Their subscription base is dying.
[QUOTE=SmittyQbert;3674739]Even if I was a liberal leftie, I wouldn't want to see a tranny in PB. Like I wouldn't want to see a male server in Hooters.[/QUOTE]So they tried to make a splash and perhaps get a bump in publicity and perhaps one time / first time buyers.
I don't think it was an F you to any group, more like a "what can we do to get noticed again" or a "lets make a last hurrah before we go the way of the dodo".
Stood Up By Kylie. Sweethearts of Tampa Bay
Posting here as neither she nor Vanessa ever really posted that much on BP when they started this up.
A little over three weeks ago, I emailed Emily, the contact for Kylie at Sweethearts of Tampa Bay. [URL=http://sweetheartsoftampabay.provider-sites.com/home] Here's her/their website. [/URL] It's been a while since I had seen Kylie, but I used to see Vanessa a bit, both back with her time with DM and later with Sweethearts. Since Vanessa is once again no longer in state and once again retired (possibly for good this time), I figured I'd try my luck with Kylie, especially seeing how bad BP is these days. I was just asking when she might be available, and now that I'm working full-time in Tampa, it would be a lot easier for me to make the drive to see her, and that it would be great to see her. Emily, to her credit, emailed me that day, to let me know that Kylie was available Wednesdays through Fridays, and sometimes Saturdays before noon. Great. I responded with another email, asking if she might be available the following Friday evening at 8:00 pm For an hour, possibly 90 minutes? I didn't hear back for a couple of days, so I emailed Emily again the following Monday to follow up. Emily responded that Wednesday, and let me know that while Kylie was available that Friday, she wasn't available that late in the evening. The latest she could do was maybe 6:00 or 6:30. Okay, I understand. Sometimes schedules don't match up. No problems. So I asked if rather than that Friday evening, perhaps she could do the next day, Saturday, at 10 am? Emily responded that day that Saturday at that time "would work great for her. " Okay, great. I followed up the following day (still a day before seeing her) with a minor clothing request (nothing out of the ordinary) and asked if Kylie had a preferred wine or snack that she'd enjoy? Emily said she'd pass along the request, suggested I bring a good wine like a red blend of some sort, and provided the Tampa address where I'd meet Kylie.
The morning of the appointment, with about an hour before the scheduled time, Emily emailed me to let me know that Kylie woke up with a sore throat and had to reschedule. I was certainly bummed, but I get it. I don't need whatever bug's going around. So I responded with "Hope she feels better soon," and asked if she could reschedule for next Wednesday or Thursday evening anytime after 7:00 pm Per Emily, Thursday at 7:00 pm Would work. Okay, great. At Emily's request, I emailed her the following Monday to confirm I was still interested in seeing Kylie that Thursday evening. That Thursday came, and I had no room info or anything. So I emailed Emily yet again to make sure everything was still on for that night, adding, "If she needs to reschedule, then I completely understand, and it won't be a problem. I just need to know. " To her credit, Emily got back to me in an hour, asking if we could do Saturday at 10:00 am, since Kylie's sister needed her to watch her sister's son that evening, and she didn't want to rush our time together. Further to her credit, she even offered to add 15 minutes on to our time for the trouble. I couldn't do Saturday, as I was going to be out of town visiting some friends. So I asked what times next week (this week that just ended) after 6:30 pm Would work for her? Emily responded the following Tuesday to let me know that Kylie was available on Friday. I asked what her schedule was looking like for 7:00 pm And after on Friday. Wednesday at 5:30 pm, Emily emailed me back to let me know that Friday (yesterday) at 7:00 pm "will work fine for her. I'll shoot you her location info as soon as she gets it ".
That was the last I heard from Emily, or from Kylie, for that matter. I sent Emily an email yesterday around 5:00 pm To confirm we were still on for that night. And got radio silence. At 8:40 pm, I sent another email, mentioning how not hearing from her or Kylie was really uncharacteristic of both of them. "Hope you're both okay, and nothing happened. " As of 7:05 pm Today, I've heard exactly nothing from either of them.
I still hope they're okay, and nothing bad has happened to either. That said, having to reschedule twice and then getting blown off / ghosted the third time? Not cool. I have to wonder if Vanessa was the glue holding the Sweethearts of Tampa Bay operation together, based on this. I was really looking forward to seeing Kylie. Oh well.