How is it that the porn business is dead?

How did we go from being a great and powerful business that was semi-glamorous, where anyone who worked hard could prosper to being a parody? Like a styrofoam company, one of those once profitable but now virtually extinct industries? Or an asbestos plant.

That’s what we are slowly turning into.

When it comes to star driven product that tried to mirror Hollywood and make movies, like Legs McNeil wrote in his book The Other Hollywood, we’ve become bastardized.

We’ve become watered down and diluted. Like I said, a parody.

All these Johnny-come-latelies. These internet geniuses who were nothing more than computer programmers. Traffic pushers. They knew nothing about pornography or appreciated it, they only knew how to create traffic. Drive traffic, whether it was widgets or cigarettes.

Pornography has always been a business that sold itself. You don’t have to knock people on the head too hard to get them to look at porn. Selling it was never an incredibly difficult thing to do unless you were retarded.

So then you had all of these internet losers that did nothing but sit in their mom’s basement and create programs and others who figured out ways to make artificial things that felt like pussies.

You had all of these socially inept people who created ways to communicate with other socially inept people. That communication enabled them to share dreams and fantasies of girls that they would never get. “Hey buddy! Take a look at this!” *splooge* “Wouldn’t it be great to have these girls instead of jerking off in your mom’s basement?” *splat*

So you had all of these guys who created a geeky sharing world. They created that pornography hub of traffic.

As the technology advanced, Hollywood came up with Netflix and streaming and ROKU. Technology that we all have. But we had no regulation or protection, where the music industry and Hollywood does. Yet they still have portions of it that they give out for free.

The music business and the porn business both have had problems with the perception that it is now free. The old dinosaurs in the porn business who gripe about piracy always say, “But the music business has touring and merchandising.” We don’t have touring? Personal appearances? Signings? Strip clubs? Conventions? We don’t have merchandising? Vivid does, not many others do though.

We did. When we had Extreme Associates we had UFC champions wear our shirts in the ring after a victory. That’s what we did. And we sold tens of thousands of them. I don’t even know how many.

Strip clubs have been also bastardized to a certain extent, but Vivid is creating a club where they use the Vivid brand and have a place where they can have girls come in and basically create stars.

Guys, it’s not rocket science. The same merchandising and promotion that created wrestling, football, Hollywood, whatever. It’s all available to the adult business, but for some reason we’ve never been able to take advantage of them.

Perfect example. We broadcast from a second story above a strip club. We could promote this club every single day and have guys lining up to get in. Have porn stars that we know appear and bring traffic in. This fucking parking lot outside, some nights there are only 3-4 cars in the fucking thing.

Yet when you bring the idea to the owner he looks at you with a puzzled look. Not to mention he’s German, so the language barrier’s there and he looks like he wants to put you on the train to Auschwitz for bothering him with this idea.

Our industry needs to create its own vehicles. I have to commend Bill Asher over at Vivid and the gentlemen at Rick’s Caberet for this idea because it is a great idea.

I’ve always thought the adult business could use a touring mechanism to promote a particular brand.

The problem is the leadership that we have now, from The Free Speech Coalition to the internet yahoos, and not yahoos in a good way.

People who lived in their mom’s basement and created affiliate programs. People like the great Fabian Thylmann who created NATS. The guy who was worshiped like the second coming of Christ a few years ago.

Fabian Thylmann became a multimillionaire and brought down an entire industry by creating a program that tracked stuff. That stuff could’ve been dirty rubbers. But the stuff he tracked was pornography.

The industry was taken over by these guys who tracked and shared stuff. And look what you have now. Look at what the industry has become.

A pile of shit.

You had a whole bunch of number crunchers who decided they were gonna be in charge of producing, directing, casting, every aspect of what goes into the adult business. From awards shows to the politics, everything.

You now have a whole bunch of people who are socially inept who only know how to communicate with each other on the internet that go to shows two or three times a year in San Diego or Florida or Amsterdam or wherever and they go “Oh my god! You’re Barbara XXX! I love your website! Wow! I’ve made like five thousand dollars with you!”

They drink, they party, they share stories about comic books and being bullied in high school. Afterwards they get back on the plane and go back to their miserable existence in Detroit or Kentucky or Idaho.

