You may or may not have noticed, but cam girls are proliferating across the Internet with the same fecundity as most boy bands.If you haven’t heard of cam girls before, these are some portal sites that you may want to check out before you read the rest of this article :
Exploited
CamWhores
These sites are just the tip of the cam iceberg, but they have enough cam girl examples that you’ll be able to get the idea by surfing their various linkage.
There are a ton of reasons why one would want to be a cam girl, but our staffer Toya would probably be in a better position to explain that than me. One thing that repeatedly pops into my head though, is that it’s a chance for an otherwise unknown person to achieve boyband-esque celebrity. Oh, and fans buy you stuff, so that’s always fun.
The basic recipe for a cam site include a short bio, a gallery of pictures, maybe a few bits of prose/poetry/artwork, a blog, and the most important part, a regularly-refreshing webcam. It’s not exactly real-time, since a cam refreshes once every 5-60 seconds, but it does allow fans to see the site owner all alone in her bedroom. The voyeuristic possibilities blow the mind. Naturally, the more uninhibited you are, the more visitors your site gets. Ergo, the more gifts you will potentially receive.
It used to be that in order to be a successful cam girl, all you had to do was be cute, spend a lot of time in front of your computer, and write in your blog a lot. Now that there are so many choices out there though, the competition is getting fierce. Check out SurvivorCam2, which is an ongoing contest of sorts for various cam owners. Basically, the last cam owner standing gets the pot. If you check out SurvivorCam (OutPose, OutShine, OutWhore), you’ll probably spot Chelle’s link since she is one of the final three. Chellecam is one of the most popular cam sites on the web right now, and it’s something to check out on your way to complete Cam Awareness.
I’m not sure exactly how tough it’s getting out there, but if it’s any indication, one of the web’s premiere cam girls mija, recently closed down her site, stating that she was “sick and tired of a hobby turned hassle.”
The Cam Girl phenomenon has been around long enough that we can safely remove its “new Internet craze” moniker. But once it’s lost its novelty, who’s to say how many of these cam girls will continue with their camming? Eventually, fans will dwindle, and only the sturdiest of cam girls will survive it.
The web is a fickle thing and at the moment, cam girls are in. It’s been my experience though that the ultimate decider of the lifespan of a site is its owner and not its audience, so only time will tell how long the cam girls will last.