Sorry I haven't been around as much as I would've liked. Been super busy, and to be honest, when I was here, I was just spending too much time arguing with doorknobs that glugging piss isn't actual porn. I was actually just spending too much time here in general.
I've been visiting the main page during all this time, and I have to admit, despite what many here have noted, I for one don't believe it's half as bad as people make it out to be. Do I think things are good? No - but - that doesn't mean they're terrible either. For the sake of brevity, I'll keep this as short as I can.
For starters, promo scenes actually play when they get released. For another, all the terrible amateur gay twink shit has been wiped from the top of the page, allowing scenes from actually recognizable and reputable studios to take the center spotlight they deserve. At least the basics, in that regard, have been improved.
Alright - I'm going to break it down by listing the things I've seen mentioned here - and the first of those would be ... Erika Korti Studios.
People lament EKS moving away or shutting down - but honestly - and I love Erika, I absolutely do - and she actually tried really hard and seemed to listen to some of the advice given, but really - here's the truth. The porn coming out of there wasn't really that great. Now - remember! I have exceptionally high standards. And also! Not all of this was her fault.
The best girl's that Erika got a hold of (until right at the end - Kathy Layne was pretty incredible) were all NRX leftovers. Like, not all of them, but ... like 75%. Another 20% were the girl's that came over from South America. And 5% were her own finds. But even that's generous.
Like - I'm going to be honest here - the girls just weren't that hot. If somebody thinks that having the larger chunk of your female cast be 6'2, A-cup, and having an oblong oval face that looks like all the meat was vacuum-sucked out of it, gigantic fucking fake eyebrows, tattooed heavier than a fucking pirate, and sucking down dicks like this is their only chance to get to bang dudes that look this good ... it's just not something I want to watch.
Her placing her studio in Eastern Europe didn't seem to bring any tangible benefits. I was expecting hot girls to come pouring through there. Like, not NRX quality, but I was figuring that girl's like Kathy Layne would be continuously found. Instead, we got what we got, and that killed so much momentum that the studio could have had.
So - all the other girl's from South America and NRX who, many times, had been double anal'd by cocks the size of a freight-train, now pop into Erika's studio to get gangbanged by black dudes that, I fucking swear, I have a bigger penis than they do. Now, Erika got some of the NRX black boys in her later shoots to come in, but not often enough, and while it's always amazing to see Leo Casanova bring his hyper-thick meat-pipe to the party, he just can't always be the only one. There needs to be at least one other guy the same size of him to give that girl a true and proper DAP or DVP. And fuck - that rarely, if ever, actually happened.
Add to this, the "studio" in which they shot (re: a 500 square foot apartment) didn't have the dimension or the width or the size to properly transport the viewer into fantasy land. If you remember NRX - or you've watched Natasha Teen/Mambo Perv/Giorgio Grandi - any of them - they have the shoots take place in what look like actual Studios. I swear, if there was more than three people in a scene, half of them were too busy not trying to bump into the walls. The white walls and stripped down aesthetic was great - but the scenes didn't have any room to breathe. It looked like the girl was travelling to some pimply ghetto apartment to bang her limp wristed boyfriend after he finished his shift at the call center. Seeing a girl trying to act sexy in a kitchen too small for one person made her look like she's a loser - not a super hot chick I want to bang. I'm not claustrophobic, but I would shift around uncomfortably in my chair when watching these scenes, as if I was trying to physically get out of them.
And all of it - it just all fell way too short. Erika learned so much, and improved so much in that time, but so many of the basics were so off, that it was like, "mistakes" were happening that amateur porn shooters would recognize and reconcile (in the old days) after having shot just a few scenes. But, that's the thing. They weren't mistakes. They were the circumstances. The tight budget. The absolute desolation of any one actually hot willing to shoot for a studio anymore. I don't know what the issue with the studs were. There's no reason that every other studio can get black guys that look like they've got 20 inch monsters that could stop the leak on the Titanic, but Erika could only find guys that looked like they've have a hard time plugging a coke can.
So, if she's gone, that's a shame. That is. It was original content - shot and having the passion of what the core of this site was and wanted to be. But ... it wasn't honestly that great. So - despite not being able to be disappointed in something I should be excited for - her being gone isn't the greatest loss people here are making it out to be. And I say that understanding that so much of that wasn't Erika's fault - but some of it still was. Either way - just being real here.
