Game show Community / Game Show Fandom - An Autistic Deep Dive into an extremely Autistic community.

[Rudolf's Friend]

Introduction
"I lost on Jeopardy! Baby!"
Weird Al Yankovic, 1984
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Game Shows have been a staple of Television since the very early days of its existence, with people always wanting to go on in order to make tons of money in order to blow it all on hookers and drugs, or at the very least make an ass out of themselves and become remembered as a result. Now traditionally, Game Shows have been associated with the elderly, as we have all likely had some old relative who watches the shows when they're not busy doing anything else, but underneath this picture of old people tuning in all the time, there exists an underbelly filled with autism, both good autism and bad autism, troonery, and all sorts of other degeneracy, and this article will be taking a deep dive into the community, and various sections of it. So Strap Up for the deep dive.

Glossary
Part I: Origins and The Game Show Forums
Part II: The DeviantArt Game Show Community
Part III: The Roblox Game Show Community
Part IV: The Youtube Game Show Community
Part V: The Game Show Journalists
Part VI: Lolcows who have been Contestants
Part VII: Horrorcow Game Show Contestants

Part I: Origins and The Game Show Forums​

The origins of the Game Show fandom likely go back to the olden days of Game Shows, but to put a starting date, we're going to focus on the Internet Game Show Community, and what better place to start than 1994 with one of the first Usenet groups out there, Alt.tv.game-shows.

Alt.tv.game-shows (ATGS)




https://groups.google.com/g/alt.tv.game-shows
Link to the "Why Must Niggers Host Game Shows" article: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.tv.game-shows/c/iRK54s9NC10 https://archive.is/wip/t6Jle
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Founded in the early 90s by former Sale of The Century contestant and Future Jeopardy Contestant Matt Ottinger, but became popular in 1994, Alt.tv.game-shows was a usenet newsgroup where users could discuss any sort of news in regards to game shows, and was also a location where people could play games based on game shows made by other people, and every year since 1994 awards were held for each show. The group would reach the peak of its popularity in the late 90s and early 2000s, but spam and the general rise of Forums replacing Usenet would cause the group to decline rapidly, however people would still post on the group until Google decided to end support to Usenet in February 2024, with this being the last post ever made.
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"The" Game Show Forum

https://www.gameshowforum.org​

As mentioned, by the early 2000s, ATGS would become infested with spam due to the lack of moderation that Usenet had and with the rise of Forums around this time, Ottinger along with another game show fanatic, Chris Clemenson, would create a forum where like ATGS people could discuss game shows, but this time it would be heavily moderated, and that's what happened in December of 2002 with the creation of The Game Show Forum, which by the name of the title was created to be the Game Show Forum to end Game Show Forums.
The website would peak in the mid 2000s as like many other forums it would be killed due to the rise of Reddit, however there is another major factor that led to the death of the forum, and that was in December 2013, when the website moved its base from Invision Power Boards to Simple Machines, the moderators of the site, barring Ottinger who by this point had left his moderation post but continued to be a regular contributor to the website, decided to make the website invitation-only, barring anyone from just simply signing up for a new account, and the website has remained this way ever since, with the site continuing down a slow downward death as the few people still able to post on the website continuing to contribute to the website.

Game Show Paradise

https://gsparadise.proboards.com​

In December of 2012, a new Game Show forum would emerge as a competitor to the Game Show Forum, and that was Game Show Paradise. Likely created by former Game Show Forum members who didn't like how the site had declined by this point, Game Show Paradise is a website that is just about the same as the Game Show Forum, only that there's more sections and its more split up. Game Show Paradise would try to spread its wings during its early days by creating a Twitter account, Facebook account, Tumblr account, Twitter account, and Discord server, but it seems by now that all of these are dead projects, and the site is also mostly quiet, albeit a bit louder than the Game Show Forum since they have registration unlocked.

