Actually I have a question. You mentioned you did blogging for a while. Was there a reason you stopped or chose camming over blogging? As I know you also had your success in that area too.
@Mila_
Back then (2010-2013) we didn't have the tools available today, so we didn't have Patreon or any other subscription methods for people to pay a monthly fee for content or support. Even if we had those, everything was so new people weren't used to the idea of paying independent creators for their content, it took years to arrive to where we are today. Same with instagram, I had a nice following on instagram but the concept of instagram paid advertisement was unheard of. I also didn't want to litter my blog with Adsense because it's so ugly and my audience was Spanish so the ad to revenue ratio was dismal. So even though I had a huge audience my options to monetise my content were very limited. I remember I got contacted by publishing houses, they offered me a deal. They wanted all publishing rights for the book that I was writing, both digital and physical in exchange for 4000 euros with a 5% cut on the profits and they asked me for the 40k subscriber mailing list I had so they could sell them my ebook. Laughable and utterly depressing. They made me travel for the meeting too and wasted my time.
What I came up with was the idea of pre-selling ebooks. I would announce a publication date, they would pay 10 euros in advance and receive updates on the process of writing the book, I would send them emails with parts of the research and pics, and stuff that wasn't going to be included in the book. It was a success, but obviously it didn't hold a candle to camming in terms of long term income. I would have had to publish a book every 4 to 6 months to even out with camming and that was just impossible to do because I also had to keep writing articles for my blog and updating social media. It took me about a year to write a book that was average in length and quality.
The main reason I quit doing that though is people were extremely rude. When I announced my first book pre-sale I got the first blowback from "fans". Up until that point I had spent all my spare time, literally all of it, writing for free on my blog, I posted daily, really informative, thought out and well written posts, they had been enjoying my content for a year. They were vocal in the comment section, and I thought these were the people who would buy my book, right? Finally, a chance to get some exclusive content in exchange for a measly 10 euros support, the cost of a box of Coke. WRONG! a chunk of the audience got PISSED. They claimed I was trying to "sell the milk before I had the cow", that it would be a scam, that I was a fraud and they weren't stupid, etc. The second blowback was from the people who actually bought the book. Some of them figured that since part of the deal was they would receive periodical emails with content from me that this mean we were now pen pals. They would write me long emails with their problems expecting a response believing since they paid me 10 euros that meant I was their therapist and when I didn't reply they would get extremely butthurt and call me a scammer on social media. Some people had strict junk mail filters activated and thought they hadn't received any updates and also called me a scammer. If this happened today I would laugh it off but I was 24, and it really hurt my feelings. Back then there wasn't a functioning "report" button on Twitter either so whatever they said about you was going to be there forever even if it was a lie. I had literal lynching mobs just looking at whatever I posted or said that day to literally bash me 24/7. I wasn't used to that kind of attention, and it made me dread myself.
So when I started camming and I realised I had complete control over what people said and did in my own chatroom it felt very liberating. I also was planning on keeping up my writing career, my idea is I would write a book about my experiences as a camgirl and use that for my blog and my audience, part of my interest in camming was from a research angle. But all of that obviously fell apart when I got outed and everything fell apart. I disappeared from civilian internet (closed my blog, social media, etc) for a year or so. I have gone back a couple of times but for very different reasons... I never stay because the same principles still hold true.
