AMA - Steven Grooby (Ask Me Anything)

[GroobySteven]

To what do you attribute the decline of Argentine and Italian trans-porn. The girls are almost as hot as Brazilians (or in the case of Italy, many were Brazilian expats). The deficiencies in male talent and production values in those genres are fixable. Is there an opportunity for Grooby to fill the void?

That's a great question.

We've just gone through a 'second wave' in 2017 of mainstream producers trying to edge in on the trans niche in the misguided belief that their are bigger revenues to make than their are, Wicked, Mindgeek (TransAngels), new Evil Angel producers and more all seem to be trying to get a slice of the pie. Much of this content is really good, because the studios produce great content. The 'first wave' of this was in the early/mid-2000's before it became less profitable to produce and it seemed every big program was opening a 'tranny' website. As they didn't have the inroads on producing it locally (it's extremely hard to get good producers, models and at a profitable price) they outsourced to pretty much the same 2-3 people shooting content in Brazil and Argentina. This led to a glut in almost identical content, and the consumer quickly tired of seeing it (it didn't help many of these sites weren't that ethical on their billing practises) and as interest waned, so the sites were closed. Apart from Damazo there is only one other producer in Brazil doing content regularly now - and none that I know of in Argentina.

Italy as far as I'm aware was mainly just Andrea Nobili - and the content looked good, but I don't think they had enough traction to get enough customers in. Funnily, enough we're about to launch a partnership site with mainly Italian content (and yes mainly S.American imports).

As I've mentioned earlier, I'd consider doing a Latin American style site but I don't think there is enough demand/income to make a site for each area and even this would be tough. Our Brazilian sites do okay, but the margins are tighter even than our N.American sites.

[GroobySteven]

what's your favorite scene Grooby has ever produced?

It changes. Some of the stuff PK Vegas produced was really special, he put a lot of work into it - and although in retrospect possibly not the greatest idea, but Jessica Foxx and Carmen Moore in their early Cowboys and Tgirl Indians looked great. Buddy Wood's storied DVD's are my fave DVD's but not necessarily scene. The recent Carrie Emberlyn solos blew me away - great shoot and gorgeous. I love watching models like Addi develop of the shoots.
Evelyn Lin's first shoot with Robert Axel was amazing. Some of the Tgirl.porn stuff is unbelievably good. Morgan Bailey with Mona Wales.


I'd have to really think about choosing one.

[ilove2swallow]

do you love the veins in that big trans cock?

[GroobySteven]

do you love the veins in that big trans cock?

I couldn't think of anything more off-putting.

[qeuqheeg222]

That's a great question.

We've just gone through a 'second wave' in 2017 of mainstream producers trying to edge in on the trans niche in the misguided belief that their are bigger revenues to make than their are, Wicked, Mindgeek (TransAngels), new Evil Angel producers and more all seem to be trying to get a slice of the pie. Much of this content is really good, because the studios produce great content. The 'first wave' of this was in the early/mid-2000's before it became less profitable to produce and it seemed every big program was opening a 'tranny' website. As they didn't have the inroads on producing it locally (it's extremely hard to get good producers, models and at a profitable price) they outsourced to pretty much the same 2-3 people shooting content in Brazil and Argentina. This led to a glut in almost identical content, and the consumer quickly tired of seeing it (it didn't help many of these sites weren't that ethical on their billing practises) and as interest waned, so the sites were closed. Apart from Damazo there is only one other producer in Brazil doing content regularly now - and none that I know of in Argentina.

Italy as far as I'm aware was mainly just Andrea Nobili - and the content looked good, but I don't think they had enough traction to get enough customers in. Funnily, enough we're about to launch a partnership site with mainly Italian content (and yes mainly S.American imports).

As I've mentioned earlier, I'd consider doing a Latin American style site but I don't think there is enough demand/income to make a site for each area and even this would be tough. Our Brazilian sites do okay, but the margins are tighter even than our N.American sites.

why would the margins be tighter shooting in brazil or s. americca? isn't the cheaper model rate more competitive than in n. America?? I thought this is why all those evil dudes-joey,nacho,jay et.al. were doin all these girls??is it the travel costs and production difficulties??

[flabbybody]

Do you remember being at Tony Vee's house and helping him shoot Monica's hard core vid? it ends up with her giving her partner a facial for the ages. Monica was CD not trans but a total hottie and sweetheart.
The vid was part of a 5 part set of Tony's (and mine) favorite New York girls. circa 2005

[holzz]

as trans people have access to other jobs/professions, are you getting less demand for performers?

and how come most ts porn these days is American more than Brazilian?

[themaster]

what is a typical day like on a shoot?

[jerseygirlangie]

Who has to clean up the , um, fluids, after a shoot ?

[rahlzoranda]

Hi Steven,

Are there any reasons for the decline and almost non-existence of hardcore scenes in the Asian ladyboy sites Ladyboy.xxx, Ladyboy-Ladyboy? Would love to see some of the models on these sites in hardcore shoots.