Mike, it was a fan voting category where people voted. We may agree to disagree on certain things. Over the course of the last month or so there were no more than 4 or 5 people that told me this was a wrong category to have. Two of which they said since you have no benefit you shouldn’t do it because some people may react. Only one client reached me and was basically trying to protect me from potential complaints. I responded back if we were taking decisions just on what’s our interest we would had been some pretty evil people and we aren’t.
Free adult sites have been part of this industry for more than 15 years. We like it or not a major part of the adult industry has been working with tube sites like Pornhub and they have become a significant part of their business model in an industry that constantly evolves. Of course I was expecting some criticism and that’s healthy. I’ve been in Vegas for the last 8 days where a major part of the adult industry from both the online and content production sides were. I’ve talked with so many producers, production and Internet company owners, performers and so on… not a single person said a word on this to me. When I feel I did a mistake, I apologize and try to fix it.
I had this discussion with Nate Glass from TakeDownPiracy and I asked him to write an article on this on our magazine and I’ll respond or go back and forward with a q&a on this category. We’ll do that either on Feb issue if it’s not too late or March.
What the fans wanted huh? so if the fans had chosen a child porn site that would have been ok right Theo?
And there you have it Porn Valley….straight from Theo Nobody cared.
So you now have the chance to show Theo and AVN that you do care…..or that you don’t and the result will be exactly what you deserve either way.
So what say you?
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I’ve been looking for something online, a porn fan forum perhaps, where they were discussing the AVN fan awards or where it was even mentioned outside of the AVN websites. Can’t find a single mention of it anywhere other than AVN. If anyone is able to point me in the direction of where this was mentioned other than AVN, I’d appreciate it.
DWB makes a great point. If fans voted, where were they informed that they could vote?
Theo’s a clown who can barely speak English. Why even comment Mike, let him continue to run GFY and AVN into the ground. I give him a year or two as the profits shrink and AVN will be as relevant as a 40 year old performer.