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You're seriously overthinking this. SCM was never designed to be like Sean Cody or Corbin Fisher. It wasn’t about polished scenes or professional models. It worked because it was pure Vegas trash hustle from the company drawing random guys to do something stupid for cash with the "What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas" mentality.We need to remember that at SCM's height, Sean Cody, Corbin Fisher, ChaosMen, Randy Blue, and CollegeDudes and other studios, were demolishing the gay internet porn market. For the same price, SCM was basically offering the gay equivalent of soft-core porn. When they started around 2003, it could work, but by the late 2000s Sean Cody and Corbin Fisher were producing two films a week with fresh new college aged hunks from across America.
Spend $20 to listen to SCM owner yabber on and get us at most a passionless BJ and handjob. Or spend $20 seeing some of the hottest All-American looking men of the decade fuck, suck, rim, swallow loads and eventually take it raw. It's no wonder SCM couldn't compete.
The SCM model bonuses were crap. SC was splashing like $1.5-2k for a simple jerk off scene with a free trip to CA and hotel room. For most of their models, that was a big deal. Then fucking could get you $2-3k a scene. Models were making serious money. Models at SCM weren't paid anything close to what the other studios paid out.
But another issue is the studio owner was simply mean on camera. And what sort of goofy business plan required a MASSIVE warehouse/studio in Vegas? They only moved to vegas because competition in SD was steep since SC was there snatching up talent. SCM could never recruit nationwide which also doomed their growth efforts.
Bad business all around for SCM.
They had billboards everywhere offering quick cash to guys 18+ to jerk off on camera. Unless you are 21 you aren't able to Drink or Gamble. Meanwhile you're barely legal and broke while visiting Vegas? Ffs It made the local news because their billboards were everywhere.
And this was the early 2000s, when the internet still felt like a black hole. These weren’t performers. They were just random dudes who figured no one back home would ever find out. Cheap money, quick shoot, done. Extra money for doing goofy "queer" shit. That was the brand. That’s what made it work.