Question: Do the BIGO Live girls ever get naked?

Answer: Not on BIGO, but they may do it elsewhere

What exactly is the point of Bigo Live? You’ll have seen the ads, maybe installed the app and set it up and what you’ll find is plenty of girls streaming in various different outfits. Just like Twitch though they never get naked or even show more skin than in a bikini, and even that is rare.

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Yet clearly these girls are doing their streaming quite professionally, they have proper digital cameras, lights, broadband Internet connections and are often seen talking into high-end studio mics.

That isn’t a hobby it is a profession.

You can tip girls on Bigo Live just as you can on any tipping cam girl site, but while you will do that to support them you won’t get much in exchange. You don’t see any tip menus here for flashes.

Unlike most cam sites at Bigo every viewer is also a potential broadcaster. Get together in a group video chat by just accepting the invite of the Bigo streaming girl when you go into her room. It is like cam2cam but everybody gets to see you, something that is explicitly disallowed on most porn chat sites.

The result can all be a big crazy party and the video and the chat part all work great.

Some Bigo broadcasters such as Cutiefrcali even turn it into an Oprah-lite talk show with guests coming on to talk about their problems and discussing it with her while she spins some tunes.

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Although the site strongly pushes you to use the Apple or Android apps you can also use the site on your PC. The website has a “LIVE” section where you can log in and watch streams.

Logging into the site can be done via your phone number, Google, Facebook, Twitch and other major social sites.

For broadcasting, there are lots of choices. Your phone is a broadcaster but there are also two different Windows apps, a “Streamer” and a “Connector” that let you chat and broadcast from your Windows PC. It also has an OBS interface so if you are a camgirl who already has OBS set up, and you should have done that if you are broadcasting seriously, then you can just add in the stream key for BIGO Live and use your same webcam and other software.

While there Apple iPhone or Google Android phones are supported it does mean that you are limited to the small screen of a phone.

When you get a bit older like me you’ll find that small text on a small screen is a strain on the old eyes. That makes the site harder for me to navigate, but if you are happy to do everything on the phone.

Safety and security: if you don’t want to show your location then “Show your personal information” is a setting that you want to turn on or off. Even if you have set your location to be a fake country for privacy the Bigo Live app does know where you are and so you better be cautious and turn off the location.

Even with location off it will still work out where you are and may list on your profile, and tell other people when you enter their room, where you are located so this isn’t good for camgirls who want to hide their location for safety.

Earnings on the site are measured in “beans” and it takes 210 beans to earn $1. Your balance has to be 6,700 beans or about $32 before you can get your payment. Or is it 3,000 beans? It depends on who you ask.

If you can get 2.2M beans that would turn into $8,400 according to Genesis Newbreeds, one of the many Bigo talent agencies.

Broadcast at least 30 hours per month to be eligible for any payments, though only the first 3 hours per day are counted.

It can be fun to hang out in the live video chat rooms at Bigo but it also feels quite constrained when you can’t do anything sexy in the app. While there is nothing to stop you from asking people to join you on another site in practice how often is that going to work when people already have a Bigo account but don’t necessarily use other cam sites?

Using the mobile version of a camgirl site such as the very smooth Stripchat mobile or the full-featured MyFreeCams “app” which is really a good mobile website, can get you a lot more sex to watch.

On their home page Bigo Live stress that you might want to play video games on your phone while letting other people watch you, that’s quite a constrast to their adds which are more about hot women for you to watch, but in practice, I don’t see much game playing.

Playing online games while streaming is a thing as Twitch has proven, but although it seems to overlap in terms of audience and interest with camgirl sites the few camgirl sites that have tried to combine sex, nudity and video games have not come out great. The only one that is working today (at the time of writing) is joystick.tv and who knows if that will last or go the way of Plexstorm.

Check out their site and see if you want to watch clothed girls chat and, occasionally, play games.

Let me know in the comments!