Cam Life Interviews Catjira

Bender – So Catjira how long have you been Camming? Catjira – It will be three years this August that I’ve been a full-time cam model!  

Bender – What did you do before you became one of the world’s biggest live Cam performers in the world? 

Catjira – I don’t feel as though I’m one of the biggest cam performers, I still have no idea what I’m doing and learn something new each day. Prior to camming full time, I was a full-time college student, I actually graduated with my Bachelors in business while I was camming full time. I’ve also previously worked with animals my whole life, I still continue to be on the side. I’m a certified dog groomer. 

Bender-How did your family and friends feel about your decision to become a live Cam model? C

atjira – Well I’m not the youngest cam model in the world, and I’ve accomplished a lot in my life already. My family and friends treat every decision of mine as my own and an adult decision, they’ve been supportive of everything I do in my life. I’m fortunate for that and to have family and friends be supportive of my adult work as well. It is just another accomplishment of mine to them, like graduating and other things. I’ve built an amazing fanbase, I run my own company and I dabble in more than just webcamming such as my modeling, cosplaying, film, and costume design as well. They’re super into the cosplay part! 

Bender- Is there anyone special in your life? Catjira – es! It’s her and I just met her recently… I just adopted her from animal control and she’s a beautiful pitbull named Bisquick! 

Bender – Your career really took off in a fairly short time. Did you ever find yourself getting overwhelmed with requests from fan’s and from colleagues and professionals within the live webcam community? 

Catjira –I disagree, my career took so much time and effort and failure before I started seeing signs of what I consider success. I spent many months without being able to make a single cent, let alone get a viewer in my chat room.I realized whatever I was doing wasn’t working and did a constant trial and error. But I’m very good and not showing my failures because I don’t consider most things a failure, it’s a learning experience for me. I like turning lemons into lemonade during rough times. I never feel overwhelmed. I’m always super excited, flattered, and shocked to have any opportunity given to me. 

 Bender- What would you say the biggest challenges in your career have been so far? 

Catjira-I think webcamming is one of the most difficult jobs I’ve had, period. It’s not just a job and if you treat it as such you won’t do well. It needs to be your life, well at least it is for me. Revolving my world around others is easy, what isn’t easy is doing well regardless. Camming is such a popular saturated market and luck can play a huge factor. The biggest challenge for me is not taking things so personally. When you have a slow night on cam it can really bring down your self-esteem, you start to question your appearance, personality, etc. I still struggle with that. 

Bender-  You have a really strong social media following and a lot of it has to do with your cosplay and your amazing personality. How important are your followers and fans to you? 

Catjira-I wouldn’t be able to cosplay, make adult films, or webcam if it wasn’t for them. They are the reason I am even able to do this interview. They’re everything

Bender-  How do you deal with rude friends or cyberbullies? Catjira-They’re irrelevant to me in that I don’t let it get to me. If someone is pretending to be my friend I usually catch on pretty quick. There is a lot of underlying bullying in this industry, I learned that from the start. You either are aware of or get eaten. I’m aware and I don’t let it bother me. I’ll always help people in need and do my best to give people opportunities and help when I can, regardless of their intentions I know this industry is difficult and not everyone knows how to deal with it while treating others fairly. I don’t have rude friends. My circle is small and tight and most people don’t even know who it consists of. 

Bender-So can you tell us a little bit about your costumes, what’s changed, how do you put them together? Are there any lessons that you have learned? 

Catjira-Costumes, and cosplay is expensive. I’m always trying to make due with what I have with everything and I’ve learned to apply this to costumes as well. You don’t always need the biggest and most expensive thing, especially if you can take the time to make it. Sometimes I buy pieces, sometimes I use what I have, and sometimes I make it! 

Bender- I’m sure you get a lot of fan requests for your cosplay. How do you deal with special fan requests?

 Catjira- My business doesn’t revolve around requests. I rarely do customs and my fan base is built on this. So I don’t deal with it much. On special occasions, I do when I can. But this year I have branched out into other platforms and I’m making new fans across the web who aren’t used to the way in which I do content. I get a lot of requests and suggestions on places like Instagram and Reddit and I have been doing some fan service work and extending my characters beyond what I like and doing what my fans like. However later this year I will be doing a character that is HUGELY requested and just so happens to be one of my favorite fictional characters ever. I am so ecstatic and flattered people even think I have the appearance to pull off this character and features just like them. I’m super excited people want to see this from me! 

Bender- Do you have a most requested cosplay by your fans that you haven’t fulfilled yet? 

Catjira-Yes! As mentioned above there is one that I get constantly and I will be doing it later this year. The costume is in the works right now! 

Bender- What’s the longest amount of time you have spent putting together a costume? 

Catjira-I’d say a few months. I am unable to sit down and dedicate a large chunk of time for days straight without doing anything else because I work on so many things so this is made across a span of time working on it a little bit each day. My Immortan Joe took a while and so did Lara Croft. 

Bender-s there a method to your Madness as far as marketing your costumes and what are the different ways you use to monetize content video cam Etc to maximize your Revenue for your latest cosplay creation? 

Catjira- I get this question a lot during interviews, haha. I don’t have a method. I just produce films with my cosplays usually and I am able to sell them on my cam site and adult content website. I love to edit and make trailers which I post on social media and that’s a way to market. But I also just really enjoy doing it. 

Bender-You have previously Graced the cover of xbiz cam world and AVN’s Cam star magazine and now you are being featured on the cover of CamLife Magazine what is it like Grace the cover of all three major trade magazines for the live webcam community? 

