The Reality TV Problem - Just this. It's a problem.

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Wot Zit Too Yah0996

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I don't know what to follow up with, so... yeah. Erm... Sometimes, I feel ashamed of myself for being a Spencer Reid-esque nerd, who doesn't get laid 'cos he doesn't try/know how to go about it, but then I see Love Island type shit (via Gogglebox! Don't judge me!), and realise it's far more fun to go clubbing, or hit up MILF's on Tinder/easy girls on Chaturbate/flirt with women at work, than risk my dignity on some carbon copy of a carbon copy of a carbon copy.

Whatever happened to great reality TV, like Fort Boyard, and Fear Factor (which is shite now)? This is the first time I've made a post, so yeah, maybe it is autistic, but it is also dumb.
 
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No, the problem with "reality" TV is that all the shows have writers and producers.
 
"You know I've been lurking on that Kiwi Farms website a while, I'd like to post something. What should I post though? I know, I'll post some stoned gibberish"

Are you saying actual irl dating would be better than debasing yourself on a dating TV show? I'm sure that's true, people do it on TV because they want to be on TV, not because they're looking for a superior process.

As for the quality of reality TV, the internet exists at this point; there's probably a fraction of the market for reality TV now when a person can just go online to find low brow drama content, so there's probably less investment in making "good" (that's a very relative term in this case) shows.
 
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So-called "reality TV" is still a thing? I recall when it was huge, around 2000.
 
IP2 RVs were the logical conclusion, and true promise, of reality tv. A bunch of drug addled and STD ridden degenerates coming up with half baked scripted BS to scam donors. It was nearly perfect for a time.
 
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Reality TV got neutered hard by ethics regulations. Back in the day I used to watch some of the talent shows (Pop Idol, early episodes of X Factor UK etc.) because while they were absolute cancer to the music industry, it was entertaining watching obviously mentally ill people who were completely tone-deaf humiliate themselves on national TV. This kind of thing eventually got backlash so they scaled back the actually fun parts and dedicated more screentime to mind-numbingly presented stories of how a contestant was inspired to sing by their dead parent/grandparent/best friend/dog who they think about every day, followed by them performing some weepy ballad you've heard a thousand times that's apparently superstar material.

I'd also watch clips of The Jeremy Kyle Show from time to time, a programme in the UK where they'd bring a bunch of chavs on to scream at each other about their personal problems in front of a studio audience. It got cancelled because some guy got caught cheating on his wife by the lie detector and killed himself shortly after filming. ITV have nuked as much of the back catalogue of that as they could, unfortunately.
 
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Some of it's ok like following people doing jobs is cool (Ice Road, Catch, Axemen) just to check out a bit of it but all those fuck damn contestant/teams/compete shows are absolute motherfucking cancer as are the ones who follow a family like the Kuntdashians or Gene Simmons.
 
I think the first reality show I saw was the first season of The Real World. It was meant to be an alternative to Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place. Because the problems of rich people in Beverly Hills and Hollywood are pretty unrelatable to the average person. They did have a point. I remember seeing those shows and wondering why there was a crisis every five minutes when you lived in luxury and never had to worry about anything.

I guess it was ok. But it started a steep downhill decline for MTV. Before you knew it there were Real World/Road Rules marathons every weekend and they cancelled The Headbanger's Ball and everything just started sucking ass until I gave up on MTV entirely. The plague also spread to MTV2, which was initially supposed to be music videos only.

The only reality shows I watch are 90 Day Fiance and My 600 lb Life. Although 90 Day Fiance has way too many spinoffs and the main show is sometimes too boring to watch an entire season of. A couple seasons ago it was so boring I didn't get past three episodes. It's entirely dependent on how delusional the Americans are about being visa scammed. If I see a fat woman over 50 or a sad beta male desperate for poontang I know it's gonna be good. Otherwise it's not so interesting. The fake lesbian munchie was hilarious though. Especially after the show, when desperate for money and attention, she started selling her farts in a jar. In order to generate enough farts to meet demand she ate so much gassy food that she started having check pains and thought she was going to die. :lol:
 
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I think the first reality show I saw was the first season of The Real World. It was meant to be an alternative to Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place. Because the problems of rich people in Beverly Hills and Hollywood are pretty unrelatable to the average person. They did have a point. I remember seeing those shows and wondering why there was a crisis every five minutes when you lived in luxury and never had to worry about anything.

I guess it was ok. But it started a steep downhill decline for MTV. Before you knew it there were Real World/Road Rules marathons every weekend and they cancelled The Headbanger's Ball and everything just started sucking ass until I gave up on MTV entirely. The plague also spread to MTV2, which was initially supposed to be music videos only.

The only reality shows I watch are 90 Day Fiance and My 600 lb Life. Although 90 Day Fiance has way too many spinoffs and the main show is sometimes too boring to watch an entire season of. A couple seasons ago it was so boring I didn't get past three episodes. It's entirely dependent on how delusional the Americans are about being visa scammed. If I see a fat woman over 50 or a sad beta male desperate for poontang I know it's gonna be good. Otherwise it's not so interesting. The fake lesbian munchie was hilarious though. Especially after the show, when desperate for money and attention, she started selling her farts in a jar. In order to generate enough farts to meet demand she ate so much gassy food that she started having check pains and thought she was going to die. :lol:
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I agree, actually. Now, like I addressed, they're carbon copies of each other, shelled out by soulless corporate cunts, backed by dumb mouth-breathing meatheads/Kardashian arse-lipped bints. Familiarity breeds contempt, and blah-de-blah...
 
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