Up-Close and personal with Ayden

[cumrag27]

Dear Mikeyank,

As I know Ayden is one of your Broke Straight Boys favorites, I am so very pleased for you that Ayden said nothing that would make you feel cheated about his orientation. He is straight as straight can be and still can be a model. Mike, you really can pick em, can't you though. I know how disillusioned you may become from time to time over this breach in the original intentions of Broke Straight Boys It is nice go get it right for a change and for Broke Straight Boys to be living to it's promise in this case. Bravo! This is one for your scoreboard!


Sincerely pleased for you,


Stimpy

 

[tampa24]

I'm pleased for Mikey too that Ayden comes across as straight as he does. Ayden has made great strides in his performances since he first started. I'm liking him more and more as time goes on. Not the least of which because he really is a straight guy doing gay for pay porn.

For new people to the site the interview gave them some new info. I was somewhat disappointed that for those of us who have seen Ayden in previous scenes and snippets of earlier BTS vids that this interview broke so little new ground. The amount of new info that longtime members learned about Ayden here is miniscule. We already knew that he was a snowboarding enthusiast because he has the tattoo of a snowboard on his leg. He told us before an earlier scene that when he was younger he stole a snowboard from someone and got caught. So he purposely got the tattoo of the stolen snowboard to remind him of his moral lapse and to stay honest and true in his life.

He already told us that he came out to his parents and his dad shocked him by being so understanding about it. He already told us that he had a girlfriend. And that she knew what he was doing and was okay with it as long as he wasn't having sex with other girls. So the new things we learned were that he has an older brother who doesn't know about his side job. That he has lived or is living in California and that he and his girlfriend are of the less freaky kind beneath the sheets in real life. I was impressed that he says that he watches his vids to see where he can improve.

As I say, for the newer people this was much more informative than for those of us who have been around the site for a while. So for the newer people this was nice that they could catch up on all this info about Ayden in one convenient place. As somebody who's been on the site forrevver (lol) I wish the interview could have gone deeper and more in depth as to his motivations and his feelings about doing this kind of work and so on. I just don't know how deep Ayden is willing to go though beyond small talk and the superficial. He's always been one who holds his cards pretty close to the vest.

 

[betudidntknow]

I'm pleased for Mikey too that Ayden comes across as straight as he does. Ayden has made great strides in his performances since he first started. I'm liking him more and more as time goes on. Not the least of which because he really is a straight guy doing gay for pay porn.

For new people to the site the interview gave them some new info. I was somewhat disappointed that for those of us who have seen Ayden in previous scenes and snippets of earlier BTS vids that this interview broke so little new ground. The amount of new info that longtime members learned about Ayden here is miniscule. We already knew that he was a snowboarding enthusiast because he has the tattoo of a snowboard on his leg. He told us before an earlier scene that when he was younger he stole a snowboard from someone and got caught. So he purposely got the tattoo of the stolen snowboard to remind him of his moral lapse and to stay honest and true in his life.

He already told us that he came out to his parents and his dad shocked him by being so understanding about it. He already told us that he had a girlfriend. And that she knew what he was doing and was okay with it as long as he wasn't having sex with other girls. So the new things we learned were that he has an older brother who doesn't know about his side job. That he has lived or is living in California and that he and his girlfriend are of the less freaky kind beneath the sheets in real life. I was impressed that he says that he watches his vids to see where he can improve.

As I say, for the newer people this was much more informative than for those of us who have been around the site for a while. So for the newer people this was nice that they could catch up on all this info about Ayden in one convenient place. As somebody who's been on the site forrevver (lol) I wish the interview could have gone deeper and more in depth as to his motivations and his feelings about doing this kind of work and so on. I just don't know how deep Ayden is willing to go though beyond small talk and the superficial. He's always been one who holds his cards pretty close to the vest.

Tampa, after reading your comments (and very carefully I might ad) I can't help but think that you and a few others (to include myself) have a little, tiny bit of hope," that it's not just about the money for some of these guys." I find myself asking this question: With all of the opportunities out there to make a decent, respectable income," If I don't like manual labor,why would I apply for a job in construction?"

