(04-10-2021 17:39 )Freeloaderthatsme Wrote: WELCOME TO S66 CHAT,one if not only the most soft idea ever,but still it goes on.Marvellous.
66chat was a solid idea for a new promo tool. A new tool designed for a new era of the shows where callers like docutech are still essential but less central and lined up to accomodate Ofcom's most recent puritanical cleansing of the 900's (like what goes out there is of any real consequence to anyone except us lot and the regulator).
Central to it was the scope for babes (particular the newer ones) to regain a fuller connection and steady engagement with the shows' increasingly fractured audience - fractured in terms of the multipicitious desires punters hold for their interactions. (When you increase the number of paid options guys can use to interact, you increase the range and style of show guys want and expect to see. You also increase the possibilities for disappointment and dissatisfaction as one type of punter can be squeezed out by another or a service compromised by a distracted babe. Presumably 66chat was supposed to hold guys and encourage them when the proper output wasn't entirely to their taste.) The main problem that's emerged from these good intentions: Chat's implementation has been unambitious at almost every turn; its level of engagement has ranged from infantile to the woefully mundane. It's turned into an inane waste of so much time for those on both sides the screen; an embarrassment to the channel and its babes.
It amazes me how little they've encouraged anything beyond an utterly vacuous back and forth on there. (Was there even a moment's discussion of the recent OF debacle for instance?) Having zero self analysis of the shows or space given for proper feedback on them is a particular disappointment. This is an industry that doesn't really want to know what its customers think of it anymore it seems (most connections have long since stopped corresponding in any meaningful way here). Anything but sycophancy from the fans is condemned, deflected, or blocked. 66chat is no exception. But when insiders maintain a stance that their audience is made up of mostly weak minded individuals ripe only for manipulation there can be little grounds for true dialogue on approach and formats perhaps.
Of course, so many limits are placed on 66chat's content and interactions that it renders the chance of effective output remote at best. (Not all these limits come from the regulator.) Either that or too many of the insiders involved don't understand/have lost sight of what was there to be had with it. All told, at this point it does indeed look well and truly kiboshed.