Re: The Truth About Webcam Girls (BBC3 TV Show, not ranting!
I think from a cam girl point of view or from a point of view of someone who spends time with cam girls, it's easy to say it perhaps didn't paint us in the worst possible light- because it didn't paint us as entirely sleazy and they did involve some of the good parts if you're familiar enough to spot them.
But I don't think camming in the UK is a particularly well known thing unless you're already a part of it, if that makes sense? So what the BBC have just blasted to however many people who weren't familiar with camming in any sense, was a very select group of girls from one site who clearly don't have much respect for the people who're paying them and are only interested in them for the couple of quid they'll toss their way, who don't really want to cam all that much, and the whole thing didn't really paint a decent picture of camming or what it is in the slightest. I have a lot of friends who watched it who were completely disgusted thinking that that's what I spend my nights doing now despite me trying to explain otherwise, because that was their first view of the camming world and what it entails.
I sometimes forget that not everyone in the industry feels the sense of community that this site has brought to my work at all, and maybe they don't have so many friends from the industry, or guys who really take care of them or the solidarity I feel knowing so many other camgirls. And it's got me wondering if maybe one day that's how I'd have seen camming, as my job, if maybe I hadn't found acf, made friends, and learned more about admin and marketing and the ton of other stuff that we get up to off cam.
