Vanessa Veracruz has spoken out on the Twistys 'Treat of the Year' debacle (thanks to mikesouth.com)
"It is with deep regret that I inform my fans and followers that we
have resorted to openly denouncing Twistys business practices but in my
opinion, as well as that of hundreds of Twistys followers and members,
the handling the 2014 Treat of The Year has been nothing less than
appalling. Twisty’s has been a staple in the adult glamour market for a
long time and has done so through a reputation of fairness and
professionalism, recently management’s decision to not only release the
results of the latest Treat of The Year vote nearly 4 weeks after voting
had stopped, but also to decide to ignore their member’s actual vote
and choose the runner up themselves has been confirmed by numerous forum
posts and the recent resignation of their production manager.
The selection, rather than the honest vote, of the latest Treat of
the Year runner up is not only an insult to my professionalism as a
model but is also a drastic departure in the business practices of a
once reputable company. For many mainstream consumers, porn sites may
appear to be all created equal however there is a drastic difference
between the quality and respect that studios deserve. Prior to the
takeover by Manwin and subsequently the unexpected transition to
MindGeek, the Twisty’s site and staff had an enormous amount of respect
from their models and members alike. It is shameful that the transition
to new management has put such incompetence in place that the company
has sacrificed the very ethics that made it a powerhouse in the world of
adult glamour. It is now well known and verified thru the interaction
of senior staff at Twisty’s as well as some of their leading models, the
election of their runner up favored what they assumed to be a better
business decision but failed to think of the ramifications to their
reputation. It’s shameful to begin with that such a large company would
cheat myself out of a hard earned member decided award, but even more
discouraging is the way in which MindGeek and Twistys have handled the
outcry voiced by myself and other models such as Brett Rossi, Emily
Addison, Bree Daniels, Sabrina Marie, as well as many more. Their
response to our voices as well as that of the members who have rallied
behind me, has been to ban accounts and shut down the forums. Rather
than admitting fault or at least addressing an issue which they were
clearly wrong on, MindGeek took the stance to block out its lifeblood,
its members and models. I strongly believe we have seen the first public
display of mismanagement and potentially the downfall of one the
industry’s staple studios. In an eerie parallel to the 2008 banking
collapse where senior management thought their institutions “too big to
fail” we again see the ugly head of big business permeating another
aspect of our everyday lives. This time MindGeek should take note, your
models bring the traffic and your traffic pays the bills. They obviously
care more about the traffic than their members.
Publically I am requesting that if you have a Twistys membership
please cancel it today and support ethical business behavior and our
boycott on Twistys. Despite whether you support me personally JI believe
that this cascade of events has shown the dishonestly of Twistys and
should not go unnoticed. As an incentive to for you to cancel your
Twistys membership I am offering the first 100 people to send proof of
their cancellations to
FUCKTWISTYS@ClubVanessaVeracruz.coma free signed copy of my Latin Lust DVD (
ClubVanessaVeracruz.com/latinlust) and the next 500 people a signed 11”x17” Poster of myself. Support our boycott today and stand up for better business!"
- No matter how you cut it, the point of a vote is to register opinion by counting the votes. Regardless of how anyone feels about porn or Twistys itself, the boycott should be supported if only on the basis that Twistys are pissing off performers, ignoring users, and have failed to understand what voting is. Welocome to the sh*tlist.
