Webcam Era
Looking back at my 20 years of experience in the online adult industry, I am confident to say that webcams are currently having their best years. Let me elaborate on this more. Starting in 2004 I remember finding a decent quality pic was not an easy task, not to mention a 5-minute-long video!
Now that I think about it, videos were the hardest to get. You needed to browse some shady forums, then download like 20 parts using file lockers, then merge the clips yourself and hope it'll play. Sites like Link-O-Rama or The Hun were having most of the internet's adult traffic and PaySites were where all the horny men (or women) wealthy enough to pay a few bucks eventually ended their search for porn. If you were a big tits aficionado at that time your choice of porn paysites in that niche was actually bigger than now. There was plenty of high quality websites focused on boobs at that time. No tubes, no OnlyFans, imagine that. Of course, nothing lasts forever, so as the internet speeds increased, porn tubes emerged and with them the first cam sites.
So the next 10 years or so were dominated by tubes, but eventually porn producers were not liking the idea of giving their work away for free. Only the independent creators remained leaving the tubes with less and less content, eventually becoming a place dominated by various OnlyFans creators. However, during this time live cams also gained traction and opposite to tubes, were getting stronger. Nowadays, even with all the AI stuff everywhere, cams are where all the people go. To be honest I'm not surprised, because if you want to see, let's say big tits webcam models and you visit a random site, like JuggyCams or LiveJasmin then you will quickly realize that the amount of busty girls out there is crazy big! Fancy busty latinas? There's like hundreds of them at any given moment, you'd never see so many chicks with big boobs during the paysite era. There is something for everyone, and I'm also talking about their financial situation. If you're a cheap ass, no worries, the free cam model allows you to jerk off because other people are tipping. If you want a more private experience, sites like Streamate offer a "premium" model where the women (or men) show less or nothing in public show but go crazy in private.
As for the AI phenomenon we all see right now, I admit it's amazing, however I don't see mainstream people knowingly jerking off to computer-generated content anytime soon. Of course, they're already doing it now, but it's a small percentage of them, just like with hentai and stuff like that. I remember all the panic when first Kindles were released - the end of traditional books is coming! 20 years later and books are going strong, where's Kindle though? I can see a form of augmented reality added to the webcams, like for example taboo stuff. Would this be legal? To wrap things up: there surely will be the next big thing in the online adult space. What it'll be? No one knows. For now let's enjoy the era of live cams and the plethora of models out there!
