The coronavirus is making us all camgirls: For millions of newly remote workers, doing your job now involves looking the part, figuring out your angles, and performing for the camera
This is such a weird post, it reaches so far it's a wonder they didn't dislocate their arms. I had to find out just why they shoehorned things as hard as they did, and the author profile says they...
This is such a weird post, it reaches so far it's a wonder they didn't dislocate their arms.
I had to find out just why they shoehorned things as hard as they did, and the author profile says they wrote 'Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work" - so probably a case of everything looking like a nail.
Camwhores were never the mainstream of the webcam internet. Webcams were there for stupid internet videos, that eventually saw the rise of Youtube (which took advantage of a extant rising trend, it invented nothing). But between the Youtube-esque use of webcams and today, there was game streaming (where Twitch did much the same as Youtube and take something people were already doing and made it huge). Twitch and Twitch-clones (funnily enough including Youtube these days) has FAR more to do with the way people are behaving with remote work than it has links to people naked on a camera. Youtube and Twitch etc were and are about people doing normal things you would do around other people, only on camera. Remote work is the same. Camwhoring is about doing things you wouldn't do around other people, on camera. Very different.
I don't even want to touch the 'Paypal is evil for refusing service to sex workers and you should be afraid because having to work 2 jobs is totally the same' except to point at it and call it stupid.
This is such a weird post, it reaches so far it's a wonder they didn't dislocate their arms.
I had to find out just why they shoehorned things as hard as they did, and the author profile says they wrote 'Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work" - so probably a case of everything looking like a nail.
Camwhores were never the mainstream of the webcam internet. Webcams were there for stupid internet videos, that eventually saw the rise of Youtube (which took advantage of a extant rising trend, it invented nothing). But between the Youtube-esque use of webcams and today, there was game streaming (where Twitch did much the same as Youtube and take something people were already doing and made it huge). Twitch and Twitch-clones (funnily enough including Youtube these days) has FAR more to do with the way people are behaving with remote work than it has links to people naked on a camera. Youtube and Twitch etc were and are about people doing normal things you would do around other people, only on camera. Remote work is the same. Camwhoring is about doing things you wouldn't do around other people, on camera. Very different.
I don't even want to touch the 'Paypal is evil for refusing service to sex workers and you should be afraid because having to work 2 jobs is totally the same' except to point at it and call it stupid.
Honestly, I'm thinking it's supposed to be satirical.
But in any case, I'm going to call all videocalls "camgirling" from now on.
Hyperbole maybe, but this (and the author's other material) indicates to me that this is all too serious.