 

[mikeyank]

Thank you to my forum friends who appreciate how much I enjoy Ayden, and you are correct that I wasn't disappointed in any way by this entertaining and yes, informative interview. As Tampa mentioned, those of us who are "hard core" fans of the site and of Ayden's have heard much of what was covered, but there was new information revealed, and I too like that it is all in one place for any fan of his who did not piece everything together prior to this interview.

I do love Sha both from his many BTS videos, and of course from my personal meeting with him at the 2012 NYC gay pride event. Sha has a wonderful warm, outgoing personality and intuitively knows what questions to ask that will get the best responses from the models, and what the true fans of Broke Straight Boys are interested in as well. Sha is an asset, in fact a true treasure here. And it's interesting that even with the poor audio on my computer, I had no trouble hearing every word that he and the soft spoken Ayden said here.

After watching this interview, I am reassured that my instincts were correct that Ayden is the "genuine deal", being open minded about sex, including have a foursome with another guy and two girls in his "real life", shooting a home video while having sex with a girl, and admitting that he can get pleasure having sex with a guy in his work here, but at the end of the day he is a heterosexually oriented young man in his private life, and those are the kind of guys who fascinate, and sexually excite me to watch on Broke Straight Boys

Thank you to Ayden and Sha for providing me with a most entertaining and memorable BTS interview. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it.

 

[tampa24]

I do love Sha both from his many BTS videos, and of course from my personal meeting with him at the 2012 NYC gay pride event. Sha has a wonderful warm, outgoing personality and intuitively knows what questions to ask that will get the best responses from the models, and what the true fans of Broke Straight Boys are interested in as well. Sha is an asset, in fact a true treasure here. And it's interesting that even with the poor audio on my computer, I had no trouble hearing every word that he and the soft spoken Ayden said here.

Well said Mikey. Sha is awesome and instinctively knows the most important questions to ask of models that the majority of members will want to know.

 

[mikeyank]

Tampa, after reading your comments (and very carefully I might ad) I can't help but think that you and a few others (to include myself) have a little, tiny bit of hope," that it's not just about the money for some of these guys." I find myself asking this question: With all of the opportunities out there to make a decent, respectable income," If I don't like manual labor,why would I apply for a job in construction?"

I totally agree with you Betu, that any person who applies for work in this industry, and especially one who returns over and over to film new scenes has to have a curiosity and a side of himself that he wants to explore, and is not doing it exclusively for the money. That may be the excuse that he tells himself, but as you said, if you hate manual labor you will not apply for a job in construction, and continue to do it.

From my observations of the current models on Broke Straight Boys, I would classify Ayden, Johnny and Adam as the guys who most closely fit into the category of guys that I am most entertained by here, being self identified straight guys who also know how to satisfy gay men with their work on this site as well, (but can also get off by the sex, but don't look at that as a primary motivation for being here).

 

[Beth]

Thanks Sha and Ayden for filming this. Anytime we get to see the models talk about their acting and their "real" life, we feel more connected to the model and the reason they are here. I really enjoyed the honest conversation and insight Ayden gave us about the industry. It's a "5" for me!

 

[tampa24]

I found this BTS enlightening and enjoyable. There are some questions and comments:

1. Ayden hit the nail on the head when he responded to Sha's question about how much has changed since he started at Broke Straight Boys when Ayden said that he has "become a better actor; makes the right noises and faces". We might want to use the word model, but these guys, especially the long-termers are actors and they know it. And nothing to be ashamed of either. But it goes to the point that people who think these guys are naive kids are the naive ones.

2. I also found it insulting to Ayden to have video of Johnny Forza playing in the background during this interview.

I found this BTS enlightening and enjoyable. There are some questions and comments:

1. Ayden hit the nail on the head when he responded to Sha's question about how much has changed since he started at Broke Straight Boys when Ayden said that he has "become a better actor; makes the right noises and faces".

