xxx wrote:She says she was never really planning to have a long porn carreer and is moving on to cams (something she likes apparently).
nikita is clearly entitled to dictate her career choices, and if it makes her happy then i absolutely wish her the best with it.
but i am beginning to quite resent the cam scene as a talent-drain in general. it seems to be sucking a lot of great performers out of proper 'full-on full-contact' porn and into a tacky twighlight world of limp digital peep-shows broadcast on stuttering feeds at unreasonable expense. the content is weaker, the cost for the consumer is higher, and the scene is atomised.
no doubt it's easier money for the girls. no travel costs or time spent in airport lounges, can probably cut grooming corners (these things don't come cheap), no rolling blood tests required is you are just sucking your own dildo on your own bed, and more chance of establishing one-on-one contact with those obssessive punters who want to throw fancy gifts at you in return for private attention.
it also makes having relationships that bit easier. partners might mind less that their girlfriends/boyfriends are playing with themselves on cam than going out and filming scenes with other men/women.
and a home life becomes possible. you don't have to keep asking around for someone to look after your cat and water your plants.
i can see the attractions and everyone wants easy money. so good luck to performers who go that way and i don't hold their choice against them. everyone is entitled to pursue the quality of life they desire.
but with regard as to the broader picture, the porn scene of big models, big studies, big directors, maybe it's the herald of a shift equivalent to what the music industry has gone through over the last twenty years.
eg; new bands are not approaching majors for advances to record and promote now, but recording themselves with cheap digital gear and giving their product away on bandcamp/soundcloud, and making gigs big tickets events and recouping lost royalties on music through increased merchandising. that's the reality (unless you are a pulp mega-seller who can sell out wembley).
same thing with cam porn; cheap digital recording/capturing gear, direct access to paying market, lucrative sideline of private one-off deals and diy merchandising (and largely off the books and or self-declared for income tax).
but as someone who enjoys high quality studio porn product (which cam porn isn't ever, imo) i feel as if i'm seeing a lot of the faces i really like (Nikita among tham) disappearing from that highly visible high end into the niche and low-fi.
i can't follow Nikita into her cam career because i find cam porn dull, regardless of who it is. clearly she wouldn't care less about that and i wouldn't expect her to, she is trading me for a different type of customer. her right to control her product.
but i lose, and studios like LP etc, also lose, from that departure of talent of that quality from the big scene to the small.