An explanation of some of the terms you may encounter in the online environment and on webcam portals
- adult – mostly 18 year or older according to the country
- ban – ban someone, block them, usually ban them from entering the site or ban them from sending messages to the user
- bb – addressed as baby (kitten)
- camgirl – girl, woman, girl on webcam
- camboy – man, boy on webcam
- camming – show via webcam online
- cum – ejaculation, male orgasm
- dildo – dildo, vibrator
- DMCA – society fighting internet piracy
- domme – domina
- chat – typing, chatting, whether public or private
- conversion – click / visit ratio on the site to purchases / signups
- linkbuilding – building backlinks to a specific website
- livechat – live writing, live chat, but also labels for writing on the web
- model – actor who appears on webcam
- PPL – Pay per Lead (payment for new user registration)
- PVT – private, private paid show
- rebill – Mostly monthly re-billing memberships on a paid site
- RevShare – payment of a percentage commission of money spent from a referenced viewer / customer
- sub – slave, submissive
- split – (splitting) webcam division, broadcasting on multiple portals simultaneously
- show – webcam appearance
- tip – tip, rating, bid on free chat
- tip to vibe – interactive bidding on vibrating sex toys
- traffic – attendance of how many visitors came eg to a website
- token – credit, the equivalent of the money someone gave you
- trans – transsexual
- vibe – vibration sex toys
- webcam – webcam, online camera, whether external or integrated into a laptop
- white label – duplicate website (perfect copy) with webcams maintained under the webmaster’s own brand, technically supported by the parent site