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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
A clip of the Payton punch went slightly viral on normie twitter and one of the replies had me literally in tears laughing
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The initial tweet https://x.com/vidsridiculous/status/1904639496173367435
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The idea of some normie coming across that clip thinking "hey I wonder what this show is?" and seeing Fatty getting his micro penis vacuumed just broke me. The best part is it has over 100 bookmarks. People bookmark shit to goon off to later.
 
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Seasonal Twitter activity on the #fishtanklive and #fishtankdotlive hashtags.

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Immediately it catches notice that Season 3 towers over the others, even during the RV arc when viewership on the site was between 1000-2000. My suspicion is that "freshness" of the data being scraped matters here and that the Season 1 and 2 tweets being over a year old aren't populating to the feed as effectively as Season 3. That is, the tweets exist if you trawled someone's timeline, they posted to the fishtank hashtags but its not showing up on the timeline for some reason I can't determine. Huge sections of data were just not accessible like day 5 and 7 for season 2, both days were somewhat important as Day 5 saw both Summer and JC leave and the gator squats, and Day 7 saw Fatty arrive as Santa, Jimmy's Doll activity at 3-5am then his freakout during the hogtying and CK's arrival.

When you look at how the seasons showcase on 4chan which has perfect data retention it showcases the same form for each season, all the spikes and valleys match Twitter but Season 3 is actually below or merely neck and neck with the other seasons except for when it pops such as the Brandon/FH2 day 1 fiasco.
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Season 1 Tweets mentioning contestants, right side is a zoomed in section of the beginning of the season
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Season 2 Tweets mentioning contestants, right side zoomed in beginning of season
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Season 3, right side zoomed in to help deal with the rats nest of lines because there is so many contestants.
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Originally the goal of the project was to count how many users were on the hashtag and see if the community was growing or not, my belief is that fishtank peaked with Season 2 and the community has become more insular, the loudmouths being louder and more frenzied but overall the casuals that were around for Season 1 disappeared over time and replacements were minimal. The huge amount of jeet spam and inconsistency in data populating to the hashtag has made this impossible to have any certainty. I ended up removing over 100k rows worth of spam from Season 3, often times by hand since the stock/crypto bots didn't add in twenty hashtags like the jeet spammers, I had to search for stupid strings that were part of the spam like "JEFF PUNCHES GLASS" or "Mainz Biomed about to go to the moon!" The cleaned and deduped csv is in each folder and the raws included as well. The scraper would be inconsistent and sometimes run for 30k before the thing crapped out and other times 2-3k tweets before the timeline just suddenly ended, if it ended at 6am on a day -- well you're restarting from the beginning of the day since the scraper goes backwards in time from day 42 to day 1, so deduping is required when all the raw csv, fortunately each tweet has a unique identifier in the last column so this is "easy" to do, though excel wont allow you to dedupe 400-500k rows at once so splitting it across multiple sheets and doing it is required. Season 2 raws are fucked because several are saved in UTF-7 so you have to copy/paste each spreadsheet to a fresh UTF-8 one then save it. This scraping took me over a full week running 24/7 so I'm not going to do it for Bloodgames-Cell-Bitchtank because I suspect that the data will be inconsistent just like S1/S2.

I was going to do a graph showcasing Letty, Josie, TJ, Shinji, Tayleigh, Burt and Binx to compare how they showcase against each other but the data isn't sound so its not worth doing.

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Her feud with Simbal was nonexistent or at best one sided.

I meant more along the lines of the fact that she was constantly going behind his back and negatively influencing the other contestants about him. I don't think the other contestants viewed him favorably, but she definitely dragged their perceptions of him down and continually tried to steer elimination discourse towards getting him axed. The anti-Simbal sentiment Binx continually sewed resulted in Simbal willingly embracing his villain arc, IMO, which was pretty great.

I don't know. Like I said, it's more about having a balance of those that produce content, those that drive it, and straight men to both ground and elevate the insanity. Basically, you need a Jon, a Letty, and a Vance.

You can't have a house full of Jons, Jimmys, and Alexs. It would be absolutely unwatchable, and they'd all walk out about day 3. Similarly, a house full of Vances, Binxs, and Paytons would be boring as fuck.

I think she's an all right person, but the only contestant I felt was almost a total waste in S3 was Payton. She had a few moments towards the end, and the Paymaker, but 90% of S3 she could have been replaced with a can of Zipp and the show would have been functionally indifferent.
 
