Based on your statement, I did some more research and found out the following:
Distinction between “old” and “new” tariffs
1. existing tariffs from the Trump era (2018-2020)
Under Trump, tariffs on Chinese goods were introduced from 2019, including a 20% tariff on smartphones produced in China and imported into the USA. These tariffs will continue to apply under his second term from 2025. They are the reason why Apple speaks of additional costs and an additional expense of USD 900 million in the current Wall Street Journal article.
2. “New” reciprocity tariffs (from 2025)
Since Trump’s re-election, there have been new, additional punitive tariffs targeting certain import categories from China - e.g. electric motors, vehicles, batteries. Smartphones were explicitly excluded from these “new” tariffs. This means that there was no further increase in tariffs on iPhones beyond the existing 20%.
Apartments closing in this rate is 100% cause greedy managers pull the plug.
RLC to my knowledge is same thing man, pussy to cam and 100% staged situations.they dont fuck as much cause they are full of random girls and not guys participants around.
now i dont know money thing in vhtv but few years ago participants were making what would be a avarage salary in norway, in Norway avarage salary is 3k
@John78 and by the way i think vhtv right now is in the worst era it was ever been.
the whole project has split in just two categories that hurts it.
first category is the one of Medea/Henry/Seduction house/Julia/swera/ that tricks viewers.
oh what people want to see? Party? ok lets give them Party, so gather everyone play cards get naked and go home to sleep. and repeat it again and again and again. viewrs will keep watching.
look Medea, this girl will milk Marya till last drop till will
give her an apartment that there wont be any motivation left.
and the other category is doing nothing at all cause simply cant compete with the fake gang apartments. if a real couple will invite some guests and do something interesting people will watch but the next 6 days people will keep watching fake apartments. so those places pass with a single digit income day after day till the plug is being pulled.
i personaly believe all this harms more vhtv than doing any good.
Not a single apartment was closing down if they where making close to that kind of money
I assume that it was a huge waiting list at Vhtv for people singing up to be participants
In fact, we have some clear examples: all the ex participants that were on both CB and Vhtv have chosen CB without a single doubt. Most of them are still there now. The reason and explanation is quite clear: over there, they earn what they’re working for, while here, they earn what the smart guys are giving them. A very simple choice to make
nobody ever not even vhtv disagree that Managers do all kind of shady horible bissness behind courtains.i think managers is the bigest contreversy in vhtv history.
Totally agree and i’ve said it time after time after time: these apartments/managers are exactly the ones that totally “killed” the Vhtv spirit. It was Anna&Alex at first, then Henry followed, then Flora did the same ( she was “killed” by the others quite fast), and now back to the main gang of managers doing the exact same type of fake apartments. Old time parties ? What for all the trubble ? It is easier to find few workers and fake everything. All the problem is on the managers, especially the 2 main ones. It is this simple
Exactly the same here and we haven’t been in contact with the same people at all. I didn’t wanted to give numbers ( we’re not even allowed to do so) but i’m sure that will leave “open - mouthed” most of the people here
This project does not pay good money. It’s only good as supplemental income on top of a steady base income from another job and should be treated as a part time endeavor, but too many people have thought and tried to make this a full time thing and that almost never works out that way.
It’s not really the project that doesn’t pay good money. It’s the managers/studios existence. Not to mention that, in some cases, on the chain, there are more than the main managers: ( see Medea or Y&R ). And after this, is the payment system, imagine that they’re doing (whatever they do) without having a single clue if they’re getting something for it or not. The fact that they’re accepting something like this, is mind blowing for me
Basically, there’s no real chance of fantastic earnings because you constantly have to navigate between what’s possible to offer the viewer. If you want to stay consistently at the top of the ratings, you have to go to extremes (sex, parties, eccentricity), which in turn drives up costs, food, drinks, accessories and so on. Then there are various penalties that some managers exploited for manipulation, on a personal level, as payment-related ones.
I remember talking to a few tenants who have expressed problems trying to throw parties with no money, where they had to throw the parties to make money but they needed to make money first in order to throw parties. Once you get caught in that cycle it’s pretty much game over.
Add in the fact that (on top of having to split earnings with the manager), your potential audience is split between 50 other apartments and your chance of developing a fanbase is significantly reduced. Then it comes down to, as you pointed out, not only doing extremes but maintaining those extremes because the attention you temporarily attract is constantly fleeting.
I have brought this here as it is massively off topic
You have taken the part you have quoted out of context, your complaint is about similar spelt names, they do sound quite differently if spoken
You have stated that you cannot tell them apart from their physical features
I’m not dismissing the importance of names
my point I was trying to make in this instance was it didn’t matter if one was called JJ or Peter Robert if you are not able to tell them apart,
I was trying to say it didn’t matter if they had extremely different names or similar names, you would still have the same issues telling them apart because the issue for you is Physical features and not what names they are called
