@SpexyAshleigh @mfc_truth I'm not going to bash you...this isn't necessarily backlash either, it isn't even all directed at you (So when I say YOU, know that I may not be talking about you specifically), but it needs to be said. I agree with some of your points: Tip if you're enjoying, talk and interact, show appreciation, etc. These are basic principles that I can't argue against.

However, the problem is this...your experience on cam, your pay check and your enjoyment of your job DOES NOT fall on our shoulders at all...and not in the way you probably think I mean.

In your post you give the example of a rock star amped and ready to preform only to be dazed and unmotivated by a lack luster crowd. The problem here is...if it were Bono...he would still bust his ass to give an amazing performance. There are TONS of musicians who despite their audience not being excited, still give it their all…you win them over, you keep trying - that's how you make it to the top. Those artists know...what most cam models seem not to know. IF YOU DON'T WANT YOUR SPOT, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO GIVE YOUR ALL - SOMEONE ELSE DOES.

One of the greatest pieces of advice I ever received in my adult life, was that it's not about how good you are its about how long you can be good. How consistent can you be? Rarely is it the person with the most talent or that "deserved" it the most that gets the reward. Its the person that works hardest and the longest. You're not in a good mood? You're uninspired? You don't feel sexy? Well OK...this new model "CutiePieBBGurl420" does...and her prices are cheaper too. Go to a "new" cute model's room...it's packed with so many members talking and tipping you'd think she was in the top 20. So no we won't "find [ourselves] surrounded by miserable women"...because we get new ones quite frequently.

I know anything dealing with a woman's body, her emotions, her sexual security, her confidence are all areas that need to be treaded lightly on and respected. Unfortunately, this is a business and your job is selling your body, your personality and your sexiness. It's sad to say, but as a cam model...you don't really have a lot of time to sit around pouting and being depressed...and that goes double for models that aren't exactly spring chickens anymore or who have been around for a while and are maybe getting a little stale. There are TONS of new models flooding MFC and other camsites every day, outpacing the rate at which members sign up for premium accounts, and it shows no signs of slowing down. There's more quality options now, you've got more competition. I remember when there would only be maybe 5-10 girls I found that were English speaking and attractive to me online at one time 3 years ago…now as I write this, I've got 74 on my friend's list...online...NOW! …but they're all doing the same thing and I can barely tell them apart. I rarely ever spend more than 5 minutes in a room these days. I pop from room to room not because I've got my dick out waiting for a free show but because I can't figure out why I should give model A my money instead of model B...or C...or D...all the way down to model ZZ.

Understand this. You've got tits, they've got tits. You've got an ass, they've got an ass. You've got a vagina...you get the point. You're all selling the same product...in a different color, with a different feature here or there. "This one comes with anal.","This one has blonde hair". Everyone has a "club", everyone has videos, everyone has a white board...so on and so forth. So really when you use the rockstar metaphor you have to imagine it more like this. "There's an abundance of rockstars in the world...and they all play the same 2-3 songs...over and over and over and over..." …as a fan how enthused are you to pay to go see a concert now?

Now I know there's something to be said about creative cam models who are constantly coming up with something new...only to have it stolen by some other cam model and then mass produced and devalued. To that all I can say is...it sucks. I know. Unfortunately, there's no patents on ways to plow your vagina...but such is life. Even Apple for all their patents still gets tons of other companies who will copy what they do. Their commercials, their style, their look. They have to keep innovating to stay ahead. That's why Blackberry is in the state that it is in today. They refused to continue to innovate, they thought they were so popular and had such a lock on the market and their pride was their downfall. However, while some girls are getting fucked over for skypes or gifts...you girls collectively are doing what most members can never do to you...FUCK YOURSELF...by stealing from each other and whitewashing each other instead of innovating.

There's also quite a few of you that are dehumanizing yourselves...and not in the "I pee for tokens bb" kind of way...and this doesn't apply to everyone but... "____ for tits, ____for ass. Let's get this cumshow going! Thank you hun." If I never knew what a cam model was...and I closed my eyes and just listened to some audio of one, I'd think they were some kind of coin operated robot sex doll. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying don't charge for things or fulfill requests without tips. I'm saying that for many of you that's all you are, that's all you do. "I'm not like that, I'm special, I'm unique, I'm a princess, I should be adored…like come on guys get with the program…don't you see how awesome I am? I should be doing better. I deserve to be #____" …that may very well be true…but you look…talk…act and do the exact same stuff as the 10 other girls next to you on my friend's list.