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I meant more along the lines of the fact that she was constantly going behind his back and negatively influencing the other contestants about him. I don't think the other contestants viewed him favorably, but she definitely dragged their perceptions of him down and continually tried to steer elimination discourse towards getting him axed. The anti-Simbal sentiment Binx continually sewed resulted in Simbal willingly embracing his villain arc, IMO, which was pretty great.

I don't know. Like I said, it's more about having a balance of those that produce content, those that drive it, and straight men to both ground and elevate the insanity. Basically, you need a Jon, a Letty, and a Vance.

You can't have a house full of Jons, Jimmys, and Alexs. It would be absolutely unwatchable, and they'd all walk out about day 3. Similarly, a house full of Vances, Binxs, and Paytons would be boring as fuck.

I think she's an all right person, but the only contestant I felt was almost a total waste in S3 was Payton. She had a few moments towards the end, and the Paymaker, but 90% of S3 she could have been replaced with a can of Zipp and the show would have been functionally indifferent.
I think "constantly" is a huge reach here. If you were to put together a highlight reel of Binx's time on Fishtank, every single one of her "best" moments would just be her doing something that the simps in chat encouraged her to do. She wasn't entertaining, and I find it impossible to separate her fans from her simps (they are one and the same). It's not to say that [insert name here] was more entertaining, but more to say that Binx gets far more credit than she deserves. She's uninteresting and unimaginative, and the only reason to like her is if you have a thing for 30-something latinas caked in make-up.
 
I think "constantly" is a huge reach here. If you were to put together a highlight reel of Binx's time on Fishtank, every single one of her best moments would just be her doing something that the simps in chat encouraged her to do. She wasn't entertaining, and I find it impossible to separate her fans from her simps (they are one and the same). It's not to say that [insert name here] was more entertaining, but more to say that Binx gets far more credit than she deserves. She's uninteresting and unimaginative, and the only reason to like her is if you have a thing for 30-something latinas caked in make-up.

The point I'm making is that a plant won't bear fruit unless you water it. Is watering a plant fun or entertaining? No. But it's necessary. And that's how I feel about having the less entertaining, but equally important social game players on Fishtank, rather than having a house full of tryhard autists. If you're not watering your plants you're going to have some pretty shitty fruit (just look at Streamstars).
 
The point I'm making is that a plant won't bear fruit unless you water it. Is watering a plant fun or entertaining? No. But it's necessary. And that's how I feel about having the less entertaining, but equally important social game players on Fishtank, rather than having a house full of tryhard autists. If you're not watering your plants you're going to have some pretty shitty fruit (just look at Streamstars).
I think someone like La'ron over the first week or two was a better example of that. He commanded all the women and Ted for that period of time in his Fenthouse. He also had Mizzy thinking she was part of some kind of alliance that never existed with him and Alexis. Binx is not on that level, and all of her achievements were guided by TTS. I'd take my hat off and praise her if she were able to play the social game of her own accord, regardless of whether I like her or not. The issue is that Binx was incapable of playing the game without simps sending TTSs to her to spoonfeed what she should do.
 
I think someone like La'ron over the first week or two was a better example of that. He commanded all the women and Ted for that period of time in his Fenthouse. He also had Mizzy thinking she was part of some kind of alliance that never existed with him and Alexis. Binx is not on that level, and all of her achievements were guided by TTS. I'd take my hat off and praise her if she were able to play the social game of her own accord, regardless of whether I like her or not. The issue is that Binx was incapable of playing the game without simps sending TTSs to her to spoonfeed what she should do.

TTS wasn't even on, or mask-off for the first what? 10 days? TTS told her to cozy up to Alex and lead the (tbf bitchy, behind the back) charge against Simbal? Ron did absolutely fuck all but sit in the penthouse and bitch to his loyal fag-hags. Binx interacted with basically everyone in the house. Ron wanted Mizzy kicked. She outlasted him by what, like 20 days? Who got Simbal kicked?
 
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ip2 asking the real questions.
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TTS wasn't even on, or mask-off for the first what? 10 days? TTS told her to cozy up to Alex and lead the (tbf bitchy, behind the back) charge against Simbal? Ron did absolutely fuck all but sit in the penthouse and bitch to his loyal fag-hags. Binx interacted with basically everyone in the house. Ron wanted Mizzy kicked. She outlasted him by what, like 20 days? Who got Simbal kicked?
La'ron was in control of who would vote for who without TTS being on, whereas Binx was really just a loyal subject to La'ron. The point I'm making is that La'ron did that of his own accord; Binx was only interesting or conniving when TTS told her how to be so.
 