I found this refreshing too as it is the essence of what I look for in the scenes. Either that the model/actor is actually enjoying it or can convey to me,in the audience that impression, I couldn't care less about much else. It moves the scene from "P-e-r-f-u-n-c-t-o-r-y" to performance.

Your observations are spot on Stowe and Betu. Ayden's performances have improved exponentially from his earliest days here. It really shows that he is trying to please his fans. Myself included among his fans of course.

On #2 Stowe I have to agree with you.

I'm well aware of the commercial considerations that led to the decision to include the videos in the background of Ayden's interview. Many of these BTS vids are being posted on YouTube to reach a wider target audience and hopefully bring in new subscribers. Nothing wrong with that at all. That's just good business marketing.

If there have already been more interviews with models filmed like this one, then so be it. I would just kindly and respectfully ask those of you at Broke Straight Boys to reconsider doing any more like these in the future. If you want to include promos for the site and the commercial for the new TV show in the same vid, that's absolutely fine. I am not a business major or anything like that but here's what I would suggest. Start out the video with the title and understanding that it will be an interview with model X. But then at the beginning, show the commercial for BSB TV all by itself. Then artfully segue into the interview where the model is the sole focus of the viewer's attention. After the interview is over then figure out a way to smoothly segue viewers into a "bonus" clip of another model they can see on the site if they join Broke Straight Boys A personal interview with a handsome and popular model is already a good commercial for the site all by itself.

The way it was done here constantly divided the attention of the viewer. This caused Ayden's interview and the vids in question to be diluted and lose at least some of their impact. A popular model who viewers want to learn more about is the perfect candidate for a one-on-one interview. While it's a special privilege and a compliment to the model's hard work that they are invited for a special interview, I also see him as analogous to being a guest of honor invited into one's home. You want him to feel welcomed, appreciated and respected. Having Ayden sitting there in front of a screen that's playing a provocative and distracting video of another model on the site, is telling the invited guest in a not so subtle way that he and what he has to say is not very important. It's also not going to get a model to open up and share more detail about himself if he feels that he's being upstaged by other distracting props in the room.

I don't believe for a moment that any of the wonderful staff of Broke Straight Boys would knowingly be disrespectful to Adyen. Especially in front of his fans. I just don't think enough thought went into this triple marketing idea. The end result though, for lack of a better word is that this was rude to the guest of honor. He should have had the full attention of the audience, without random distractions, and with closeups of his face in color. That way we'd be able to see his eyes and facial expressions and get a better sense of his personality when he talked.

As I say, I don't think this was intentional at all towards Ayden. I have the utmost respect for the staff of Broke Straight Boys But I really hope this is the last kind of one-on-one interview that we see like this.

 

[Declyn]

Many of these BTS vids are being posted on YouTube to reach a wider target audience and hopefully bring in new subscribers.

That's how I found Broke Straight Boys! On YouTube.

And I've had many of my friends watch the segment "Sight-Seeing with the Broke Straight Boys" (in D.C.) which I find to be a masterpiece. I don't think Jason could have been more entertaining in it if he'd been working from a script by a team of Emmy-award winning writers. And poor Blake, at the end!

 

[stowe1]

Your observations are spot on Stowe and Betu. Ayden's performances have improved exponentially from his earliest days here. It really shows that he is trying to please his fans. Myself included among his fans of course.

On #2 Stowe I have to agree with you.

I'm well aware of the commercial considerations that led to the decision to include the videos in the background of Ayden's interview. Many of these BTS vids are being posted on YouTube to reach a wider target audience and hopefully bring in new subscribers. Nothing wrong with that at all. That's just good business marketing.

