The camera is on Jomtien Complex

[mauRICE]

Looking at the social media pages featuring Supertown, Jomtien Complex, it seems that everyone - staff, guests, passers by, content creators - is taking pictures and videos of their environs and zealously uploading them without care or concern for other people's privacy. I was amused by the number of bald spots I could see and count while watching a performance recorded at M2M bar. In all the media that I've seen, faces could clearly be identified if they happened to fall within the camera's gaze and not too many people seem to be bothered by it. Is this the new normal? 

[macaroni21]

6 hours ago, mauRICE said:

Is this the new normal? 

I would say yes. 

[Londoner]

Visitors of my generation may recall that, back in the day, photographs in Boyztown- the soi itself- were forbidden. Ambiance used to have, for many years, a very nice guy as doorman/ security guard. I respected him because he  was so kind to the guys I offed, treating them as customers, the same as me.

One of his tasks was to stop-or at least discourage- anyone using their cameras to take photographs of the soi.  Oh for the blessed days before the advent of mobile phones!

I'm only joking about that...I think.

[Olddaddy]

I think it's fantastic 📷📹

People love to remember the great times they are having 🕺🏿

Film away I say 🤳🏿🤳🏿and enjoy the good times with memory 

 

 

[Vessey]

There is a balance to be struck somewhere, some people are desperate to avoid leaving behind any visible 'footprint' of their visits to gay bars, while other of us are less concerned.

On the other hand we bewail the lack of customers and boys in Jomtien, especially in low season, and the consequent failure and closure of bars that we know and love. Some of us also bewail the lack of any effort of self-publicity by the bars themselves to promote themselves and their boys. 

In Soi 6, the girlie bars are always promoting themselves on social media, almost on a daily basis, highlighting the girls working there. Soi 6 is consequently always very busy, reaping the benefits of its publicity.

Boy bars are so very far, far behind them in promoting themselves. My couple of boy spies working in Boyztown regularly report on activity there, often by video calls from their cameras, or rather the lack of customers there, and not just in low season. Toy Boys, for example, seems to have no social media presence at all. 

In Jomtien Complex, boss Charlie is an exception, promoting his highly popular M Bar, Gus Bar, Sunee Bar and now Jungle Bar which are (consequently perhaps) currently the busiest in the Soi. The massage shops in the Complex are also getting in on the act and now regularly appearing on social media. 

In contrast Facebook, TikTok are full of the various Pattaya karaoke bars promoting themselves, showing off the boys and their 'numbers'. 

A thriving gay bar culture in Pattaya/Jomtien needs visual publicity, but a consequence is that we, as customers, might end up getting caught up in that, even if only as a potentially identifiable bald-spot in the background of some bar 🤣 For me that is a price worth paying! 🥰