ModelMayhemReviews 148

Mayhem means a life-diminishing injury like putting out an eye or severing a hand.

Despite the dark connotation of its name, Model Mayhem presents on the surface as a lighthearted, informal place for models and photographers. Scratch that surface and you find North Korea in microcosm. I know someone on the inside. With the aid of a few free drinks, I have learned many disturbing truths about this site.

Users are the subject of FBI-style dossiers written by self-appointed moderators and killer admins. None of this is disclosed to those users. The gruppenfuherer Admin is Dean Johnson, a man with a history of rudeness and disrespect for his peers. He hides in Minneapolis. Johnson and other admins remain anonymous and communicate their messages of death using a black logo that has a curious resemblance to the ISIS terror banner.

The mods often rely on outside gossip taken from Internet scandal sites to target photographers. Photos that displease the mods are noted like prior arrests under a three strikes law. Some of the site rules are unknown - one user was canned because he uploaded 4 public domain photos of animals and the mods treated that as equivalent to stealing someones copyrighted pictures.

The list never expires. When someone accumulates enough demerits, they are summarily canned without warning. Portfolios that took years of work and thousands of dollars to build are erased with a single mouse click. There is no appeal from the death sentence; any complaint is met by an insulting rebuke.

Continuing with the secret police approach to users, a skilled technical staff searches through ISP data, metadata from pictures and private messages to sniff out and eliminate persons on their significantly-sized enemies list. All in all, its just no fun at all.

This site needs to be taken down and restarted from scratch. Until it is, I would avoid it like the plague.

Nice website but completely lacking customer service and over sight. No phone numbers, direct emails, managers etc. If you want a refund or have a problem don't waste your time trying to resolve it. They just ignore everything while laughing in a bubble. I'm actually surprised the parent company doesn't get more involved.

Model Mayhem first is kind of amateur hour. You aren't going to land the next Victorias secret gig by joining the site. However if you want to reach out to others doing similar things, it can be a decent site for networking. Secondly this site has ridiculous rules and guidelines. I contacted a few models regarding something non model related and model mayhem shut down my account. They did not tell me there was a problem, so I had no warning. They did not offer me any chance to appeal the decision either. I've had this profile for years, and I find it a little ridiculous to see the extreme measures they take for very small non issues. They go out of their way to make sure people never sign up and or pay them money again. This site should work on their customer service skills because they soon will be out of business with their current Mode of Operation.

I am a photographer. Have maintained a piad membership of the MM site for several years.

In July, the jealous boyfriend of a model I photographed made a power play by posting a fabricated slander piece on a notorious scandal site. When this came to attention of the Keystone cop moderators, my account was deleted on a pretext. No warning, no appeal and no refund of fees.

I see from other reviews that shabby treatment of users by the so-called moderators is commonplace. Use this site only if you enjoy beng treated disrespectfully and ripped off for unearned membership fees.

Join this site if you want to be grouped with a bunch of self-entitled D-Bags and the general anti-model kind of community. Photographers think they're better than everyone else. The shoots I've been in, always disrespectful. 'Models' with phone pictures get more attention than legitimate photos and 'photographers' berate you if you have any differing opinion. Also, if you've had a bad shoot and say something, it's YOUR fault because photographers do no wrong. I now have a horrible hatred for photographers and will NEVER waste my time on them again. Get a real job.

I paid for advertising, they banned my account then dropped the ad WITHOUT giving me a refund. Basically stole my money. The moderators are taking their jobs waaayyy to seriously. It's not a forum that enables businesses to grow any longer and there are many political reasons for who gets what job. Avoid at all cost and never do business with them... remember. It's up to them IF they want your ad to go live. In the event that they don't, you've already paid and you are the one out of money -not them.

Whether I'm using this for modeling connections or to share opportunities for casting calls with the members, Model Mayhem proves to be disappointing, unprofessional, and apathetic to helping its members. The only kind of people this benefits are the ones making the money off the sponsored castings or the ones that like to post trashy pictures and get comments for attention (these photos get approved much faster than real modeling photos for actual fashion and editorial work). They're flat out terrible and I will not be using them again. They took down my paid casting call because my profile is technically "model" but I use the site for both purposes (casting and modeling). It sounds like they don't want to help their members, but rather inconvenience them and promote tasteless work. You're better off using craigslist.

This site is strictly exploitin women. If submit a profile with clothed photos, it takes weeks to get approved. If you submit a profile with nude pitures, you are approved within twelve hours.

You will not get paid gigs through this site.
You will recieve harrassment, and abuse from which the moderators do nothing about. If you cannot prove a picture you took was yours, they automatically delete with out explination nor notification. However, despite their guidlines, if you load pronographic photos. Like a girl having oral sex with a man. The photo and profile stays up. You can flag it but it stays on the site.

They are by no means professional, and more of a site for horny guys to ogle and female models, then put their favorites on special lists from which to do who knows what... ok you know what.

OMP has turned down my new profile and membership. They said there new take over is only very high profiles photos and very PROF. Ads for models and photographers. Yeah right---- i got my 14.79$ back plus other charges they took and could not own up to! Im glad as a photographer im out there louzy claws fake ads photos models from years ago-- phony modeling ads nothing up dated and models and photographers. I think they changed becuse of another craigs list and something else happened along the those lines.? There not honest and its worse now-- model mayham is on the same road and going to be the same very soon. Yes best thing is to stay away.!

If you are a new model, it is a good place to start out. I personally went there because I wanted to see if I could even book work before traipsing into the agencies acting all high and mighty. Now if you are looking for legitimate paid work head over to craigslist where there is a lot more "Adult" work but there are also serious paying gigs. If you want to practice and build your portfolio, I would recommend modelmayhem as a good place to start for sure maybe do some networking, but if you depend on it you'll never go anywhere.