So I was reading a Cracked article when this headline jumped out at me.

1 Fetishists Create Social Media Challenges To Crowdsource Their Kinks

And then this happened.

Quote "Then there was the wacky website Splathq.com, which featured videos of paid participants getting "gunked" (being doused in slime, like in the classic kids shows), all in the name of good wholesome fun. Are there people who get turned on by seeing people covered in slime? You know it, and so did the website, which claimed it was "not an adult website," but hid its slime videos behind a hefty paywall, used specific porn and fetish jargon, and even had different sections for men and women. All without checking if their gunkees first agreed to be fetish sex workers, of course." Quote

It's stuff like this that makes it difficult to enjoy the none content out there. Yes people get slimed, pied fall into water all the time and they recorded it put it up, that's fine. But tricking people into doing it is another level.

How stupid do they think Splat thinks their models are?

If you read Splathq's "about" page they state that they make clear to their models who the potential audiences are, I imagine most fully clothed wam producers do, we certainly do here. The "non adult" text is probably mainly so people don't sign up expecting the models to strip later on in the scenes and then demand a refund when they find out that they don't.

Total bull. Cracked used to be amazing and funny, but in recent years it's gone so downhill - the list articles they do now barely make sense even with what the list is supposed to be about now.

This was all started by that David Farrier guy getting carried away with himself - the Cracked article seems to take its (incorrect) information from his original piece which came out last year.

It's all so stupid, venal and counterproductive, because there ARE one or two male WAM content producers (past and present) who seemingly don't inform their models that they're making fetish content and thus don't operate on a basis of informed consent. Farrier (and by extension Cracked) could have gone after them instead, the way he did in Tickled. Whereas SplatHQ has been totally clear and ethical right from the start - they're the gold standard for how to run a male WAM site, and the guys work hard as hell. Attacking the most mainstream, ethical, above-board site - the one that sets an example other producers should follow, and who could even have been an ally to Farrier in exposing other dodgy operators - just makes the entire community feel under siege. The aim seems to be just to create a moral panic around WAM for cheap titillatory clickbait. The internet's attention economy being what it is, I think it should just be ignored.

Splat put out a statement regarding this quite sometime ago. It's here https://splathq.com/index.php/new-zealand-news-article-response/
Pete is fantastic at what he does and works extremely hard on Splat. It's awful to read what this article did to him.
There are some models who shoot regularly with Splat, some of whom like Kyle and Jon have been doing so for a number of years now. They wouldn't keep coming back if they didn't know what they were doing or were uncomfortable with it.

I wish to apologise to SplatHQ for besmirching their good name and reputation. I was wrong and I was misinformed. I'm sorry for any hurt or anguish I have caused.