It feels like I'm shadow-banned on SC?
Apologies, to start– I'm long winded and struggle to feel both concise and thorough:
I multi-stream on 4 sites, but SC and CB are definitely my primary earners. In terms of income, they're usually pretty neck and neck. I don't tend to have a very busy room on SC but I'd say I've usually got about 10 minimum when it's very quiet and up to ~40 users when my show gets exciting. Income on strictly SC is usually between $25-$35.
I don't even know if this is just coincidence but it seemed to happen concurrent with the new toy: I recently got a lovense fuck machine and made some visual changes to my setup– mostly lighting. I was so excited to get it going; I got the tag approved in "details" right away. I was under no illusion it would suddenly blow up my room but I did expect some noticeable increase. But instead my viewership and income on SC has suddenly just tanked.
Since this started I've done more shows without the machine, removed the tag, replicated my old lighting. But I'm still rarely seeing more than like 7 users present even when CB is popping off and my show is getting real steamy. They just are not sending me traffic. And I'm just watching my income and stripscore tank.
I've been doing this long enough to be pretty comfortable with the regular ebb and flow of the almighty algorithms. But I just have not seen it happen like this before. Suddenly it feels like the year worth of work I've done is for naught and I'm exactly where I was the day after my new tag wore off last summer.
I'm mostly doing ok still between the other three sites. And I'm even getting accounts open and verified on new platforms just in case. But I feel like I just completely lost one of my MVPs and I don't love the prospect of mostly leaning on CB.
Has anybody experienced something like this? Any tips for getting out of SC jail? Am I needlessly panicking?