Xpanded tv - General Chat & Discussion

(02-02-2020 13:28 )ShandyHand Wrote:  

(02-02-2020 09:53 )HannahsPet Wrote:  ... and S66 wanted a cut for doing fuck all

Doing fuck all expect for giving them the public profile they were then exploiting in the first place; providing the consistent publicity to same that was helping them capitalise on what they were doing; all while the babe's launched private businesses that in some ways cut into the market place the channels occupied - in effect creating their own competition and cutting out the middleman operators. The problem with OF is says tho the babe 'coast as much as you can on the shows and save specific visual content for where it'll do you best'. Some babes even create content for their OF sites while on operator time/premises.

OF was a parasitic to the industry at first. 66 are trying to establish that it can be a symbiotic relationship ... with adequate compensation. The fact that all operators have come up with different solutions to the presence of OF on their sidelines (BS set up a directly competing service to it, typically for them) tells you there is a distinct and very real problem with OF - if you just care to put yourselves in the shoes of an operator for a moment.

Only Fans is just another social media platform. Albeit, crucially, one where users oversee their own posts, without others' "moderation". Plus, of course, their posts can be easily monetized.
Given the public profile, that numerous people have built on "free" social media, including some presenters on these channels and websites, it is rather the case, in many instances, that these channels and websites are "parasitic" to the presenters.
They promote the channels and websites, to many who might not know much about them, otherwise. The reach of "free" social media, being far greater, than that of the channels and websites.
Although the channels and websites are on "free" social media, too. They don't have the numbers of followers, as many individuals.
Plus, OF and other subscription websites, have been around for long enough now, that many newer, or future, presenters have, or will have, built a profile through them, too.
As far as I'm aware, many, or most, of these presenters are self-employed, or on zero or limited hours' contracts. Their promotional use of any social media, "free", or subscription, therefore benefits both them, and their employers.
The greater problem for these channels, seems to be, how to reconcile, the more flexible employment practices, which are increasingly the wider norm, with being on tv. The costs of being on tv, are worth it, only if there is the regularity of rota, that would be commonplace with more fixed employment arrangements.
The more opportunities for doing your own thing, through subscription social media, or other individualised arrangements, such as webcam via AW, makes broadcast media, secondary, for increasingly many. Although, I'm not anticipating these types of channels' disappearance, from tv, for the time being.
However, social media are not going away, anytime soon, either. The very existence of this forum, which is a specific form of social media, is just one indication of that.