My profession is working with individuals to teach them how to be a webcam model. At least those are the keywords I have to use on social media.

In this really long webcam modeling oriented post I’m going to try to slam all the things that are wrong with this industry that I love so much. For now, I’m focusing on individual webcam models.

#1. Why do we call it webcam modeling?

I mean seriously. Does anyone think what we’re doing is modeling? A model is someone that is used to sell another product (fashion magazines and runways and such). In our world, the individual is the product. Your selling yourself.

I don’t know where the term originated, but it’s lame. The few sites that have tried to change it have just picked even worse titles, “live video sex chat host” and the likes.

I have an idea ☺

#2. You’re a media company. That’s it.

A webcam model’s profession is to sell live digital content featuring themselves. This is media. You’re in the media business.

Social media is taking over the industry, fast. It isn’t optional anymore. It’s not 2008 anymore.

The performers that win on social media are going to be the ones that win the money. No question. Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat aren’t passing fads. They’re not even “the future”. They’re the present.

The most successful (quantified in terms of income earned) webcam models today are putting as much effort into social media as they are into their actual performance while online. They get it. And they’ll keep getting it.

Social media success doesn’t happen overnight. It doesn’t happen in a month. It takes continuous day in, day out effort. It’ll be at least a month or two before it starts producing any real results.

I love that that’s the case. It means that most people won’t make it. Most people won’t wait 10 minutes for results. So me and my team get to win big because every else is either lazy, or just fails to realize what’s happening in the world.

#3. Stop being so fucking shy / politically correct.

Guys, we work in porn. But with webcam modeling, it’s kind of the “secret porn”. It’s the thing people have pop up when they’re on those sites that they don’t ever tell anyone they’re on.

Despite this secrecy, you still get all the reactions normal pornstars get. If you tell a civillian that you do webcam modeling and explain what it is. They immediately assume your days consist of the most depraved gang bangs they could ever imagine. There’s no avoiding it. Fuck them.

Two great things happen from working in porn.

A. Porn is one of the best social filters you could ever find. Just by being open about it all sorts of unsavory people automatically remove themselves from your life. Your left with people that are cool with porn.

Hint: People that openly like porn are always cooler and more fun than people that are awkward about it. Win

B. Expectations drop to zero and you’re free.

This is one I continue to learn. As my entire social circle knows that I work in porn, I am “the porn guy”. Weirdly peoples expectations of me drop to be very low. I know this because anytime I do something genuinely good, people are shocked. In the past if I did a good deed, I was a person doing a good deed, that’s what you do. But now all of my good deeds are laced with shock and awe, because it’s “the porn guy” doing a good deed.

It’s really dumb. I never changed deep down. I just changed where my income comes from. But people are silly. Let them be silly. If I do something bad, people accept it, because they think I’m a bad person. They don’t get mad at me. They pity me. It’s hilarious. If I do something good, it get’s talked about even more. Win/Win.

Listen.

We’re the normal ones guys. Porn is the 2nd most in demand digital content in the entire world (1st is video’s of cats). We make the stuff that almost everyone in the world with internet access watches on an every day basis.

We should be proud of what we do. Shame is reserved for people who do shameful things. Trying to make other people feel badly about sex is a shameful thing. Fuck those people (I’m speaking figuratively).

I blame webcam models, not “society at large”. Individuals think society gives a lot more of a shit than society actually does. No one cares about you, or what you do. You’re not important.

I see so many people taking such extraordinary lengths to ensure their “privacy”. Refusing to use social media. Only working on sites with seriously overkill filtering options, and then blocking the entire United States from viewing them (aka committing financial suicide). Refusing to use any pictures with their face in them, even on the site where they have everything in a tri-continental area blocked. I always thought the easiest path for them might be to not post video’s of themselves shoving dildo’s up their butt on the internet.

That’s our policy at work. When we sense someone has a really severe fear about privacy, we just address it. Most of the time they are just building things up in their heads. But if they can’t get over it, we don’t work with them. We have no interest in working with a bunch of stressed out, anxious, filled with regret models. You have to actually want to do this job, and be cool with it. Otherwise you’ll lose.

Those extreme cases aside, this privacy fear seems to pervert our community on a much broader scale. Pretty much everyone battles with it at some level. People are afraid to be found out. That needs to stop.

It’s hard to run a successful media company, if you’re afraid of people ever hearing about you.

Thank you for reading,

Jordan Laubaugh
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