Actually, I believe that you are trying to be truthful. The challenge is that you do so from a vantage point lacking in facts. The result is that rather than being truthful, you are simply opinionated. That is not a sin. But it is no substitute for the facts.
Mia and I are good friends. I was her first fetish shoot. She told me that in tickling, she wanted to work with only me. I told her that wasn't a good idea because she needed to grow and learn by working with many other people. I've explained to Tommy and every tickle producer I know that it is the combination of each producer with each model that gives us the unique fetish products that we love. This is all good amkes. This is how we all win.
Tommy and I share a very respectful friendship for more years than most people would imagine. So seeing her on Tommy's site (the site of someone I respect), makes me feel like she's growing. I know she'll do very well for him.
She continues to work with us.
As for how she looks on our sites, as a model, she went through an evolution of how she presents herself during the last 6 months and is blossoming even more than is apparent on Tommy's site. She's a frakkin gorgeous woman. You should have seen her at Fetishcon for the full effect!
Production-wise, Tommy shoots a very different type of content than I do. His market looks for (and expects) exactly what her delivers. The fact that I run a successful site while making a different type of content only speaks to the maturing of the tickle fetish industry. It shows that we are now providing for the needs of a more diverse market.
There is a minority view that I've encountered that says
all producers should make their content in a certain convention to meet the fetish needs of a sect of our brethren. Of course, I will never support that.
My story-based videos with their "
inferior story lines
" are intentionally corny and over the top. That's the point. Because there is some comedic styling, it is normal that you and some others will find
that aspect of them dumb and even annoying. The reason I don't mind that is because I make them for those who look forward to them and really appreciate what I'm doing. This aspect of my videos is one of the most frequent areas of compliment that I get from the models. But I am experienced enough to know that it simply irks some tickle fetishists.
You're not appreciating this part of what I do says nothing negative about you. It simply says that you are not my market. Fine.
But consider this, as is evidenced from the number of custom videos that I release, people (custom order customers) are repeatedly paying me to use my style of video production, humor and style of fetish-play, to produce their fetish fantasy. While my comfortable sales in my clip store is something you cannot see, even someone with your viewpoint (who has taken the time in the past to tell me how wrong I am producing) can see all of the custom videos that I'm releasing for repeat customers.
And no, I won't enter the 'long dong measuring contest' on who has the more impressive video production background, but suffice it to say, I continue to be a ridiculously blessed and happy man, living the dream and doing my way - yes, in spite of not living up to your standards.
Somehow, I'll carry on.
James Darke "The Magnificent" (The Wife Adjuster 1)