Golden Road.net

https://www.golden-road.net
ED article on the site​

Besides the big forums that discuss every show, there are forums that are specifically made to discuss specific game shows, and one of those websites is Golden-road.net, created back in 1998 by Marc Green ClockGameJohn and Robert Searcy (who apparently had friction was the prior 2 back in 2007 due to banned a chat moderator, FPGWillyT, for apparently abusing his powers but Searcy had ironically enough abused his powers so he lost his powers.) specifically to discuss The Price is Right. The big drama that they had back in the day was back in 2007-2008, they were staunch fans of Bob Barker, and hated when he retired from the show and Drew Carey took over. They had all sorts of drama and unfunny in jokes, and it peaked in 2008 when longtime producer Roger Dobkowitz was fired from the show for unspecified reasons and Marc Green went on a power trip and banned fucking everything as a result. Today the site has mostly been quiet since those days, but the memories of that drama continue to linger on.

People of Interest
Matt Ottinger

Arguably the Father of the Internet Game Show Community. Matt first appeared as a contestant on Sale of the Century all the way back in 1985, and lost. However he used that fame to host a local quiz show in Lansing, Michigan named Quizbusters for decades until the show ended in 2018. During his tenure hosting, he would create Alt.tv.game-shows, co-create the Game Show Forum, and would appear on Jeopardy in 2004, losing again due to playing against Ken Jennings, who is considered to be the greatest Jeopardy Player in history. Ottinger also arguably started the trend of self-flaggeling with in-jokes, for example in January of 2008 he started a joke on the Game Show Forum where his name would be used like the old Chuck Norris meme.

Marc Green

(Most Recent Picture I could Find on Him during a taping of The Price is Right from 2004)

Marc Green is the founder and co-owner of Golden-Road.net, and his running of the site would make him a friend of former Price is Right Producer Roger Dobkowitz. So Naturally when Dobkowitz was fired from the show, Green was exceptionally pissed over the firing, and he has been involved with many projects that have involved Roger over the years.

Zach Horan (legendneverdies) (aaaa)

Zach Horan is arguably the most infamous member within the Game Show Forum scene, and this is because hes been in all of them, ATGS, Game Show Forum, Game Show Paradise, Jboard.tv, and he's been banned from nearly all of them, and that is because he is a self-admitted troll within the community, constantly fucking with people who the communities that he's in, and his harassing of former game show contestants, in particular female contestants. He's also infamous for a term called the "Celebrity Bucket Kickers" to refer to Game Show figures who have since passed away, something that he's apparently done since June 9, 2006 in regards to 25th anniversary of the death of Allen Ludden. Today Zach mostly posts on the Game Show Paradise site under the name "aaaa".

Casey Abell (Game Show Follies)

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.tv.game-shows/c/Qhsm3FtowUo (A good look at the community's thoughts on him)
his page​

Casey Abell was a supposed Pants-shitter who ran a blog called Game Show Follies starting in 2009 which was a very infamous blog due to Casey's own feuds with other bloggers such as Cory Anotado (Who will be talked about in the Game Show Journalists section), Game Show Paradise, and Game Show Garbage (which will be discussed in the Youtube section) and his own erratic actions. The biggest reason why he is controversial is because of his opinions on shows, which range on Armond White levels of contrarianism sometimes and his staunch defending of these takes. Ultimately in 2023 Casey would leave the internet and end Game Show Follies due to illnesses, putting the end to a very controversial man in the community and the a-logging against him.

Conclusion of Part I​

Now these people may not be that interesting, but it is a perfect place to start as it discusses the origins of the community, and as we go on I will dive deeper into the community and the various figures in it who make these people look tame in comparison. In the next section we will discuss the degeneracy that exists within the DeviantArt Game Show community, and all of the furries and other shit you see with DeviantArt but focusing on those within the Game Show community, and how they connect both worlds into a single world.

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

Part II: The DeviantArt Game Show Community
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Its been well documented about all of the autism, the degeneracy, and the horrifying things that exist on DeviantArt, and there is no better place where the autism can be found than in DeviantArt's game show community. You see since many of these game shows have been on for Decades, there is all sorts of autism that can be found on the website, where every sort of art piece that was used on a game show is redesigned and remade by people, many of which are made in lets just say interesting ways.

Now that's not to say all of the art is bad, as I would put all of the art into 3 different categories. First there are the autists who actually put the work in and make actual accurate art (the rarest by far).

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Then there are those who are lazy and just either reskin already existing art or just make shitty drawings.

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And then you have the fuckers who just put any sort of intellectual property into game shows because they're extremely autistic about that.

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And so because of the autism that has emerged with deviantart, it has created quite a few cows that have existed, with a few having been documented as a result of their own actions, and here's a list of a few that are particularly interesting.

