Is OF, JFF etc. drying up post-pandemic?

[naughty_gam]

As usual, I'm probably "late to the party" and have only recently noticed that a few of the 0nly F@ns, F@nsly and Jus7 F0r F@ns etc. have had a lot fewer postings.

With studios having restarted filming a while back, I imagine these performers are returning to "traditional media" and less of the semi-pro / amateur style on their own page, right?

Is there a way to work out who still has the critical mass to keep this going? It seems like it was a bit of a vicious cycle IMHO. Those with lots of subscribers (fans) were able to up their frequent postings, and long-format videos with decent production values. But once the subscribers drop off, the frequency and length of videos seems to also have diminished.

Does anyone have any other guidelines or rules of thumb they follow as to which subscriptions have "had their day" and it's time to quietly leave the party, so as to speak? Thanks.

 

[absalom]

In my opinion it is not drying up but for new content creators is is very difficult to get visibility. How do you stand out when there are some many other people that do the exact same thing as you do?

For gay adult performers one way of becoming more visible is to do work for the better known gay porn studios. People get interested in you and start googling for your JFF, OF etc.


The average income for ALL creators on 0F is around $ 150 per month. I don't know if the average income for gay adult performers is much higher than that figure. For many gay porn models escorting brings in way more money than Content Creator Platforms. This might be one reason so many gay adult performers stop being very active on Content Creator Platforms. The top performers earn lots of money but the bottom half very little.

One thing I should not forget to mention is that the technical quality of the scenes of many gay adult performers leaves much to be desired. People watch porn because they want to see explicit things. They do not want to see dark shadows, shaky camera's and bad angles. My guess is that some performers on Content Creator Platforms underestimate what it takes to film a decent scene.

 

[emancipated]

Definitely an oversaturation in the market.

A quick twitter search will give you thousands of users with OF links.

 

[RufusMc]

It feels like everyone is on JFF, OF etc. It is hard to find good material, but there is a lot of good stuff out there. This is why I ike forums as you can ID people of interest.

 

[larry06]

If you add a site like RFC, I don't think it is going down. Mainly the opposite. I have the feeling that it is the opposite, some of the regular "studios" seems to reduce their publication. I was wonderiiing if the OF/JFF/RFC/... bring slightly more revenus to our beloved stars.....
Just my 2 cents....
Larry

 

[dragonscub]

One thing I should not forget to mention is that the technical quality of the scenes of many gay adult performers leaves much to be desired. People watch porn because they want to see explicit things. They do not want to see dark shadows, shaky camera's and bad angles. My guess is that some performers on Content Creator Platforms underestimate what it takes to film a decent scene.

^^^^^THIS^^^^ x 1000.

I know the great majority of porn fans today seem absolutely thrilled and addicted to the "authenticity" and "realness" of OF/JFF videos vs "fake studio scenes", but they bore and irritate me (almost as much as Chaturbate shows: all my friends love that stuff but it puts me into a coma). For all the failings of the "pro" studios, at least they usually knew how to stage, light and edit hot men having actual sex.

Unfortunately, studios can't (or won't) provide performers the kind of money and flexibility they get from OF/JFF. The result has been a vicious cycle of studios losing their top performers, faltering, then changing owners (often to inept repetitive monopolies like MindGeek). While I certainly sympathize with performers seizing power and flipping the script financially, most of them are either clueless or deliberately incompetent at filming themselves. Murky lighting, terrible camera angles, no editing, poor pacing and hopeless shot capture is the new normal.

Ideally, the pro studios and OF/JFF scene might have crossed over and invigorated each other, but it doesn't seem to be happening. Instead the faults of each are getting worse by the day post-pandemic. And I haven't even commented on the infuriating RFC offshoot with its deliberately confusing video titles and multi-part release pattern (instead of one half-watchable amateurish video they issue two overlong videos that never get to the point).

 

[Overheat775]

I did hate how avant-garde professional gay porn became in the mid-2010s. Maybe others did too which is why amateur OF porn became more appreciated over time.

Tbh though I don't subscribe to any OF accounts nor are there any OF porn stars that I genuinely care about right now except for maybe Sh@ne Diesel, but his content is "straight" so there isn't much to see there other than the occasional JO scene.