For all the "this site is about interaction" you girls have really boiled most of that away. It's so boring now. In the past 3 years I've been a member I've watched the personal experience die away almost completely on the site. Scroll though most model's profiles and you find more NOs, DONTs and DO FOR MEs than anything else. Those sections are a glaring example of how some models really don't get it. Anyone that's going to be an asshole to you...is going to be an asshole. They're not going to read your profile and decide not to be an asshole. Oh you don't like saying you don't do anal over and over? That's why you have it? Tough shit...there's people out there that don't like saying "would you like fries with that" or "would you like to sign up for our store credit card?". It really should be about WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU? HERE'S WHAT I LIKE TO DO. I'M OPEN TO THIS. But instead it's my topic, my vids, my bills, my rent, my rules, my club, my this, my that. You would think we're here to serve you!

"…the numbers don’t lie - there are easily 10x the viewers as there are models" It's probably closer to 80 or 100x, i'm sure there's some average room number statistic somewhere that would give us a more accurate ratio…but that's not the point. What's the ratio though of lazy cam models to members? Unoriginal model's to members? Undesirable model's to members? Let's be honest, not every girl on the site is a 10, hell not even a 6. "Well I don't mean ALL models…I only mean the models that do this, this and this." I hope that's not what you're thinking…because that's a slippery slope. One where you we can start to say "Maybe only girls that look like this, weigh this much, with tits this big, that do these types of shows…deserve to have their topics finished" …and maybe you don't fall into that range. Thankfully for you and other models, guys like a variety of girls all shapes and sizes…even still we're starting to see more and more models in of our favorite varieties and fetishes join the site.

What you also fail to understand is...guests make up a big part of this "10x" and don't WANT to tip. Wether they're cheap and logged on to an adult site called MyFreeCams expecting...i don't know a free cam show or they're premiums in disguise…they're not giving up the tokens. Basics, especially ones who have had their account for some time, WILL NEVER TIP. They're committed to the leech lifestyle...so committed they made an account when they didn't need to. BTW if you have a problem with guests/basics expecting a free show, you should have a look at the viral marketing site that MFC puts out...that basically says..."never pay for porn again, enjoy free shows" . You go on to say "…if even HALF of MFC viewers...contributed to the website just once a week, we’d all be hitting our goals" ...not likely. What you would probably see is a greater disparity between top and bottom models. You're more likely to see the rich get richer so to speak. Just like if everybody could buy any new car they wanted and they decided to buy a new one…you'd see a shit ton of Lamborghinis running up and down the streets and not so many KIAs.

Also understand YOU ARE ALL NOT SUPPOSED TO MAKE YOUR GOALS. You can kill that Utopian dream. That's the nature of business and competition. There is a finite amount of member's disposable income that runs through MFC. Deal with it, you're not going to increase the amount of money we decide to allocate to you or the amount of people who decide to contribute simply by asking for it. A lot of you are shooting yourselves in the foot, borrowing from tomorrow. You burn your members out on an end of the month pay goal rally, then when the clock strikes 12AM PST…you ask them to help you make Top 100. Then next month is your birthday. Your cammiversary. Your moving fund.

Think about the amount of money that flows through mfc like a pie. It's your job every pay period to get as much of the pie as you can and that comes from being innovative, consistent, dedicated, sexy, genuine, entertaining, etc. With more and more models joining and less leaving, your slice is going to get smaller and smaller unless YOU do something. Wake up! You geniuses are bringing your friends on and telling them all how much money you make...yeah you maybe helped out a friend, yeah it'll be fun to cam with her...but you created direct competition for yourself. You girls have bought into some sisterhood and all for one attitude, but as more girls continue to come in, what you really need to be doing is dividing an conquering…because it's only going to keep getting harder…giggity. You need to fortify your position and expand market share.

Obviously shows still continue to happen, new models continue to move up into the 5000+ range...HELLOOOOO MFC isn't in trouble. They're not going bankrupt. They're still making their money…more money in fact…so tokens are still being spent. It's not that people have stopped tipping, they've stopped tipping YOU. What reason do they have to tip YOU and not someone else? To spend their time talking to YOU and not someone else. I'd wager that while you may think they're sitting there silently fapping to you and ignoring you...they're actually in another model's room...talking and possibly tipping. At least that's the mentality you should have, "Hey don't look at her guys, look over here!!!"

