Random thoughts (*rises from the dead*)
- Thread starter ChloeCoeur
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Half Portuguese myself but not a fan of all the stinky fish my dear old Granny (RIP) used to cook up
Do you remember advertisement websites in 2014?
We were about 35 independent girls advertising on the 3-4 more popular websites in Montreal.
You would see the same names everywhere you looked. I recognized all of them.
Only on BP you could find a constellation of girls, known to unknown.
Today, all websites (I'm not even talking about LL) have 200+ girls working in Montreal or from other cities falsely advertising in Montreal, scammers and AI, I can't recognize more than 20 real girls nowadays. It's impossible to be seen through this chaos, and the reference system is almost impossible to use since I can't verify if the girl is real or not anymore. Even social media is not as straightforward as it was.
I knew one way to work. And what I knew doesn't exist anymore.
I also wonder if there are less new clients entering the industry because of this. And the majority of those who do are the youngsters who feel at ease with this chaotic Internet as it is today, who are not my ideal clientele.
The enshittification of Internet can be felt in this industry, maybe we were even the first to feel its turmoil.
It saved girls from working from the streets in unsafe conditions, but unsafe conditions still exist and relying on technology for everything in life is a trap.
We were about 35 independent girls advertising on the 3-4 more popular websites in Montreal.
You would see the same names everywhere you looked. I recognized all of them.
Only on BP you could find a constellation of girls, known to unknown.
Today, all websites (I'm not even talking about LL) have 200+ girls working in Montreal or from other cities falsely advertising in Montreal, scammers and AI, I can't recognize more than 20 real girls nowadays. It's impossible to be seen through this chaos, and the reference system is almost impossible to use since I can't verify if the girl is real or not anymore. Even social media is not as straightforward as it was.
I knew one way to work. And what I knew doesn't exist anymore.
I also wonder if there are less new clients entering the industry because of this. And the majority of those who do are the youngsters who feel at ease with this chaotic Internet as it is today, who are not my ideal clientele.
The enshittification of Internet can be felt in this industry, maybe we were even the first to feel its turmoil.
It saved girls from working from the streets in unsafe conditions, but unsafe conditions still exist and relying on technology for everything in life is a trap.
I started much later, but I see the effects of this and it has gotten worse since I began in 2022.
The internet has been very positive for the industry but yes, enshittification, bad laws, pimps seeing the internet as an opportunity, scams AI, onlyfans ads, platforms banning us etc.
Even from the time I entered the industry until now, I've noticed a huge difference. And I think there are less new clients trying this experience for the right reason, too. It doesn't matter to me how old they are. It's more the attitude..
My X account was suspended for the 3rd time recently. The day after I had a difficult conversation with a regular client, but that might have been a coincidence...
I decided to just give up. Also the algorithm isn't what it used to be in X.. but I used to get a lot of good clients who found me on it, or discovered me on an advertisement platform and enjoyed my posts. It sucks.I get very few inquiries from tryst nowadays, and it was an excellent platform at first that sometimes brought me great clients. I do get inquiries from bluesky, but mostly when I'm touring. It seems like people in Montreal don't like that website as much.
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I wrote 2022-2023 somewhere when composing my message, but erased it. It's no coincidence that you mention 2022 as well. Since then, I feel lost.
It's been hard to start. I'm not going to mention details but I had to try many things and couldn't always choose my clients which was really hard..
It's frustrating when everything ends up no longer functioning. I started noticing a decline in the spring of 2024 personally and that's when I started going for more aggressive marketing, posting here, etc.
It does work but it's really exhausting and I have found myself making compromises I didn't want to make. Some friends of mine told me that back in the day you could post on Backpage once and get a ton of serious clients.
I've had some memorable experiences this year so far, tho. I try to look at things in a positive way. I'm also lucky that I have multiple repeat clients and even people who come back after a year or more.
En effet. On dirait que maintenant le site web doit être tout d’abord vu sur une plateforme de media social.. ce qui n’était pas le cas il y a 10 ans. Je suis probablement trop vieux pour comprendre ce qu’il y a de si difficile à seulement naviguer sur le web mais bon ...
Cela dit, un célèbre site de regroupement de TDS qui existe toujours était à l’époque « the place to be » pourrait être amélioré car il n’a pas vraiment changé depuis et sert principalement de one stop shop pour être redirigé vers le site perso de la TS.
Un indicateur de disponibilité quotidienne, 2-3 photos de plus, un peu plus de filtres seraient pas mauvais et parlerait peut-être plus à la nouvelle clientèle pour vous ?
Ce n'est pas une agence. Ce n'est ni réalisable ni réaliste d'implémenter ces changements car nous sommes toutes des indépendantes avec nos propres horaires etc. La plupart d'entre nous ont une galerie pleine de photos sur notre site web
Mais je pense qu'il y a une mauvaise compréhension de ce qu'est ce site si tu parles de Indy companion. Ce n'est pas qu'une plateforme de publicité, ce sont les membres d'un collectif vérifiés. Ce n'est pas une agence.
Plein de tds ne veulent pas oublier leur horaire ou publier sur Merb pour plein de raisons. Si tu va voir les réseaux sociaux de ces personnes tu verras beaucoup de photos. La plupart des TDS sont sur bluesky maintenant.
Je postais mes annonces sur des sites où je n'avais pas besoin de les renouveller chaque jour, c'était passif, et ne "bumpais" qu'une ou deux annonces par jour. Il n'y avait pas de médias sociaux, ils sont arrivés plus tard et devenus nécessaires encore plus tard! On me voyait et on me trouvait pourtant. Aujourd'hui, on doit poster tous les jours sur les médias sociaux, on doit mettre des nouvelles photos constamment, on doit échanger avec les clients, on doit être actives tous les jours, sur tous les sites, car il faut se distinguer des gens non sérieux, de tous les scams et l'AI qui nous entoure. Je m'ennuie des annonces passives, mais l'Internet est devenu une bouillie pour chat et il faut patauger dedans.
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C'est vraiment épuisant et j'ai l'impression que souvent tout ce travail n'est pas apprécié ou remarqué. Il y a plusieurs personnes qui "like" des photos de moi en lingerie mais ne vont jamais me voir.
Juste écrire des commentaires ici c'est une manière d'avoir de la visibilité, mais parfois ce n'est pas le genre d'attention qu'on veut avoir.
