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With a (questionable) W from James Drake, how would you rate season 5 of Fishtank?

  • 1 Star — Absolute disaster. Unwatchable, boring, production fucked it up bad, the fish were lame

    Votes: 56 7.3%

  • 2 Stars — Pretty bad. Some funny moments, dragged, too many vibe repair days. Barely worth checking.

    Votes: 87 11.4%

  • 3 Stars — Average. Solid entertainment in spots, some good chaos and crashouts, but nothing special

    Votes: 169 22.1%

  • 4 Stars — Really good. Lots of hilarious moments, strong fish personalities, solid content and vibes

    Votes: 405 53.0%

  • 5 Stars — Peak Fishtank / Masterpiece. Non-stop insanity, legendary fish and production, pure chaos

    Votes: 47 6.2%
  • Total voters
    764
Polyboros2 said:
I am curious, do we have any indication any of these women were found from the casting agency? I could see it as a test for if professionally casted contestants could handle the culture of the show.
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Definitely none of the main cast. Shadi was a pretty big fan of Fishtank while Claire and Haley knew less but were pretty familiar with various bits of lore. Juliana and Kato asked to be on or responded to calls from production looking for people. Abi obviously appeared in S2. They certainly didn't use an agency to pick up the hobos they brought on.

That leaves people like Zoey, the black girl, and Richard (the 'model'). Theoretically, they could have been brought on by a third party but considering their small roles I highly doubt it. Some member of production probably posted on Twitter on Instagram with a pseudonym and a brief description of Stream Stars and the modeling gig.

I think they may have given up on the casting agency idea. Clearly they have been relying on fans to fill out the cast. They could take a different route for S3 and try to get uninitiated people via an agency. I think it could turn out great but it's also a huge risk. Those people would be far more likely to bail on the show or just generally be boring/a poor fit. Especially given that production clearly cannot control themselves from torturing Fish (in ways that are sometimes funny and sometimes not), people who don't know what they're getting into are a danger for a full season.

So who knows if they're still working with that idea. They 100% did not use it for Bitchtank or Bloodgames. NPCs/freeloaders/contestants were all sourced from the fandom or people in the broader internet sphere (like Pearl). The exceptions are the homeless and randos brought on for short bits and those people can be found via Craigslist and Instagram.

Edit: Ninja'd. One idea I came up with for S3 is to start off with two teams, one made up of fans and the other normies. Could be interesting. Assuming that it is possible for an agency to get people who will walk in the door knowing next to nothing.
 
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(the other black girl, left right away when Haley screamed nigger)
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The completely uncensored unhinged nature of Fishtank makes it unlike anything online right now and great but also makes it very hard to get non fans because of stuff like this
 
Polyboros2 said:
So is season 3 still confirmed for this month or is it themed minitanks for the foreseeable future?
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Sam has a bunch of standup shows throughout late august so it probably won't start this month.
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Jobama said:
Sam has a bunch of standup shows throughout late august so it probably won't start this month.
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I honestly hope this just means he isn't around as much... As much as I love him working out for hours on camera so no one in the room can talk or him coming in pissed off about something and just being shitty to everyone... /sneed. He kinda sucks/is a detriment to the show nowadays.
 
JawnClawdVanDamn said:
I honestly hope this just means he isn't around as much... As much as I love him working out for hours on camera so no one in the room can talk or him coming in pissed off about something and just being shitty to everyone... /sneed. He kinda sucks/is a detriment to the show nowadays.
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I was thinking about this earlier and I think I solved maybe a small portion of the issue.

We keep talking about Jan and how he's been mogging Sam. Thinking about Jace, Xavier, and Robbie, they're characters where their biggest trait is a flaw. Jace is an internet tough guy with faggot interests, Xavier is a weeaboo who wants to seem like he's skilled but pays to win, and Robbie is CCP shill life coach who's only recently sober and is addicted to Adderall and caffeine. It's easy to make fun of all of them - you can send Jace furry porn, or having a differing opinion on anime will tilt Xavier, and Robbie's got rape accusations and is afraid of alcohol.

When Jan is interacting with people it's a trap, though. Take a potshot at Xavier and suddenly Jan comes out and slugs you in the nuts because he's obviously not as stupid as the character he is portraying. That's where a lot of the humor comes from, it's like he's breaking character. It makes it easier for the cast to interact with him because they can try to get one over on him even though they will usually fail.

Jason and Jedediah were the total opposite. Jason was an extreme parody of Sam, a roided up angel investor for the show who gets his money from bullshit. People might try to question him and go, where did you get your money from, that story sounds made up, but other than that he's a flat surface Mary Sue type character. Jedediah was kind of the same but more sadistic and with a Cajun accent, and I think the fish were eager to fuck with him in S2 because his accent was so insane but he would give them NOTHING to play with. If people tried to send a TTS to him, even fully in character, he'd go "uhhh-huh" and refuse to play with it. And obviously he wasn't doing a character at all in Bitchtank so it was even worse because the girls were treating him like they weren't allowed to talk to him.

I think he seemed a lot better as The Duke because the Duke had to die anyway, so if the fish wanted to get aggressive or shit-talk him it looked normal and was something he could work with. So people could make fun of him for being afraid of garlic or for dressing like a faggot because he was gonna get whipped in the end. It wasn't perfect and he was still stiffing people a bit but I think we were all agreeing he seemed to be having more fun.

Imagine Officer Maggot is in the fishtank, and pretend he's a new character. It is very easy to think of TTSes to send to start shit with Officer Maggot because he's a retard and that gives Sam room to improvise more in-character responses. If he's going to do another character for S3 should be something he's thought hard enough about to give it flaws so that people can actually deal with him like a person and not a marble statue.
 
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Mudkipcorn said:
I think it could turn out great but it's also a huge risk.
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Yeah, I think they could make it work, but they'd need to slow boil the fish a lot more. It's why I was wondering, because it's such a huge risk, a season could fail in the first week, that it'd be really smart to test run it on a bonus ill defined minitanks. But that's not Jet's style.

They probably also need to have a much more professional contest for casted Fish. No amorphous grand prize depending on how Jetted up things are and what they are willing to part with by the end.
 
Polyboros2 said:
I am curious, do we have any indication any of these women were found from the casting agency? I could see it as a test for if professionally casted contestants could handle the culture of the show.
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After Jon quit Bloodgames Sam and Jet turned to the audience for female applicants who could serve as his replacement. My guess is that the Bitchtank contestants (sans Abi) were some of the women who applied.
 
Too late to edit my previous post. But anyway, here's a clip of Jet talking about how unimpressed he is with the auditions they've been getting:


I wonder if this was the genesis of Bitchtank.
 
I missed the entire bitchtank, except for the ending when haley was shocking xavier then it cut off. I hated the end because it seemed very clear haley was acting distressed and that xavier was also acting. I was not sold. Haley's fuck you to everyone else though was nice
Seemed like a fun time overall from the thread though, sometimes I miss being a loser with a lot of free time. Thanks to the people dropping updates
 
Mauro having a fit on twitter again which he calls "Messy Mauro Monday". Highlights include him calling Jimmy an MDE groupie and saying fuck everyone in production except for Ben for some reason.
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why did they even bring back this dumb spic for 2.5? it's not like he has tons of fans. nor was he ever big on making content, so why waste your time and money on him?

you might argue they wanted him specifically for the fishtoy which kicked him off the show, but the cost of that was less than the cost of having him on the show.
 
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