Catjira- I can’t believe I’ve had opportunities to do such things! It makes me feel way cooler than I actually am haha. I’m so flattered and honored anyone would want to work with me.  

Bender-Of course, I’ve asked a lot about what year fans favorite cosplay costumes have been but what is your favorite? 

Catjira-There’s a few for different reasons! I love my Immortan Joe because Mad Max Fury Road is one of my favorite movies! I love cosplaying Lara Croft because Tomb Raider is my favorite video game series! But I also love being Harley Quinn especially when I’m doing adult work, she gives me so much confidence!  

Bender-You obviously have a great passion for cosplay and geek culture General so what is your favorite comic book title? 

Catjira-  man most people don’t know this but I’m a HUGE Sheena Queen of the Jungle fan! I grew up around comics because my grandpa would make giant art pieces for comic conventions and I’d help him paint them. They were life-size wood cutouts from all different kinds of comic characters. But my favorite was always Sheena.

Bender- What game titles are you currently playing? Catjira, Right now I am not playing anything! I am currently waiting on Shadow of Tomb Raider to drop as well as the Last of Us Part II!

Bender-What is a typical day like for you when you are cam? 

Catjira-I cam almost daily and do so at night, so my day time consists of a lot of adulting as well as incorporating my offline work. Usually when I cam I am not filming or making content so I will be planning out that content, putting packages together for my fans and viewers or making something for a content project, usually cosplay related

Bender- What is a typical day like for you when you’re not on cam?

 Catjira – When I’m not camming and it’s not a day off it will be a filming day or content producing day. This usually starts super early in the morning between 5 am and 6 am if I’m location shooting sometimes earlier. Makeup takes me a while when I’m cosplaying sometimes 2-3 hours. I always have things set up the evening before because building sets can be a lot of work and I don’t want to sweat or get exhausted prior to shooting content and doing my makeup. After my makeup and wardrobe is completed I get to filming sometimes though filming can take a few days but afterward it’s typically the end of the day and I get to relax as a reward for myself. Regardless of what I’m doing I always try to remain contactable and interactive with my fans and friends on social media. 

Bender- What do you like most about the live webcam community 

Catjira-I love how the community allows you to connect with so many different people, opinions, beliefs, cultures, and ideas across the world. It’s one of my favorite things about the internet in general, but the webcam community allows a common interest.

Bender– What do you like least about being on cam? 

Catjira- Not being able to eat, haha. I mean, you can eat but usually, viewer counts can go down and so does interaction because you’re more focused on your delicious meal than the people in your chatroom so I try to avoid it sometimes haha. But because I’m vegan I eat about 5 meals a day so it’s hard being in one place for so long and getting hungry sometimes.  

Bender- Now, of course, you’ve attended some conventions and trade shows, you even won both an xbiz and AVN Awards. What was it like to be recognized for all the hard work you have put in?

 Catjira- it’s kind of terrifying to go up on stage in front of hundreds of industry people. It would be one thing to do it in front of a lot of cam models you know and interact with but being on webcam I only interact with so many mainstream performers however I’m a huge porn fan so it’s kind of scary to be in front of all of them while accepting such an honor. It really is an honor though and I still can’t believe I won an AVN and Xbiz award, as well as an Xbiz CamAward it’s just so surreal and feels pretty good to be industry recognized for what I do. 

Bender- We here at Cam Life Magazine believe her at Cam Life Magazine that the live webcam industry is more than just a business, it is a community. What are your thoughts on this? 

Catjira- I think every interest and ideas have their own communities, just as gaming and cosplay do. So I’d have to agree! Adult streaming has its own community but it’s also-ran by multiple businesses. 

Bender- What is the kinkiest request you’ve ever gotten from a fan? 

Catjira-I’m super kinky myself compared to most normal people so most things others would consider kinky it just normal to me, so I really don’t know. I love pet play and bondage and all sorts of things. It’s just sexuality and expression of experience to me. 

Bender- Do you have a favorite aphrodisiac? 

Catjira – Not really because I’m vegan I have a lot of diet restrictions and most of which don’t arouse me when I eat or drink. Though I am a pretty big wino, something about having a glass full of wine and wearing lingerie makes me feel sexy 

Bender – Do you have any guilty pleasures? 

Catjira – I don’t feel guilty or embarrassed by my pleasures at all. Except for when I listen to Nickelback, haha. 

Bender- What was your first day on cam like? Catjira- terrifying, confusing and fun! I was on myfreecams and there’s so much you need to know prior to streaming that I didn’t know. Such as a topic, and countdown, and shows, and generally how everything worked despite being a member prior to camming and watching other models for quite some time. Still, it was super exciting and I loved how I could chat with people from all over the world and be my sexual self. 

Bender- What Advice would you give to someone just starting out on cam? 

Catjira- Do your own research, which is what you’ll hear from most models. You won’t learn much from others but more so from your own trial and errors, failures and successes. Be yourself, it’s so much easier and better to build your fan base rather than trying to be someone else. 

Bender- How can your fans keep up with you and your career and what social media do you use? 

Catjira- All kinds! I use twitter first and foremost, for adult content and interaction you can follow me at twitter.Com/CatjiraTV. I post images on Instagram (instagram.com/OfficialCatjira) and Reddit (reddit.com/user/Catjira). I use snapchat for chatting and vlogging, I have a youtube channel but haven’t posted anything on it yet because I’m nervous. 

Bender –Once again thank you so much for taking the time out of your very busy schedule to answer some questions for our readers. Catjira – Thank you for the opportunity! Cheers!