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AMA - Steven Grooby (Ask Me Anything)
I've usually refrained from doing these as it should be about the models and the producers - but it seems there are a lot of questions or uninformed (or more often misinformed) queries around Grooby - what we do, why we do it.
So I'm opening this thread - and will try and answer anything relevant with as much candour as I can.
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How long are you willing to wait ... :D
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why was Nicole mancini removed from bbc 2
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When are we gonna see Honey Foxx in ts on ts? :)
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hans1
why was Nicole mancini removed from bbc 2
You're the second person to ask this - she's not removed as far as I am aware and I don't know why you'd think that?
https://www.groobydvd.com/dvds/trans-on-bbc-2.html
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Shelf
How long are you willing to wait ... :D
I'm online working 15 hrs a day ... I'm never just waiting :-)
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legault
When are we gonna see Honey Foxx in ts on ts? :)
As she's just retired from porn (or she said she had) then I don't know.
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Any chance that Kimber James might consider unretiring from the biz ?
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jerseygirlangie
Any chance that Kimber James might consider unretiring from the biz ?
I'd say that was highly unlikely.
I believe she's had full corrective surgery (not that would necessarily stop anyone) but I haven't seen her for years.
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what drives you as a business man?
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If you would, can you share the most "uninformed (or more often misinformed)" "what and why" of Grooby that should be corrected?
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jake999
what drives you as a business man?
A number of things - to really create a product that I would want to buy, to make sure I can build a future for myself, family and those who work with us, to be better than everyone else.
I really enjoy what I do - so that helps.
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itsmerob
If you would, can you share the most "uninformed (or more often misinformed)" "what and why" of Grooby that should be corrected?
That would be up to those with questions to ask. :-)
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What, or whom got you into this business?
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youngblood61
What, or whom got you into this business?
Sort answer:
1996 - 25 living/working in London between gigs at the BBC as an Ass.Floor Manager, part-time teaching and trying to get into film. Bought a PC (486) and a 28.8kb modem as I was intrigued by the internet with some money left me by my Gran (PC's were over £1000 at the time). Started surfing the news groups and finding porn, bought 'The Dummies Guide to HTML' and built some free or Geocities sites showing the best of what I had downloaded from the newsgroups, people started sending me photos to put on the free sites. Ran out of bandwidth, so put it on an Age Verification Site (AVS) and started making some income. Neil (who still works with us and is our techie whizz!) contacted me as he had a site called 'Planet Shemale' and asked me why I wasn't doing credit card sales - he showed me how (eternally grateful) and then the Commander contacted me and said he can get original content for $150 a roll of film. First site was $10 for 3 months access.
I went from living on about £250 a month - to £2000 a month overnight.
Reinvested back into new sites (went to Thailand to shoot in 1997).
:-)
So a combination of being horny, not having a girlfriend, help from a friend and drive to do more.
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How do you find all of those gorgeous places to do your shoots ?
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jerseygirlangie
How do you find all of those gorgeous places to do your shoots ?
I don't often - that's all on the producers. Some user this own houses but more often their rented studios, or apartments. In Brazil you can rent great rooms or farmhouses cheap, in the USA usually hotel rentals.
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Might be too personal but are you attracted to transsexuals yourself?
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sd123223
Might be too personal but are you attracted to transsexuals yourself?
sriracha...who is the bigger chaser..you or kilakilla??
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sd123223
Might be too personal but are you attracted to transsexuals yourself?
Attracted to women - regardless of whether they're transgender or not, but yes certainly to a lot of the girls we work with.
I think it would be hard to run a company like this if you weren't in some way.
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To what do you attribute the decline of Argentine and Italian trans-porn. The girls are almost as hot as Brazilians (or in the case of Italy, many were Brazilian expats). The deficiencies in male talent and production values in those genres are fixable. Is there an opportunity for Grooby to fill the void?
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I'd say you have done pretty well GS. You built an Empire from scratch, that's pretty damn good.:)
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why'd ya drop the seanchi tag?
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what's your favorite scene Grooby has ever produced?
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Who do you think is the most underrated model featured on one of your sites?
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Thanks for the honest answer mate cheers
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youngblood61
I'd say you have done pretty well GS. You built an Empire from scratch, that's pretty damn good.:)
Thanks - having a love for what you do, and getting up every day looking forward to going to work - and having a team that also enjoys it, helps.
Some of our staff (Neil, Russ, Alexander, Alex, Shannon) have been with us 15+ years.
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SP27
why'd ya drop the seanchi tag?
When we started TEA shows and events, it was just getting confusing between 'Steven' and 'seanchai' - not least as nobody knew how to pronounce it.
It served it's purpose when we/I started and wanted to keep a separation between things as I never thought this would develop into a legitimate business for quite a while.
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GroobySteven
Thanks - having a love for what you do, and getting up every day looking forward to going to work - and having a team that also enjoys it, helps.
Some of our staff (Neil, Russ, Alexander, Alex, Shannon) have been with us 15+ years.
