ALSO on top of that shit post i am never going to get off my box that valentino isn't stupid. he lets himself be goofy and light hearted cause that's who he is - and honestly him being light-hearted is often malicious and toying with someone else for his own amusement, or trying to win someone over.
he's been an incredible liability to the vee's, from destroying velvette's studio to destroying vox's property to the countless fights that would leak out to damage the vee's reputation. see ; vox having to stop val from chasing angel down. and through all of this horrible behavior - angel, vox, and velvette never act surprised. they've been through this before with him, many times. velvette knows to call vox, val knows to throw a tantrum IN THE BUSINIESS to get vox's attention, and angel has 0 reaction to val blowing up his phone.
val has to be worth all this trouble to his business partners or frankly neither have the personality that would tolerate him. it's my own personal headcanon that angel's body built most of what the vee's have, provided them money to be able to experiment and expand as far as they did until they were able to self-sustain, and even then angel brings in a fuckload to be the only other person advertised. money wise val brings a fuckload in from just one star alone. but besides that he doesn't fuck around with money or his own business - from his whores working corners, to starring in things himself, to being a director, to his strip clubs, and even being a drug dealer. nevermind managing the countless workers involved in those ventures. val is in A LOT of business shit that he's got a tight grip on. the man works a shit ton and brings in a stupid amount of cash from everything he's involved in. and angel said it best - sex sells.
the amount of profit and dealings in more than just a single business venture would inspire those to keep working with Valentino despite his volatile and borderline unpredictable nature.
val's work just looks like fun more than not when he rarely has time that is actually himself relaxing and even then, his mind never quite leaves 'work mode'. sure, blame it on him having a filthy mind but the man works in low-brow porn - that's his job. his mind doesn't get a break from thinking of the current next film and the need to constantly be turning out content no matter what.