I really think fishtank is unique in that the prize doesn't matter, the points do not matter. The 2nd place in season 1 got a big payout because they liked them. It is constantly teased that the payout is actually only 5k, or that the contract says they don't have to pay anything. People are rioting that the 50k should be paid to LUKE who is a plant!!!
This shit is 50k before taxes, not a million dollars, who the fuck cares lol
The prize isn't that much money, but the wiggers do bill (or have done so in the past) Fishtank as being a way for desperate zoomers to become internet famous and never have to work again. The kind of people who would endure 6 weeks of shit for $50k are not the same as those would endure it for a million dollars.
In any case you're thinking in the now. People are a bit exhausted/tired from 4 or 5 weeks that Fishtank has been running as pretty much a 24/7 adrenaline rush. It's tiring to follow the series.
The winner matters on a much larger scale. When the edited episodes are released, people will remember who the winner is primarily and it will be one of the things that people look at or how they learn about the series. A
satisfying winner and satisfying conclusion is a lot better at selling the series than a haphazardly decided one.
I really did not, do not and will ever care for Josie. She is totally unremarkable besides being "le funny autistic quirky but actually just some zoomer chick who is putting on an act" - but I do remember that she and Letter split the prize.
Who will the winner of Season 3 be? Some unremarkable woman with blue hair? Some other normie totally unremarkable woman who is a lesbian or some shit?
or will it be a 160+ IQ Daddy Dom schizonigger who is known for having jacked off publicly throughout most of the series (I mean he will probably be well remembered for that alone, but
it really does matter who the winner is if people tune into the series later on)
And just remember that when it comes to livestreamer fags, people have normal jobs and can't watch Kai Cenat or Pewdiepie or whatever faggot. Their edited videos always get way, way more views.
Keep in mind the current "peak" viewercount of fishtank season 3 has been between 10-15k viewers.
The view counts aren't in the tens of millions for sure, but for normal people who don't have the time to watch a fucking 24/7 livestreamed show and sit refreshing tweeter, 4chud and kiwifarms - they will look at edited shit like this. And if the wiggers do a really good job of it, there is some potential they can license it to Netflix or other places and get partnership agreements from it or they could even get videos with millions of views.
If they do a really good job of editing and make it appealing for "mass appeal"/normies then it means future seasons, fundraising and other things will get more attention overall.
So in the moment, right now, the winner and the $50k may seem like a totally not important factor, but 2 or 3 years from now when people look back on the series it really will matter.