I spend most of my time in 1 regular's room that I tip regularly…without even a second thought…whom I adore still after 3 years…and continue to look forward to seeing her every day. I'm not the biggest tipper, but I'm not the lowest...I'm one of I'd say 25 regulars who for the most part all contribute to some degree. When our favorite model was in need, she didn't have to ask us to help her - we collectively got together and took care of it for her and surprised her. I honestly feel like regulars are the backbone of camming for middle-camscore models. What makes a regular a tipping regular and not just a talking regular? ...I don't know, but even just talkative "non-requesting" regulars are good because they add to the room environment and make it seem like fun place to be. Which I think to some degree we agree on, people need to talk and interact. However, I do notice an overwhelming trend of models trading in regulars for top tippers & club members. But I should also note that if most of your top tippers are regulars...maybe that should tell you something.

I know it sucks sometimes...welcome to the real world. Tons of people hate their job, hate the people they work for or with, hate their customers and have a hard time at work. You can either be the guy flipping burgers for the rest of your life complaining about how the job sucks until they replace you with some new kid or you can be the person that takes that crappy job swallows it, does your best and goes from burgers to manager to district manager to franchise owner to franchise founder. When I go to Wendy's to get a burger or go get my hair cut...they're not complaining to me about how they don't make enough, how they can't pay their rent or how I need to help make them be the #1 barber in the city. That is some BULLSHIT that you'll only see on camming sites. Oh you want to be Top 20? Contribute to your "promotion" in the camming world? In your career? ...how about you help me get a promotion at my fucking job and SUCK…MY…BOSS'…DICK?! Maybe then I can afford to just tip bomb away all your countdowns. Go on…do it…I'll wait…I didn't think so. That sound's real stupid right? You can't say "tokens for requests, don't ask if you're not tipping" one minute and then the next "help me meet my rent goal guys, my moving fund, furnish my cam room, I'm sick make me feel better with tips".

What you may be experiencing with guys talking less is more likely the result of, guys who are talkative and tipping, being in other more fun, fresher/newer or more original rooms. As for the ones that are in your room not saying anything...I think it's safe to say some of them are probably in 74 other rooms. Members don't need to step it up one bit. We could, we probably should…but its the cam models that NEED to step it up. The burden is on you to step it up as a cam model, because if you don't...this may be harsh but…you'll be replaced...and you're probably in the process of that happening already and you're too blind or proud to see it. Just like any business it's your job to sell me on why I need your product...why I should spend my money on you. It's your job to be original, innovative, reliable, high quality and competitively priced. I'm sorry you're not entitled to nice members, to regular tips, big tips, gifts, talkative members...you're not. You've got to work for what you want. If you get little perks along the way, gifts, big tips…out of the kindness of someone's heart…cherish them…but don't treat it as the norm. Our bosses aren't paying our rent when we can't, buying us gifts and paying us when we're not doing our job. We're probably doing more for you…than we do our own friends and family. So work hard for what you want, don't count on gifts and kindness. This is your JOB.

I honestly think models collectively need to stop being so generic and unpersonal. You're making yourselves so interchangeable and replaceable. You all have played right into MFC's best interest. There was a time when they might have been concerned about loosing a bigger name…but not anymore…because you're all the same now…and there's so many of you willing to take that person's place. They watch you fight over an arbitrary ranking to increase your productivity and their profit. Which is good business. Them displaying the top 21-100 was genius. You all fell for it. You all started selling video packs, you all started having clubs, you did double raffles, you all started to assimilate yourselves. Was it really so bad being #473 when you were having fun and still paying your bills with no worries? Was it worth it? You changed the landscape of MFC, not us.

Your repeat unoriginal uninspired unenthused cookie-cutter "my way or the highway" cumshows and topics are boiling MFC down to watching porn with your requests for tips playing the role of the annoying pop ups & ads. Some of you even after finishing your topics for shows still request for more tokens, sometimes threatening to stop the show if you don't get more. For this very reason I won't contribute to quite a few girl's countdowns or stay in their room no matter how hot, cute or fun I think they are. Imagine buying a TV, paying in full…taking it home and every 2 minutes it pauses your favorite TV show to ask you for money or it's going to shut off. I watch this happen over and over. You're spitting right in the face of the few people who were nice enough to contribute. "Sorry guys I don't think I'm going to stay on much longer". We all understand camscore and what not but with the looming threat of a canceled show hanging our heads we're reluctant to tip.

