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How has the economic situation changed for you since then? I would have thought the massive proliferation of free porn would make it increasingly difficult, but you said your site has grown.

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I'm feeling a bit ashamed here...

I said I was going to post a photo every day until 2020 and then already, on day two, I went and missed posting.  I was feeling a bit under the weather and spent the day in bed.  So please, forgive me for not posting anything yesterday.  I'll do two photos today to make up for it.

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These images were both taken during our very first location shoot for HD Wetting.  Up until this point, all the shoots had been at my house, or the homes of people I knew or who had something to do with HD Wetting.  With the site growing, we were able to start investing more in our content, and as a result, we were able to hire an oceanfront location for a few days.  The models and the production crew stayed at the location for three nights and two full days of shooting.

Photos were still really an afterthought at this point; a way to pad out the number of updates with filler content.  In some ways we had even taken a step back with photos- Instead of doing a photoshoot with little effort, we were now not even doing dedicated photo shoots.  Instead, we were snapping pictures during the video scenes we were filming.  You can see on the right side of the frame on the first picture a little bit of the video camera's lens and microphone creeping in.

Also, by this time, we were starting to figure out a routine for the shoots.  We had discovered things that worked, and didn't work, and were getting organized with our planning and execution.  Sammy and Mikki, the models in these images, were the first models we had at HD Wetting as we moved past the point of just figuring things out.

 

On 10/2/2019 at 10:31 AM, CuckooForCaca said:

How has the economic situation changed for you since then? I would have thought the massive proliferation of free porn would make it increasingly difficult, but you said your site has grown.

@CuckooForCaca You are right- the availability of free content has definitely changed things.  Back in 2007, when I hit the record button on the camera for our very first video, pants wetting videos online were very rare.  Yes, if you searched hard enough it was possible to dig up a low-quality Real Media video that showed a girl wetting, but beyond that, you really had to join a paysite if you wanted to see anything decent.  That, or buy a DVD or VHS tape from Patches.

Back then, simply having a video of a wetting, no matter the quality or other content, was enough to sell.  Offering a video in high-definition, well, that was incredible for the time.  The process if shooting a video in HD, capturing it to a computer, and somehow converting that to a format that could be viewable and distributed wasn't at all trivial- It required a high end, expensive, video production system.  Our earliest videos were just the girls standing there, on one static shot, peeing in their pants and nothing else.

These videos were so rare that we could release only one or two clips a month on Clips4sale, and on average each one would make about $400.  Today, if I were to try doing that, I wouldn't expect the clips to sell at all.  The economic reality today is that every scene we produce is only going to earn $20 - $40.

Despite these difficulties, we have grown.  At least compared to what we were at in the early days.  We seem to have it our peak in 2012 and had some ups and downs since then.

Through better organization and planning, we have got much more efficient at shooting videos.  We have also invested a lot more in making the videos look better, sound better, is more entertaining, and just overall create a better viewing experience for our members.  This way we are still able to give our members something that they wouldn't easily find elsewhere and doing so more efficiently has allowed us to continue to grow.  Between HD Wetting and HD Diapers, we are doing around 16 scenes a month, where before we were only doing 2 or 3 scenes.

On 10/3/2019 at 6:12 AM, bobwells55 said:

What do some of the models not on the site as much anymore doing now? I miss Mikki, Sammy, Haydee, others 

I miss them too @bobwells55.  Producing these videos has been an adventure, and one doesn't easily forget the people they have been on an adventure with.

For most of us, our college and post-college years are a time of transition in our lives, where everything is in flux and nothing is settled.  This is also true for many of the young women who have modeled for HD Wetting.  Modeling gave them some extra cash during this transitionary period, but just like the rest of us, this period is a transient one, eventually, they settle down.

Once they leave HD Wetting I don't really keep track of them; it would be kind of creepy and stalkerish if I did. So I really can't say for certain where they all are now.  I know that Mikki was wanting to start a family.  Sammy had left the state to be closer to her extended family.  Haydee decided to go produce her own content independently- She rebranded herself several times and dabbled in various fetishes.  Last I was aware, and this was several years ago, she had found success producing her own hardcore fart fetish videos.

I frequently get asked if there is any chance of any of the early HD Wetting models returning to the site.  My answer to that is I would definitely be happy to consider bringing them back if they were to reach out to me, I have no way of contacting them anymore.  However, I think people may be disappointed if they were to come back.  Our first videos were shot in 2007, that is 12 years ago.  These models would now all be 12 years older than what they appeared in their HD Wetting videos.

