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We in the NewsTeam would like to start the magazine with some new important updates from us. After a long and intense discussion in the NewsTeam and together with the Admins we have decided that the team is in a need of a change since we have noticed that the Virtual Popstar community is not interested in news and facts/informative articles anymore; therefore we have decided to change the name and the purpose of the team. From now on, the NewsTeam will be called “Tea Team''. We have a new badge that fits our new approach better and from now on our new purpose is “to spill the tea” which means we will now only discuss gossip in our articles. We hope these changes will be appreciated by the community since it’s something we've been working hard on and been discussing for a long time to make sure to make the VP community happy.
To celebrate our new approach we would like to spill the tea:
Rumours have it that BloomCissi and Atencia had a fight recently and are not talking to each other anymore (unless they are trash-talking each other). Our trustworthy source saw them arguing in a Discord server if it’s okay to have pineapple on pizza and apparently BloomCissi were strongly against that and insulted Atencia by saying “You are ruining a perfectly fine pizza with your disgusting warm pineapple!”. We are hoping they will bring the fight to the threads so we can enjoy some drama!
One of our most trustworthy sources told us that Libertas, who is in BT, NT and SMT, has decided to leave all three teams because they have decided to make their dream of owning a cat café a reality. Our source even sent us the message they received from Libertas; “Hi Jess, can you please remove my badges? I have decided that 2020 will be the year I finally make my dream of owning a cat café a reality which means I unfortunately can’t be in all the teams as well. I’m going to be busy baking, petting the cats and cleaning their litter boxes.” We in the Tea Team really hope Libertas is going to wash their hands before baking or else we won’t visit the café!
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This months Member of the Month is Luminescence. She has been nominated due to her initiative with both the game weekend hosted by FT near the beginning of the month and the Hunger Game Simulator hosted by SMT spanning a couple weeks. In so doing so, she has helped create a sense of community while giving everyone something fun to do to take our minds off the unfortunate circumstances some of us are facing She's always a ray of sunshine and a pleasure to see in the forums.
Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
My name is Maria (but everyone calls me Lumi here), I’m 19 and I live in Finland. Science intrigues me and my dream would be to get accepted into medical school. On my free time I like to watch Netflix, play vp or look for funny memes.
How much time do you spend working on your teams?
It depends if it’s just a regular week or if there are any special, extra events going on. If I had to guess, I’d say 5-10 hours a week. Sometimes I might take extra responsibilities (e.g. those ”extra events” or helping other team members with their duties) so I wouldn’t be surprised if I spent even 15 hours during such week.
What motivates you?
Seeing people’s responses to events/threads I make. If the community likes what I do, it gives me a huge motivation booster to keep working even harder.
Another thing that makes me want to do something for the community is when people complain about being bored in VP. Often I come up with something little, such as The Game Weekend (shoutout to everyone who participated in it - let’s do it again some day!)
Do you think you'll apply to other teams in the future?
Definitely! I love my current teams but I’m interested in few other teams as well, hoping that I’d be given a chance to work for them one day.
Thanks Lumi for the wonderful interview.
If you know someone who has gone above and beyond this month and should be nominated for member of the month, please send a message to the News Team account with who you are nominating and why.
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It's been a busy period for the teams of VP, with no less than three teams hosting applications and finding new members to join them during this month.
First up is the Blogger Team, which hosted applications and subsequently had a Harry Potter-inspired bootcamp last month, before finally announcing their new members two weeks ago. In the end, two new writers and two new layouters were chosen to join the team. We would like to congratulate the new members, and we look forward to seeing what new exciting blog content they'll come up with!
Next up is the Forum Team, which hosted applications at the beginning of March. After the end of the two-week application period, the five new members were announced just over a week ago. Once again, we would like to congratulate the new members, and we look forward to seeing what new threads they'll be making!
The third team to join the action was the Event Team, which hosted applications for the first time in years. Applicants were tasked with either coming up with two new events, making a new layout or submitting a new design, depending on the position they applied for. We are still awaiting the results, so in the meantime, we would like to wish all applicants good luck!
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This month the competition updates page will be pretty short since we only have had SMT’s two who wore it best this month.
This month both the WWIBs was published pretty late in March, the first one was published on March 16th and deadline was March 30th. In the first WWIB, which was hosted by the Instagram group, the female users had to use a red kimono and the male users had to use an orange kimono to dress up with. The prizes were some fabolous hairs, the female one is made by Solovey while the male prize is made by Dani. We wish everyone who entered the competition the best of luck!
The second WWIB this month was hosted by the Twitter group and it was a short WWIB which ran from March 23rd to March 28th. In this WWIB the females had to dress up by using a short brown vest while the males had to use a brown coat. The prizes are some cute dinosaurs made by Wishbone from the Dutch server. Good luck to everyone who entered this competition!