PunkGrl: Spiffy New Site Tour

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PunkGrl just rolled out the new site layout and tour area that they have been excited about and it’s looking pretty slick. From a features point of view, they really have a lot going on and this new layout displays every detail you could possible want to know. They have girl profiles, photo and video specs, dates, ages, hometowns, everything. I did like look of the edgier punk splattery design they had before and this is a more cleanly sanitized design, appearing much more like an ice cream shop in the mall than a naked punk girl hangout. Even their new PunkGrl logo character seems more like a Saturday morning cartoon than a dangerously sexy punk girl I would want to fuck, but they have always been on the softer side of the edgy punk porn spectrum.

I have to mention that putting your ‘hopefuls’ right out on the front page of the site makes for a strange impression. Maybe people like it. I don’t know. Today’s hopeful is Aavrielle Angst and the reason she says she wants to be approved for official inclusion on PunkGrl is “i really really really want to be a part of PunkGrl because….um.. let me think.. DUH! They are the hottest alt girl site ever!:D So about me; i…” so, if you are turned on, this feature is for you. One of the reasons I like naked punk-rock girls is that they don’t need your approval. It is their confident and even volatile individuality that specifically sparks my interest and SuicideGirls can be damned for introducing the concept of girls begging for the approval of the crowd because they desperately want to be in the pink panty clubhouse. That is not punk, it’s punked. Sorry for the AltPorn rant, but it’s how I feel about the whole ‘hopefuls’ concept in AltPorn and any site that perpetuates it.

They also now make the claim that they are “THE NET’S #1 ALT GIRL SITE” and that sort of sales text always rubs me wrong. Even if a site is actually right in that sort of claim, I don’t think it’s really impressing anybody, and when the site making the claim has an Alexa around 150,000 while other Alt Girls sites like BurningAngel have an Alexa of around 35,000 or SuicideGirls ranks in at around 10,000, (lower is better) it makes me groan and roll my eyes a little. They say right on their homepage that they are “the nets biggest alt girl site” with “131 stunning alt girls and emo girls as well as over 47 HD movies and 16,842 exclusive pictures”, which is a lot, unless you put it next to other alt girl sites sites like Blue Blood, for example, which currently lists 419 hotties, 1756 photo sets, and 109,558 pictures. It’s not even close. I don’t know why sites put that sort of statement on their tours and advertising. If Pepsi tells me they have more products in the supermarket than Coke does, I don’t care. Maybe Pepsi cares, but I don’t. Actually, the only time I do care is if it’s obviously not true unless you cut the statistics juuuuust right, and even then I hold that kind of claim against a brand more than it makes me think better of them. If I see something I like, I’ll buy it and hopefully enjoy it. Best and Biggest claims rarely impress me and they are even more rarely accurate.

PunkGrl does have some sexy fun photos and nice looking video and all sorts of interactive features, so I’m not hating on them, just trying to be objective about their claims. The new tour does look slick and really is feature rich and you can really see a lot about who the girls are and what they are into and get a good sampling of what you will get to see inside the site. They have comprehensive listings of photo sets and videos and blogs, organized by models and a content tagging system that lets you look up all the content featuring clothing items like “denim shorts” or “boots” or specify hair color details like “green” or “red” or “blonde” whatever your special thing is. Their most popular tags right now are listed as “emo” “tattoos” “skinny” and “alt girl“.

Maybe we should start a discussion in the forums about marketing claims in AltPorn. Does it matter to you if a site says it’s the #1 biggest? Are pretty girls the only thing that really matters and the words are meaningless? I know that if I couldn’t read the text, I would still really like what PunkGrl has for their members. They have sexy alternative girls, cute videos, and some impressive dynamic interactive features on their site. Maybe that’s all that is really important to know.

PunkGrl New Site Tour
PunkGrl writes:

Whoah what’s going on here? Things looking a little different? Don’t be alarmed it’s the new PunkGrl layout, let us know what you think in the forums or if you notice any problems give us an email and someone will get fired!




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