Hahhaah, who caught Antara's social revealed in the Closet right now?
Is this confirmed somehow, or is it enough to just know someone's first name now?
On the voting thing, here's a clip from Season 3 during the RV trip where Sam and Jet reflect on vote-based eliminations. Sam is completely against voting because he feels it discourages conflict. During Famous House 2 he said there should be no more voting shortly after Simbal's elimination. Jet disagrees with Sam and explains his reasoning for why he likes voting. This is an example of Sam's positive influence on the show.
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This is just some rambly gay shit I wrote from the top of my head and I completely regret spending my time this way. No one cares or should care about my opinion on this, but I wrote it for some reason regardless, so now I'm posting it. Feel free to skip entirely. It's entirely Jewish faggotry.
TLDR: The contestants, the audience and the production all need to have some amount of control over who's eliminated.
As with most things, I believe there's a an ideal middle ground here, cause Jet has some good points here.
On one hand, letting eliminations be completely up to the contestants just enforces our unwritten social rules to the extreme. If you're too much for the contestants, you're likely to leave - but at the cost of holding back interesting "content" for us, the audience.
On the other hand, the fish needs to feel agency to feel motivated, do shit, and feel some sort of meaning in the tank. If everything is up to audience/production, and your not either super autistic, a hot chick or very funny/entertaining (either intentionally or unintentionally), you have to entertain while simultainously not pushing it too far. This seemingly turn into contestants mostly standing alone in a room saying cringe shit and throwing roman salutes, occasionally pouring milk in someone's bag secretively. But between these moments, they usually just hang, around unless production pushes them to action. Furthermore, if you try to put yourself in a fish' place, you should realise that it's extremely hard to create interesting drama without pissing of someone. Whatever you say, some people will like it and some people will hate it. Whoever you fuck with, some people will applaud you and some people will be enraged. This extreme uncertainty is naturally demotivating. And lastly, having no agency for yourself or within a group is extremely unnatural. Unless shit-eating Hindus got it right somehow, there are no humans that live their lives where they're completely judged and controlled by their superiors and a large group of unseen entities. Again, this makes most people uncertain, demoralized and demotivated.
In one system, contestants are encouraged to be real, predictable, and toned-down. In the other, to be fake, cringe and lazy.
As such, you should ideally have a system where everyone (fish, audience
and production) has a say in who stays and who leaves - or at the very least make the former two
feel like they are somewhat in control.
- Give top STOX contestants sometimes immunity, but perhaps more often advantages (in general or in challenges)
- Single out the bottom STOX contestants to be at risk for elimination or rather give them specific disadvantages
- Make challenges that are beneficial to someone popular/creating "good TV", or that are disadvantageous to those that are unpopular/boring.
- Instead of always doing top/bottom STOX, they could reward/punish people for their STOX jumping/fall drastically.
- Etc. (I had more ideas, but I completely forgot them. I think what they're doing now with "amputating" contestants by audience vote is interesting, although it's WAY too powerful of a nerf if they're gonna do that during the writing challenge tomorrow).
And mix it up. If it's only one system, people will fall into patterns and groups. And it'll keep the fish on their toes at all times.
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I feel like this should be pretty obvious tbh, as this literally applies to anything. E.g. TTS and SFX. They are an economic neccessity to the show, they are somewhat uniquely "Fishtank" in the "reality show"-world, and they've created so many legendary, hysterical moments. At the same time, not micromanaging what's being played, and more importantly,
WHEN they're being played has ruined many moments for us, and routinely makes the show borderline unwatchable.
I think all of these people are more likely to speak up without Sam around tbh.
And Jet is probably more likely to actually listen to feedback than what Sam is/was.