Heavy Heart and Devaluing Models
Hey lovelies,
So, it's no secret I wear my heart on my sleeves, if you've seen my videos I'm fairly sure that's obvious. Honestly feeling kind of discouraged all around.
Firstly, to those of you who do buy my videos, comment, like, etc., thank you! You really are the reason I do this so just know that I appreciate you guys so so much.
I really try to not base my own self worth on my sales, but this is my full-time job, and I've put a lot of time and money into them (even lowered prices for you) and I'm hardly selling anything. I'm trying to put out the best content I can, and I'll be getting some new equipment soon to make it even better, but I really need your help. I'm in constant pain with my wisdom tooth situation, and at this rate I won't be able to get it taken care of until maybe March. So, please, if you have a video of mine in your wishlist, it really is going to a good cause. I've literally cried because I'm so hungry but my jaw hurts so bad I can't eat. If you want me to keep gaining, like I want to, buy my content.
I've also had some messages across various platforms telling me my videos are too expensive (y'all realize industry standard is $1/minute and I'm almost always between 30-50¢/minute), and I'm honestly sick of being devalued for what I do. So I figured I'd give you an inside look at what my "job" looks like, using an average stuffing video for example.
1. Besides the occasional help of my boyfriend, I do everything for my videos myself.
2. It takes me about 8-10 hours of work on a single video. Don't believe me?
• Hair, makeup, and background/equipment setup will take about 1.5 hours
•I'm a slow eater, so I generally have about 1-1.5 hours of actual footage for a stuffing video
•time to edit! That 1.5 hours of footage, yeah I now have to go through and watch that and cut what I can to make a condensed video for you to enjoy. I typically have to go through 2-4 times: an initial cut getting rid of any major pauses in eating, leaving the room to get water, sneezes, etc. Then the second time through making sure I don't have repeat sentences (I get tongue tied a lot 😅) and just checking for overall flow. Most of my videos have background music that I have to add. On those videos I have a quick scan through again to place music, and a second by second one to fix the volume levels so I don't blast your eardrums. All in all... Minimum of 4 hours of editing every time. (Not even including rendering times!)
•Time to upload! Hey guess what, I post on 6 different sites, my current set-up can't handle more than one upload at a time, and each time can take anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour, usually about 2-3 hours to upload everywhere.
I'm not even going to mention how much money I've invested into better equipment here.
At the highest estimate that's 10.5 hours on a 20 minute clip that I turn around and sell for less than $10, usually about $8 in fact.
The next time you want to criticize a model for her rates, remember this.
Would you do your job for <$1 an hour?
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