I was shitting on (or rather trying to warn members/new models about) the website for not giving models what I feel is a decent payout, and many of you have decided to take offence to that because you choose to use that website and/or it's your main hustle. I get it.. but people shit on MFC for camscore all of the time, and I don't attack them for it. Rather than try to change my mind with the facts, people have put words in my mouth and put me on the defense. Now we're nitpicking one little point that was put across. What do you want the outcome of this argument to be? Can it be constructive?
Maybe what I should have actually said, if we really want to get into it, is that since affiliate marketing can be done by anyone, it has attracted a lot of bad apples. As a result, in my experience, it tends to make people suspicious. People can get the sense that those doing it are only recommending whatever it is they're recommending to their friends/family/acquaintances, or in this case following, for the money, because some people will try to hawk anything for a dollar. Those bad apples have fucked the reputation of that business model. So even if sincere people are doing it, it can come off as insincere, which is tacky. I also really dislike it when websites don't have their own traffic/require models to drive traffic. I don't mind a little self promotion, but I am not interested in needing it. I know Streamate has other ways of driving traffic, but I haven't seen any benefit from it.
I'm interested in hearing about any of the other things about SM that are good, that might change my original feelings on it, but an affiliate program unfortunately doesn't help, at all. Especially not in the way that it was presented.
