Seen today at Fleshbot, a fairly massive walk/shutout at Suicide Girls — I’ve been getting emails from my friends who are (now) former SG models for about a week about the “ghosting” of models, and trying to follow the posts here and here and here. I’ve always had misgivings about their reluctance to get anywhere near the word “porn”, as that strikes me as oh-so-odd for an alterna chick nudie site. But wow, what a mess. I wonder if it’ll change their podcast, Suicide Girls Radio… will one girl have to do a bunch of different voices until they re-stock their cupboards? Here’s a snippet from UnPink:
“…Even as SG expanded from 10 girls to 800, these remained the stars. Until, the last few days, half of them, very publicly, quit.
Here’s the score.
One of the most popular SG’s, Sicily, was booted off the site after an anti Suicidegirls journal entry she wrote (caused by financial disagreements with the owner). You can see the text here. Two other popular girls, Katie and Apnea (of Lithium Picnic fame) shot for another site and got their passwords taken away. Staff changed Apnea’s journal and made it look like they were active. Voltaire quit in protest. Staff pulled same move on her.
By this time, it’s all over the blogsphere. Girls are quitting left and right. Claudia, Sita, Molly, Gillian, Ciel, Annabelle, Angie, Shera, Annie, Genivieve, Mistidawn, Les, and a new one every hour or three.. SG, in response to four of its best girls quitting, changes entire site format. Archived girls and active girls are indistinguishable- except archived girls have no access to the site.”
There’s more in the full entry, and I declined to duplicate the links to the Suicide Girls site; you can click through on the original post. Well, all I have to really say about this is that once Dave Navarro likes you, it’s all downhill from there. (He shot one of SG’s ‘celebrity’ galleries.) He’s totally the kind of guy that if his younger self traveled through time into the future and met himself now, he would totally beat the crap out of icky-2005 Dave Navarro.
I’m currently writing 3-4000 words a day and working on a new logo for my site… previews are being tested on other pages. I’ll make a formal launch soon, hopefully by my b-day. (Thursday, ugh!)
