If you asked people to describe their dream life, you might get a few different answers - "I want to travel as much as I can." "I want to escape my office job." "I want to start my own business." "I want to fuck beautiful people on the beach for the rest of my life."
Not a lot of people can say that they're already living all of those things.
But MySweetApple can.
I had the pleasure of chatting with them, and learned how they left their ordinary life behind to become full-time hedonists. It's easier than you think:
Let’s start off with the MySweetApple story. How did you meet?
We were both working at IBM South America and met on a trip we went on with some mutual work friends. We had never talked to each other before, but from that day on we became best friends. About a month afterwards we had sex for the first time along with a friend of ours. We had just come back from a party and after a lot of touching, kissing and caressing we decided to go to Kim’s place together, and we finished the three of us on bed, making out and giving each other oral. It was our first sex experience together and it was with another girl. After a few kinky moments, she had to go. Once we were left alone, we fucked for a whole week - we didn’t even want to leave the house, we couldn’t stop being all over each other. The sexual chemistry was incredible. We also realized we had a lot in common, and the happiest surprise was to discover we were both big exhibitionists. It all went upwards since then.
When and how did you start filming together?
As it always does, it all started with a smartphone. He was recording me sucking his dick and then we thought, why don’t we do a full scene? So we did. After that, we wanted to improve the quality, so we switched to an action cam, added better lighting and even added a plot to our scene. We produced tons of videos but not for profit or with the intention of sharing them - it was all for us. We had a camera fetish since the beginning; we’ve been doing porn for a long time before actually doing the porn that you can all see here.
Your video editing is great. What software do you use for editing?
Mostly we use Premiere Pro for editing and blurring, but After Effects is also a great tool for special effects, and visual corrections. For sound editing we use Adobe Audition and Ableton Live to make our own music.
How did you learn to edit videos?
Video tutorials on YouTube. Paolo has an IT background and he’s a media designer, which gives him the base to be an autodidact. Since we started traveling, the chances to study long courses are null, because most take 6 months at least, and we move every 3 months - so the solution was on the internet. Watching tutorials, following guides, I watch 5 to 20 video tutorials per day. You should try it with everything! The Internet isn’t just for fun and porno, there is tons of content people are happy to share and explain.
What’s your lighting setup when you film at home?
We always try to take advantage of the daylight, it just makes all the scenes a lot more beautiful and natural, but when we need artificial lights, we use two studio LED lights and a small light attached to the camera.
Do you pay much attention to your sound/audio? If so, what microphones or equipment do you use?
We are temporarily using a Sony Shotgun microphone - I say temporarily because we are always upgrading our equipment. Sometimes when we’re shooting an outdoor scene we cannot go with a professional camera and mic because we need discretion, so we use the integrated microphone on the action cam or smartphone. After recording we control and remaster the sound with Adobe Audition.
What’s something simple models can do to improve their videos?
Invest in good lighting and audio, be aware of new trends and styles but at the same time show your own style. Porn is an ocean of content, so you have to be unique and original, but most importantly - patient. Make videos that actually turn you on, make your fantasies come to life! All our videos are based on our own kinks (and some on kinks our followers commissioned from us) and we always end up fucking or masturbating to them. We’re our own biggest consumers.
Let’s talk about marketing a bit. How important is social media for your marketing?
It’s the most important tool we have right now, and we couldn’t have achieved any of this without social media. Thanks to having a curated Instagram profile and being consistent with our posts we’ve been contacted by newspapers, tv shows and radio to interview us, which means thousands of new followers and customers each time. Thanks to sharing our news and thoughts on Twitter we’ve been hit up by other models, we’ve been hired to do shows for other companies and even to translate/design for others (which were our professions before doing porn). Being active on social media puts you and your product in the loop, and it lets your fans know who you really are. It’s the only tool that allows you to be in contact with the consumer - they can see us living our life and we can get real feedback from them. We also let people be part of our decisions related to videos, travel destinations and even clothing.
You also have your own website. What do you use the website for?
It’s our Frankenstein! It started as a simple web with a contact form because we started as webcam broadcasters, then it evolved to a custom video, private shows and Snapchat request forms, and now it’s our library, we collected all our services from all third-party websites and social media and integrated everything there, we also have our Pornhub videos embedded. There our followers can find all our videos, photo sets and social media, know when and where we’re online, they can also design their own custom content, schedule private shows, buy our used underwear, read our story, from how we met to awards we won, interviews, milestones and basically everything we are as MySweetApple. We’ve also recently started writing our blog, where we’ll share important news, advise and real life erotic stories.