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@TVGuy When do you first remember seeing large numbers of omorashi JAVs on the internet? I recall some videos date from the 1990s, but I don't know when they became widely available online. I'm not sure how old the oldest porn videos in the downloads section here are, though A Free Ride has a pissing scene in it from 1915 - I should upload it if no one had already, though it's mostly regular porn.

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1 hour ago, CuckooForCaca said:

@TVGuy When do you first remember seeing large numbers of omorashi JAVs on the internet? I recall some videos date from the 1990s, but I don't know when they became widely available online. I'm not sure how old the oldest porn videos in the downloads section here are, though A Free Ride has a pissing scene in it from 1915 - I should upload it if no one had already, though it's mostly regular porn.

I guess it all depends on what you define as "large numbers."  Back in 2007, when I started filming the first HD Wetting scenes, Clips4sale was new.  However, very shortly after I started there was an explosion of online content that would appeal to fans of omorashi, including JAVs.  For one, distributors of these videos, who were previously relegated to DVDs or videotapes (unless they wanted to put forth the effort to build a site from scratch) now had a platform in Clips4sale to easily monetize their back catalog of content.  VHS tapes could cheaply (and poorly) be digitized thanks to capture devices like the Dazzle and these 320 by 240 resolution videos could be uploaded and sold. 

Other sites allowing small producers to easily monetize their content started popping up too.  Soon there were other options besides just Clips4sale.  There was a small trickle of older JAVs and western omo content starting around the time I was getting going with HD Wetting, but by 2010 it became a flood.  Of course, once these videos were out there on Clips4sale and similar sites, they started showing up on file-sharing networks, forums, and dedicated pirate sites.

From point of view, 2012 was really a turning point.  Free porn tube sites were definitely here in a big way, and finding more videos than you could possibly watch was trivial.  Piracy also seemed to be at its peak.  A lot of the early pioneers of omo videos either vanished or majorly changed their business model.  So by then, JAV omo content was definitely well established and easily accessable.

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You say piracy was at its peak; does that mean that piracy has become less common since then? It's still pretty easy to find pirated content on the internet, though I haven't tried to do so for any of yours.

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58 minutes ago, CuckooForCaca said:

You say piracy was at its peak; does that mean that piracy has become less common since then? It's still pretty easy to find pirated content on the internet, though I haven't tried to do so for any of yours.

The kind of large scale professional piracy that was so very harmful seems to be less common.  For me, the biggest issue with piracy was never the lone user who would download a video and upload them to a forum.  Though annoying, because that essentially meant my investment in that scene was gone, it wasn't completely devastating to the whole enterprise.  What was really damaging was the pirates who would use vast troves of stolen credit cards to sign up for fake accounts, rip the entire site with automated bots, then post those site rips on places like Megaupload and others that would share the ad revenue with them.  Or sites like Piss Journal that would just blatantly rip off my content and resell it to their members at a lower price.

International crackdowns on piracy has limited the ability of file sharing sites like that to exist- They have very limited options for hosting and DNS services now, as well as financial services, making running such a pirate site much more difficult.  Additionally, credit card fraud detection has got a lot better, so it is more difficult for these kind of scammers to use stolen credit cards in the first place.

There also seems to be a shift in public perception of piracy.  While there is still plenty of piracy, to be sure, there seems to be more recognition now that piracy can indeed be harmful to content producers and that producers should be able to monetize and control their own content.  This was not the majority opinion at all just ten years ago.

Also, it seems that the bulk of the pirated content out there is all the same set of videos- Stuff that was pirated a while ago, and so freely spread across the internet that it tends to drown out much of anything new.  Yes, there is a lot of pirated content out there, but it tends to, for the most part, be older stuff that has been in circulation for a long time.

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Well, it is official- I am failing at this posting one pic a day thing.  In my defense, though, I am still getting over this cold.  I didn't post anything over the weekend, so here are pictures for Saturday, Sunday, and today (Monday).

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In these pictures we see Alice at the top, followed by Julie, followed by Julie and Genny together.

These pictures still date back to the early days of HD Wetting, as we were getting used to having our own membership site and not just being a clips4sale studio.  Having our own site, we were making a bit more than on clips4sale, so we invested that back into hiring more models.

