yeah, I don't get the idea the ones I am talking about are super picky. I think they use the friend function liberally (not that there is anything wrong with that)
This may not be your experience, as you seem to be very well established, but what I see at SC is a lot of models who are struggling to make money. Either low volume rooms or ones with one whale type propping them up where if you took them out of the equation it would be a bad night. It is not that uncommon for a person to tip, say 150-200 tokens and be king of the room with the next tipper being in the teens. I haven't been around long enough if this just is because of unusually low volume right now or if it has always been like this for a subset of models.
Point being, I think some models may just be getting a little more aggressive cultivating users who have proven they will tip more than a couple 1-token tips out of necessity. I can't really fault them, but at the same time as the user it just feels a little weird to have someone(s) essentially watching for you to log on so they can try and get me (and more importantly my tokens) to visit their room
I accept the requests from basically anyone that sends one, apart from a few individuals with really offensive usernames or those who have been a pain during my show by being rude/demanding.
My room is definitely low traffic room and without my regs I wouldn't be doing what I am. There has been a lot of times where I near enough begged someone to at least chat to me in public chat, and it was just crickets through the whole show so I logged off early. But there has also been days where I got a lot of random people come in and tip a lot. Its really a hit or miss, depends on the day, time, season,...
Summers (not me, I think I'm pretty fast
) are very very slow in general from what I could manage to make out from previous posts here/reddit or from what I talked about with my model friends.
It does make sense - weather is nice, people go on holidays and spend a lot of money there + spend more time with families, kids are off school, etc. But I think it should pick up soon again. Saying that, the economy is pretty bad so, who knows what will happen by the end of this year.
Also, there are a lot of covid models that wanted to make quick money, a whole lot of hobby models who do it just for fun and a bit of extra cash and part time models, and a lot of them don't really care what they're doing/don't know much so the prices are either really low, or they do free full on shows, etc.etc. ( NOT ALL, not looking for beef here) so they do make things a bit harder for models who take this really seriously.
I personally never did and never will message people to get them in my room because the stream is slow, I find it tacky and like the only time I care about that member is when I'm not doing so well and I want them to come in and tip me. That's a big no for me. But I do understand some of the models do it, some are successful doing that and some are not( I think, mostly not but that's again my opinion). Same thing being models coming into my stream messaging the King of the room or highest daily tippers trying to get them to their room. Not cool, and really doesn't work, they're in my room tipping for a reason, I'm sure if they were interested in the model messaging them, they'd already be there.