When you’re uploading to Pornhub, do you pay much attention to your video titles?
Yes, a lot! Titles are the hardest and should be carefully chosen. Your video’s success will depend a lot on your title. Same with the thumbnails - it can make a video stand out, or it can make it look like yet another low-quality sex tape. We try to point out the most important features of the video while trying not to make it too robotic or simply too descriptive. Tags are also a very important tool that allow you to complete the title and let everyone find your video based on what it includes.
Do you have any plans to sell videos on Modelhub? If so, what will your strategy be?
Absolutely yes! To start with, our followers will be able to download our most popular videos on Pornhub, and we’re adding all our outdoors, roleplays, public and wildest videos in places such as a nudist city, all around exciting cities like Rome, Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Cancun! This is our exclusive content and we can’t wait to share it with our Pornhub followers!
What advice do you have for someone who’s just starting in the industry?
Don’t rush. Enjoy every step. Some days are awful, some others are incredible, don’t get used to any of them. Succeeding is a matter of very hard and constant work, so don’t give up too soon and never settle. We see hundreds of couples who contact us for advice, and after a few weeks they just quit. You need to know that porn is like a normal business, you have to work hard! It does grow faster than any other content, but still you have to be patient, and not too emotional - sometimes people are very rude, there are a lot of trolls, bad competitors, haters, but they are not against you, they are just part of the internet ecosystem. Focus on the other part, the bigger one: the audience who loves you, and ignore competition, be neutral, be yourself, have fun!
What changes do you think we’ll see in the industry in 2018?
We’re seeing the amateur world taking over professional porn, because people like relating with the people on screen - they want to see their own life reflected in the porn they watch and maybe recreate a scene they lived with a past partner. Amateur porn has brought many diverse faces, body shapes and personalities that are different from what people are used to seeing in porn. That adds a real-life value to the videos that makes it all more exciting. Porn is taking part in society, sex is not a taboo anymore, and more people are joining this fetish every day, sharing their intimacy and fantasies. We are real, and so is our porn.
What changes would you like to see in the industry in 2018?
What we want is to be recognized as people with rights and choice. We don’t do porn because of the money or because we’re brainwashed or because we have daddy or mommy issues. We do porn because having amazing sex is part of our lifestyle, and we’re open-minded enough to share our sex lives with the world. Still we must fight prejudices, discrimination and censorship. In our utopia we all practice free love, respect and understanding.
How can the average person support sex workers on a day-to-day basis?
The obvious way to support a sex worker is by buying our products. Of course we all love free porn, but if the free video is good, imagine the one for sale, and the wet panties, and the custom content! We put so much effort and hard work into everything we do, that each sale warms our hearts because we understand the gesture of trust and admiration. Other ways of helping are spreading the word, let everyone know how good our work is. You love our video? Don’t download it and share it - share the link to our authorized sites, make more people know about us, watch, comment, retweet, thumbs up, shout outs, spread the word! Always report stolen content - we are not big enterprises who can deal with constant takedowns, we are a small business of two dudes paddling against the current.
What’s the funniest or weirdest thing that ever happened during a shoot?
We’ll never forget the day we were shooting our video “Teen Couple fucking in Cap D’Agde." it was set in the Naked City in France, a place where nudism and outdoor sex are allowed and loved by everyone. It was our little paradise for a week. While having sex behind a bush, enjoying the wind and the sun on our skins, one by one a crowd of about 10 guys gathered around us, all with their cocks out, masturbating and being very careful not to enter in the camera angle. We did the full video and when Paolo cums on my face they started clapping and came to shake hands with us, it was hilarious! We even gave them our official stickers and a couple of them became very good followers and customers.
Any upcoming projects you’d like to tell us about?
This year we did our “first” threesome and it was an incredibly horny bonding experience for us. Our fans were exhilarated with the videos, so we’d love to repeat some more of that with other girls and boys. We’ve opened a contact form on our site for other performers to reach out. Soon you’ll see all the videos in our Modelhub account!
Around September we’re traveling back to Europe, we miss the nudist beaches (and cities) and the erotic panorama overall. We have big plans for MySweetApple but we’re keeping them a secret, not to spoil it too early, but make sure to follow us, you don’t want to miss the news - lots of new content is arriving soon!
Thanks again to MySweetApple for sharing their story, expertise and insights. Pornhub wouldn't exist without content creators like them, and we're forever grateful.
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