First off, the Tawnee Stone thing....
GFY's signal to noise ratio is too high to actually read and keep up with, but that thread did lure me over. Here's what I've gathered from the threads.
Tawnee is a bit of a prima donna. This isn't surprising when she was showered with all that attention and good money as an 18 year old. She's now 22. But while Lightspeed largely demands and gets the other girls to update their own journals, do appearances, cam shows, a bit of hardcore, etc, Tawnee would do none of it. If you've dealt with models in a group, you know how much strife is created if one things the other is getting preferential treatment.
Furthermore, reading between the lines, I think Steve considers Tawnee at the end of her run or at least the end of any growth of the site unless he can get her to do hardcore. He offered $25K for a single POV shoot, she turned it down.
She made $130K last year, which I'm sure is more than many of his employees. Yet she pretty much wants to do nothing but the occasional softcore shoot. Steve opted not to renew her contract this year. He did offer her $2K per month in severence to NOT shoot for anyone else.
She's a free agent if she wants to be. But Steve's no fool. He's got a couple of years of unseen content in the can for continued updates, and he has copyrighted the name Tawnee Stone. So if she wants to go free agent, she cant use that name or even reference it without his permission.
I haven't heard the final outcome. I quit reading.
With the limitations of softcore only and not being able to leverage the Tawnee Stone name and her lack of desire to put any personality into the site, I dont see her being able to easily pull $24K from anyone else....let alone the 6 figures she was accustomed too.
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