La'ron was in control of who would vote for who without TTS being on, whereas Binx was really just a loyal subject to La'ron. The point I'm making is that La'ron did that of his own accord; Binx was only interesting or conniving when TTS told her how to be so.

Then why wasn't Smaack the first one out? She's who Ron had his sights on and told everyone to vote for.
 
Then why wasn't Smaack the first one out? She's who Ron had his sights on and told everyone to vote for.
The overarching point is that La'Ron was a natural schemer, Binx was not, and only did so when she was spoonfed about how to be so. I don't think it makes sense to praise her for scheming when she was only doing so when it was explained to exactly who target and exactly what to do.
 
The overarching point is that La'Ron was a natural schemer, Binx was not, and only did so when she was spoonfed about how to be so. I don't think it makes sense to praise her for scheming when she was only doing so when it was explained to exactly who target and exactly what to do.

Again, TTS told her to cozy up to Alex and be Simbal's biggest hater? Being a natural schemer means fuck all if it's ineffectual and limp wristed. Like I said, up until the cell, Binx was the most liked person in the house (by the other contestants). Ron and Alexis both said they wanted her to win. Binx haters are as retarded as her simps.
 
Again, TTS told her to cozy up to Alex and be Simbal's biggest hater? Being a natural schemer means fuck all if it's ineffectual and limp wristed. Like I said, up until the cell, Binx was the most liked person in the house (by the other contestants). Ron and Alexis both said they wanted her to win.
Luke was Simbal's biggest hater? If you're going to praise Binx for correctly identifying the Pajeet that everyone hated was the weakest link, then ok. She was also cuddling him and hugging him as soon as he gave the whole cry baby routine about his family
 
My suspicion is that "freshness" of the data being scraped matters here and that the Season 1 and 2 tweets being over a year old aren't populating to the feed as effectively as Season 3.
The huge amount of jeet spam and inconsistency in data populating to the hashtag has made this impossible to have any certainty.
but the data isn't sound so its not worth doing.
>so sure Fishtank is dying
>social media data indicates otherwise
>activate Cope-O-Tron 9000

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Luke was Simbal's biggest hater? If you're going to praise Binx for correctly identifying the Pajeet that everyone hated was the weakest link, then ok. She was also cuddling him and hugging him as soon as he gave the whole cry baby routine about his family


Luke left day 5, everyone in the house hated him, and he was literally a plant lol. Anyways I'm gonna cut the autistic slap fight short before we end up on S4. I just like arguing on the internet, my bad and no hard feelings.
 
Recent posts from Burt regarding the audition:
I was at the NYC auditions, around 75 people showed up, and I took notes. Over 90% of them shared the same basic traits:
  1. Predominantly white males, ages 18 to 26, 5’9 to 6 ft tall, shoe sizes from 9 to 11.
  2. Non-athletic builds, often covered in tattoos, with long, messy dark hair.
  3. Dressed head-to-toe in black, especially black pants
  4. Mostly from East Coast & NYC Metro Area: Long Island & Jersey
  5. Most came from low-income or unemployed backgrounds, with some level of college education.
  6. Lacked direction, ambition, or any notable accomplishments, drifting through life without clear goals.
  7. Many openly struggled with addiction but insisted they could “handle anything.”
  8. Vance and Jimmy were the characters they related to the most.
  9. The majority didn’t apply through the official YouTube submission process. They just showed up.
  10. Nearly all insisted they weren’t gay, but claimed they would suck Burt’s dick, just to get on FishTank, but would NOT get fucked in the ass by Burt’s cock.
The main issue was that most of the dudes auditioning just blended together: same vibe, same energy, nothing that really popped.
After a while, it felt like the same dude cycling through again and again.
The few who did stand out were memorable for specific reasons:
– A former female-to-male trans person
– A 43-year-old Big Black Bro
– A Caribbean female little person dressed as a cop
– A tanned Puerto Rican bro
– A tomboyish girl named Kitty
– A guy who subtly threatened violence
– A bald ex-con in his 40s
  • A male student at Juilliard
– A chub with a constant smile, and a surprisingly soft, feminine voice
  • Also memorable were the dudes who said they related most to Luke, Cole, and Letty

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Very Burt-esque criteria, I hope he doesn't have much of a say.
 
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