Review
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ATK Exotics
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69.0
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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
- Wide variety of ethnically-varied models
- High-resolution video and still content in recent years
- Daily updates |
| Cons: |
- Substantial backlog of low-resolution content (probably 50% of the site's composition), and non-exotic models are mixed with modern material.
- Content tagging of new submissions stopped some time ago (2016?)
- Search function defeated because of above
- Newer content is extremely repetitive- videos are now mostly dildo play
- Content now comes mostly from a single source
- Content from 10+ years ago is being posted as new
- Little or no new watersports content |
| Bottom Line: |
I believe this recent month's membership may have been my first to ATK's exotics site, but I have been an off-and-on subscriber to other branches of ATK for many years now. It's different from what I'm used to seeing on the Hairy, Petites and Galleria sites, and not in a good way.
I was really disappointed to see that Exotics discontinued tagging posts for content some time ago (2016?), which effectively shut down search functions. Back in 2015, on this site, an Exotics representative stated "We are focusing on putting more tags on the content so it is better searched. This of course takes time but we are trying." Instead, they just stopped tagging.
Beyond that, Exotics has greatly narrowed its range of source photographers, and the current principal source (BMB) has in turn narrowed his focus for videos to solo toy play. Newer models can have 3, 6 or more videos: every single one made with dildoes and vibrators ("OK, honey, now do the same thing, only with the wand"). Some subscribers may be happy about this- personally I don't respond much to toys and really really miss more varied content.
Watersports activity has apparently never been much of a part of the Exotics feed but in recent years it's basically gone. Again- some subscribers will not care; I do.
Unlike other ATK sites, Exotics apparently never removes old posts for age. Thus listings contain perhaps 50% old, low-resolution posts dating from 2001-2010. These files do not display well on modern screens, but there is no way to avoid them. You learn to recognize thumbnails of lo-res posts by exposure, tone, location and other attributes, but overall it's a big signal-to-noise problem- another extra effort which makes navigating the site difficult.
It doesn't help that on some days ATK will give ten-year-old images current dates and post them as "new" when in fact they're a decade or more old.
And yes- some subscribers may love this: for one thing the old material is much more inventive, humane and amateur-oriented. But if you don't want tiny images and clips, there's no way to simplify the number of models you have to wade through.
Yet another impediment to smooth navigation is that any non-exotic model who appears even once here with an exotic girl gets included in listings as a model (with thumbnail, etc): signal-to-noise trouble for the user.
(As an aside, it’s a real shame that ATK was unable to make the most of its relationship with the photographer d/b/a Pout Productions, who seems to have access to a large pool of some of the world’s most beautiful and charming young black models. Pout took far too long (years) to master the use of the camera, earning the anger of Kingdom members in the process. Towards the end of his run, though, he was delivering properly-exposed, occasionally inventive pictures of girls to die for. Sadly, I don’t think he’s been with ATK for a year or more.)
I got a fair amount of content out of the Exotics site while I belonged, but I'm unemployed. I could devote a lot of time to searching and weeding good content out of the mush. If you don't have that luxury, you'll find yourself giving ATK a lot more than your money for content: you'll be signing away lots of time. |
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01-09-18 09:11am
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