Outside of that, the South American studios are ... well, Lancelot can find amazing girls. As can Natasha Teen. As can Yummy Studio. As can Mambo Perv. Like, there are four great studios that can deliver some amazing scenes. Like maybe only one or two a month out of them all will be exceptional - but that's better than nothing, right? And there's usually something coming out on the front page from one of them. It's not like they've gone missing. Stop pretending they have.
And like, so many of the folks here are down on those studios. I can understand that's still a backlash from our loss of NRX, but really, c'mon guys. These studios produce some absolutely banger shit. When I visit Castingcouch HD - for the sixth week in a row - and they haven't released a new scene yet - and then I come here and I see like four original scenes being released in a day - it's like, we have to take into account that times have changed.
"Oh, but it's not the Legalporno from 2019." Yeah - no shit. None of the porn sites are. Analvids isn't immune to the same trends that hit and propel the rest of the industry.
The real issue is - no one porn producer out there can galvanize and create a momentum all their own that remedies and fixes these problems. Like, I'm not in charge of a studio, so I don't know the realities these guys face, so keep in mind that my criticisms only carry so much weight with regards to reality, but ... like ... man ...
This is a perfect example of what I'm talking about right here.
Andrew releases a scene with Baby Kxtten and Jureka Del Mar (both amazing 10/10 performers - Baby Kxtten is actually more like a 12/10) ... and it's titled, "Prelude to Something."
Fucking brilliant!
That's the way to do it!
The scene has the girl's playing with one another - the fisting is great - AND there's DAP! You know what that means? That means something bigger is coming in the next scene! Because, if it's a prelude to something, then the prelude will have something less than the main event?
Right?
WRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!
The "actual scene" comes out a day or so later - and it's like ... just another scene. How many times has Baby Kxtten been on that ride already? It's like an amusement park getting you excited by the unveiling of their next big coaster - and then it ends up being one of the smallest ones in the park. If that's the case - don't build it up like it's going to be something huge!
You know what I was imagining? A BBC TAP with BDSM role-play, and an absolute gonzo show of intense and incredible fucking. Instead - we get ... well ... another scene.
And that's the main problem with Andrew. There's not much vision there. It's just a sequence of ... another scenes.
Usually with the same actresses that Giorgio already shot with.
It's like, besides the re-releases of the originals (and the Arjina one that was released today was an absolute classic), the idea of shooting new scenes is to ... well, shoot something new.
The camera work is fantastic. The angles are great. The studs are tremendous. And the girl's do their absolute best almost every single time. But ...
It never feels like an event.
That's what AGO is so great at. He makes every release that comes out feel like that was the scene that the whole studio's existence was leading up to. He wants to do something special with each and every one. He doesn't always do it - but he understands the imperative behind it. It's like, "Oh my God! I actually get to shoot a scene with this girl! It's going to be tremendous! We're going to do stuff no one else has ever done before! Just watch out!"
AGO doesn't always nail it - but he tries to.
Baby Kxtten comes on by to AGO and he gives her a triple vaginal. Respect!
I don't mean to beat up on Andrew here. Or Erika for that matter. But, looking at the way things are going should prompt something other than a "business as usual" approach. They should be cooking up ways to completely change what's expected or what can be done with porn - or give the absolute best of what's come before. It's not that they suck - but so often - there's a missing ingredient - and it's so fucking obvious - and it's like ... it never gets put into the stew! And it's like, fuck! Fuck!
FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!
Anyways - another novel written, sorry guys.
But shit ain't really all that bad. It's not like, terrible. It's just that ... times have changed. And sometimes, when things change to a certain degree, no matter what you do, you just can't grab onto what once was anymore.
I mean ... the top OF girls out there, and I'm not even talking about the top earners, but often times the ones that just slip right underneath the radar, are just SO! FUCKING! HOT!
And meanwhile, they're scared of what AI is going to be bringing to the table. There isn't a webcammer in China right now that isn't just role-playing for a filter that's pretty much completely reconfigured her entire face, and I do mean completely.
So ... yeah. It is what it is. But, all things considered. It's really not all that terrible.
Hope you guys are doing well! Heya dap_addict! lol
