(20-02-2022 06:19 )ryuken Wrote:  Babe Channels & Ofcom Through The Years

https://babestationcams.com/blog/babe-channels/

I would've liked if this article talked about the new rules that've effected FTA webshows.

And the ban on vibetoys being used during nightshows on TV.

Clarification on the types of clothing that are banned too, would've been nice.

(20-02-2022 19:24 )Nitro2020 Wrote:  ...They may reference the online harms bill but this is not enforced yet...

(21-02-2022 02:52 )ShandyHand Wrote:  ^ This is another of those BabeTV blog posts reprinted is it not? Except this time the regurgitator cba to even tell us why the thing is clearly discussing the situation as it was years ago.

These slices of nostalgia tell us about the shows' history for sure. They are generally interesting reads (though as Goodfella has pointed out they are sometimes arguable) but to expect them to be fully relevant to the world of the shows today is folly. Too many changes have happened in the meantime.

In fact the manner in which this stuff is being reposted smacks of disengeniousness. An attempt to pull the wool that the channels are still in some way edgy as they were back in the day. (Today they are about as rebellious as a wet fish. And their audience treated with contempt instead of as co-conspirators and co-creators.) Also it's a weak attempt anyway, for anyone that can add contrast is only given a greater sense of how much the payer has lost in the changes made to the shows in the intervening years.

(20-02-2022 19:24 )Nitro2020 Wrote:  ...They may reference the online harms bill but this is not enforced yet...

AFAIK only a Rampant forum mod has gone public with any authority about what exactly the current restrictions are supposed to be countering and even he was vague (fourth post down). But fwiw, it doesn't seem to be the Online Harms Bill that's back of this atm but a sort of precursor to it that's already in operation. Props to Ryuken for tracking it down at the time.

(21-02-2022 19:28 )ShandyHand Wrote:  ^ Yes exactly. My attachment to the shows seems to be the exact opposite to that of the private junkies and the fanboys. I like to get to know a babe for sure - it helps with any interactions - but I'm not interested in establishing any deep relationships there. My kink is all about helping to stir and enhance a vibe that reflects the performance ethic and mass pleasures of the shows as they used to be. (Minimally cropped, images with tease, movement, posing, and energy basically - something to hold the audience and grow the session as it progresses.) I want shows that make us all pleased to be fans of this bloody genre. And shows that reward babes that work to that end.

In recent years (when I realised what it was that was that was getting me off) I tipped and perved (and would do the same again if I saw a consistency to satisfy this demand) whenever my fave babes put on sessions that looked to please the fta crowd. This can be done alongside explicit cam work (I'm a big dual cam* fan) or it can be achieved on its own - via tips and vibra, etc.

BS killed all this on their streams with their regressive one-size-fits-all decision on how to get past the new regs.

Another problem in all this of late is that many new babes appear ignorant of what the shows once were. They seem to have little idea that some of us are expecting anything resembling a babeshow as we knew it. At worst, they don't know what we're missing, while another bunch are probably uninterested while they can find enough of the other punters to keep them happy.