People of Interest
Erik "Taz" Mokracek/MollyHaleIsMyFriend/MGHSHour
MagicMush video about him

Probably the most famous Game Show Lolcow out there, Erik is known for not only his obsession with Game Shows but also his obsession with kids from TV shows from the 80s and 90s and combining both into some weird autistic page where he posts the same stuff over and over and over again, alongside some weird ass fanfics and his infamous singing to Game Show theme songs. Due to being called out for his weird obsessions, Erik would constantly fight with any sort of people calling him out, including a-logs who have been fucking with him ever since he was discovered.

David Frangioso/tpirman1982
Youtube Account
DeviantArt
Furaffinity


David is probably the textbook example of what happens when you combine furfaggotry with Game Shows. Under the Tpirman1982 username, (he's not the only person we will cover that gave away his birthyear) David would constantly post about game shows, and furry characters, particularly the character Minerva Mink from Animaniacs, and since then this is what his DeviantArt has looked like.

He also has a youtube account where he has the tendency of adding the Light Border that was used on The Price is Right to all sorts of various videos that he does, alongside uploading old videos Sesame Street and Game Shows.


Bill Gename/germanname1990

Youtube
Deviantart
Facebook
Instagram
Twitter
Bill Gename, Better known online as Germanname1990, is another sperg who seems to combine his obession with Game Shows with something else, in this case Sonic the Hedgehog, an autist's classic.


As you can see whenever he's not making custom Wheels for the Wheel of Fortune that will likely never be used in history, Bill is drawing Sonic The Hedgehog art of custom OCs using colored pencils that make the art look very dubious in regards to the quality that he uses for his art. The art that he does like, just like our boy David's is also very interesting as its mostly the same stuff that he's into, although unlike David his favorite art is less pornographic in nature.
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Nader Feiross Muhieddine/Nadscope99​

DeviantArt
YouTube
Facebook
Threads
Twitter
Instagram

Nader Feiross Muhieddine (try pronouncing that name fast) is yet another autist on this list who seems to love combining his love of game shows with something unrelated, In Nader's case it happens to be Total Drama Island, a show that is well known for having a very interesting fanbase due to all of the autism that surrounds all of the relationships with all of its characters.



He is also well known for being a Wheel of Fortune fanatic, speficially being a fan of Wheel of Fortune from the Late 90s, where he uploads all sorts of clips and art related to the show on both his deviantart and his youtube page.



If you are wondering what the Video Segments are for, they're for a Wheel of Fortune game made by a guy in the community named BigJon who is well known for making all sorts of video games based on Game Shows during the 2000s and early 2010s. The Wheel of Fortune game has a black guy named iKing who insults you every time you hit a bankrupt or call the same letters which is what the clips are meant to replace.

Conclusion of Part II​

DeviantArt's extremely low standards are well known to everybody with a brain that there are huge amounts of autism that exists on the site that give us all sorts of art, most of which being incredibly shitty, and this managed to spread into the Game Show community on the website, who have managed to give the world all sorts of crazy connections with game shows that it is truly difficult to describe, and of course some of these people have some interesting art that is definitely odd to the point that you wonder what kind of sick fetishes they are really into. In the next section we will move to yet another section that is well known for the amounts of autism and debauchery that exists within it's community, and that is Roblox.

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[Rudolf's Friend]

Part III: The Roblox Game Show Community
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Roblox, for all of its faults and all of its issues, has always been known as a place where people can create whatever they want in the lego-like style, and one of those things that people have created has been game shows. The Roblox Game Show Community goes all the way back to at least 2012, but would start to gain popularity around 2015 as more tools became available to Roblox users. With this new wave of people coming in though, many kids came in that were the perfect example of the kind of people you usually want to gatekeep, as they would quickly take over the community and make a clique around it who have control over all of the major groups that exists.

TOF Studios

(Autistic video that they made to promote themselves)
Roblox Group
Discord
Facebook​

One of the earliest groups having been founded on May 8, 2014, and the oldest that is still around, TOF not only makes games based on game shows, they also make shitty talk shows since they're into that for some reason. TOF also has a reputation of being very far-left when it comes to its userbase, with about half of its community being a part of the Alphabet Mafia in some way shape or form, and they will immediately ban you if you disagree in any ways shape or form with their politics. They had also fled Twitter for Bluesky after the election, but then returned to twitter. Today, TOF has 8,576 members in their group, with many in their discord server.

