tho *shrug*) so instead of hurrying to log on I'm soaking up some wisdom this afternoon.
 
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I love all the info I'm finding on here in checking things out and getting as much info as I can before joining chaturbate. I want to say thank you for everyonesharing info and time. Happy caming ahead.
 
My verified camgirl status came and went in the span of a few days? Anyway, bless this post. I've been camming for sometimes 12 hours at a time, and making like 5 bucks a day, barely reaching topless goals. A lot of traffic, but no tippers (good light & cam tho *shrug*) so instead of hurrying to log on I'm soaking up some wisdom this afternoon.

What site are you on Dez, is it myfreecams?
 
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Reece covers a lot of beginning information like lightening, investments/basic equipment, the importance of confidence, outfits/lingerie/costume options, traffic, the Chaturbate community, fan building, & apps/bots applied to your chatroom!

Watch it here:

Good luck! :cat:
 
We did a contest for tutorial videos on chaturbate.com

Reece covers a lot of beginning information like lightening, investments/basic equipment, the importance of confidence, outfits/lingerie/costume options, traffic, the Chaturbate community, fan building, & apps/bots applied to your chatroom!

Watch it here:

Good luck! :cat:


Will there be a tutorial on getting unbanned?