Chronic Love

Who Chronic Love is

Chronic Love is a Chaturbate broadcaster who streams in the room chroniclove. She has been on the site for over a decade: in a column she wrote for XBIZ in late 2020, she said she had started camming seven years earlier, after spending time watching other performers on Chaturbate and buying herself a modest webcam to try it.

The industry has noticed. She won Best Female Live Cam Model at the Live Cam Awards in 2019 and again in 2021, was a finalist for Best Female Cam Model at the 2019 XBIZ Cam Awards, and was one of the cam models interviewed for A Cam Life, a 2018 documentary about the business of camming.

How her room runs

What stands out in her own account is how deliberately she runs her chat. Her starting point is simple: trolls want attention, so she doesn't give them any. She ignores them, bans them and gets on with the show, and she keeps the room away from topics that start arguments, such as politics, sport and the news.

She has a couple of tools that make that easier. In her room, gray users, those without any tokens, can watch but can't chat. She's happy for them to be there; it just keeps the conversation manageable and focused on the people who make the show happen. And a fan built her a bot of her own, the Marley Bot, which asks newcomers a simple maths question before they can type, cutting down on spam and automated accounts. If the colors in a Chaturbate chat are new to you, what the username colors mean explains them.

She has also thought about where different kinds of shows belong. She used to play a dominant character in her public room and found that some visitors took the act at face value, so that side of her performing moved into private shows, where people know exactly what they've chosen.

Her advice to other performers

Her column was written for other cam models, and a lot of it is about staying safe. She recommends blocking your own region from your room, keeping anything that could identify where you live out of shot and out of conversation, and keeping work social media completely separate from any personal accounts. It's a useful read for anyone starting out, and it says a lot about how carefully she has built her own career.

Before you visit

Bring some tokens if you'd like to chat, as gray users can only watch. Her dominant persona is kept for private shows, and Chaturbate private shows explained covers how those work and what they cost. She doesn't put up with rudeness, so cam room etiquette is worth a glance, and following the room is the simplest way to catch her next show.