Porn Fans pages are a not-so-new trend, considering they have been up for three years now. However, they are gaining new traction and becoming a disruptive force for the traditional porn industry.
Beyond gay porn
We are so concentrated jerking off at hot men on Twitter that we easily forget. Of course, pages hosted by women targeting straight men are overwhelmingly more popular and numerous than gay porn fans pages. If we are impressed at the explosion of gay homemade pornography, imagine the party probably going on in the broader straight pornuniverse.
Even more, the phenomenon exceeds the field of pornography. The New York Times published a well-informed report addressing these new platforms. Several of the most successful fans pages are actually not porn.
Nevertheless, this blogger is mainly interested in male homosexual sex and porn, and so are our readers. We will be writing in this post only about porn fans pages hosted by men or FTM transgenders. We are in men sluts and whores territory here. Sorry porn star and prostitute sisters, you can move to the next corner. I love you.
A trend with a hopeful start
Back in 2016, when OnlyFans started, a wave of enthusiasm went through gay porn performers. Many of them saluted the new porn fans pages as the end for traditional porn studios. Clearly, there were many reasons that justified their enthusiasm.
Needless to say, the relationship between performers and studios has always been conflictive. The clash of interests that is always present in the relationship between employees and employers is maximized by the marginalized status of the activity. Unfortunately, complaints of labor abuse and exploitation are a usual occurrence in the industry. This was happening before the Internet. After the nineties, the studios’ situation has only become more unstable and their business model more at permanent risk.
Even the studios that treat performers with the respect they deserve, suffer strong limitations to run their business due to its marginality. Probably the most evident one is the lack of resources to fight against piracy. Unlike the recording industry, porn studios do not have the money and armies of lawyers necessary to litigate for copyright rights. Porn piracy is a powerful threat that significantly limits profits and the ability to pay decent contracts and, for instance, royalties to performers.
The entrance of Only Fans was welcomed and celebrated with initial enthusiasm. It meant the ability to have direct contact between performers and consumers, without a studio’s intermediation. It meant the ability to generate your own income and build your own brand without depending on someone else’s marketing strategies and contracts.
Porn fans pages are hard to manage
However, that initial enthusiasm soon diminished. Although there are numerous cases of performers that successfully managed their own homemade production, there are many more who failed to amass and keep the number of subscribers necessary to make the model work.
They did not think of the dimensions of the competition they had to face, for a start. Indeed, the number of porn fans pages is just way over the level of demand. Just like YouTube pages.
Besides a heated competition, a major challenge is producing diverse content frequently, for a long period of time. Producing and posting content may seem smooth at the beginning, but you soon realize that avoiding repetition and monotony is not easy. Even porn studios, with their writers and producers, struggle with being original and innovative. Imagine a lonely player.
Sometimes, we are not aware of how repetitive we are. For many, being faced with the challenge of filming themselves often was an awakening.
A renewed appreciation for the role of porn studios spread through the subculture. Even social media monsters like Alam Wernik, who had built his own brand working in total isolation from traditional porn factories, ended up signing contracts to perform in mainstream porn productions.
A new relationship
Studios had been changing long before the arrival of porn fans pages. Internet and the development of new video and video sharing technologies (like tube sites) had already shaken the porn industry. This was a process especially beneficial for alternative niches, as we addressed somewhere else.
Porn fans pages came to empower the performers, just as the Internet had empowered alternative porn outlets.
On this corner, companies got used to a continuously changing market and developed a business culture open to change and experimentation. On the other corner, popular performers empowered by their new independence were able to sit in a radically different position at the negotiating table.
This new relationship is what is fueling now the hiring dynamics in the industry. Some performers, the ones who have been able to develop a critical mass of followers, are at almost the same level as the studios.
Not only they are at the same level at the negotiating table. Performers who have become influencers have also the same power to summon other performers. Influencers have not only become a model of strategies to implement if you want to run a successful porn fans page. They also are the channel other sex workers use to gain publicity, just as they would do from a full porn studio.
Porn Fans Pages collaborations are the last trend. You just have to take a look at your Twitter stream to notice the continuous chatting amongst performers. Cameras are so ubiquitous that performers have stopped talking about hooking up or having sex. Instead, they discuss business meetings to “make content” or “to film”.
Some keys for a successful porn fans page
You probably expect me to start stating that good looks are a requisite. You are wrong. There is a market for all kinds of looks. If your beauty is of the conventional kind, your market will be just bigger and easier to access. However, there is a market for everyone. Much more important than “good” looks are other features:
- You must be social media savvy. The competition is overwhelming. The definitions of “good looking” and “good sex” are highly subjective. Success depends on finding those who think that you are nice for their eyes, and enjoy having sex the same way you do. Your skills to identify and reach out to your potential audience are critical.
- You must post frequently. Anyone who is posting less than weekly will have little chance to succeeding.
- You must include a variety of visual materials. Not only diverse images in pictures and video, but also non porn stuff. Consider the amount of free porn easily available in the tube sites. If they are signing for your fans page, your subscribers are probably looking for more than just porn. Your followers will be interested in you sharing more than your sexual life.
- Videography quality, which was secondary in home made porn, has became important. You better improve lights, frames, and edition, or the competition will leave you behind.
- Developing a network of other performers who are compatible with your audience. As said before, collaborations are a hot trend.
Porn Fans Pages reviews
There are a few outlets already offering this service. It is very much needed. From a porn consumer point of view, the porn fans pages offer is overwhelming. We need help to discriminate and decide where to invest our porn budget.
I LIKE PINGA is starting a new service. We will be adding Porn Fans Pages Reviews to our most successful service, our Escorts Reviews. We are not adding a new page to the blog structure, but you can use the tag #fanspages to find our new reviews.
The first ones will be Rhyheim Shabazz’ OnlyFans and Cutler X JustFor.Fans, because I already have access to them.
Once those two reviews are published, I will start signing up to different porn fans pages and reporting on them. We are planning to continue with our escorts reviews policy and avoid negative reports. We choose to celebrate talent instead of trashing what we do not like.
If you are a performer, I apologize in advance for borrowing your material. From your content, we will create gifs or 30 seconds clips to illustrate the report. In those cases, the review will always link the images to your page and you will receive proper credit. Whether or not I am paying for access, I will not steal your work. At your request, all borrowed images will be deleted immediately.
I LIKE PINGA Fans Page
WARNING: We have discontinued our JFF page. However, this section will remain unedited, just as a testimony of the moment when it was written.
If you have been following us, you should know we also have a JustFor.Fans page. It is not really a porn one, we are not going to misguide you.
We created it as an experiment to try to generate some income. First, we do not want to charge for a subscription to the blog. I LIKE PINGA wants to provide a useful informative and educative service. A free blog would reach much more people who can enjoy and benefit from our reports.
Second, we do not want to contaminate the blog with commercial banners and pop ups. It is important for us that your reading experience remains as enjoyable as possible. Reading my bad English is enough torture, we do not need those horrible windows invading your screen and making your experience even worse.
Therefore, we thought that creating our own Fans Page would allow us to offer additional visual materials that are not necessary to receive our public service. You will find softcore and hardcore pics and videos, besides interviews with sex workers (porn performers and/or escorts).
If you are looking for porn, you should not pay for our JustFor.Fans. But if you like who we are, if you think we are offering a valuable service, please support us. It is only 4.99 monthly, and you can make even better deals if you sign up for multiple months.
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