> “Customer service” staff don’t play a single character on the sites. Instead, they sit in a chat queue to be cycled between virtuals they occupy for two minutes at a time Wow. I would not have thought that could work. What happens when the person they are chatting with brings up something from a previous conversation and the person occupying the virtual has no idea how to respond?
Catfishing on an Industrial Scale
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#23> “Customer service” staff don’t play a single character on the sites. Instead, they sit in a chat queue to be cycled between virtuals they occupy for two minutes at a time Wow. I would not have thought that could work. What happens when the person they are chatting with brings up something from a previous conversation and the person occupying the virtual has no idea how to respond?
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
The porn industry hides coercion, rampant drug abuse, STIs, rape, and an abhorrent human cost paid by its actors.
Ah the studios, they are largely irrelevant. They are not where the money is, at all.
And that's not even to comment on the fact that many/most OnlyFans and similar "boutique" sites are operating under a similar model to this scam. There's often a real face who provides the "Content" as a lure, but the premium "Chatting" services are run by call-centers.
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#25You always think, who falls for this stuff? Well, two years ago, a random service tech came out to my work site and, completely unprompted by me, turned a conversation about scheduling a follow visit into the story of his current predicament. He wouldn't be able to come out next week because: he was selling his house to fly across the US to meet his girlfriend, whom he had never met IRL. This man was trapped deep in…
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah the studios, they are largely irrelevant. They are not where the money is, at all.
"Studios" don't have a monopoly on porn created through rape and coercion. "Independent" video producers often are aspirational, making nearly nothing for a very large mental toll. Many of them are forced into it by their "lovers", and/or do it to fund a drug habit. I would hardly call myself a heavy consumer of pornography but I've seen an awful lot of almost-hidden needle marks and crackpipes carelessly in the back…
Of course chatting on webcams is always run by separate people, it is the case even with individual models i know. They just don't have time for this. It's a natural division of labor. I built engines for several webcam sites and there is always that thing.
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#27After fair amount of years wasted on Bumble, Badoo, Tinder, even some explicitly prostitution related platforms. Achieved a miserable "success rate" of maybe just below a dozen of real life encounters. Easily hundreds of EUR spent on various premiums and subscriptions, I feel this happened to me at least few times. It looks it's constructed to be perfectly un-compassionate, sociopathic. Now the other way round... how…
I once made a remark to a profile like that, that I might as well be talking to a hairy fat philipino. I got a barrage of Japanese text back, that when put into an online translator roughly translated to something like: "I am a proud japanese you idiot European, your farts smell like shit, go fuck yourself". So it seems I got under someone's skin there. Since then I'm wondering where this operation is based. the profiles are so similar in style that it must be organized somehow. I wonder how and where.