One challenge that came with running a membership site was producing new content on a regular basis.  We were promising our members' weekly updates, so we had to deliver them.  The trickle of content we had been publishing to Clips4sale just wasn't enough anymore.  To satisfy this requirement for a constant, non-stop stream of new content we started doing a lot more photosets. 

However, with all this additional production going on, we weren't really paying that much attention to quality.  We started to see some issues around this time with photo sets where you hardly saw any wetting, or videos where the wetting wasn't really visible. Other times we went through entire scenes where the camera never recorded, or there was no audio because we were in such a rush just to keep going.  As a result, about a third of everything we attempted went unpublished because it wasn't usable or you couldn't even tell there had been a wetting.  It became routine to throw away scenes and photosets that just didn't turn out at all.

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Well, it has been a few days again so I need to post a few pictures to get caught up.  First up, we have a couple of photos of Sammy:

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These photos were behind the scenes pictures from a live cam show that Sammy did.  Once we got into some kind of a routine with producing and publishing content on HD Wetting, my thoughts turned towards growth; How could I continue to grow HD Wetting and add value for our members?  The answer I came up with was to add live cam shows.  The quality and frame rates were poor, and it was a clunky flash-based interface, but it worked.  Unfortunately, these cam shows didn't do anything to increase memberships.  With the added cost of doing the shows and no resulting uptick in members, we decided to stop doing them after a couple of months and focus more on our regular scenes instead.

The next picture I have to share today is one of Mikki:

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Eventually, I decided to try to focus on improving the quality of the photosets.  We had been continually striving to improve our videos, but photos had continued to be an afterthought.  They were just filler content to increase the monthly update count.  I started getting feedback on the photos though, with members sending suggestions for what they would like to see.  I realized that even though the photo sets, for me, were barely an afterthought, many of our members felt differently about them.  Realizing this, I decided to start investing the same effort in the photo updates that we were doing with the video updates.

This photo of Mikki was, if not from the first set, from one of the first sets where we treated the photos with the same consideration as the videos.  If you are a member of HD Wetting, and you look at our photo galleries, you will notice a substantial-quality difference between this gallery, and all galleries that followed it, when compared to the photos that were published previously.

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Continuing the quest to improve the photography of HD Wetting, I eventually invested in a cheap photo backdrop and a couple of inexpensive off-camera studio flashes. The resulting photos looked like something from school picture day, but I didn't totally see this as a bad thing.  The idea of wetting during school photos seemed kind of naughty.

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Here is today's picture-

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15 hours ago, moiamigo said:

I'm sad to hear that you don't make that muchch out of it though.

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It's alright.  Most of us, I think, would probably like to make more money and I am no different in that regard, but I didn't start doing this because I thought it would be the best way to make money.  Even if I were earning more, I would likely just invest that back into making more content.

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Four photos today to get all caught up-

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As you can tell from the first photo here of Alisha, and some of the other recent photos I've shared, I was kinda in love with using our photo studio around this time.  Even though we were using the absolute cheapest photo strobes available, it was still just so easy to go into the studio, take a bunch of pictures quickly, and have them come out with very decent quality.

Only doing studio photos in front of a photo backdrop would start to get a bit boring after a while, so we continued doing photos outside the studio, and continued to refine our photo lighting with what little we had in the way of lighting tools.

Also, around this time, we started to see an explosion of photos on social media of girls sharing pictures of themselves and their friends after accidents.  Many people preferred these amateur snapshots to higher quality photos.  For this reason, we decided to start doing some of these kinds of photos: selfies and snapshots that the girls took themselves, without photo lighting or any other pro gear.

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Today's photo is a close-up of Alisha peeing through her panties onto her bed.

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This photo came out alright, but not all the pictures we were doing at this time were really making me happy.  The problem was lighting- I loved the lighting we could get in the studio shots, but those super cheap studio flashes weren't that reliable.  Their output tended to vary greatly between shots, and they took a while to recycle, meaning shoots with them went very slow.  The continuous lighting that I used for the videos were higher quality lights, but they didn't provide the kind of output needed for photos.  To make them work for photos I had to slow down the shutter significantly, which meant some images came out with a slight blur.  The flash unit that attached to my camera was better, having more consistent output and shorter recycle times, but it cast very harsh shadows and resulted in a kind of "deer in headlights" look.

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