Girls,
You'll have no chance making it as a porn "star" anymore. All that money went to Manwin owned businesses. But you can be a fantastic whore. Just stick with me. Come to my trailer.  
What? Belladonna and FE thought I was an ass? She's a bitch.
BM

The porn industry and the porn star escort industry have very different business model, for one. Furthermore, the shrinking of the porn production does not affect 'rates' of porn girls. The Bang Bros type of porn production that you mention has expanded the range of girls that could do porn, and thus increased the pool of talent who after 3 months is out of the porn industry - indeed, 3 months is what insiders consider the 'time shelve' of a newcomers. But newcomers are not different from the typical new escort girls, indeed they usually end up working at entry rates in the market.  
   
 It is correct that the rise of the web-based production companies (Bang Bros, Brazzers, IC Porn/Reality Kings, Naughty America, Traffic Cash Gold, and the other hundreds of similar companies) has devaluated the category of 'porn star', which in the past was associated with brand companies like Vivid or Wicked (which still has few contract stars), who business model was built around their 'brand girls'...  
   
 But this devaluation had only limited impact on the porn star escort market. Why? Because this market is not based on the same principles that function for the porn production. In the escort side, girls set the rates independently of who they are as 'porn stars' even though many of them factor in their visibility, career and overall status in porn. In porn you need to be a very big star to command rate x scene higher than the rest of the pool talent. In the escort side, there is less competition, and if you are a top notch porn babes, your rates will correspond to the marketability, your skills and your talent as 'provider' not as a 'porn star.'  
   
 In short, to use a very famous example: Belladonna, arguable one of the greatest performer in porn in the last 3 decades, was a terrible 'porn star escort.' She got out of business in about 3 months. In contrast, Dani Woodward and Kiera King, two absolutely normal porn stars, turned into incredibly spectacular 'porn star escorts'  
   
 Moreover, the people who watch and pay for porn are a completely different 'beast' from those who want to meet and have sex with them. The porn consumers have fantasies that will never be satisfied: only watching more porn will do. The 'hobbyists' is seeking to make that fantasy a reality, and its satisfaction will come to an end only after he has met the porn girl whom he fantasize about.  
   
 The population of jerk off that dominate the PS Board has no intention to meet a 'real porn star', since their pleasure comes from NOT PAYING a dime to jerk off over random porn tube sites.  
   
 The hobbyists who enjoy meeting for 'real' a porn star and not just fantasizing about, calculate the monetary value of that fantasy based on all sort of different factors, including of course 'HOW much it cost meeting a certain porn star.' But they DO NOT see cost as the dominant factor: In short, the dominant factor is 'HOW MUCH I AM WILLING to invest in so and so to satisfy that fantasy.'  
   
 Agencies knows this difference and set up rates accordingly. People who spend their time jerking off on random porn site are not a potential clientele for 'doing business.' So that's why the jerk off population spend so much time on the board: They live vicariously through the guys who 'meet' porn stars and do them.  
   
 So there is no correlation in my view, and this length post should say why I think is so. You overlook the role of the consumers in driving the market, but this is not completely correct, since the market is not a classical 'perfect market.' Supply and demand do not run porn neither its escort side. The porn stars escort market function according to the 'economy of superstars' where talent, skill and other unique assets (from physical to emotional) drive the price in a monopolistic way. Indeed, the so-called 'high end porn stars' and their UTR and VIP UTR counterpart, do not set their rates according to their market, but on what their 'superstar' status is as porn stars and has become as 'provider.'  
   
 Sincerely,  
 BM