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My story is short and sweet.I was Spade Suicide. I had one set go live, and then i asked some questions in my public journal about the resale to hardcore porno sites and if the rumors were true, and the only answer I got was being kicked off the site about 10 minutes later. Real mature. And not to mention really confusing for me not knowing what the hell was going on? But soon enough i started to find out more and more.

That site was a total waste of time for me, not to mention a huge blow to my self esteem, for reasons that I don't really want to start babbling on about here, but I have a whole string of links to share that might explain it a bit, including this one:


A letter from Oryx Suicide telling horrid truths of the inside of the SG Company:
http://vampirefreaks.com/journal.php?u=caleidh

^theres some good point forms in this letter as to why girls shouldn't even consider working there.

More and more girls are dreaming of modeling for SG, as young as 13 and 14 year olds CAN'T WAIT to do it, and they don't even realize its soft core porn, only ever seeing the myspace preview images...

I have a lot more links but i think most of them have been posted in this community already.

My contract is finally up with them, but I'm weary of where to go next.

Anyway, its been awhile since I've used lj, but i decided to make a come back and look around and I am too happy that I found this community!

edit: I've just spent about an hour reading back on previous posts here, i realize i must sound like an insignificant broken record of a voice with my post. :P I can't BELIEVE how much i am learning, and also realizing more and more how horrid that site is, and how glad I am not involved with that catty girl drama anymore.

Comments

[info]washable wrote:
Dec. 6th, 2007 05:33 pm (UTC)
Well welcome to the community!! I have no idea what are considered the good websites, but I wish you the best of luck. :)
[info]r3d_lost wrote:
Dec. 6th, 2007 06:31 pm (UTC)
Welcome.
=)
[info]wetwork wrote:
Dec. 6th, 2007 07:32 pm (UTC)
i can't believe how many girls come here with the same story. you would think someone would get you all together and start some kind of big, scary lawsuit.

what a great privilege to own and run SG.. and they're just blowing it. it's such a stupid waste.
[info]caleidhsaad wrote:
Dec. 6th, 2007 08:42 pm (UTC)
I don't think the girls that are in the same situation as me have good enough reasons to come up with a lawsuit together, though that would be pretty awesome!
I mean its not like SG did anything specific to me other then kick me out and never talking to me again. Would we really all be able to get together and sue over the reason of getting kicked out and ignored without termination papers?
[info]wetwork wrote:
Dec. 6th, 2007 09:19 pm (UTC)
well, i'm not a lawyer so i have no idea how this works. it just sounds a little strange to me that so many people come from SG with the same complaints. you would think there would be some kind of legal path the lot of you could take.

maybe i just want SG to get a great big, public slap in the face.
[info]tawnygnosis wrote:
Dec. 7th, 2007 12:21 am (UTC)
That is basically what happened to me (and about a million other girls. Welcome.
[info]weetzie724 wrote:
Dec. 7th, 2007 02:56 am (UTC)
maybe thats the kind of complaint the better business bureau would like to hear about..
[info]anonymissity wrote:
Dec. 6th, 2007 07:57 pm (UTC)
Ooh, I'd love to see that "do not shoot" list!
yikes.
[info]caleidhsaad wrote:
Dec. 6th, 2007 08:44 pm (UTC)
Me freakin too, because I bet anything I was on it. I had the exact reasons for rejected sets that Oryx mentioned in that letter. Lighting "just wasn't right" and the such.
Serious bullshit.

and I'd be on the list because I'm sure "they" didn't like my opinionated attitude. Tough.
[info]hatesocks wrote:
Dec. 6th, 2007 10:04 pm (UTC)
i hope youre not in the next resale pack!!

