Chaturbate may have made their start by encouraging exhibitionists to masturbate while chatting on webcam, that’s where the whole name “chaturbate” comes from, but a recent change has thrown that all out the window. In a post on the 18th of December 2020, CB announced a new way to do Cam2Cam which makes the old Chaturbate c2c method obsolete. And as a side-effect, allows them to remove the easy way for exhibitionists to broadcast themselves to the world.
- How to show your cam to Chaturbate models without doing age verification yourself
- Get free Chaturbate tokens by doing age verification and send your webcam video for tips
You can still live broadcast at the exhibitionist. All you got to do buy some tokens with a credit card.
Joseph F Urquhart
We have added the ability for users to privately share their cam with Chaturbate broadcasters for a more intimate viewing experience. Head to a broadcaster’s room, click on the “Show My Cam” button underneath their live stream, and start broadcasting: http://chaturbate.com
My emphasis on “privately”
What they didn’t explain was that this includes a big change to the way the whole site works.
“Show my cam” actually says “Cam To Cam” on my screen:
Since the beginning of Chaturbate, there has always been a “Broadcast Yourself” link prominently on the top menu bar. Previously this took you straight to a broadcast page where you could set up your camera and start broadcasting.
Members not only used this route to broadcast for tips, but also just for kinks as well as a way of doing cam2cam.
This is one of the main things that made Chaturbate different from its predecessors such as MFC, ImLive, and Camcontacts where there was a clear distinction between people who broadcast their webcams, mostly girls, and those who paid to watch, generally the guys.
The great ease with which anybody could broadcast on CB, and quickly gain a following if they were hot enough, must arguably be one of the things that introduced a whole generation of people to being broadcasters. Today being an erotic content creator, whether via live cam video or something like OnlyFans, is so much a common thing that it even seems strange if a popular and hot girl doesn’t have an OnlyFans page.
Exactly how popular you might be in terms of viewers?
But that easy access to broadcasting yourself, and seeing exactly how popular you might be in terms of viewers and followers, is now not a thing.
Broadcast Yourself for Cam2cam
The other main reason people used that Broadcast Yourself link was when they wanted to broadcast to a model who they were viewing. The so-called cam2cam or c2c feature. Using a password on the room so only that one model could view you allowed for some optional privacy, but many men I’ve chatted with are happy to keep their room public and let anybody see them.
With the changes in this new announcement, the viewer does cam2cam by using the Show My Cam link. Therefore the old way of broadcasting from viewer to model isn’t necessary anymore.
And at the same time, the easy way for exhibitionists to broadcast has been taken away.
It is no longer possible to just sign up, without any credit card or real personal information, and hit “Broadcast Yourself” to show off as an exhibitionist. If you try to do so now you get told you need to complete age verification first.
That button, which only works on desktop and not on mobile, goes to the regular page for uploading scanned copies of ID documents that all models have already used.
This means no easy path for casual members to show themselves to everybody, they can’t avoid having to do proper age verification. When you think about it like that it seems pretty reasonable and you start to wonder how the site ever managed to allow random people off the internet to broadcast themselves to the whole world via the CB servers.
In the past, there was no checking being done about legal age or any information that would allow people to be tracked down if they did something against the law.
As reasonable as it now seems to take away the simple path to broadcasting to the world they didn’t do it until they had a replacement for that most common reason a person who normally is a viewer would want to broadcast, to show themselves to the member who is broadcasting.
For viewers to show their dick cams to the cam girls
Or to put it more succinctly, for viewers to show their dick cams to the cam girls.
That is where the new “Show my cam” feature comes in, of course, it fills the gap and makes it easy for people to do just that one specific thing. It isn’t a general broadcast, though behind the scenes it is presumably the same technology, instead, it appears to be viewable only by the cam girl broadcasting in that room.
Notice that this works only on a computer, I haven’t been able to make it work on a mobile device. In fact that old “Broadcast Beta” on the mobile doesn’t work for me anymore, but then I haven’t tested it in a while so maybe it was broken before.
When this was first announced there was a lot of concern that this would create too much of a distraction for models.
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This is such a bad idea its only going to distract broadcasters even more than the non-stop PM’s. Most chatters already get ignored because of that we don’t need more reasons for them to be distracted.
@TristanWillows
But that turned out to be an unfounded worry.
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To elaborate me and my buddies are currently testing this and it is up to the model to view it does NOT just pop up as a little window for the model. The model has to click on the name then click view cam then the window pops up. However, it does state when someone is sharing cam
@TheTribalGuy90
There is going to be a bit of fallout for this until both viewers and models get used to the new way of doing things, but in the long run, this is probably the right thing to do for safety reasons.