Game Show League (GSL)


Youtube
Roblox Group​

Founded on November 8, 2019 by user Datspity/DATboii656. The Game Show League is arguably the most well known group when it comes to Roblox Game Shows, although it had a rough start, as the group would go under and then be revived in 2021. The concept behind Game Show League is that they make Game Shows made before the 2000s.

Mikey Does Stuff (MDS)



Roblox Group
twitter
Discord
Guilded​

Founded on June 14th 2021 by exclusivemixhael2, MDS is a rising Game Show Group that has also decided to dip its toes into Roblox Professional Wrestling, but not to the same amount of success as its Game Show Group seems to be. Like TOF, MDS is very progressive and its fanbase will ban you for criticizing their beliefs due to it being ran by the aforementioned clique.

Gameshow Currency Winnings (GCW)/The Price is Right: Robloxia



GCW Roblox Group
Price is Right Roblox Group
Old Roblox Group
Youtube
Twitter​

The Price is Right: Robloxia is the oldest Roblox Game Show Game still running. It was first started up on December 25, 2012, and ran until 2017 when the group was shut down. Around the same time a new group, Gameshow Currency Winnings, would emerge through the creation of a guy named ThePrimeLine, and they would ultimately revive The Price is Right Robloxia in 2022. Like MDS and TOF, GCW is also well known for its far-left fanbase, and its disproportionate amount of Alphabet Mafia members that exist in the group.

People of Interest

Jacob A. Sachleben/Jsach



Roblox Account
Threads Account (since dead)
Twitter
Tiktok
Bluesky
Instagram
Youtube
Old Youtube

Jacob Sachleben, or Jsach as he refers to himself on the internet (Because he's either too stupid to not put in a different id or too much of a narcissist to not use a different name, is a celebrity within the Roblox Game Show sphere, and a member of the clique. Sachleben has been involved with the community for a while, but is mainly involved with The Price is Right Robloxia with behind the scenes work. He has also been on the Real Life show before once, and also has connections with the infamous Buzzerblog by getting involved with their 24 hour game show marathons alongside being a moderator for their discord server. Jacob, like many of his friends, is also very left-wing in his political beliefs despite going to a Christian College, and is very much a notorious attention whore.

MikeTheKav/Astrid/AstridAmongTheSkies


Roblox account

The most well known tranny within the Roblox Game Show Community, and another member within the clique, MikeTheKav (Now calling himself Astrid although he continues to be referred to under Male Pronouns), is heavily involved with many groups behind the scenes, and also hosts shows that are ran by Mikey Does Stuff, where he is also the Head Moderator of the Group (I'm sure having a mentally ill tranny as your head mod is the best thing to do for a group).

MorganNye


Youtube
DeviantArt
Twitter

MorganNye is arguably the MollyHaleIsMyFriend of the RGSC. Like Erik he is extremely autistic, and you can see it in the posts and content that he makes, alongside his weird obsession with Wheel of Fortune. His love for Game Shows brought him into the RGSC, and ultimately he would be kicked out of it due to an incident during a group's playing of Family Feud, where he would whisper to formerly prominent member Maj about his thoughts regarding trannies, as Maj pretended to be an FTM troon to bait him in.



Needless to say this would only be the beginning of the drama with Morgan, as he would later be found to be a pedophile, have sorts of all twisted fetishes from diapershit, and in general being a fucking creep.



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Expose​

Needless to say, Morgan has become a very infamous member in the community, and despite all of the drama and being blacklisted from the community, Morgan continues to fuck with the community by hacking into various groups and destroying their games, causing paranoia around the RGSC over anyone who even thinks about using the name Morgan, believing that they are all him.

Conclusion of Part III​

Roblox seems to be a never-ending cesspit of Drama in regards to the people involved in its community, and its Game Show Community is no different. From power-hungry trannies who try to turn the group into a circlejerk where nobody can criticize them, to Autistic pedophiles, the Roblox Game Show Community is a never-ending source of drama, and it is no wonder why it seems more and more a dying community thanks to just all of the autism that encapsulates it. Now with the next section, we will discuss a Game Show community that is older than the Roblox community, but younger than the Forums, and that is of course, Youtube.

