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Most of them are all disgusting, to be honest. However, if it's a simple show, where the participants can have the chance to visit an actual space center, or a different country, I guess I'm cool with that, given that they're not making a profit out of it.
Yeah offering people a chance to escape poverty and then watching them lose that hope is pretty brutal.
The mainstream shows like Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune I donโt mind, theyโre generally pretty lighthearted. I figure if someone gets a score up to tens of thousands of dollars but ends up leaving with $1,000 or similar, theyโre still leaving with more than they came with, there was no real risk for them, just as there was no guarantee. The further games go from skill and knowledge, the less interesting I find them.
When it comes to folks like MrBeast, he just seems icky to me. Iโm glad he does philanthropy, but his challenges just seem like a rich person convincing poorer people to do uncomfortable things for his amusement, all under the thin veneer of YouTube entertainment
Yeah I guess for me the mr beast stuff are almost always just exact clones of other game shows so that's why I'm like... I wonder if Mr beast is just bringing out the fact that a lot of people hate the more insane game shows.
Game shows - I'm not going to watch them, but I'm comfortable with the idea of them. People apply to participate, so presumably they know what to expect from them. Survivor-style endurance shows disgust me a bit. Once again, people know what to expect, but they really do seem formatted to bring out the worst in the contestants.
I don't mind them as a concept, but not all gameshows are created equal.
Don't, for example, is hilarious.
Deal or No Deal is just kind of boring and tedious.
Contests in of themselves are fine, but when there are stakes that are won regardless of anyone's control, we may as well be speaking of the act of gifting.
People still watch game shows? i thought that died out...I guess I haven't watched actual TV in decades.
I mean Mr Beast is the biggest youtuber and he's nothing but a zoomer game show host XD Taking shows like survivor that would be an entire season, and turning it into a 20 minute episode.
But even on modern TV, there are a ton of new ones https://www.rottentomatoes.com/browse/tv_series_browse/genres:game_show~sort๐