What Lauren Hayes described matches my experience of Chaturbate almost exactly.
My rule for Chaturbate now is simple: check whether the algorithm is doing anything useful on day one.
The short checklist I use before trusting anything like Chaturbate:
- Whether Chaturbate works at all outside the three biggest cities near you
- How much of Chaturbate is visible before it asks you to register
- How many Chaturbate conversations get past a second reply
- How fast a report about Chaturbate gets a human response
Someone in another thread pointed me at how Datescout handles it and it was a fair shout.