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

Part IV: The Youtube Game Show Community

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Now this will be a shorter chapter compared to the prior chapters, but it will help connect cows into the rest of the Game Show Community. Game Show related content has been uploaded onto YouTube a ton over the years, mainly old game shows that were aired in the past through taping, and in many ways these are the only way to ever see some game show episodes ever again. The corporations who own these shows, like everything else, don't like when this content is uploaded and they do a lot of copyright claiming, especially if its an episode that they are planning to air on Television. Besides this there are also those who discuss Game Show related content and its history, and many of those people have interesting histories.

People of Interest
Robert Seidelman/Cyndi Seidelman/Sigmafan
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Robert Seidelman (now calling himself Cyndi since 2014 since he trooned out) was the owner of Game Show Garbage, a Game Show version of Wrestlecrap (of which he was formerly a writer at) where he would tear down game shows, hosts, and other game show related content that were awful (or at least what he considers awful). Robert's Youtube presence began on May 13, 2006 with the sigmafan channel, but he would then create the Game Show Garbage Youtube Channel (Now known as Game Show Gumbo) where he would comment on Game Show-related content. Game Show Garbage would ultimately end its life in 2023, with Robert putting full focus on his Game Show Gumbo channel, where he continues to do videos in a monotone ramble and struggling to keep looking into the camera.

Jim Williams/FOXSportsFan (RIP)
Old Youtube Channel
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Jim Williams was a local radio host for local college football games in the Philadelphia area but was mainly known within the Game Show Community for his association with Game Show Garbage, showing stupid people say stupid answers on Game Shows alongside doing some commentary and a few articles whenever Robert was too lazy to do the articles himself. Ultimately, Jim would succumb to cancer at the young age of 32 in 2017, and his death could be considered the real decline of Game Show Garbage, as losing a friend likely hurt Robert a lot.

John Ricci Jr./JRJGames


imdb
JRJGames Youtube
Game Show Pilots Youtube​

John Ricci Jr. is a literal fag who is involved in Television production for some Game Shows over the years, and makes all sorts of flash animation software similar to Buzzerblog, except using his friends in these animations for some reason. It also happens that he's """""Married""""" to washed out former 1980s TV Teen Glenn Scarpelli, and most recently he has been using the Youtube account of old game show host Wink Martindale as a way to upload game show pilots by skinwalking as Wink and using a bunch of ai-generated art to promote the pilots in question.

The Nerd Nest with MartYtraM/Geeky American Otaku​

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Instagram
Youtube​

This guy is basically what I would consider the Wrestling Otaku of the Game Show community, as he combines his obsession with one thing with an obsession over anime, but I think that's the only comparison you can make. Marty loves making videos where he has anime characters playing on game shows, and he also makes videos where he tries to add all of this stuff into game shows back when he was watching as he thinks it will make these shows great again.

Mtiller2006/Michael Tiller (Inactive)

Youtube
Facebook
ED article about him.​

Michael Tiller aka Mtiller2006 was an interesting sperg on Youtube, as when he wasn't doing shitty lets plays of games or talking about game shows, Mike would interview Game Show Personalities and contestants in a very creepily manner, and would also like John Ricci Jr, make his own flash animations of him hosting game shows, except his were absolutely shit quality with no redeeming factors whatsoever.

Conclusion of Part IV​

While the Youtube Game Show Community itself is not really that interesting, it seems to spread its tentacles into the other communities, with many figures from the other communities also being involved with Youtube as well. And one of those groups that seems to make its way into Youtube, is the next section on this list, and that is the Game Show Journalists.

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[Rudolf's Friend]

Part V: The Game Show Journalists
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Ah Yes Journalists, the most beloved figures out there. Well known for telling the truth about everything and never once having a scandal that has hurt their credibility in any way shape or form. Journalism seems to be in every medium out there, and its unsurprising that since Game Shows are a medium, that the journalists would follow into it, or people looking to become journalists on their own. So let us take a look at the most known Game Show dirtrags out there.