Consistency is always a good thing. Joined Yum wayyyyy Back in 2004, now looking forward to joining Grooby Girls.
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r u going to work with Sylvia Boots in about 4 years? (this is my idea but i cannot afford it)
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Post Op Preferred
To what do you attribute the decline of Argentine and Italian trans-porn. The girls are almost as hot as Brazilians (or in the case of Italy, many were Brazilian expats). The deficiencies in male talent and production values in those genres are fixable. Is there an opportunity for Grooby to fill the void?
That's a great question.
We've just gone through a 'second wave' in 2017 of mainstream producers trying to edge in on the trans niche in the misguided belief that their are bigger revenues to make than their are, Wicked, Mindgeek (TransAngels), new Evil Angel producers and more all seem to be trying to get a slice of the pie. Much of this content is really good, because the studios produce great content. The 'first wave' of this was in the early/mid-2000's before it became less profitable to produce and it seemed every big program was opening a 'tranny' website. As they didn't have the inroads on producing it locally (it's extremely hard to get good producers, models and at a profitable price) they outsourced to pretty much the same 2-3 people shooting content in Brazil and Argentina. This led to a glut in almost identical content, and the consumer quickly tired of seeing it (it didn't help many of these sites weren't that ethical on their billing practises) and as interest waned, so the sites were closed. Apart from Damazo there is only one other producer in Brazil doing content regularly now - and none that I know of in Argentina.
Italy as far as I'm aware was mainly just Andrea Nobili - and the content looked good, but I don't think they had enough traction to get enough customers in. Funnily, enough we're about to launch a partnership site with mainly Italian content (and yes mainly S.American imports).
As I've mentioned earlier, I'd consider doing a Latin American style site but I don't think there is enough demand/income to make a site for each area and even this would be tough. Our Brazilian sites do okay, but the margins are tighter even than our N.American sites.
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dreamon
what's your favorite scene Grooby has ever produced?
It changes. Some of the stuff PK Vegas produced was really special, he put a lot of work into it - and although in retrospect possibly not the greatest idea, but Jessica Foxx and Carmen Moore in their early Cowboys and Tgirl Indians looked great. Buddy Wood's storied DVD's are my fave DVD's but not necessarily scene. The recent Carrie Emberlyn solos blew me away - great shoot and gorgeous. I love watching models like Addi develop of the shoots.
Evelyn Lin's first shoot with Robert Axel was amazing. Some of the Tgirl.porn stuff is unbelievably good. Morgan Bailey with Mona Wales.
I'd have to really think about choosing one.
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do you love the veins in that big trans cock?
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ilove2swallow
do you love the veins in that big trans cock?
I couldn't think of anything more off-putting.
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GroobySteven
That's a great question.
We've just gone through a 'second wave' in 2017 of mainstream producers trying to edge in on the trans niche in the misguided belief that their are bigger revenues to make than their are, Wicked, Mindgeek (TransAngels), new Evil Angel producers and more all seem to be trying to get a slice of the pie. Much of this content is really good, because the studios produce great content. The 'first wave' of this was in the early/mid-2000's before it became less profitable to produce and it seemed every big program was opening a 'tranny' website. As they didn't have the inroads on producing it locally (it's extremely hard to get good producers, models and at a profitable price) they outsourced to pretty much the same 2-3 people shooting content in Brazil and Argentina. This led to a glut in almost identical content, and the consumer quickly tired of seeing it (it didn't help many of these sites weren't that ethical on their billing practises) and as interest waned, so the sites were closed. Apart from Damazo there is only one other producer in Brazil doing content regularly now - and none that I know of in Argentina.
Italy as far as I'm aware was mainly just Andrea Nobili - and the content looked good, but I don't think they had enough traction to get enough customers in. Funnily, enough we're about to launch a partnership site with mainly Italian content (and yes mainly S.American imports).
As I've mentioned earlier, I'd consider doing a Latin American style site but I don't think there is enough demand/income to make a site for each area and even this would be tough. Our Brazilian sites do okay, but the margins are tighter even than our N.American sites.
why would the margins be tighter shooting in brazil or s. americca? isn't the cheaper model rate more competitive than in n. America?? I thought this is why all those evil dudes-joey,nacho,jay et.al. were doin all these girls??is it the travel costs and production difficulties??
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Do you remember being at Tony Vee's house and helping him shoot Monica's hard core vid? it ends up with her giving her partner a facial for the ages. Monica was CD not trans but a total hottie and sweetheart.
The vid was part of a 5 part set of Tony's (and mine) favorite New York girls. Attachment 1060979 circa 2005
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as trans people have access to other jobs/professions, are you getting less demand for performers?
and how come most ts porn these days is American more than Brazilian?
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what is a typical day like on a shoot?
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Who has to clean up the , um, fluids, after a shoot ?
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Hi Steven,
Are there any reasons for the decline and almost non-existence of hardcore scenes in the Asian ladyboy sites Ladyboy.xxx, Ladyboy-Ladyboy? Would love to see some of the models on these sites in hardcore shoots.