If there have already been more interviews with models filmed like this one, then so be it. I would just kindly and respectfully ask those of you at Broke Straight Boys to reconsider doing any more like these in the future. If you want to include promos for the site and the commercial for the new TV show in the same vid, that's absolutely fine. I am not a business major or anything like that but here's what I would suggest. Start out the video with the title and understanding that it will be an interview with model X. But then at the beginning, show the commercial for BSB TV all by itself. Then artfully segue into the interview where the model is the sole focus of the viewer's attention. After the interview is over then figure out a way to smoothly segue viewers into a "bonus" clip of another model they can see on the site if they join Broke Straight Boys A personal interview with a handsome and popular model is already a good commercial for the site all by itself.

The way it was done here constantly divided the attention of the viewer. This caused Ayden's interview and the vids in question to be diluted and lose at least some of their impact. A popular model who viewers want to learn more about is the perfect candidate for a one-on-one interview. While it's a special privilege and a compliment to the model's hard work that they are invited for a special interview, I also see him as analogous to being a guest of honor invited into one's home. You want him to feel welcomed, appreciated and respected. Having Ayden sitting there in front of a screen that's playing a provocative and distracting video of another model on the site, is telling the invited guest in a not so subtle way that he and what he has to say is not very important. It's also not going to get a model to open up and share more detail about himself if he feels that he's being upstaged by other distracting props in the room.

I don't believe for a moment that any of the wonderful staff of Broke Straight Boys would knowingly be disrespectful to Adyen. Especially in front of his fans. I just don't think enough thought went into this triple marketing idea. The end result though, for lack of a better word is that this was rude to the guest of honor. He should have had the full attention of the audience, without random distractions, and with closeups of his face in color. That way we'd be able to see his eyes and facial expressions and get a better sense of his personality when he talked.

As I say, I don't think this was intentional at all towards Ayden. I have the utmost respect for the staff of Broke Straight Boys But I really hope this is the last kind of one-on-one interview that we see like this.

You make some valid points, tampa. And I certainly have no problem with Broke Straight Boys or any business for that matter wanting to get the most bang for its buck when it comes to advertising and/or marketing expenditures. However, what I find interesting here is that when BSB TV was first announced there was a Chinese Wall set up between Broke Straight Boys and BSB TV. There was no linking the two and when I asked Mark about that he said that he didn't want the TV project tainted with any hint of the porn site. But now these kinds of projects are done when they appear to be for BSB TV, but are including references to the website. And irrespective of any of that, you wouldn't have Jay Leno interviewed by Sha with a video of David Letterman's clips playing in the background. If you don't want to do a dreamy, steamy vid for Ayden then just have the logo in the background, just as it was in the awful garage video set.

 

[joninliverton]

Oops I commented on the other thread.

 

[Youngandconfused22]

I really enjoyed it. Ayden is a very honest and a beautiful person. Ayden has come a long way and has had many great scenes and I hope he has lots more.

 

[Beth]

I really enjoyed it. Ayden is a very honest and a beautiful person. Ayden has come a long way and has had many great scenes and I hope he has lots more.

In my opinion: we will get a few more scenes with Ayden, but like Blake and I bet Cage Kafig as well, to see them, we're gonna have to watch the BSB TV show. Again, just me thinking, but the three of them, oh, and Johnny Forza, will be part of the show.

 

[mikeyank]

In my opinion: we will get a few more scenes with Ayden, but like Blake and I bet Cage Kafig as well, to see them, we're gonna have to watch the BSB TV show. Again, just me thinking, but the three of them, oh, and Johnny Forza, will be part of the show.

If Broke Straight Boys-TV actually features Ayden, Blake, Cage Kafig and Johnny, (who has a wonderful boyish personality and who I enjoy watching more in his BTS than in actual scenes), I will become the #1 fan of the television show. They are all favorites of mine, (even though I've only seen Cage Kafig in a solo, but I like him).

 

[tampa24]

If Broke Straight Boys-TV actually features Ayden, Blake, Cage Kafig and Johnny, (who has a wonderful boyish personality and who I enjoy watching more in his BTS than in actual scenes), I will become the #1 fan of the television show. They are all favorites of mine, (even though I've only seen Cage Kafig in a solo, but I like him).

All of them would make an excellent cast for the show.