Tati: I have never escorted so I cannot comment on that as an SL career. There are many dancers in SL and not all of them emote with the same enthusiasm as me, the stripping world in SL has changed a lot and the guests don't seem to appreciate that dancing in SL is performance art and unless they tip us or reward us then they are losing half the fun. I used to be tipped 10s of 1000s and remember their tip wars that went on in clubs years ago when dancers were making very good incomes from sl. these days a dancer can spend days in a club for a few hundred and some clubs actually have a very small footfall so the incomes can be equally small.
I have people that enjoy me and have known me for years and follow me when I move clubs, these people keep me going and have become friends and new people find me.
Emoting is the essence of a good dancer and if you can’t do that then you are not likely to make very much.
VYM: can we say that emoting when dancing in SL by a professional, costs less that as if someone would be visiting an SL club, yet getting almost the same pleasure?
Tati: when I emote, I describe what I would be doing on a real life stage interacting with real people, I hope I create pictures in the guests minds and by doing that give them some fun and pleasure.
Is that what you were asking?
VYM: actually, saying that a professional gives you almost the same feeling and it costs less, so yes we need dancers, right?
Tati: I would agree with that.
VYM: checking my notes, I see I wrote something about good tippers and that SL has change, what do you mean by that?