We haven't had one of these threads in a while actually. A surprising amount of time really, but then, it still always surprises me that some dudes are stupid enough to actually make these threads. Like, what do they think camgirls do for a living? I get plenty of yellow walls and regularly get 4 digit tips (when I actually cam regularly), actually, my fastest way of making income usually is if I use a hitachi and play "stop and go", that is pretty much guaranteed to draw in new tippers and get yellow walls lasting for up to an hour (basically as long as I can keep going).
I also do blowjob shows, though I never find them as popular or as good for getting tokens as a cumshow. I sometimes do them as a warm up show though and let a cumshow countdown run while in the blowjob show. I definitely get the usual members swarming to the room, but I wouldn't say they're more successful, if they were even nearly as successful I'd do a lot more blowjob shows and less cumshows.
I have also worn pigtails and my hair up on cam. My hair is a pretty big selling point for me, and I have never had as much success when my hair is up than when it's down. I dressed up as a schoolgirl once with pigtails and that was popular, but I believe it was the whole outfit including the pigtails and not just the pigtails. I'm not saying people don't like them, but in my experience it has not been a majority vote, and the way to get tokens is essentially going with what the majority of the guys who find you attractive want, rather than the random individual, unless of course, the random individual is a very high tipper.
One of my favourite regulars likes tights, but when I wear tights on cam my income and room count is always significantly lower, he's a good tipper, but losing out on income while live on cam isn't something I can do often. It's hard with fetishes and likes, by turning on one person you can end up alienating others. Kind of like feet, foot fetish guys love them, but the majority of human beings either find feet the opposite of attractive or just have no interest in seeing them. In my experience foot fetish guys don't tip, and when they do tip it's very small amounts. I believe we have had a dude here trying to tell us all to constantly keep our feet on show to appeal to foot fetish guys, just like you're here telling us to appeal to dudes who particularly like blowjob shows and pigtails.
What you don't seem to understand in your little rant is we can't physically stand up and shake our ass at the same time as sucking a realistic dildo at the same time as wearing pigtails, oh and we're also not supposed to use a hitachi but we should also use the hitachi at the same time as doing a blowjob show?
I dance as much as I can on cam, but physically dancing around takes a strain. The kind of dancing that I think looks sexy and works for me puts unnatural pressure on my spine and muscles, meaning you have to take breaks to sit down. There is also the fact that I find it difficult to chat/pay attention/make eye contact with the room and pm's if I'm dancing, people like the conversation in the room, it's what makes camgirls different to porn, we interact. Because of this it means I mix it up, I spend some time dancing, some time sitting and chatting, some time using different camera angles and all the while I'll have a countdown, so when the countdown is reached I'll do whatever show that is. Not having a countdown has only worked for me occasionally. Actually usually when I'm unwell and in comfy pj's and have a nice group of people around to chat to me who happen to be particularly generous and probably felt sorry for me, and the only reason I haven't run countdowns those times is because I'm too unwell to be naked or do any form of show. Other than that countdowns have always been the way forward for me.
There is no set way to cam. Sometimes I come on and one thing will work, sometimes another thing will work. Sometimes I make large amounts of money simply because the regulars who care about me happen to have money those days. I've had regulars who've dangled money in front of me and have only tipped because of me doing certain things and have withheld money/spent it elsewhere if they don't happen to like what I'm doing at the time, but most of my closer regulars pretty much have a rough set amount they'll spend on me and seem to spend it when they get paid or when I'm struggling more rather than necessarily when I'm doing something they particularly like. Personally I prefer it that way as it's far less stressful, it also shows that those regulars are actually friends rather than "clients". This means every session is different. I pretty much always have to go with the flow, a large part of my income comes from random high tippers, so it depends on what they like and what makes them tip, or of course, if anyone willing to tip is even around at that particular time.
As a member all you need to do is remember that camgirls are incredibly versatile, and if you haven't got the patience to wait for them to do what you want, you need to be tipping them, and I don't mean small tips, I mean you need to be tipping them decently or taking them private if you want to see your fetish/fantasy. I'm sure most camgirls would be happy to oblige. The other thing you need to remember is humans are all different. What turns you on doesn't necessarily turn other guys on. You may have seen yellow walls when a girl has pigtails, but believe me, it's not the massive money maker you're painting it out to be. If it were then camgirls would be doing it all the time.