How does the Lit organization make money?

[Voboy]

I arrived at this forum in December 2016, around the tail end of the Freddie and Scouries stuff, and my sense is you didn't miss much. Lots of pointless melodrama and acrimony.

Same.

I got a definite impression of immense tension when I started posting here. I now know I showed up during the aftermath of all the crazy shit. I think that's changed for the better, but at times the cattiness sorta gets to be too much here these days.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I arrived at this forum in December 2016, around the tail end of the Freddie and Scouries stuff, and my sense is you didn't miss much. Lots of pointless melodrama and acrimony.

Likewise - you and me and Voboy all arrived about the same time, along with a few others as I remember, and Scouries and Freddie were still there altho it was the tale end of Scouries - that sig of his always bugged me. Talk about an ego....but some of his stories were good. I even have one or two favorited.

I meant gone from here. They're still writing and I think under SJP.

That alt was the worst with the pretending to be a woman and going on about being raped and abused. Its hard enough for a woman to get anyone to believe that for real without fuckwits like that playing games.

Ohhhhhhh, Susan Jill Parker - "her" stories are still very popular, and yeah, "she" was a little out there. It was pretty colorful what with her/Freddie and a few others.

JBJ was great and he did have good writing advice. His issue was he was totally not PC, he was the Archie Bunker of the forum, but easy to see he was putting on an act. Unfortunately, a couple of long time members hated him and always pushed to have him banned.

But he also had serious vision issues near the end of his time here and that was the real end of him here. Judging by his age I imagine he may no longer be with us.

JBJ was great. Loved the old guy and yeah, 10 years ago he was really getting on. We had some great chats offline. He used to really make me laugh with his posts. Him and Keith/Pilot

Literotica makes most of its income by selling out information about all of you perverts here to the government.

The sex toys thing can be pretty profitable. My first paid gig off of here was writing short sex stories to match sex toys for a site that sold....sex toys. They paid me $100 a story, where the story had to be centered around a sex toy. The guy gave me carte blanche to write whatever I wanted. It was a lot of fun and after he closed the site down, he gave me all my stories back. Really nice of him. But as I recall he did pretty well off of the sex toys - it was an online store and he was a bit of a website artist - great looking site. I don't know if my stories helped but he was happy to keep paying and he fed my ego as well as my bank account LOL.

 

[Areala-chan]

The forums (at least the ones I visit) have definitely gotten a lot more drama-free than they were ten years ago. You couldn't even open the General Board without having a buddy double-check your asbestos armor back then. The Scouries/SJP/Freddie stuff was extra weird. I remember getting PMs from a couple people warning me about them after I replied to a thread they were involved in, not realizing the degree of trollishness taking place.

JBJ rated one of my stories 2-stars and commented on it. I thanked him for it, since a 2-star rating from him was equivalent to a 4-star rating from just about anybody else on here. He and Keith had some hilariously long arguments which were always entertaining. My head cannon was that they argued like an old married couple because they secretly were.

 

[AG31]

I think so - between that and the sex toys, I think that’s the main revenue.

Where do you find the sex toys?

 

[MelissaBaby]

Where do you find the sex toys?

Top drawer of the nightstand.

 

[NotWise]

JBJ was great and he did have good writing advice. His issue was he was totally not PC, he was the Archie Bunker of the forum, but easy to see he was putting on an act. Unfortunately, a couple of long time members hated him and always pushed to have him banned.

But he also had serious vision issues near the end of his time here and that was the real end of him here. Judging by his age I imagine he may no longer be with us.

But @ChloeTzang and some others can tell you that if you had potential in his eyes he would reach out to you and be happy to help and he did a lot for me back in the day. He used to call me Elsie for some reason, and I'd know it was him in anon comments because he didn't want his trolls to attack me if he liked one of my stories.

He also received a green E under an alt and when people here said show it or you're lying, he refused to do it. He got a kick out of knowing it was real more than feeling the need to prove anything to the herd. I admire him for that. Some of us did see the story but were told to never tell anyone where it was.

JBJ was a complex character. He would be friendly and helpful, then he'd pick someone out and troll them mercilessly for no obvious reason.

 

[SinclairGroupLLP]

Where do you find the sex toys?

https://shop.literotica.com/?s3=d23cun38flms73b2idbg

 

[joy_of_cooking]

Wow that is the most impressively vanilla collection of sex toys I've ever seen.

 

[NotWise]

Wow that is the most impressively vanilla collection of sex toys I've ever seen.

