PATRICK PARKER
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Tell us a bit about yourself?
Patrick Parker: I’m Patrick Parker, a columnist, and Xrated video reviewer, I’ve been doing this for 16 years with Bylines at Xcritic, Fleshbot, YouPorn, all over the place.
How did it all start?
Patrick Parker: I started when I was doing a lot of different projects, writing and blogging all this sort of stuff trying to figure out what to do. This was back during the web Two Point-O boom when blogging was blowing up, I was struggling with a whole lot of different projects trying to figure out what is my voice, what am I interested in.
There was a website back in the day Pro Blogger.com it might still be around I don’t know and it was a great resource for how develop a blog and how to come up with topics and write.
Was that reviewing porn?
Patrick Parker: At that time I was very much focussed on the glam core and art porn concept and I was quite different to what I am now, I was very snobby that was the mindset, I only like the fantasy porn right! So I was very fixated on Andrew Blake films a big fan of X art and later stuff that was inspired by Joy Me, Nubile films.
What would you focus on?
Patrick Parker: I think even now I might invest a lot of money into attempting to build and business models around high end artfully inspired pieces of pornography. Now the thing is that would look a lot different than what it looked like back in the day, like back when I was working on my original blog over there, my tastes have obviously changed, and I’ve grown as a critic.
Pay for porn?
Patrick Parker: Yeah, that certainly is the challenge it’s the frustrating thing, I actually have an article gently prodding people to pay that I wrote. It really did really well over at Fleshbot of how paying for porn changed my life and it looks back to back in the day when I first started growing into this thing and paying for member sites oh what’s this and realise there’s massive quality difference that you see as well as the personal growth. I’m supporting the type of stuff I like, I’m voting with my dollars. So they produce more of what I want that’s pretty cool right?
When it’s free why pay?
Patrick Parker: The whole OnlyFans has really taken off the way it has, because you’re right you could pirate things back in the day but it would be some really poor shitty knock off that you’d be getting as apposed to having an exact digital replica in 1080p 4k or better which is indistinguishable from that I pay for.
Why haven’t aren’t different production companies streamed on one platform?
Patrick Parker: In a way that kind of exists in a way, there’s a bunch of different examples of this sort of thing Bang.com is a reasonable example a better example is probably Adult Time. Adult Time.com is a much better example I feel because they have their own wealth of independently available material but then there is a tremendous amount of stuff they’ve got through different content sharing agreements. I don’t know how they work exactly but you can watch Vixen Network content as well as other network content like joining Sexart all these other things.
How did you progress from your blog?
Patrick Parker: Yeah, it did really good actually, surprisingly good it was a lot of fun to do, made a lot of income did really good. I ended up walking away from it I ended up getting overwhelmed by anger type issues it was all independently managed and run on my own so the way that stuff works is you are IT security and bother sort of things. If you are not on it 24/7 you’re going to fall behind on your updates it was unfortunate and it became too much work.
Talk us through the process.
Patrick Parker: Everybody has their own and mine is really long and really tedious because I am a bit of a perfectionist right. So I get my DVD’s and it’s one of those things where I’ve got to get my head around this so I’d watch the DVD with a notepad, a physical notepad then I’d take all my notes in a rough format and make a note of things that were interesting to me. Go back look at your notes, think about it and I had to watch the whole damn thing, scene by scene all over again.
If you could only watch again which would it be?
Patrick Parker: This is an answer that can vary day by day. I’ll tell you one thing that I could come back to all the time and that is, and I’m kind of cheating here because it’s such a long scene and such a multifaceted scene that it’s practically it’s own movie. But it is one scene, Faye Reagan, Vince Voyeur, Voyeur Vills, production of the Gauntlet 3. Phenomenal scene! I was just on X maybe a week ago talking about it.
In what year was that made?
Patrick Parker: That was probably done in the early 2000’s for sure. 2007.
Getting involved with publishers.
Patrick Parker: Doing my own thing my own personally managed blog which is where I started publishers as far as moving onto actual organisations, like you’re Xcritic, XBiz, and now Fleshbot which is what I’m mostly working with and PornCrush which is a brand new sort of thing. Moving on to the point where publishing my own content through my own independent blog I’m actually working with larger mainstream, question mark, publishers out there.
Fleshbot seem to be an increasingly influential brand at the moment.
Patrick Parker: Yeah, I kind of like working with them. That came about completely by accident I like their product I’ve actually really enjoyed reading their interviews specifically over the years. They’ve been around for a good long while now and I wound up with them through a merger. I was working with Xcritic I had no desire to leave Xcritic or do anything else, but Xcritic ended up being sold to the owners of Fleshbot which is a big organisation that owns Cherrpimps and a whole bunch of other organisations out there. We ended up being merged into their Fleshbot product, so if you look into their search features you’ll find Xcritic pics and all of our old DVD reviews and stuff are all now merged in their database.
Fleshbot seems to be involved in a lot of different projects.
Patrick Parker: There’s a very large staff over there and it’s multifaceted I mean they cover practically every topic, traditional mainstream porn division, cultural divisions, a cooking thing that we do over there, porn star cooking recipe, it’s all over the place!
Can you talks through your interview process?
Patrick Parker: It’s been a long time since I’ve done interviews because I’ve sort of gotten away from that, once I got on staff with Xcritic, but I do remember my process for interviewing. Which was kind of hap hazzard and first and foremost it lies in a whole lot of research and it’s not just research I’m going to watch all your porn it’s really digging deeper than that. Who is this person? Let’s dig up previous interviews that and find wether it be YouTube or other sites like that, what have they mentioned, what awards have they won, what have other people said about them, what’s the Twitter feed, if I type it in as a search their name as a search, I wanna get a really full picture of who this person is.
Is there anything that you’d like to discuss that we haven’t mentioned?
Patrick Parker: No, check out my column at Fleshbot Parkers Picks column where I try to make it a monthly column I don’t always succeed with that. Where I pick 5 things of interest to me, top 5 scene of this or this or that or whatever. My new one should be coming up probably this month I already submitted to them it should be my top 5 under rated scenes at the Vixen Network of all time.
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