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Tattooed people are generally extremely nice: South African TV host
New Delhi : South African alternate model Brett Rogers, who will be seen hosting TLC’s upcoming TV show “Food, Dudes and Tattoos”, dismisses the misconceptions around tattooed people, saying that they are “generally extremely nice”.
The series follows Rogers on an epic road trip as he travels across South Africa to track down most mouth-watering food establishments, the coolest micro-breweries and the edgiest tattoo parlours.
“Tattooed people across the world are generally extremely nice. Through the show, I want to show the kindness and sensitivity of tattooed people of South Africa,” Rogers, who is himself heavily inked, told IANS in an interview over the phone from Johannesburg.
Rogers narrated a personal incident when he recently received harsh criticism from a stranger for his tattoos.
“There was a lady who was speaking to me for 10 minutes really aggressively about how horrible my tattoos were. Then I told her, ‘Thank you for your words, but you need to understand that you are hurtful and you are insulting me’. She thought that she was a wonderful human being because she wasn’t tattooed,” Rogers said.
However, Rogers said that he always tries to remain “polite and generous” when people criticise him for his tattoos.
“If people are going to come to me and send awful messages to me about my appearance, that is a testament to their way of thinking. They are the ones who look terrible and nasty. So, I am always polite and generous. When they say horrible things to me, I am only polite to them,” he added.
As far as the tattoo culture in South Africa is concerned, Rogers said that the country has no dearth of talent artists.
“We are a conservative country as a whole but there are great artists here. Cities like Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban in general have great artists. They are developing, their techniques are great… We have incredibly talented artists here,” Rogers asserted.
Talking about the concept of the TV show, Rogers said that it involved his most favourite things — food, alcohol and tattoos.
“The concept was brought to me. I knew everything about these three things, so my contacts in South Africa were useful. My idea was to give something useful. We have TV, which is quite aggressive, especially for tattoos, so I wanted to give something generous and beautiful to people,” Rogers said, and added that he hopes that he “can express the love for my country to the people in India”.
The idea behind the show, Rogers says, was to not only show the major cities like Johannesburg or Cape Town, but also the underbelly, the places that get “neglected”.
“The major places we covered were Johannesburg and Cape Town and we spent our main time in Durban. But we didn’t really want to spend too much time in these three places. We stopped along the way in small towns because those parts often get neglected. I have got incredible stuff in the middle of the country,” Rogers said.
He also said that the show is more about the story of the “artists and the chefs”.
“I think we spend so much time preventing each other from interacting. I dislike that… When people meet, they share things and only get better.”
“Food, Dudes and Tattoos” will premiere in India on April 10 every Sunday on TLC.
International online casino Casino Days has published a report sharing their internal data on what types and brands of devices are used to play on the platform by users from the South Asian region.
Such aggregate data analyses allow the operator to optimise their website for the brands and models of devices people are actually using.
The insights gained through the research also help Casino Days tailor their services based on the better understanding of their clients and their needs.
Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
The primary data samples analysed by Casino Days reveal that mobile connections dominate the market in South Asia and are responsible for a whopping 96.6% of gaming sessions, while computers and tablets have negligible shares of 2.9% and 0.5% respectively.
The authors of the study point out that historically, playing online casino was exclusively done on computers, and attribute thе major shift to mobile that has unfolded over time to the wide spread of cheaper smartphones and mobile data plans in South Asia.
“Some of the reasons behind this massive difference in device type are affordability, technical advantages, as well as cheaper and more obtainable internet plans for mobiles than those for computers,” the researchers comment.
Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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