Buzzerblog

Website
Facebook
Threads
Twitter (Locked because they hate Elon)
Bluesky
Instagram
Youtube
Discord​

Established in 2005 by Cory Anotado and Alex Davis, Buzzerblog is the most well known game show blog out there, although they are not by any means the most accurate when it comes to their news. One of the most well known traits of Buzzerblog is its snarkiness and unfiltered attitude that it does not hide. With both Cory and Alex being far-leftists, Buzzerblog constantly lets their political opinions slip into their beliefs to the point of calling for the heads of their enemies, and also their blatant Anglophilia, believing that all American Game Shows made before 1990 (and all Non-cable game shows made before 1999) are garbage and not worth your time while acting like British Game Shows are God's greatest gift to Earth.

Game Show NewsNet



website

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Game Show NewsNet is a smaller outlet than Buzzerblog, but it is older than Buzzerblog having been founded in 1999 by Jason Elliot. It is mainly used to repost articles written by other publications on Game Shows and Reality TV shows.

People Of Interest
Cory Andre Anotado/Pacdude/Pacdude Games

Youtube
Twitter (since locked)
Instagram
Bluesky
Website
Cory Anotado is an Obese Filipino Far-Leftist Tranny Chaser and Game Show Fanatic who if there was any way you could describe him, he is the Filipino MovieBob/Andrew Dobson except he decided to create shitty flash games and obsess over Game Shows. Cory has managed to be on Television multiple times in his life, most recently back in 2022 when he was on Jeopardy and lost to infamous tranny Thomas ""Amy" Schneider, and he uses his PacDude Games to make money, but Cory is best known for running and co-founding Buzzerblog, and since then he has used the rag as an attempt to influence the world of game shows. Along with this, Cory was also elected to Baltimore's LGBTQ+ Commission in his usual frumpled, disgusting look.

Alex Davis

Muckrack page
LinkedIn
Threads

Alex Davis is the other co-founder and owner of Buzzerblog, and manages the social media accounts of the site. Alex, like John Ricci Jr., is also a homosexual who has worked in Television production in the past, but today Alex now works as a Musician, albeit to little success. Like Cory, Alex is also known for his outspoken far-left beliefs that constantly blend into his writings, and he is also the reason for the blatant Anglophilia in Buzzerblog's writings, to the point that this dude put England as his location on Muckrack. Today, besides running Buzzerblog, Alex makes fake hate crimes against himself in the style of Jussie Smollett.

Josef Adalian/TVMoJoe


Vulture Archive
Twitter
Bluesky
Muckrack

Josef Adalian is a fat fuck TV journalist who has been around since the early 90s in some way shape or form, and currently resides at the Vulture writing dogshit articles for their publication. While Josef doesn't exclusively write about Game Shows, he is a total Game Show Fanatic as shown on his profiles, and just like fellow fat fuck Cory who he has ties with and has written about, is also very outspoken in his far-left beliefs to the point that it blends into his articles. Unlike Cory however, Joe is smart enough to mostly hide his face from photos, with photos of him being very rare like a four-leaf clover.

Conclusion of Part V:​

Journalists are well known for being the most despised group of people out there, and for good reason. They are well known for the fact that they can't just seem to shut their mouth and tell the truth, they have to keep adding their dogshit opinions to everything and present it as fact, and it affects ever hobby out there. So now that the journalist bashing part of the deep dive is over, we now move on to what is the most important section of every game show, the contestants, and we're going to take a look at some names you likely recognize and names that are well known for being fucked up in the head.

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[Rudolf's Friend]

Part VI: Lolcows who have been contestants
Arthur Racian Chu/arthur_affect
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Arthur Chu is well known among lolcow spheres for his massive crying about Gamergate and the shenanigans he did to defend Zoe Quinn from those evil terroristic GooberGaeters, but he is also well known for his Jeopardy Streak back in 2014. Arthur was arguably the most hated contestant on Jeopardy, as he showed no redeemable qualities on the show and continued to act like an asshole to everybody. Despite this, Arthur would be brought back on Jeopardy multiple times over the years, most recently in 2024 during a Jeopardy Reunion Tournament.