i love oryx. she shot all my sets. i was sad to read what happened to her. i should have left then.
[info]caleidhsaad wrote:
Dec. 7th, 2007 01:52 am (UTC)
I doubt I'd be on a resale rack. My set is really not provocative at all (no spread legs and the such comme ca), I'm surprised it even got accepted)
[info]hatesocks wrote:
Dec. 8th, 2007 12:55 am (UTC)
dont doubt it for a second!! your set will be included with the other girls with raunchier sets. they are sold by the "pack"
[info]caleidhsaad wrote:
Dec. 8th, 2007 03:49 pm (UTC)
well even if they decided to resell it for some fucked up reason, I'm still glad its not very provocative, so it doesn't worry me too much
[info]sg_acrid wrote:
Dec. 7th, 2007 10:52 pm (UTC)
I can name a few off the top of my head that ex photography coordinator, Napalm, told me about when I was still on the site. Here's the ones that I know of...

Candy and Jersey for sure, most likely Femi, and I think xtine

anyways if I can figure out the rest she told me, then I'll post them but I seem to be right in the middle of a massive brain fart.
[info]zoomusikgrl wrote:
Dec. 7th, 2007 11:40 pm (UTC)
oh no, jersey? she's fuckin rad. i've been drinking with her and she is just the tits.

and femi, damn. she's utterly fappable.
[info]sg_acrid wrote:
Dec. 8th, 2007 01:24 am (UTC)
yeah it's stupid, they said Candy looked too old in her sets and will never accept another one from her, but they won't tell her.

They think Jersey is ugly and will probably never accept another set from her again. I think they told her to stop sending in sets for a while and just continue with her photography.

So yeah, basically if you get a set rejected and they give you some bull shit exuse like not enough makeup/too much makeup, lighting is a little off... and my favorite, not enough facial expressions. If this happens to you more than 2-3 times... they probably don't like you and will never accept any sets from you. But yeah, nothing we haven't heard.
pollysuicide wrote:
Dec. 8th, 2007 03:48 am (UTC)
happened to me. somehow i knew that no matter what i would never get another set accepted, no matter what. period.

[ though Missy told me on more than one rejection to try again. ]

how can you want to try when you know it won't get accepted.


period.
[info]shutyrfacejerk wrote:
Dec. 9th, 2007 02:43 am (UTC)
I just don't understand why they insist on encouraging people and giving them false hope. Spineless. It's possible to be straightforward without being complete dickheads about it. I dunno what's so hard about maybe saying to someone, "We're sorry but we just don't think you're right for the site anymore" or something along those lines. Gentle but to the point.
pollysuicide wrote:
Dec. 9th, 2007 02:51 am (UTC)
seriously.
it might hurt to hear, but i'd rather they had been straightforward with me.
[info]caleidhsaad wrote:
Dec. 8th, 2007 03:48 pm (UTC)
WOW. thats truly disgusting information
[info]sg_acrid wrote:
Dec. 8th, 2007 07:16 pm (UTC)
one of the main reasons I left...
[info]shutyrfacejerk wrote:
Dec. 9th, 2007 02:38 am (UTC)
Not that I don't appreciate you putting this information out there so that people can see how shitty SG really is, but I still wouldn't want to be one of the girls you named and read this and have it out there that the site I'm naked on thinks I'm too old or too ugly to accept a set from me again. Kind of hurtful, you know?
[info]sg_acrid wrote:
Dec. 9th, 2007 06:22 am (UTC)
Well, sometimes the truth hurts more than lies. I know it sucks, but if I was in their shoes, I would want to know that the company I "love and support" thinks thinks that I'm just not good enough so I wouldn't waste my time, effort, energy, and money on them anymore.

I've met both Jersey and Candy and they are both beautiful and wonderfully unique people on the inside and out. I don't understand why SG thinks that of them. I just think it's shitty that SG doesn't have the guts to tell them how they feel. That to me is just bad business ethics.
[info]slutbunwalla wrote:
Dec. 6th, 2007 10:31 pm (UTC)
I hadn't read that one before, thanks for posting it.
:^)

[info]caleidhsaad wrote:
Dec. 7th, 2007 01:53 am (UTC)
definitely not a problem, I'm glad I didn't turn out to be a total broken record ;)
[info]slutbunwalla wrote:
Dec. 7th, 2007 04:52 am (UTC)
naw.
It's just collating data, as they say.

