SLR Don't you have contract agreements for an exit plan for studios? There should have been notification and a delay of the exits of VR Videos from GroobyVR and TransVR lasting an appropriate amount of time. Minimum 3 weeks perhaps.

Treating the Niche like third rate, insignificant, means you are treating subscribers as third rate.

The Transgender content was absolutely a factor in my current one year subscription.

I mean, you are a business. Why not links to Enter Transgender and Enter Gay on the interface of DeoVR? It's so perplexing, frustrating, puzzling.

Because there are some people who are so sensitive to anything not within their bubble of acceptable that even the word "Trans" or "Gay" triggers them.
Then there are others who suffer unfortunate shame in their fetish tastes and will do anything they can to hide and/or deny. I'm sure post-orgasm shame has caused at least some requests to hide the "temptation" of penii.
Combine those with the residual distaste from previous times and/or more recent culture war blowback on alternate genders and sexuality results in a return to "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" or the debatable "What you do in your bedroom is your business. I just don't want to know about it."

As for why the Trans/Gay sections are still hot messes years later: Gay and Trans are niches, they are not SLR's primary audience. There is a sound argument that there was little chance of recoup of any investment of resources because the audience was smaller. I can't guess the exact metrics they use to tie subscription dollars with Trans/Gay view minutes, but there is probably enough of a correlation to make the decision to invest resources in other places (PT, Drive, production, new website design, etc).

I for one am collecting my favorite Trans scenes and holding them in anticipation of SLR Drive subscription and the glory of scripted passthrough Trans action.

    fuccaneer The promise of getting free AI scripts was a huge factor in my subscription over other sites. It took years, then a few months later all the scenes are gone.

        fuccaneer As for why the Trans/Gay sections are still hot messes years later: [..]

        A big reason is surely the unfortunate design SLR's platform where straight, gay, trans, etc, content is all segregated. There probably wasn't much incentive to fix it due to the reasons you pointed out. Studios like Grooby will be right back once SLR fixes it I bet.

            Hairsational Do they want them back? I do but not fixing the site for several years seems deliberate.

                bbrawl Except for the AI scripts, which I wasn't aware about since I do not use them, I think not a single resource was wasted on that section in the past. It seems that on the new website at least the very basic functions are now working but this alone will not do the trick as long as nothing changes in DeoVR.

                  8 days later

                  fuccaneer There is no investment needed on their side. Studios put their content here to a) make some extra income and b) hope people will like it enough to want the latest content and buy direct. It should be a win-win, as it is with the countless other big VOD (non-VR) sites who take a percentage of the sales.

                  SLR refused to engage even in discussions on this - even when offered to meet with them at AVN last month to see if we can work out a favorable discussion. I've been in business successful doing content for 29 years, and in my view, it doens't matter if the amount of potential customers is smaller than other niches, if there is the opportunity to make some income, at a minimum investment and keep customers happy (and in your ecosystem so probably buying more) then you do it.

                  They don't see to want trans content here, it maybe because of the owners own tastes or culture, but we don't need to be here either for the little extra cream, if they're not going to work well with us.

                      GroobySteven Who was your SLR point of contact that you offered to speak with but they refused? I personally had some conversations with studios at our AVN booth.

                          Lmao it's actually tragic just awful this website has been run for like the last 10 years, i'm actually amazed they are still in business at this rate.
                          The fact that grooby, a studio who's only redeeming feature was their ability to secure great talent despite having the worst cameras in the business no longer wants anything to do with you is damning.

                          Oh well, at least you've still got all that arm pit sniffing originals content to go with this upcoming flat porn for a vr porn website 🤡

                            This is starting to sound like its just a pissing contest over renegotiation.

                            GroobySteven They don't see to want trans content here, it maybe because of the owners own tastes or culture,

                            It'd be nice if they just came out and said it instead of trying to milk money from people they look down on. The management definitely seems like the "what I like is good, everyone else is dumber than me" type.

                              Hairsational a full studio page that showcases each of our studios with links back to our sites. More transparent reporting. The ability to opt-out of sales thay they do. Links back to our websites (affiliate links). Proper branding.

                              To be frank, given there lack of enthusiasm it's unlikely we'll bring our content back unless big changes happened.

                                  SteveSteve thanks - our members are very very happy with the models and all the other redeeming features we deliver on this and our other sites.

                                    Adrianvr offered to meet them via email when we were asking for the content to be removed, and nobody reached back out to me. I'm probably one of the easiest people to find at these shows, and we had a big booth right in the center, so if they don't want to put that minimal effort in.

                                      bbrawl +1
                                      I got my 1 year sub with the intention that I would be able to have use AI scripts for all trans content, as hardly any-one really scripts VR trans content.

                                      @GroobySteven Just want to say that you're a legend!! Thanks for doing what you do.
                                      What you say is very reasonable. I'll really miss your content here. The only thing preventing me from signing up directly is the higher cost, and the lack of funscripts.

                                          swapsingh200 TBH I don't understand the scripts/funscripts part of it - if someone can point me to where I can read up on what people are looking for, and how we create them - we can look at putting someone on it.

                                          Email is admin@grooby.com if anyone can reach out, would appreciate it.

                                              GroobySteven Hairsational a full studio page that showcases each of our studios with links back to our sites. More transparent reporting. The ability to opt-out of sales thay they do. Links back to our websites (affiliate links). Proper branding.

                                              That sounds like something they should be offering all studios as standard

                                              Although I don't know what opting out of sales is referencing

                                              If more studios would act similar by pulling content (form a union lol) it might force SLR to make some good changes that benefit studios and viewers

                                              In the end if SLR can work together with studios and implement productive features then more studios will utilise the platform and everyone is a winner, time will tell..