Over the past few months, I've popped on and off one of the cam sites, for a bit of entertainment. I'm rarely in a room for more than a minute, so it really is a short diversion. Because I'm a freak, I like to find electrical outlets on the set of those girls who state their location to be the US, but have heavy Eastern European accents. You can't fake infrastructure and if you were in NYC, you wouldn't have a round, three pronged plug. I also note other trends I see, because that's what I do. Yes, I'm really fucked up.
Anyway, back to the marketing excellence. It's no surprise that a majority of the girls are from Eastern Europe as they have a whole industry around cam sites, with entire multi-suite studio facilities. So, while many obfuscate their location with "Europe" or "around the corner", many do list their actual location. There are typically several girls who list Russia as their location. That is until recently. It hit me that if I were a cam girl and wanted to maximize my tips or at least not get hammered at the moment, I'd make damned sure my location wasn't Russia or even better, I'd list it as Ukraine. "This poor girl is stuck in a war zone, I'll tip generously." So, I went on a cam site today, searching for such trends (again, I'm a freak). I tallied up the number of women from the first two pages (there were 59 pages total!!!) who had either Russia or Ukraine as their location. Of 180 girls, 15 were now from Ukraine and only 1 from Russia. I'd been subconsciously maintaining a view of who was from Ukraine, as tensions increased and while I don't have hard data, I know damned well there weren't a third that many before this week. In fact, there's one who I've watched in the past, who I know damned well isn't from there. On the flip side, there were significantly more from Russia a week ago, versus today.
If that isn't excellence in marketing, I don't know what is!
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