A reader e-mails me her opinion-
I just read the blog comments and I’m glad to see the bullshit meters of Kelli and Mariah Milano went off also. Great point by Mariah in her first sentence. Performers not contributing (because they left!) causes fraud? what the fuck?
Some of this is just speculation on my part …
Adult Star Profits blames their performers for their chargebacks because they aren’t involved in their websites and not interacting with paid members.
I call BULLSHIT!
Shyla Stylez has been gone from Adult Star Profits for up to a year now. It has been at minimum 4 months. She started participating on the PUBA forums (http://forum.puba.com/index.php) back in early August for her new site.
You didn’t see Adult Star Profits take her website down, did you? They aren’t going to lose profits off one of the biggest names in the business for the past decade (just counted the other day, 340-360 scenes for Shyla in the decade).
What they didn’t count on was chargebacks.
Shyla did a radio show before Christmas for a Chicago radio show. It is archived here –> http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/3225609
After she finished the interview and left, one of the DJ’s mentions Shyla said she was looking for a lawyer for issues relating to her websites. I’m guessing this isn’t for PUBA but maybe for Adult Star Profits. Maybe she doesn’t want them to be claiming they are still her official site.
I’d love to hear what ASP has to say if you e-mail them back and ask if Shylas website will be going down as soon as she launches her new official site. I’m guessing they will laugh at you.
www.shylastylezvip.com (ASP) still claims to be her official site but we know she’s left for PUBA. Her new website www.shylaxxx.com is mentioned numerous times by Shyla in that Chicago radio interview.
Interesting… I just looked at the Shyla/ASP site for the first time since you started blogging about this. I see they have removed some material from the lower left part of the tour page, which used to claim things like live shows with Shyla etc. It no longer states what you get for subscribing.
Wouldn’t you be pissed too if you subscribed for $99.95 (1 year) and found out Shyla had nothing to do with it? It says its the official site. Shyla left them months ago.
Congrats on a great year. Glad I found your blog this year.
I think a lot of stories such as this one are going to wind up coming out. This is why it’s so important for pornstars to take the initiative and remain in control of their own website rather than allowing a company to “take over” their online presence. Yes, it requires actually sitting down and learning the mechanics of running a website, but in the end it’s worth it.
I wonder how many pornstars see much money at ALL from their websites that are run by some of the “adult site megahubs”.
I remember a while back there was a weird story on the company that Brianna Banks was working with – I think Starlet Entertainment – who’d been both promoting Briana and Alexis Texas’s website for months, and were recruiting other women who wanted to “own their own site”, but then went out of business the day their full page ad was released on the Xbiz cover.
Anyone ever find out what happened to all the content that they shot of the women they recruited and if those women ever were handed over control of the domains of the site’s they supposedly owned along with the content?
For performers like Shyla who have dozens of current scenes out everywhere, a website is never going to be a huge source of income when people can watch someone perform for 8 cents a minute on Hotmovies
As well as watching them and others on Brazzers, NA, RK, and Bang Bros.