Movie Views

I wrote this and shelved it last year thinking no one would care, then I saw this yesterday:
THE PORNSTARS®  from almost 9 years ago. the post is about 7,000 views of a movie on Naughty Machinima
So I guess some cared, at least back then.
I wrote this in hopes to inspire, not to toot my own horn.

 So here it is:

Something happened today that made me look at the number of views I had on the movies I uploaded to www.xvideos.com .
According to their global statistics I have 68 videos uploaded there with a combination of over 4 million views.
11 videos with over 100,000 views
And my video; Legs Wide Spread Chapter 3 with the most views has over 1/4 of a million views.

I usually don't pay much attention to the number of view my movie gets after the 1st week. Be Careful What You Wish For...  had right around 10,000 views it's first 5 days, on my blog, Naughty Machinima and 4 tube sites.

On my blog it has 252 views, which I see as views by you the people in SL porn. But the other 5 sites I see as those outside of Second Life viewing.

When a notice or link for a photo gets posted in the porn groups there is usually one or two that say "good job" and that photo could go on to get 2,000 views and 200 likes on Flickr.
When a notice or link for a movie gets posted in the porn groups there is usually nothing. As if someone brought up the weird family member no one wants to talk about at Thanksgiving. That movie could go on to get 252 views on a blog and a couple nice comments.
As a director that is very deflating, you put all that work into a movie to receive crickets when the notice is posted then look at the views you get on your blog and it makes you wonder why you even bothered.

BUT, if you put your movies on multiple sites where you can get over 10,000 views in less than a week, that is why you make them!!

Those 4 million views were just 1 site, I haven't checked the 4 other sites I upload to, but I think on
Naughty Machinima I have close to 3/4 million views on there.

My point is this:
To my fellow directors, it may look like we don't get many views form our fellow Second Lifians, but the number of view we get from those outside SL is incredible. 1 movie can have 250,000 views.

To the actors and actresses that play in these movies, most of us never imagine 1/4 of a million views.
Take pride in your work and enjoy it, people are watch!! 
People outside of SL are watching!!