Chaturbate 'Adult Social Network' Update

I posted about Chaturbate a while back wondering how well it worked and if it really was an adult social network or just a cam site-

http://girlsworkfromhome.blogspot.com/2011/07/another-new-site-chaturbate.html

My judgement was basically that it was another cam site, lots of ads, not a lot of cash, not very social. Some people chimed in that they were scammers, which was neither here nor there as the site was so new, it was bound to get hit by a few people trying to hustle the owners. Honestly, I'd give the owners the benefit of the doubt before I'd believe the random anons claiming they were scammed.

My biggest complaint about Chaturbate was that there wasn't much traffic and too many ads.

So in the few months since then has much changed? Well, there are still a lot of ads. There are slightly annoying pop up ads from the bottom - you know those annoying chat/IM style messages? Those. There are also some banners. But there is always the option to surf the site ad free - for just $19.95 per month. Now this SORTA trickles down to performers, since you get 200 free tokens with the $19.95 signup. But according to my math tokens cost between 8 and 11 cents, which means that of the $19, $16 goes on to the performers eventually.

Which is damn good, anyone who has tokens is going to use them for sure. But you don't get 200 tokens PER MONTH, just initially. So month 2, the whole lot goes to Chaturbate and their partners. 

To take a closer look I have been surfing the site a lot and I'm still suspicious about the number of viewers they state for each room. For example I was in this room tonite:

And you can see she's putting on quite a show, while the site says she has over 400 viewers in her room, she's only pulled in $13 in tokens for a hardcore backdoor cucumber show. That said, regardless of the numbers she IS making money and god bless her for keeping it organic with veggies.

But, one great thing I have noticed is that on some occasions the folks in charge over there have been hiring real, live pornstars to put on shows which is much different from an adult social network or most current cam sites. While in some ways this sucks if you are NOT a star, they do attract a lot of new guys to the site in the form of fans, and more guys = more money = more tips = a very good thing. I think I'm going to give it a shot, see how it compares and report back.

So, keep up the great work Chaturbate!

And I think I'mma pick the cucumbers off salads for a while...

Another new site - Chaturbate.

I will say one thing up front, I LOVE the name of this site. Although I think it should be Chatsturbate. Basically it's like a kinda rip off of Chatroulette I think where regular people can cam, the twist is that they pay you.

Of course the REAL twist is that they don't pay you much and half of the site is ads! LOL. Here's how it works - they proclaim that they give away huge dollars:

"EASY MONEY! Each month, Chaturbate gives $11,000+ in prize money!"

Wow, you must be thinking! $11,000, that's a lot of cheddar! Well the bitch of it is, they give it out $10 at a time and to 'win' it you need to have the most visitors in your room for an hour. Yeah...so...no. You can drive a forklift at Costco with your clothes on for $19 an hour with benefits. You can squirt espresso at Starbucks and meet cute guys for $10 an hour and get free drinks.

Plus the site is brand new and hasn't got crap for traffic. I know that if you take a look at the site it seems like there are 100's of people in the rooms watching but if you use a little brain power you might be able to see through this BS. For example in the above screen cap one of the rooms is clearly labelled as an ad 'Flirt4Free' and the icon says there are 23 people watching it. Just to the left of it there are 38 people watching a bald black man eat a tv dinner, while right above that only 27 people are watching a chick finger herself. Also there's this: 199 people watching parakeets:

So, bottom line - skip it. Even if you came up with some lame idea for a game on MFC during peak hours you could bank more than $10 an hour, guaranteed.