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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
agatharights
lizardsfromspace

I do have to impress on anyone who wasn't around for it how batshit the reality boom of the 2000s could be. Especially on Fox.

Here are some 100% real 2000s reality shows:

  • Who's Your Daddy? A woman has to guess which of eight men is her biological father. One of them really is, and if she guesses right she wins $100,000. If one of the seven fake dads convinces her to guess them, he wins $100,000.
  • Black. White. A white family learns about racism by living a month in blackface, while a black family spends a month in whiteface. The black family was a real family, but the white family was just some actors hired to put on blackface to prove racism exists
  • Without Prejudice? Five strangers decide which of five strangers gets a cash prize based off clips and their answers to political questions. Cancelled when one of the choosers openly said he'd eliminate all black contestants
  • Welcome to the Neighborhood. Three conservative white families in a Austin subdivision decide which diverse family gets to move in. Unaired due to being literal housing discrimination
  • Seriously, Dude, I'm Gay. Two straight men try to pass themselves off as gay and whoever seems more gay gets $50,000. Unaired due to. Due to. Due to
  • Playing It Straight. A woman tries to find love among fourteen men, half of whom are straight and half of whom are gay, and she must eliminate two men she believes are gay each week. If she ended up picking a straight man in the end, they'd split a million dollars; if she picked a gay man, he'd win a million dollars
  • Boy Meets Boy. This was Playing It Straight but starring a gay man and he had to eliminate straight people
  • Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire? He wasn't a multimillionaire. He didn't even have a million dollars in liquid assets. He had a battery conviction Fox claims they didn't see. Because it was the 2000s, somehow this ended up with the woman he won being widely vilified and turned into a national punchline. How dare she complain about a massive corporation tricking her into marrying a lying abuser, good thing Matt Lauer's there to take her down a peg
  • The Swan. A "ugly" woman is given plastic surgery and wins a prize if she's the hottest at the end of the season. If she's not hot enough by the show's standards she's eliminated and called ugly on national TV
  • The Biggest Loser. Overweight people engage in competitive crash weight loss that often led to awful health complications. Studies showed basically everyone on the show regained any weight they lost once it was over and they didn't have abusive trainers demanding they take huge health risks to win a competitive weight loss competition. Like the others, this one was cancel-oh, it was a massive hit that ran for 18 seasons? Yikes!
  • Wife Swap and Trading Spouses. These were the same show and had a wife from one family go to another family that was different politically, racially, culturally, religiously etc. Most famous for the God Warrior

At the time people focused on the likes of Fear Factor but looking back it's wild how many of the worst shows toyed with politics. So many of these shows have a premise that's like "what if we exposed these conservatives to these people they hate?" or hyping themselves up as Important Experiments. Then they'd freak out when they got the kind of viral bigoted freakout they were trying to construct the whole time.

There were also a bunch of horrible reality shows, thankfully this time mostly unpopular, in the 2010s that based themselves around economic themes as a response to the market crash, but that's a story for another time

squeeful

For the notes: these shows all predate the 2007-8 writers' strike. They're not ~because of the strike~. The early 2000s were just. That awful.

crinosg

Amish Mafia.

Amish. Mafia.

This was a thing that existed.

rk-striker-jk-5

Fuck. Now I'm starting to remember the Amish Mafia commercials and how dumb they were.


if I must suffer, so must you all!

crinosg

And remember, the guy who came up with that show is the guy whose currently in charge of Warner Brothers.

Yes, the guy who axed the Batgirl movie, who is pulling all your favorite animated shows off of Streaming to save a buck, its the guy behind this bullshit.

media this is like a punch in the gut from the past thanks
stephanidftba
zanebow

It is inherently fun and sexy to say statements that swap the traditional genders of pronouns and terms mid-statement, such as:
"I'm going to make him my wife"
"She's my boyfriend"
"Who says a guy can't be a pretty princess?"
"That girl's the coolest dude I've ever met"
"She's a madman who has to be stopped"
"It's not his fault he's a material girl"
Gender is a set of watercolors and the prettiest shades come from mixing the paints together.

lilaira
lingrimmart

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- More detailed background (like on the third example — less abstract, more specific);

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- NSFW content (porn, extreme gore, etc)


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stephanidftba
herowlw

ok not to be adhd on main but if you even JOKINGLY make fun of me for my interests thats it. i wont ever be able to trust you again because im positive youre constantly judging me and making fun of me behind my back. thats just the way it is!!

herowlw

to all the people vaguing people in the tags: get better friends

herowlw

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it ABSOLUTELY is, adhd and autistic experiences overlap so so much and i have both so this post is solidarity

stephanidftba
cock-holliday

People debating the ethics of “killing” those robot police “dogs” and whether or not they should be considered benevolent tools versus violent weapons when real life police dogs already exist as non-benevolent tools and violent weapons

cock-holliday

“Well we just don’t know what they’ll be used for.”

Idk bro probably the same way cops use guns and tasers and mace and tear gas and water cannons and noise machines and riot shields and clubs and batons and beanbags and rubber bullets and paintballs and bicycles and motorcycles and cars and drones and any other blunt item they can get their hands on, and oh yeah, also dogs. So like, not nicely?

cock-holliday

A few people have said things along the lines of “exactly, they aren’t even alive!” The issue isn’t whether it’s a hunk of metal or a living thing.

Police dogs are living things, police HORSES are living things.

I love dogs! I love horses! My affinity for either goes extremely out the window when it comes to police dogs and horses because they are not pets, they are not cute little animals, they are now weapons.

I feel sad for the animals, and it is sad when they are killed, but as far as I am concerned, every cop dog and cop horse death is the fault of the cops, and not anyone else, no matter what happened to them—which, to be fair, is often they were killed by their own handler spraying and praying—because they are out there to be weapons.

I will never fault someone who kills a cop dog sent to maul them. I will never fault anyone who hurts a cop horse pulling the rider off when the purpose of the horse is to TRAMPLE dissent.

It’s not a dog, it is a weapon. It’s not a horse, it’s a weapon.

Cops are human people, but they are not your friend, not your ally. They are brute thugs. They are a weapon of the state.

Any destruction of a weapon sent to brutalize is self-defense and you cannot change my mind.

police agreed
graveexcitement
hjartasalt

How old were you when you got your first job?

13 or younger

14

15

16-17

18-19

20-21

22-23

24-25

26 or older

I do not work / I still have not gotten my first job

Please add in the tags where you're from too I'm very curious

hjartasalt

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From the two Norwegian responses I've had so far I am either getting a warped idea of what age most people are when they start working there or the average genuinely is 25

hjartasalt

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Ok let's go the nordic beef has already started in the notes

hjartasalt

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Ok damn the Swedes aren't holding back I see

started working at 13