You were looking for BDSM paraphernalia and fetishwear?

 

[joy_of_cooking]

Yes, although I'd have settled for edible underwear or fuzzy handcuffs or something.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

Crotchless panties.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Likewise - you and me and Voboy all arrived about the same time, along with a few others as I remember, and Scouries and Freddie were still there altho it was the tale end of Scouries - that sig of his always bugged me. Talk about an ego....but some of his stories were good. I even have one or two favorited.

Those two were the first I put Ignore, probably within the first month. Also why I figured out how to turn the Sig Blocks off. Scouries' gave me the shits clagging up my feed with his neon lights.

JBJ was great. Loved the old guy and yeah, 10 years ago he was really getting on. We had some great chats offline. He used to really make me laugh with his posts. Him and Keith/Pilot

I enjoyed JBJ's game and got on pretty well with him. Smart guy, liked fishing in the barrel. Why everyone kept rising to his bait I don't know - I never saw him as a troll, I just thought those that rose, pretty silly.

 

[Britva415]

he had the most annoying signature on the AH

Imagine ever seeing a signature

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Hah, fools! You have no idea, do you?!

Literotica makes most of its income by selling out information about all of you perverts here to the government.

Jokes on them, my schoolgirls are all 18 years old or more!

 

[Areala-chan]

Wow that is the most impressively vanilla collection of sex toys I've ever seen.

All you need is the Magic Wand.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Imagine ever seeing a signature

If you ever saw Scourie's sig, it was unforgettable. The neon is embedded in my brain, never to be unseen

 

[SimonDoom]

I don't really know how this site makes money. My sense is that it's undermonetized. I suppose that's good for us authors in some ways, but I think it hampers the site's ability to reach its potential, which I think is tremendous.

 

[Cagivagurl]

None of our business really...
They own the Site... End of story. They provide us a platform to post stories...
I'm grateful, so if they can make money from it. Good luck to them.

Cagivagurl

 

[Voboy]

My sense is that it's undermonetized. I suppose that's good for us authors in some ways, but I think it hampers the site's ability to reach its potential, which I think is tremendous.

I've always gotten the same impression, and drawn similar conclusions.

I think massive changes are likely in the medium term, whenever someone else inevitably takes over.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I've always gotten the same impression, and drawn similar conclusions.

I think massive changes are likely in the medium term, whenever someone else inevitably takes over.

I just look at Wattpad, and with a bit of imagination, that's where Literotica could be.....in terms of size, readers and market

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

whenever someone else inevitably takes over.

To my knowledge, there has never been any indication of how, why, or if there will be a transfer of ownership, or what will happen if there ever is. Let's just say, I've never seen a site get better after it happened.

 

[SimonDoom]

To my knowledge, there has never been any indication of how, why, or if there will be a transfer of ownership, or what will happen if there ever is. Let's just say, I've never seen a site get better after it happened.

I worry about that. That, and the possibility it could just disappear one day.

 

[AG31]

https://shop.literotica.com/?s3=d23cun38flms73b2idbg

Yes, thanks. I looked more carefully at the Explore menu, and found "Toys." That took me....

WELL THIS IS WEIRD!!!
I went back to Explore to click on Toys to remind myself of the sequence and "toys" is no longer there! What gives???

 

[alohadave]

Yes, thanks. I looked more carefully at the Explore menu, and found "Toys." That took me....

WELL THIS IS WEIRD!!!
I went back to Explore to click on Toys to remind myself of the sequence and "toys" is no longer there! What gives???
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It's showing on my phone.

 

[SimonDoom]

Yes, thanks. I looked more carefully at the Explore menu, and found "Toys." That took me....

WELL THIS IS WEIRD!!!
I went back to Explore to click on Toys to remind myself of the sequence and "toys" is no longer there! What gives???
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It's interesting how I've been an active participant in this site for close to 9 years, and there are all these little corners of it I know nothing about and don't participate in. I think many of us probably get so accustomed to the Author's Hangout that we think it's like Lit's Grand Central Station and probably most Lit users never come here and don't care at all about what we do or say here.

There have been 3.3 million posts in the Author's Hangout, but over 20 million in the Literotica Personals, which I don't think I've ever posted to. The General Board has over 17 million posts, and to me venturing into that place and the Politics Board is like telling yourself, "I think I'd like to walk in a pile of warm shit today." I don't get it. But I don't have to get it. The toy thing is unfamiliar to me, too.