This is extremely demoralizing. This is last week’s take from my membership website. Every phot shoot I have ever done, every video I have ever made (well, minus ones I did for other companies) is on this site. This weekly check used to be between $600 and $1400 a week back in the heyday. I don’t recall how many steady members I needed to have to get those numbers but I’m guessing over 200 members. Lately it’s dipped below 100 members and I still pull in enough to make ends meet. And yes, I do make money off of manyvids, clips4sale, chaturbate, streamate etc, but the centerpiece of my career is now this terrible, it makes me not want to bother ever making new shoots. You know how many members that is to get a $41.76 check? 49 members. I have 18,588 tumblr followers on the planet but only 49 think my work is worth paying for I have 60,500 twitter followers in the whole world and only 49 think I deserve to be paid for my work. I’m balling my eyes out right now because I have great ideas for new shoots but what’s the fucking point? I’m already about as productive as I can be but if I don’t get SOME goddamn encouragement, what’s the point of making any new shoots, ever? Fuck, I post a few pix on tumblr that are 5 years old and people are all gaga over then like they’re new. I guess I should be pleased about that? And yes, I do have a few mega fans who help support me in other ways, but honestly, I’d be happy to refresh and work in my site more if I had a steady 100 fans all the time It’s true what they say about this business, the more you produce, the less you get paid, and at the same time the more people think they can rip you off because they’re all like “oh, she’s a famous pornstar, she’s rich” Yeah, I ain’t fucking rich if my weekly check is $41.76 So I dunno.. do I just pretend everything is hunky dory? Give up? Pack it in and go get a job bagging groceries? Or maybe i yank my entire site off the net. That’ll show them. Then people will have to really hunt for my material. Ok, no, that’s not a good idea. In this day and age if you don’t post on Facebook for like a week, people think you’ve died. I dunno. But anyone ever thinking of joining my site, maybe you should. And yes, I know my site could use better tablet/mobile connectivity- I’m still working on that, but it’s not like I can hire someone so that upgrade is taking time.. But who knows, maybe I’m fucking done with this business. It sucks that 50 more members will make all the difference. But y’all are a bunch of freeloaders, so maybe you should pay the price or lose access to my content forever. At the very least you should know my pain. 50 more members is all I’d like. Or maybe just people buying my videos instead of getting them off the tube sites. That’d be nice. Do you think I have the time and effort to go after the pirate sites? Nope, not on $41.76 a week that’s for fucking sure. So yeah, I’m demoralized. I’m trying to make new shoots this week but what’s the point? Tara