So now these losers sit in on talent calls. They go “You know who could make a great movie? My buddies Cameron and Fritz, they have a new camera and my other buddy and he’s an artist who takes pictures. They’ve always wanted to be filmmakers and one of them even went to the Arizona School of Hollywood Filmmaking.”

Now you have a business that looks like a big puddle of diarrhea.

All of your computer programming and all of your jerkoff stuff amounts to nothing. Now you guys have the empire and you are the kings of shit.

Because ultimately you can’t reach through the computer and jack someone off. But we all can. People pay to see our dicks, our pussies, our assholes, our mouths, our minds. They ain’t paying you motherfuckers for shit!

Take a look again at this business. When you’re sitting through awards shows and an hour and a half of it is who’s got the best affiliate program.

Remember this jerkoffs. This business made more money without all you internet losers than with you. So wipe your fucking ass with that.

All you little internet webmaster jackoffs who sit there on your little keyboards on the message boards and say, “Rob Black doesn’t know what he’s talking about. We made him millions!” You made me shit, assholes!

I made my millions from selling VHS and DVD. I went to prison because of you internet assholes!

I went to prison because some postal inspector downloaded a 13 second clip from across the fucking country in the privacy of his own home so he could come in his own fucking mouth!

That’s how I got busted. So the internet didn’t make me billions. The internet took my life.

So FUCK YOU!

I can get airline tickets and pizza and and order shit on Amazon, but I can’t interact with people on a human level. I can’t go into a Tower Records and pick up a box and hold it and look at it and show it to my friend. I can’t go into a Blockbuster and ask somebody about a movie and gauge from the reaction on his face whether it’s a good movie or not.

The internet and the losers who run it are the losers who are running this business. I said it before, a loser is a loser.

All of you socially inept losers who couldn’t get a job where you had to interact with the real world figured out a way in your mommy’s basement how to sell sex.

This business is no different than the music business and Hollywood. No different. We control the medium, we control every aspect of what the people see. We dictate what they see. Nobody gets that.

In California, I go into a 7/11 and I gotta pay $7.00 for a pack of Marlboro Lights and in New York I gotta pay 15. The cigarette industry doesn’t give a fuck if they have to put a picture of a tobacco stained fetus or a lung tumor on the box. They don’t give a fuck. Because that won’t deter nobody. If you are a smoker you will smoke until you can’t breathe or until you get cancer or until your doctor says you got black lung.

Or your kid says,”Mom I don’t want you to die.” And you stop before any of that happens.

But we have an industry that just gave everything away because some the geeky internet boys told us I guess that’s what you do.

When you look at history, and a lot of people don’t because they don’t like to look at the past. But when are put in situations in your life where you have no other choice but to look at your past you see patterns that emerge.

Metallica has already gone through what we’re going through with piracy and were attacked and maligned and now they are seen as heroes.

The internet idea of the floating exchange of free thoughts and free access to everything is what has fucked us. Like, “Hey bro, the internet was created for freedom and exchange of ideas, man.” But hey bro, that’s my shit!

If you take something out of a store that’s stealing and you get arrested and put in jail for it. If you take something that I own and have created and you crunch it down into a digital format and give it to your buddy, that’s not stealing?

We blurred that line and now the consensus is “Yeah, that’s stealing! You can’t do that!” The internet is just a form of communication and anything you do that is wrong with it you should have to pay for.

Did you ever imagine that you could get into trouble for cyberbullying? If someone kills themselves because you cyberbullied them and you can go to jail for it, why can’t you go to jail for stealing somebody’s movie or music?

Doesn’t really make sense now, does it?

Our business, because it’s run by the internet retards who weren’t qualified or were thrown out of the Googles and Facebooks, now it’s run like a Middle Eastern swap meet run by 22 year old kids in their terrorist father’s basement, who’s drafting up the next attack on America.

Think about all the companies that are controlled by these internet losers. Think about the whole aspect of Manfuck and how they have banged out and fucked up Digital Playground and Sirius and Playboy, the list goes on and on. Tell me one aspect of what these internet retards have done that has done anything but fuck over this business and the people in it. Tell me.