What do you think about this change? Have you done cam2cum using the new system? How did it work for you? Let me know in the comments below or post something in the forum. Meanwhile, try it out yourself. I’m going to have to update lots of old article that mention how this used to work!
I’m the rare female that used to broadcast as an exhibitionist. I was really disappointed when I lost the ability to show myself without having to provide personal information to CB. But I understand the reasons and think it’s a step the right direction. I just wish their policy was applied equally to men. 66 pages of female broadcasters and not a single exhibitionist, whereas the first page of male performers is full of exhibitionists.
Hi, thanks for commenting.
Is it really that male performers don’t need personal information? I know some of them have been required to provide ID because I’ve discussed it with them, I thought it was all of people.
I presumed the large number of male exhibitionists was just that a lot more men are keen to show off their stuff than women are, and some percentage of men who want to show themselves are willing to share ID information in order to do so.
What stops you from sharing your ID with CB? I have shared mine and so far no problems. I know that doesn’t guarantee everything will always be fine in the future, but life always has risks so I’m ok with that personally.
Have you tried one of the other sites that doesn’t require ID to broadcast?
what other sites exist like chaterbate where iD is not required? i was also once a male exhibitionist and was sad once i saw you had to provide info. Is it safe to do so? do they do anything with your photo? Can i still show off for fun without worrying about money? Sorry i know lots of questions.
Yes, CB does require men to provide personal info/age verification. I used to simply be an exhibitionist but now in order for me to broadcast I have to submit age verification. I haven’t done it yet because I don’t trust it.
AmateurTV now requires Age Verification to broadcast your cam. Like many, I don’t trust these sites to secure my private information, especially after the Dolly Madison fiasco years ago. If anyone knows of an actual site that permits adult amateurs to broadcast without requiring age verification, I’d be interested to know.
You can still live broadcast at the exhibitionist. All you got to do buy some tokens with a credit card. You won’t be able to accept tips but if you’re a true exhibitionist you don’t really care about that. I think the days of sites letting you broadcast live without some sort of age verification are over and for good reason obviously. Just buy you some tokens with a credit card and start having the fun and excitement being an exhibitionist can provide. I do wish Chaturbate would bring us back as a category so we can be found in a batch. I know where the minority group these days it was still pretty well sought out. Especially by the greys who can come in not worried about being blocked from chatting or kicked out for not having any tokens because we don’t care if they have any tokens or not.
Thanks for the explanation Joseph.
I guess that from their perspective buying tokens with a credit card is a type of age-proof. You have to be 18+ to use a credit card. At least that is the idea.
Your point about any site needing some type of verification and the reasons for that is well taken. We might all be consenting grown-ups here, but we need to make sure that it stays that way.
What do you do in order to make your exhibitionist room more readily found by those seeking you? Is there a preferred tag to mark out rooms like yours?
Thanks for the “tip” Joseph. So if I buy tokens and try to “Broadcast” my camera, it wont take me page verification page but simply start streaming my camera? I know CB also introduced c2c but that’s not what I am interested in. I want to broadcast publicly and am not seeking tokens. Any insights would be helpful.
Give it a try Sandy and let us know how it works! Enquiring minds want to know.
And if you drop your room link here then you might get a few of us watching you!
I’m like Sandy. I just want to log on to CB and click Broadcast, like the old days, without ID verification. Has anyone tried buying tokens with a CC to see if it allows you to logon and Broadcast?
Same here like Sandy and Holly.
Does somebody have the solution ?? I miss broadcasting and its not about the tokens. I don`t want to verify my ID because of security reasons…
If you buy tokens with a credit card you can still broadcast as an exhibitionist without sending an ID picture
Seriously, if anybody is aware of any other website where we can broadcast without submitting Id, do share. Just like others, I miss the old days. Ofcourse the age verification step is in the right direction but I can’t share it for personal reasons.
Every time I find one (like amateur.tv) it changes the rules.
Laws and everything I guess.
We don’t go back to guys having to flash under raincoats at night in parks.
Even if there is some risk with sharing id with a website, I think this is still safer than running the risk of getting arrested in the street.
Can anyone confirm this? :D
You can supposedly go to http://www.chaturbate.com/verify to submit a Compliance Image somehow being promoted to do so to broadcast without being able to receive tokens…..if you can’t and/or are not able to submit your ID for official age verification.
WAS IT THAT HARD TO FIGURE OUT WHY? I’m pretty sure underage pornography is probably the 1 and only reason this was changed! How it went this long baffles me!