I think it's tempting to lionize the past. If you look at a lot of 90s physical media coming out of Eastern Europe, there are some very cute guys, but a lot of very plain guys.
Peter Azur (aka Peter Rush) the star of "
Boy Crash" and "Internat" for example, was all the rave, but I mean honestly he's a pretty plain guy; he can't stay hard; he doesn't suck dick, just lets it slide in and out of his mouth. His co-stars are wooden. None swallow, they let it dribble out of their mouths. But he was so popular that Man's Best brought him back 10 years later.
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For every really hot Czech performance back then, there are 3 very dull Eastern Bloc examples. Ton (the Russian twink, of TonIsBad and other outlets) comes to mind.
Though it does strike me you're talking mostly about early 00s online streaming and I'm mostly talking about early 90s videos. But the same issues are present in both.
It's also tempting to glamorize the whole situation when it was actually quite brutal. There's a series of movies about the industry in Prague in the 90s--Not Angels But Angels (1994), Body Without Soul (96), and Mandragora (97)--two are documentary, the third is fiction based on the two docs. The young men share how they were treated, their abject terror of AIDS and the refusal of producers to let them wear condoms, the exploitation of their poverty and homelessness, the fact that so many of them were as young as 14, the way they were transitioned from performers into prostitutes for wealthy tourists who knew them from the films. Frankly, watching the documentaries, I couldn't help but realize as they spoke that most of those hot guys I was pirating as a teenager are probably dead, even though they should only be maybe 43-55 years old.
The rise and fall of Czech studios is basically an economics story as many other replies have pointed out. It has happened over and over. In the late 1800s all the way up through the 70s, the utterly impoverished boys of Southern Italy were the object. East Germans in the 80s. Eastern Europeans in the 90s. Now South Asians and South Americans.
I actually like the advent of platforms like OF because it allows young men who want to capitalize on their bodies to do so outside the brutal studio system. If a broke guy in Colombie decides he's willing to do gay shit for money, he's doing it on his own terms.