Hey, Jason, and everyone ~
I know that Mark had to remove Videoboys as a partner-site because they were
not good partners; they were slow and unreliable with updates; and maybe there were other issues, too. (I gather they were not very good or reliable business-partners, either.) Mark graciously explained this to me, when Videoboys was first removed as a bonus-site, and I asked about it.
However, Jason, I have always had a big affection for Videoboys. For all its deficiencies in scheduling, they featured some of the
stone-cold cutest guys in the universe ~ and offered AMAZING videography and direction, as well. I first got into Videoboys long before I ever was a member of either
College Dudes or
Broke Straight Boys (I was at
College Dudes, first): when I was still hanging out with my French-Canadian model friend (who is still a friend!) and he was on another site that offered VB as a bonus.
I STILL think Videoboys is worth about 17 of the "bonus sites" offered through
Broke Straight Boys (with due respect to the management) - though, with the recent outings from the "
Johnny Forza brothers", for sure, AmateurBoysFirstTime has really been picking up its game, lately. But, other than ABFT, and Fratmen Videos (which occasionally has some gorgeous solos), and once in awhile some of the retro videos (if LANCE appears) I don't get a lot of use out of the
HSBoys feature, honestly.
Videoboys WAS AWESOME, and I miss it.
"A" XOXOXOXOXOXO