I believe all retail is affected by football, royals, olympics, the ups and downs of the stock market, 911, tsunamis, you name it. Its like bricks and mortar businesses. They close your street to fix the storm drains, you lose money until the traffic returns to normal. In the case of online, its a little different, but the effect of world events, slowdowns and outages is the same.
The real reason that no one is making the money that was possible in the past is that people perceive porn as cheap. Girls are way more willing to do it today. The naughtiness factor has disappeared and that is the new reality. We have to deliver fantasies that, perhaps, are unobtainable. If anyone claims that they are doing as well as they were back in the day they are either lucky or lying.
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