Dylan James Mulvaney/Days of Girlhood

Today Dylan Mulvaney is known for being that weird tranny that caused the massive Bud Light Boycott and arguably was the spark that led to the rolling back of DEI projects everywhere thanks to his little Days of Girlhood stunt he did, but right before he trooned out, Dylan would go on The Price is Right in Christmas 2020 during the Pandemic, which was the shittiest period in the show's history since there was no crowd among other things. Dylan would manage to get on the show, do a bunch of flapping and other gay shit, win a pool table, and fall to the Big Wheel.

Talia Lavin/swordsjew

Talia Lavin is a shitty journalist well known for crying about the imaginary nazi boogeyman, and in 2015 she would use her jew magic to get on Jeopardy. Unfortunately for Talia she perform extremely poorly on the show, only getting a few clues right, and when her plan on winning lots of money on the show failed, she tried to get herself viral by writing what you see in pic related. After the fame had subsided Talia would then claim that there were evil sexists harassing her on twitter and white knights such as Cory Anotado would rush to Talia's aid.

Thomas "Tommy" E. Schneider/Amy Schneider/Jeopardamy

(not posting the post-op picture nobody needs to see that man-made horror)
Threads
Twitter
Bluesky
Tommy Schneider was a young boy who had a dream of being on Jeopardy, and he had tried multiple times to get on the show, but he just didn't have the personality that the show wanted. Years later following a change in the show's production staff, and a trooning out, Tommy would finally accomplish his dream by becoming the biggest "Female" winner on the show by being fed a bunch of weak people (including Cory Anotado) to make himself look better. Today Tommy continues to be a plague on Television as he continuously appears in all sorts of Jeopardy tournaments despite being shitty at all of them.

Paul Michael Larson/Michael Larson (Dead)

Game Show Appearances
Back in the 1980s most game shows were daytime ventures, and you couldn't exactly win a lot of money on them (although back then the dollar was worth much more than it is now). One man though who thought other wise was an unemployed Ice Cream Truck Driver named Michael Larson. Michael had a dream of being rich, and he tried to do it in all sorts of ways, from unemployment schemes to all sorts of other get rich quick schemes, when one day while watching Press Your Luck, Michael saw that the board that they used, which was claimed to be completely randomized by a computer, was not actually randomized and relied on a bunch of patterns, such as this one here.

So with these patterns recognized, Michael would spend all of his money flying to LA in order to audition for the show in early 1984, and because of his sob story and character, he was able to get on the show. Using the knowledge from watching the patterns, in the second round which had spaces which not only gave money but extra spins on the board, he was able to rack up over $100,000 in cash and prizes, howling like a hyena and shaking his hands around whenever he hit the money, before ending when his concentration was becoming tired. Despite attempts by the Standards and Practices at CBS to try and prove that he cheated, Michael was cleared of any wrongdoing since he had just exploited a loophole in the game's system and got his money, with the show patching up the loophole with a bunch of new patterns to prevent it from ever happening again.
Ultimately Michael would spend much of his new wealth on ponzi schemes and his daughter's birthday, and then he withdrew the rest of it in 1 dollar notes to try and win some radio contest involving serial numbers. Robbers would then break into the house with all of the money. Years later in the 90s, Michael would run a multi-level marketing scheme where he stole almost $2 million from a bunch of investors and with the FBI, IRS, and SEC hot on his tail, Michael would flee to Florida, where he would ultimately succumb to throat cancer in 1999. Today Michael's run on Press Your Luck continues to remain legendary, with multiple documentaries being released about it.

Part VII: Horrorcows who have been contestants

So now that we've gone on to just some of the many lolcows who have managed to get onto game shows, lets get into some of the horrowcows who have managed to slither their way into game shows, and what heinous activities they have done.


Rodney James Alcala/Rodrigo Jacques Alcala/The Dating Game Killer (Dead)


Game Show Appearance

Rodney Alcala is by far the most famous Game Show horrorcow, and argruably one of the most famous murderers in history, as in the late 70s he would go on to murder at least 8 people in California, and it just so happened that while he was on his murdering spree, he would go on to the Dating Game to find a new victim to get his hands on. Luckily for the victim though she wouldn't go on the date with him after the show ended. Despite being sentenced to Death, Rodney would never face execution and continued to rot in a California Jail cell until he finally died on July 24, 2021.

