What happened to realitygang?

[ramonfreeones]

Anyone know what happened to that site?

When going to the site the following message appears:

"RealityGang is no longer accepting new members. Existing RealityGang members will have their current membership migrated to FAKEHUB"

But does anyone know if the realitygang content was also migrated? because it doesn't seem that way.

 

[John_8581]

From another post of mine ...

Good point D-Rock. Incompetence is truly the word here. Take for example, the Reality Gang Network. They (Manwin / Mindgeek) acquired that network six years before Twistys. During 2008. It was the network that had Big Sausage Pizza, Milf Cruiser, Euro Bride Tryouts, and Adult.com. There were photo galleries and videos for every scene on those four websites. How do you just "forget" to bring over the photo galleries in the acquisition? Later, Milf Cruiser, Euro Bride Tryouts and about 85% of Adult.com content get dropped in the process leaving for the most part only Big Sausage Pizza left. Then they never even attempted to remaster the videos. Here they are allowing videos to be viewed at 240p, 360p and 480p. Though there is technology available to bring them up to 540p, 720p and even 1080p. I know because Naughty America does that. The Score Group does that. Videosz is attempting it. That's why they are allowing the merger between them and Bang.com to take place. Bang.com has the technology to bring old videos up to state of the art quality.

And with Bang Bros. they do it too. They take the videos off the sites for remastering periodically. Bang Bros. even does that with the photo galleries. It's more dramatic with Bang Bros. because the other websites in the network -- Busty Adventures, College Rules, Dancing Bear, Public Invasion, Culioneros, CFNM Show, Haze Her, and MYGF -- aren't being updated.

But with the competition - as least, they are putting back the money, reinvesting it and improving the product. I have to compliment and applaud Naughty America, Videosz and Bang, the Score Group and Bang Bros for making the sacrifices and improving the experience.

But I can't say that with Manwin / Mindgeek. Just total incompetence and stupidity with them.

 

[ramonfreeones]

So the photo galleries weren't there anyway and the site was incomplete? 🙁

 

[John_8581]

So the photo galleries weren't there anyway and the site was incomplete? 🙁

Yes. Actually when Manwin Productions (their name at the time) acquired the Reality Gang Network they promised to keep the websites going with updates and with all new content as well as having upgrades done to the videos. This was well documented in an Xbiz article at the time. But this was never the case. The Reality Gang Network was in direct competition with Manwin's gem purchase at the time, the Reality Kings Network. Manwin Productions didn't completely own RK but they owned a substantial stake in them. They later acquired one hundred percent of RK after Molly Cavalli's husband and his associates sold out to Manwin in a hedge fund deal. In the meantime, they just let the Reality Gang Network die on the vine.

... When going to the site the following message appears: "RealityGang is no longer accepting new members. Existing RealityGang members will have their current membership migrated to FAKEHUB" ...

Mindgeek said the same thing when Muffia aka "Molly's Life" was stopped. With Molly Cavalli's lesbian website, they said, "Muffia is no longer accepting new members. Existing Muffia members will have their current membership migrated to Reality Kings." Molly did about four hundred seventy-five (475) plus lesbian scenes and photo galleries in Muffia's fifteen years of existence. To appease existing Muffia members they brought over about about eighty scenes to RK. Yes only about eighty scenes. Just too little. Too late.

Members, if they have questions or concerns, can only contact Probiller for technical or billing issues. Mindgeek does not allow anyone to comment on the content they put up at the websites. Nobody is allowed to comment on how their owned websites are being run. It's also now all about the money with them. Separate monthly fees to download content (to one's hard drive), besides the regular monthly subscription. Yet they don't fix videos if they are broken. They just remove the scenes from Brazzers, Digital Playground, Mofos and Reality Kings. Not to mention all of the removed photo galleries and hundreds of delisted adult models and pornstars at Twistys and at the other sites they run.

We, as members, are stuck with them until something better comes along.

 

[ramonfreeones]

Thanks a lot! Now I know the reason that when I want to look for a model on Brazzers, Twistys, RK or DP and she is not there anymore. 😠

I once forced the support staff to give me reasons why a model was no longer in Brazzers. They only told me that they had migrated from servers and that they were putting everything slowly back. But that explanation seemed more like a lie to me really, because it seems that there are fewer models from the past and to hide when they remove content, they create a lot of new content so that casual users do not notice it. But even content from 2013 and 2014 are quietly removing it and many times they are entire profiles of a model.

I even have the suspicion that they are doing this so they don't have to use up more space on their servers and replace it with new content solely to attract casual users. 🤔

 

[John_8581]

Videos when they are made are much cheaper to produce than photo galleries. When a video is made, the company making the video pays a one-time salary to a videographer. As a result, Mindgeek owns the videos outright under the brand that it is under, i.e. Brazzers, Mofos, Digital Playground, or Reality Kings. When a photo gallery is produced, the company ordering the accompanying photo gallery has to to pay out royalty fees to the photographer whose pictures are displayed at the website. This continues as long as the photos stay up on the website. When Mindgeek's webmaster delists an adult model or pornstars' content and the pictures are taken down, then the royalty payments cease. That's why you have so many scenes over at the Mindgeek controlled sites without accompanying picture galleries. Most times though, if a scene fails to load then both the photo gallery and the video are taken down. They just don't fix or repair them or even remaster them. Try looking for an old Audrey Bitoni, Carmella Bing, Holly Halston, Shyla Stylez, Savannah Gold, or Sienna West scene. Probably not there at Brazzers. As they were taken down long ago.

As for server space, actually when the servers got overloaded at Brazzers, Reality Kings or Digital Playground, Mindgeek's webmaster used to bring over full movies to Pornhub Premium (the subscription paysite) while partial videos would be brought over to Pornhub (the free tube site). Pornhub's servers are twice the capacity of Brazzers, Digital Playground, Mofos and Reality Kings combined. That process ceased in late 2018 and was intensified when the G-D-P incident came about. Mindgeek wants to avoid third party lawsuits at all costs.

 

[ramonfreeones]

Wow! What a mess. I did not know that, but it makes sense. So I suppose it will be inevitable that many model profiles will disappear over time, at least in that network with those main sites.

I have never liked that company for various reasons, but there are times when it has [or is supposed to have] content from one of my favorite models. Although, sometimes that no longer makes sense for what you commented in detail.

And the worst part is that they keep buying sites only to ruin them. They don't even try to preserve them.

And I think one of their main problems is that they try to create a lot of content using different photographers maybe around the world but mainly in the United States and the United Kingdom. Renowned professionals filming and photographing scenes. I also know that many times they make a scene and they never publish it for reasons that not even the models know. Adding to all this that they try to monopolize everything in one way or another just to have more profits and not because they are interested in the content. Or at least that's my opinion.

But obviously they are not the only ones with bad practices, I think that all the gigantic networks do at least a little of what Mindgeek does or even other kinds of bad things. Like once I asked about a deleted scene on BangBros of Ahryan Astyn and they told me that it had been removed because it was filmed in a public place or something like that. However, they use a photograph as a profile of her from that deleted scene from years ago. They may have different excuses but it's the same in the end.