Where do they find these people
Where do they find these people
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This is where they find them
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I'm a freelance beer sandwich artist, my partner is a paranormal ghost pepper streamer, and our budget is $2.4 million.
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I would unironically watch a paranormal ghost pepper streamer at least three times.
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Average twitch streamer revenue
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I'm a stay at home furniture driver, my partner is an investigative glitter wrangler, and our budget is $6.6 million.
I need to contemplate career paths if furniture drivers can work from home.
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Depending on what "paranormal ghost pepper streamer" entails, that could be really fucking entertaining. I'm imagining a guy who grows ghost peppers with a crazy mix of ghost hunting equipment, tin foil, healing crystals, long strands of Christmas lights (to ask aliens for assistance in watering, fertilizing and controlling pests), and a priest (for when a plant becomes demonically possessed).
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I'm a celebrated dog fighter, my partner is a certified pumpkin trimmer, and our budget is $4.7 million.
LMAO
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I'm a stay at home wine driver, my partner is an inorganic haunted house philanthropist, and our budget is $4.1 million.
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You can't just say perchance
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I'm a full time air guitar cyclist, my partner is an unlicensed mole rat trainer, and our budget is $1.5 million.
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I'm an unlicensed watercolor repairman, my partner is a freelance glitter fighter, and our budget is $1.3 million
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That's just amazing, thank you for that. Honestly hilarious
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I must not be in the know with the lingo... because I can't quite parse that.
Husband: is a sandwich artist
Wife: is an $8000 rebate for a heat pump? Is this the new form of mail order bride: get $8000 in coupons or a wife worth $8000?
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They are saying the husband gets his income from being a sandwich artist and the wife’s income comes from a rebate on purchasing a heat pump.
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Well, she's not worth 8 grand. Part of that is travel expenses, visa, schooling, etc. It adds up pretty quick.
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I was totally thinking about how these shows must be faked in some way. I just figured they payed people to go looking, despite the fact they actually have a nice enough home(s) and don't actually need to move.
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They are faked, at least partially.
I was friends with a guy who was on an episode of a one season HGTV show called "Container Homes." He and his wife at the time actually wanted to buy or build a container home.
They had talked to a developer and were going to have one built. Got on the show somehow. After the show started filming, some off-screen drama happened with the developer, and an HOA or zoning board or something, and long story short they were denied the permits to build one. But the show wanted to keep going, so they used the construction of developer's office, which was also a container building, for footage, and when it was completed did a super quick, rather pathetic job of making it look like it was decorated as a house. Then filmed the "reveal," which at that point was just kind of rubbing salt in the wound. He looked so dead inside, it's hilarious.
A lot of the house hunter-type shows are allegedly shot with couples who are already closing on a house, and then HGTV just takes them out and films them just looking at other houses literally for show.
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I always figured they paid people to act excited on The Price is Right.
Imagine if someone didn’t even want to be there and just went to the studio because their family surprised them with tickets while they were on vacation. Then they get picked and super grudgingly go through the whole game.
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Nah, they just wouldn't choose someone who wasn't excited to be there. Pretty sure they interview everyone before hand and watch them before filming before deciding who to pick. It's definitely not just random.
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The house hunter shows are always about people who just bought a house, They want a shot of a barely moved into place and then they work with relators to show the other 2 properties that are just on the market. All the rest is just a story to sell the show we don't know anything of the actual buying process of the 'real house'. My fun game now if I get stuck with my elders watching this is to guess which house is the 'real house' and which are the weird ones the relator is showing for impact.
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I do this too. Usually pretty obv
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I haven't watched many but there was one couple that very, very obviously got shown a house they LOVED, was the cheapest option by a mile and you saw the the light go out of their eyes when they were talking to the fake realtor at the end about the actual one they bought.
I figured that was probably the highlight of the genre so I didn't need to watch any more.
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Art is a sandwich.
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And sometimes a sandwich is art.
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Same with with Storage Wars. Producers bought storage lockers and filled them with expensive antiques and then had fake bidding competitions on their own lockers.
Really? That sounds really shifty. It's one thing to only show the big hits and not the 100 lockers it took to find a big hit, but to just straight up fake it goes beyond reality TV. At that point it's just a fake sitcom, not reality TV.
They're just soap operas
They used to have real biddings and just throw in fake items for excitement (like antique shows) but people were starting to recognize the characters
Or that’s how the story goes
I just don’t get how anyone is entertained by “reality tv”. It’s just… utter drivel.
My mom watches it because it's entertaining, from design aspect, while at the same time not being about explosions and murder. I can see how this is better than average series/movie drivel.
Because most don’t realize it’s “reality”. Sadly.
Agreed with one exception: Alone.
That's a great show, even if it's a reality TV show. Can't script that shit.
My wife and I enjoy shows like House Hunters occasionally. We like watching house tours plus they discussed the pros and cons of each home and how they would renovate or remodel the home. Plus, you get to see one of the houses redecorated (even if it was just staging).
Sure, the buyers and agent might be actors, but the houses are almost certainly real (it seems much cheaper to just rent and stage a couple of houses to film in than to build multiple rooms just to get 10 minutes of footage).
Also, reality shows have inspired some amazing progress in documentary editing. I don't think shows like Last Chance U and Drive to Survive would have been half as good without it (even if they are not educational or totally accurate).