Sometimes, we look at you, the room activity and go…"there's no way this count is getting done, i'm not wasting my money" It's not that we don't have the money...it's that we don't want to pay for what you're selling...and not in the "i'm not paying some whore" kind of way...but in the way that people pirate blockbuster movies, or stream shows online, or pirate software, etc. Which I think is another variable to your woes. You work on the internet. The place where people steal, pirate and look for shit for free. Look at the increase in recorded shows on forums in the past year.

It's not that we don't want to talk to you...its that you have nothing to talk about other than yourself, your bills, your wants, your needs...or you're just boring on cam…or you're waiting on us to initiate things. Like the saying goes, a closed mouth doesn't get fed. You expect us to entertain you, for us to have something that interests you…and it should be the other way around. We're not a community of philanthropists looking for girls that we can help and make happy. We're not here to cater to you, but we do enjoy spoiling the girls that make an impression on us. I'm sorry if this doesn't sit well with you. I'm sorry if this comes off assholey. I'm sorry if this makes you sad, mad or cry. This is the career/job YOU chose if it makes you so unhappy, consider doing something else...and if you say to yourself "I don't want to, I like camming - it's good money and it's fun" ...then STFU, put a smile on your face, focus on the positive, keep working hard and realize how fortunate you are.

It takes a lot of work, it takes tough skin…raffles/vids/etc there's a lot to do...but it isn't a hard or difficult job. HOW DARE YOU CHASTISE SOMEONE THAT BREAKS THEIR BACK FOR THEIR MONEY, THAT WORKS A SHITTY JOB, THAT WORKS 50+ HOURS A WEEK, THAT HAS TO PUT UP WITH AN ASSHOLE OF A BOSS, THAT GETS UP AT THE CRACK OF DAWN TO PUT FOOD ON THEIR TABLE AND CLOTHES ON THEIR FAMILIES BACKS because YOU think you deserve more of their hard earned money!!! That's despicable. You're not a factory worker. You're not a garbage man. You don't flip burgers. You're not a physicist. You're not an engineer - You're your own boss. You control your hours. Slack off when you want to. Vacation when you want to. Sell what you want. Some of you work 2 hour days, 3-4 times a week. Appreciate what you have.

In closing I'll say this. If you're not making your bills/rent, you may need to consider a different job, a part time job, re-evaluate your finances and your lifestyle. If you're doing okay and all this complaining is out of greed and some arbitrary need to have a higher ranking? Be happy…stop demanding more and more draining your members - stretching them thin and alienating them, instead give more and more and more shall be given unto you. (lol…that sounds like something from the Bible) Be thankful that you have a relatively easy job, that the way you get your money is easier and more fun than most people out there in the world struggling and busting their asses. I personally may not make the kind of money I want…yet…but I'm so glad that I get to go do a job I actually enjoy - that I would be doing for free any way but it just so happens people want to pay me money to do it. I remember the days of sweeping the halls, folding clothes and answering phone calls…so no matter where I'm at right now…I appreciate it and how far I've come…and how far I can go still. I DONT EXPECT ANYONE TO HELP ME GO ANY FURTHER IN LIFE & MY CAREER OTHER THAN ME. If you don't like that, GO WORK A JOB WHERE YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO DO SOMETHING OTHER THAN PLEASURE YOURSELF FOR MONEY AND SEE HOW MUCH YOU COMPLAIN THEN. …But in all seriousness. Chill on the complaining, begging, and bashing of us...don't take it personal and don't take what you have for granted. It's a job…a great job, work hard-er.

To cam models that don't fit anything I just said or are more/less a victim of their peer's greed coming to bite the cam girl community as a whole in the ass…to you I say I'm truly sorry. I really truly hope you hang in there. If you love it, you enjoy it, you appreciate it…keep doing it. There's a lot of really wonderful girls floating around the 1500-2500 range…and maybe the site flushes itself of the ungrateful, greedy and lazy models, hopefully your time will come and you seize the opportunity but don't abuse it…and know that it won't last forever.

To my fellow members: don't give in to begging, don't give into sob stories and don't reinforce backwards and ugly behavior. But DO support models that are sweet, sexy, smart or whatever makes you fancy them. If you like them…talk to them…engage them. If you enjoy them tip them. It doesn't have to be much - and never be lead to feel like you should do more than what you can comfortably do. The power that you have to change things on MFC, to get rid of the bitchy, entitled, arrogant and lame models is greater than you know…and that's the power of the almighty dollar.

- From an Active 2x Platinum Member in response to: http://spexyashleigh.tumblr.com/post/78786908685/an-open-letter-to-all-of-the-mfc-viewers

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