SpexyAshleigh said:
I personally don't see how this topic could get heated...call me silly but I like to think that every member on here would agree that silent lurkers and chronic freeloaders are a bad thing, no?
I've gotten a bit of backlash from it, people saying I sound entitled, but you know what? Again, call me ridiculous, but I believe I DO deserve to have more people tipping for the many hours per week they sit in my chat room being entertained and I DEFINITELY deserve to be conversed with during my cam shifts instead of being ignored.
*shrugs*
Hell yeah! No argument from me on that.
I'll preface this with the info that I’ve been nearly 4 years on MFC (since April ’10) and I consider myself to be a varied tipper. I don’t purchase photosets or vids, I prefer the interaction element and will tip for countdowns, offlines, shows… pretty much anything really… but I’ll always reward hard effort above anything else.
IMO, those individuals who have become regular tipping members on MFC have been able to recognise both the business side and the human side of the person on the other side of the lens. I realize that what is presented on screen is the cumulative effect of many hours of hard work, planning, organising, producing content etc. … which most of us members can appreciate is not easy. I can therefore see how it is mightily frustrating for girls to have put in many hours of work in preparation, only to be faced with just tumbleweed and crickets coming back from the masses of the great unwashed on the other side.
I see girls who use a countdown end up doing a show just to reach the main show and hit that target. They become their own support act for the main event, telling jokes, dancing, singing, teasing and flashing etc. all to reach that goal. I don't think it’s a big reach to expect a few more of the lurkers and freeloaders to contribute in those circumstances… as it is ENTERTAINMENT after all. No? Well, I think it is.
Everything counts, even in small amounts… so I can’t see how it would empty member wallets to simply throw in the odd 20 or 30 tokens along the way. I still can’t fully understand why some guys will never tip. I don’t have that mindset… thank fuck. After all, its not gonna break the bank... $20 will not even cover the price of 2 packs of cigs here in the UK... so wtf guys!!!
I believe the freeloaders on MFC will sadly always just see the “job” side of camming and nothing more. They know the cost of everything… but the value of nothing. The girls as such may not even exist to them… in their minds most likely dehumanized down to just T & A in a box. Freeloaders have no interest in the journey… only the destination. Their only focus is on whether they can see what they want and get it for free. Entertainment for them means only the sexy stuff will suffice… all that dancing, singing, teasing and flashing just ain’t gonna cut it with them.
I have another angle on the Bono analogy that was used earlier. Let us suppose that Bono and his U2 buds were to make a new album. It would have started life as a selection of scribbled notes… written and rewritten, before becoming rough demos, which then would be moulded, crafted and shaped into full blown songs. These would then be rehearsed by the full band, taken into the studio (or studios) after a time to be arranged, recorded, mixed, remixed, edited etc… a process that takes many months to complete. Finally, those brand new, completed songs are given to the record company who arrange to press a CD and ship it across the world to thousands of locations for it to be sold to the waiting fans.
Still with me so far... good! Now, if 98% of those shiny new CD’s were to be stolen and for Bono and his buds to pick up no reward for all their months of hard labour on such a project… would he be pissed? Too fucking right he would !!! From my perspective, taking in show after show and never tipping is just like stealing CD’s from a store. It is so not cool.
Oh… and as to the freeloaders being regarded as “potential tippers”, I look at that process as being similar to panning for gold… just as long as you remember that on average it takes sifting through 3.3 tons of ore to find 1 ounce of gold. That’s a helluva lot of dirt to shift to find the shiny stuff!
So, I empathise with the girls who have worked hard, sweated blood, brought their A game to town and yet still got the “sit and stare” brigade… that is pretty crappy. Just don’t get disheartened at the odd night when you crash and burn… it happens. Some days seem to be more freeloader heavy than others it seems. Wednesdays seem to be the worst. As long as you interact tippers will come… involve us, engage us and we will always reward that effort.
For those girls who don’t put in the effort though, I sadly can’t rise to the same level of empathy. If a girl just sits like a lump of wood and waits for tokens to come her way, while doing nothing to interact with her room, or is being distracted by constant texting, watching TV etc then she really can’t be surprised if people just stay silent or they hit the “next” button.
We reap what we sow in this life… even on MFC. Harsh maybe… but true.
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