The only two companies that have actually helped and worked with the business are Hotmovies and AEBN. They were there in the infancy. Yeah, they made a shitload of money on our content and creations, but I have made some money with them too.

This business is never going to go back to the way it was, and it’s a sad state. Never going to go back to where it was flourishing and you were releasing 10 movies a month.

When are the internet losers gonna turn around this business and make it successful?

You destroyed this business. You had technology and instead of saying what can we do to help you make money, you took this technology to fuck everybody.

You took advantage of a bunch of ignorant greedy assholes like us and we watched you guys destroy the business.

And now that the business isn’t profitable anymore you look at us and go “Well? What the fuck do we do? We used to make so much money!”

The business is now about creating content. Not movies. Genres. MILF, Big Tit, Big Ass, GB, Cuckold, IR, (love that one) Teen, Feet, etc.

So all they are doing is number games. You have five guys out there shooting. They go we need 10 MILF scenes in this price range, we don’t care who you shoot, they just gotta be old. We need 10 Teen scenes, they just gotta be young. 10 IR scenes, they just gotta be black.

The era of the porn star is over. Everybody has decided that anybody can be a porn star. Fat, ugly, whatever. Guys who can’t get their dick hard shoot it up, No standards or skill level required.

The business is never going to go back to what it was, it’s just going to scatter and wither away. In order to save it, we have to get rid of the people in the present leadership positions who have destroyed it.

There is an organization that will rise up and take their place. Because there are going to be lawsuits and there is going to be regulation. If you are not part of this organization you will be labeled an outlaw and an outcast and you will be outed.

If you do things like 50 man anal creampies you will be outed

If you shoot outside the areas of regulation you will be outed.

If you go to this underground mentality and a girl can’t say this is what I’m shooting and she can’t promote herself or the project, and you have this underground product that you can’t sell for $40-50 a DVD, that is a problem. You’re having trouble selling as it is because of the internet, now you’ve got to sell something with no publicity.

You’ll see this business come together. You will.

As long as I’m alive, it will come together and I will be involved in it and I know that kills some of you.

You will see a coalition come together that will have a set of rules and guidelines. The companies that are part of it will be the industry and the ones that aren’t will be the outlaws.

You’re not going to Vegas. You’re gonna hit by the police or you’re gonna get hit by gangsters faster than you can say Derek Hay.

Ask John Stagliano how Las Vegas treated him. They took that wannabe motherfucker, gobbled up about five million of his money and threw him out of that town and said “Thank you for giving us your money.”

And if any of you say it was successful, if it was successful he’d be doing it right now. Ballet, dancing, a stage show, that was his dream. He’d be out there living his dream, not sitting in LA being tortured by Rob Black because he doesn’t disclose his HIV status.

The business will be divided because you will have outlaws and those who play by the rules. Those who play by the rules will flourish.

Bill Asher of Vivid and the people of Rick’s Cabaret are showing the way by taking a brand and giving the talent a place to go. When you talk about how we don’t have to same promotional tools as the music industry, bullshit. We’ve just never tapped into it. You have Exxxotica in LA, Chicago, Florida. You have strips clubs galore, and all it takes is for someone from their world to get together with someone from our world, just like Bill Asher did with Rick’s.

Now you have girls who can book dates at the Vivid Club instead of having to do $100 blowjobs at the Air-Tel Plaza.

Ladies and gentlemen, this business is run by these internet mamalukes. Just take a look where we are compared to how we used to be. Were you better off in this business ten years ago? Hell yeah. Were you better off five years ago? Hell yeah. Were you better off when Rob Black ran this shit? Hell fucking yeah.

We gotta get back to the fundamentals. We’re gonna take this business back to where it can be. We’re not taking everybody with us. If I gotta preach to some people and they act like retards and they say the only prerequisite for following me is please don’t call me a retard, stay home. I don’t want ya, I don’t need ya. I don’t want you standing behind me because you’re gonna bump me and send me into the fire. Fuck ya, I don’t need retards.

This business will reform, it will regroup and we will rebuild from the ashes.

We can change this path, we can change this course and more importantly, we already have. We’ve been doing it for six months and we’re gonna keep doing it.

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