And it seems that as long as that record has played it has deterred few, anyway. So might as well keep adding tracks!
[info]special_patrol wrote:
Dec. 6th, 2007 10:41 pm (UTC)
"More and more girls are dreaming of modeling for SG, as young as 13 and 14 year olds CAN'T WAIT to do it, and they don't even realize its soft core porn, only ever seeing the myspace preview images..."

oh i KNOW, right?! i have a vf account because i've got some buddies on there, but i am so tired of seeing teenagers in their underwear. i feel kind of weird being that i'm naked here and there on the internet and i keep having to say "pants please, your're 14" to kids.
[info]trinket08 wrote:
Dec. 7th, 2007 12:47 am (UTC)
yaay! you joined! (beautiful_fucked_up_ here, haha) Glad you came and posted even if it is a repeat, the more girls that come out about what happened to them and why they were kicked off the more the girls looking to get into SG know not to do it.
[info]weetzie724 wrote:
Dec. 7th, 2007 03:06 am (UTC)
"More and more girls are dreaming of modeling for SG, as young as 13 and 14 year olds CAN'T WAIT to do it, and they don't even realize its soft core porn, only ever seeing the myspace preview images..."

i know so many girls who applied to sg because they wanted the label, the pink panties, the adoration... but didnt really want to be naked.

its such a sad coercion, to tell teenage girls who want confirmation that the only way they can get it on this "prestigious", enviable site is to be naked and pressured to spread leg.

right now, i am involved with a site, pinup pistols. its alt-porn insofar as the models don't fit the "standard" form of beauty, but i personally think there is very little alternative about a classically beautiful, thin girl who gets her hands on a bottle of hair dye and a piercing gun.
what i really like about the site is the fact that nudity isnt required of models, so girls actually get to submit sets that they consider sexy and sexual on their own terms.

the site is in early beta now but once it picks up, i will start talking about it a lot more. i would like to think that it will become one of "the good sites"

if you have any suggestions on how we can do that or what you expect from a site you work with, please let me know.
[info]caleidhsaad wrote:
Dec. 9th, 2007 03:52 am (UTC)
it definitely sounds like it really could be something :)
I'll add you to teh friends list, and you should keep me updated on the progress, if you want ;)
[info]hurtbag wrote:
Dec. 7th, 2007 02:16 pm (UTC)
spade, your 2nd set was probably rejected cause your first set totally bombed. 910 comments in 16 months? ouch. you probably never would have had another set accepted. it's not the lighting, it's you.
[info]caleidhsaad wrote:
Dec. 7th, 2007 02:54 pm (UTC)
well thanks sweet pea! LOL

Actually, that set that went live, seriously was horrible. I blended into the wall and it was grainy. Plus I was still new at the whole thing and I KNOW i could have done much better. I didn't even know my photographer a the time, and I was uncomfortable, and it definitely shows in the pictures, I still don't know how that set even got accepted.(who the fuck understands SG motives) PLUS, comment count isn't everything. I went live at 6am on a sunday morning on new girl sunday.
I was on the main page for MAYBE 3 hours, that definitely could be some of the reason why I never got many comments, that and the set wasn't very good, like you said it "bombed". lol

The second set was totally different, i didn't even look like the same person. The lighting, angles and outfit were 100%, even the photographer, Synnove, couldn't understand why the second set was rejected when the first one had gone through.

But, this all doesn't even matter really because I'm really glad that second set wasn't accepted. I'm glad I didn't get to go any further with that site.
[info]kirkcollm wrote:
Dec. 7th, 2007 06:51 pm (UTC)
I got the lighting too
Years ago.

Feel stupid about it now.
Fuckers.
You know jsut be honest. I wouldn't have left. But then I wouldn't have wasted money continuing to try.
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Dec. 13th, 2007 08:12 pm (UTC)
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