Interview with webcam model Angie Jewels on her career: transcript

Key points

• She was a shy restaurant manager who visited a strip club to meet Ukrainian speakers, then tried dancing about three years earlier and found she was an exhibitionist.
• Camming is the larger part of her income, but she also does private stag parties and freelance web design because earnings are inconsistent.
• Her first night on cam was a disaster, and for a whole year she earned too little to be paid out, partly because internet in South Africa is slow and expensive.
• She likes being self-employed, setting her own hours, showing off and meeting people from all over the world.
• Success takes marketing knowledge, research, networking with other models, reading each site's rules, and being comfortable with the lack of guaranteed privacy.
• Her advice is to be yourself, be patient and consistent, and invest in yourself, since the new-model boost lasts only a week or two.

Chapters

1. 0:05Who she is and where she works
2. 0:36How she got into the adult industry
3. 1:47Income, background and love of performing
4. 3:32A disastrous first night and a hard first year
5. 5:20What she loves about webcam modeling
6. 7:05Challenges: research, privacy and family
7. 8:16Her niches and how camming affected her
8. 9:23Advice for aspiring camgirls

Full transcript

0:05So, my name is Angie Jules. My main website is with Model Centro. It's Angie-Jules.com. I'm 23 years old and I'm actually a Ukrainian South African and I currently reside in Dublin, South Africa. The sites that I work on are mostly Stream Mates, definitely Stream Mates, MyFreeCams, and definitely Float for Free.

0:36So those are the three sites that I actively work on. It's actually a funny story. I mean, I used to be such a shy conservative chick and I was managing restaurants and things like that. and because I'm from Ukraine I wanted to meet more Ukrainian girls to speak Russian to so I went to strip club here in Durban South Africa I'm just to meet some of them you know and like just to practice the language more and I kind of became friends with them you know and they told me honestly they told me how much money they made and they told me they showed me that it's not that big a you know so I tried it out and I realized that I'm actually quite An exhibitionist. So only then, and this was about three years ago, only about three years ago, I realized how much I enjoyed being on stage and performing for a group of people. And yeah, that's how I got into the adult industry first.

1:47it is the larger part of my income but um because of um the lack of consistency um not only with the campsites but with myself um i can't allow it to be my only source of income so i still do private stag parties um i don't have like any i don't work for anybody else i only work for myself I also do web design and, you know, the odd freelance jobs here and there.

2:23My background is very diverse. I was lucky enough to travel and to be adaptive because I come from so many different cultures. I've been raised by so many different people. My mother has always been pretty open-minded with me. so I was allowed to explore different aspects of myself so but um I realized I'm quite the exhibitionist Since dancing, I mean, since being an exotic dancer, I love the power that I get, you know, when I'm on stage.

3:00And I've always wanted to be a performer in any case. I'm not one who likes to be the center of attention, really, but I do enjoy being watched because I feel, you know, I feel that a woman is an artwork. So, you know, a woman should be watched, is meant to be looked at. My first day on camp was a total disaster.

3:32I think the first night I tried was Chatterbait and I knew nothing about what I was doing. It lasted about 20 minutes of me trying to figure out what I'm doing. People angry at me because I wasn't responding to private messages. a whole bunch of people insulting me it was just horrendous I cannot tell you my first week research research research as well as my first month that my first year I was a little bit disappointed I guess because you know I did expect to like I had to do a lot of research in order to figure out the tips and tricks to actually making money and getting fans that actually come back and back and support you throughout your whole webcam job, really.

4:38I mean, for a whole year, I did not make money at all, really. I mean, the money that I made wasn't even enough to get paid out. So, yeah, that's the honest truth. Within the first year, I don't know if there's other factors that maybe might have influenced that, like the fact that I'm in South Africa, so internet is very expensive this side. And it's just not as fast, I guess. Um, and yeah, other than that, um, you know, I did get discouraged a few times, but I've been researching, I've been persevering and, um, a year.

5:20And a half later, I think I know enough to succeed. What do I love the most about webcam modeling? I've always wanted to start my own business and work for myself. I've always told myself that by the age of 25, I will be self-employed and doing well in my business. So, that is definitely a pro in webcam modeling because, you know, no matter how much you make, um you make it yourself and um it's based on your own hard work that you put in and there's no bars to answer to um you set your own hours you basically work for yourself and that is always something I've aimed for um another reason that I love webcam modeling is because of the fact that I am an exhibitionist okay and I love showing my body off um I love um interacting

6:23with people um it's very cool to be able to interact i mean this world that we live in now to interact with people so far away you know and from from Overseas, like, you know, from so many different countries, um, that really, really, really makes it fun for me. Um, the fact that I can, um, get to know people from anywhere in the world. That's another pro. Well, you do need to do your research, okay? You can't just have the best looks, uh, being, like, you know, the stereotype supermodel, have the stereotype supermodel looks and succeed. That's not all it takes.

7:05you have to have some sort of knowledge knowledge of marketing you have to do a lot of research you have to connect to other webcam models you have to read all the rules and regulations on every site you have to be patient and consistent and and believe in what you're doing because um it's not an overnight success um that's one of them secondly um privacy privacy is not always guaranteed so um you have to kind of be comfortable with the fact that your parents might find you on the site your uncle might find you on a site um and you have to be comfortable with that you have to be okay with that i mean personally i am a proud rookie model my mom has no problem with it um You know, I have no problem with telling anybody I'm a webcam model. I love what I do and I really don't care much what anybody else thinks about it. So, you have to be comfortable with what you're doing. You have to be able to make peace with and be proud, actually, of what you're doing.

8:16they do switch around depending on what the customer wants but mainly I would fall under um natural like um a lot of guys like the fact that I am fully natural um the other one would be um striptease you know dancing striptease um I do enjoy being like the bitch and telling them what to do um and a lot of guys do love that so um yeah I like to be my other niche would be dominatrix um it would be um cos you know like cosplay maybe um cuckolding shows recently I started doing um yeah and as I do live sex shows like with a partner um I always act as the bitch girlfriend you know so those would be my niches

9:23Well, sexually, I only recently started exploring what it is that I like and I don't like. And I must say, webcam modeling helps quite a lot with that. Thank you. Be yourself and invest in yourself. Be patient. Be consistent. You know, like any job, you have to believe in yourself, especially jobs where you work for yourself. You will always get better over time, like anything. It's not, I mean, I understand the whole new model status, but it only lasts about a week or two.

9:56and then after that everybody's over you explore yourself you enjoy what you do and you are consistent and carry on and believe in yourself you invest in yourself and you take it seriously you will succeed Indeed.

Source and licence

Recording: File:Interview with a South African nude webcam model.webm by Angie Jewels (2016-03-20), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY 3.0.

The transcript is machine speech-to-text by the TidyTools Audio & video transcriber; the summary, key points and chapters were written by Claude from that transcript. Both may contain errors: check the recording before quoting it.