@punker barbie
I am appalled about CB’s policy for handling the followers of an account!
CB has a policy that a user, who creates the account and has access to the associated e-mail, has the right to control the accounts followers? In the case of a studio, they now own the rights to hundreds of thousands of users who followed a specific model and not a specific account by name alone! This is an important distinction you must keep in mind! This industry is a visual industry. Users enter, see what they like, and click follow so they can easily find that model again. They want to follow that model, and not the studio that has nothing to do with the day-to-day activity of the model!
A model uses their personal body, in sexual ways (difficult and emotionally taxing), to entice users to follow them. That model 100% does all of the work. That model generates the followers. Those followers belong to the model, and not the studio that did nothing but register the account name! (please don't take offense or post a rebuttal if you are a good boss, I know you exist.)
When a studio model become an Independent Broadcaster, they lose all of that hard work. With the loss of followers comes a decrease in account activity, earnings, and positivity. I’ve had friends/clients tell me they are emotionally distraught, upset, frustrated, etc. They are happy to be Independent, but unable to earn the same amount they did 1 week prior, because their 150,000 follower count was reset back to 0!
Please consider, is this acceptable and a fair way to treat your working employees? Does this provide for them a sense of security and a reason to continue working for your site?
Some studio owners are just disgusting humans...
My friend and client of 4 years, was exploited today by a former studio (employer)!! I will not list any names, because I do not have my clients legal representation, but I would like to inform you that today the former studio contacted my client, and offered to sell back the old CB followers (from the studio account)!! They claimed to have transferred all 150,000+ followers to another account, have control of them, and if my client pays $10,000 they will transfer the followers back! After my client said they were not comfortable, they offered a better deal (*lol*). My client 100% refused, becasue this is illegal and they are trying to exploit this model after 5 months!! They are playing to an emotional/mental state of health in an attempt to get money out of my client, because my client is openly frustrated as earnings have dropped 75% due to the fact that none of the 150,000+ customers know where to find my client now!
This is 100% exploitation. This is 100% illegal. CB should 100% take notice and make this right! A model’s followers should be transferred to any new model’s account, which has the same real life name, ID, and image as the former account. It is the same person, so why are they not allowed to keep their customers?
Not everyone becomes Independent because it is cool! Some do it to escape a mentally abusive work environment. Self-esteem, confidence, and a sense of security are real things, and CB should help maintain those in people by offering something as simple as transferring the followers a specific model has earned to their new account!
Thank you for reading my thoughts!
Cexmental
I am appalled about CB’s policy for handling the followers of an account!
CB has a policy that a user, who creates the account and has access to the associated e-mail, has the right to control the accounts followers? In the case of a studio, they now own the rights to hundreds of thousands of users who followed a specific model and not a specific account by name alone! This is an important distinction you must keep in mind! This industry is a visual industry. Users enter, see what they like, and click follow so they can easily find that model again. They want to follow that model, and not the studio that has nothing to do with the day-to-day activity of the model!
A model uses their personal body, in sexual ways (difficult and emotionally taxing), to entice users to follow them. That model 100% does all of the work. That model generates the followers. Those followers belong to the model, and not the studio that did nothing but register the account name! (please don't take offense or post a rebuttal if you are a good boss, I know you exist.)
When a studio model become an Independent Broadcaster, they lose all of that hard work. With the loss of followers comes a decrease in account activity, earnings, and positivity. I’ve had friends/clients tell me they are emotionally distraught, upset, frustrated, etc. They are happy to be Independent, but unable to earn the same amount they did 1 week prior, because their 150,000 follower count was reset back to 0!
Please consider, is this acceptable and a fair way to treat your working employees? Does this provide for them a sense of security and a reason to continue working for your site?
Some studio owners are just disgusting humans...
My friend and client of 4 years, was exploited today by a former studio (employer)!! I will not list any names, because I do not have my clients legal representation, but I would like to inform you that today the former studio contacted my client, and offered to sell back the old CB followers (from the studio account)!! They claimed to have transferred all 150,000+ followers to another account, have control of them, and if my client pays $10,000 they will transfer the followers back! After my client said they were not comfortable, they offered a better deal (*lol*). My client 100% refused, becasue this is illegal and they are trying to exploit this model after 5 months!! They are playing to an emotional/mental state of health in an attempt to get money out of my client, because my client is openly frustrated as earnings have dropped 75% due to the fact that none of the 150,000+ customers know where to find my client now!
This is 100% exploitation. This is 100% illegal. CB should 100% take notice and make this right! A model’s followers should be transferred to any new model’s account, which has the same real life name, ID, and image as the former account. It is the same person, so why are they not allowed to keep their customers?
Not everyone becomes Independent because it is cool! Some do it to escape a mentally abusive work environment. Self-esteem, confidence, and a sense of security are real things, and CB should help maintain those in people by offering something as simple as transferring the followers a specific model has earned to their new account!
Thank you for reading my thoughts!
Cexmental
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