Matthew Fenwick

Game Show Appearance
Article about arrest

Matthew Fenwick was a pedophile who in November 1997 he raped 2 girls who were 8 and 10 respectively, and then would run off to Los Angeles to appear on an episode of Wheel of Fortune and made some money on his episode. 2 days after his episode aired in March 1998, Fenwick would be identified and would be arrested, serving a 6 year prison term before being released in 2004.

Timothy Bliefnick



Youtube video about arrest.
article about arrest

Timothy Bliefnick was just your average guy who would have lucky getting his family onto Family Feud in 2020. 3 years later though, Tim, who was in the middle of a divorce with his wife Rebecca, would ultimately kill his wife after she didn't pick up their kids from school. Tim would ultimately be convicted of the murder and serve life in prison, but Coincidentally, when he was on Family Feud, he would make a joke about him loving his wife in response to a question of "What was the biggest mistake you made at your wedding?"

Winston Nguyen


Youtube video about arrest.

Article about arrest

Winston Nguyen at one time had it all, he had a high-paying cushy job as a teacher of a private school in New York, he managed to be a delegate at the 2008 DNC, and he managed to appear and win a few games on Jeopardy back in 2014. Years later his life came crashing down when he was arrested first in 2017 for stealing over $300,000 from an elderly couple while working as a caretaker, and would serve 5 months in jail for it, but it would get worse for him in 2024, as he was arrested in front of his students for soliciting child pornography of students between the ages of 13 and 15, and will likely serve jail for a very long time.



Conclusion of the Deep Dive​

The Game Show community is filled with many interesting individuals, ranging from simple autists, to actual fucked up freaks, and in many ways it is a perfect reflection of the country that it airs in. It gives a spotlight on all sorts of individuals and who the media wants to get the attention. Sometimes degenerates manage to sneak their way in, and they end up getting exposed because of it, and sometimes you just have autists who you just have to wonder what is going on in their head. I hope that this deep dive gave everyone a good look at some of the strangers and freaks of the Game Show Community.

 

[Irene and 22 others]

That's an impressive lolcow showcase.

 

[Spungus]

For some reason, reading through all of it filled me with a sense of existential dread - the level of obsession over something so (not to get on a high horse on a gossip forum) vapid is simply depressing.
The horrorcows were almost a relief, having more to them than just trapped in a daytime TV hell

Great job!

 

[Looney Troons]

This was a fascinating read.

 

[Breadbassket]

This thread shows me that the Game Show Community is as wide as a Wheel of Fortune table and as deep as Jeopardy's range of question categories.

 

[themanwhowalks]

Fantastic write up. Definitely strange, sometimes wholesome, completely autistic. I knew about a few of the horror cows who had been on gameshows, but I had no idea Dylan and Chu had been on them.

The roblox community was a bit endearing, especially the comments on youtube that said things like "thats me in the crowd."

 

[Maximilian Rez D'Fault]

Interesting thread, good info too.
"Amy" Schneider is the reason I stopped watching Jeopardy. Couldn't stand to see that guy's face anymore and it felt like he was on for months. Alex Trebek is rolling in his grave.

 

[Oddity]

Thanks for this! Great work

 

[neger psykolog]

Great thread, very nicely laid out and easy to read

 

[Patrick Not-Star]

Interesting thread, good info too.
"Amy" Schneider is the reason I stopped watching Jeopardy. Couldn't stand to see that guy's face anymore and it felt like he was on for months. Alex Trebek is rolling in his grave.

I noticed that around this time, the questions appeared to get dumbed down as well. There were fewer questions about stuff like ancient Greek philosophy or obscure geography and more questions about pop culture, as well as much more recent history and literature.

 

[Autistic Gunspergings]

This is a fascinating thread and a great one at that, nice work OP. Surprised to see this in lolcow general instead of community watch.

 

[Cucurbita King]

Interesting thread, I wonder what the future holds considering the kinda completing move away from analog. Plently of gold ahead. Anyway, back to gamba.

 

[Admiral Throbnelius]

This should be moved to Community Watch.

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

This should be moved to Community Watch.

I put it here because I got the idea for it from this unfinished thread about how Tumblr affected the internet and I assumed it would belong here too since it was very in depth. It was such a good thread that I did my own take on it but had it focus on the Game Show Community instead.

 

[Chongqing]

Trannies ruin jeopardy like you guys wouldn't believe. There was one on last week with a modern LGBT/BLM flag pin.

He lost.