Well, I mean, the video depictions are the whole point. Videography is a huge part of porn, and when you've seen enough (cough) you can definitely tell the difference between when the person behind the camera knows what they're doing and when they don't.

Like what? I mean, the problem that people with expertise are being replaced by people without it but who will work for less is not a phenomenon unique to this industry, in the first place (look at the rise of services like MyGengo or Mechanical Turk or TaskRabbit or or or), and, besides that, if a whole industry's worth of filming people are suddenly unemployed how can the other industries (which are presumably already well-staffed) really absorb them all?

"people with expertise are being replaced by people without it"

Worth noting that the replacements presumably lack expertise initially but inevitably improve along the way. Being paid to learn isn't all bad and is better than occurs for many trades.

Yeah but it's an ever-rotating parade of amateurs and since the road to advancement is gone they don't stick around to build up the expertise. When I was young you'd walk into a place selling hi-fi stereo equipment and the guy there had worked in the field for decades and had some appreciable knowledge of it. Does the guy at Best Buy do that?

Best buy will never pay more than a few dollars above the minimum wage, thus best buy has decided that the guy behind that counter will be pulled from the lowest acceptable pool of candidates. I'm sure stores that have knowledgeable people for that type of thing still exist, you just have to pay more for that service. Myself, Ill just read the reviews on Amazon.

> Best buy will never pay more than a few dollars above the minimum wage, thus best buy has decided that the guy behind that counter will be pulled from the lowest acceptable pool of candidates. I'm sure stores that have knowledgeable people for that type of thing still exist, you just have to pay more for that service.

And so this brings us back to my initial contention. Yes. That's true. The problem is that this sort of "good enough" stuff makes being an expert an untenable position and those stores are pretty much just gone, even if you are willing to pay (the pool of customers who are is too small to support it).

There’s probably a lot more than what is obvious here.

Compare a modern clip to something that was made in the 70/80s. I guess it does take some skill to not end up with 2 bodies just lying atop each other and properly cutting away the boring/disgusting stuff while still maintaining some "flow".

And there’s lots and lots of competition .. so differentiating on quality might still be worthwhile, despite it possibly not being the most important factor.

I care, how much depends on the price and the cost, but video is the entire point of 99% of porn (audio porn is supposed to be hot and literotica has a lot of porn, including things even the Japanese haven't figured out).

I care about production too, and acting quality, and setting. All things I feel a bit out of touch for caring about.

Audio porn is hot, and often quite a lot more intimate than video porn (if you're not a 100% visual person). And gonewildaudio (for audio) and literotica (for stories) are both communities where creators share their work for free, and explore settings and characters off the ... ahem... beaten track.

We're limbically wired for vision, but if you can get past your inner homo-erectus, then there's a lot of goodness in that 1%.