It's cheaper for the people who are only interested in one particular thing, but unfortunately very expensive for the people who want it all.
This whole undertaking by Phad has been fascinating to me. An entrepreneur purchases a product, a known entity with predictable value IF... he can parlay the 10-20% of unseen (by the new owner!) product into new customers and renewed interest from old customers. We older fans forget how many "****" world-wide have come of age in the 7 or so years since Kari left the scene. Hopefully they are providing the bulk of the site's income.
What I most appreciate is Phad's confidence in himself that he could add enough value (through quality editing, cultivating new relationships with the old, bitter fanbase, opening the selection to fan's input, and transparency about the process of his releases) to make it work financially--even if the unreleased images proved to only have occasional slips rather than the goldmine of full nudity (or more) we all hoped for in our over-eager imaginations.
I understand the outrage over what you get for your money on a timely basis. Expectations are relationship killers. And it seems to me everyone had higher expectations--including Phad for himself. Phad approaches his work like a perfectionist. That means we get whatever he finds in the highest quality of possible presentation. It probably means he doesn't ***** much. And unfortunately, it makes it even harder to meet everyone else's expectations for regular, predictable, release schedule.
I think there is an inherent issue with fans of non-nude models that causes us to be the most insufferable, perpetually dissatisfied customers. The attraction of NN models is the tension it creates and the imagination it incites. Wanting more, imagining more, become their own turn-ons. But we can always imagine things we'll never see, and want more than the model is willing to do.
In this case, we're wanting more from a finite, frozen in time archive that simply is what it is. If we don't self-limit our expectations, we will crash and burn on the mountainside of reality everytime.
One other point. We tend to think Phad gets his satisfaction purely from profit. I'm getting the impression that Phad gets his satisfaction from creating, editing, and presenting the product. Profit is simply what allows him to keep doing it. And with Kari, he's not the producer. He's more like an archaeologist, preparing his finds for a museum. Give the guy the strokes he deserves for the quality and effort, and you might even improve his production rate. Think of him like the guys that make photoshop fakes--tell 'em you don't like their work, and they'll either stop doing it or stop sharing it. But tell 'em what you appreciate, and they'll keep doing it and likely get better at it.
And if any of this is true, if my admittedly amateurish profile is anywhere close to accurate, then treating karisweets.com as a picture factory will only make losers of us all. Whatever we have not seen of Kari is already determined. Sure, I'd like to see her posing with another girl. I'd like to see her kiss a girl and look aroused by it. That's the set I'd fork over $50 for without blinking. BUT IT PROBABLY DOES NOT EXIST. It
might... it
could... but I'll be much happier if I don't focus on the possibilities and instead enjoy what a perfect ass that is, covered in tight red shorts. 'Cause we ain't gonna see anything more than what is.
Can we all agree that, at the moment when he's most tired, most irritated, at the end of what he's told us has been a demanding, challenging month... might not be the time to throw down a dare? Dare Phad to make his own life easier? Dare him to do something he enjoys only when he has time to enjoy doing it? Dare him to not have to deal with cranky, frustrated (for legitimate reasons), demanding members?
