Last episode in the series is just DMs from executives, congressmen, and anyone in a position of power
I nominate Pete Hegseth's mom.
wait, this is actually sick as fuck, someone needs to turn this into a reality show, because i would probably unironically watch this.
Am I the only one who doesn't find awkwardness entertaining?
It’s not just you. Second hand embarrassment is just as bad as first hand embarrassment for me.
It’s a wildly unpopular take, but it’s the reason I can’t watch most of Steve Carell’s stuff, including the office.
Second hand embarrassment is just as bad as first hand embarrassment for me.
That's what makes it so great!
Agreed. I like a few Office episodes, but I never really got into it. I'm also not a fan of self-deprecating humor, despite making a lot of self-deprecating jokes myself.
We exist, but I think we're in the minority.
I think I just found my tribe.
I watched all of The Office, but I had to keep actively reminding myself that those situations aren't real and that they're paid actors who are expecting everything that's happening, in order not to wince my face inside out.
Seconded, second-hand embarrasment makes me want to jump at the TV
It's called Empathy and seems to be in short supply among TV execs.
I don't like it, either. And I'm not a fan of the "obsessed with sex while shaming other people for being obsessed with sex" vibe of shit like this.
I agree, but this wouldn't be about awkward -- it would be vengeance. Just rewards. Assholes getting their due.
Call me overly optimistic, but I would hope that such a program would stop men from doing such creepy behaviour.
Call me overly pessimistic, but I would think that such a program would encourage men to make dms even creepier.
I don't think they need that to make it even more disgusting.
Nah, i feel ya. I actually get empathetic physical reactions to seeing on-screen awkwardness
Not the only one, this is why I find sitcoms especially more or less completely unwatchable
Awkwardness is incredibly cheap to film and turn around into content. Less that you find it entertaining and more that you'll fixate on it as a clip in a long line of similar looking content. HBO / Discovery Channel love this kind of low-rent reality TV, because it gets people into watching the first episode purely on shock value. Also great for getting the name recognition of the show up among the critically lucrative "I'm too mature for cartoons but not mature enough to watch normal TV" 13-21 demographic.
Literally the only thing that matters is whether your cursor hovers over it or your scroll pauses for a second as you pass over it. The Algorithm will flag this as "We have your attention" and feed you an increasing quantity of the slop until you give in or you stop using whatever media service is delivering it.
Feels like we're edging into TLC territory. Can the contestants be very obviously disabled or made up to look particularly grotesque in any particular way? The show needs an extra "ick" factor to properly sell it.
"Trail Trash Texts" or "DMs from My "
Then it can be a hot topic of daytime news media. Maybe see if you can even get it sued or censored or find someone who was fired for watching it on the job. The show will do huge numbers.
Sounds like channel 4 in the UK although they would probably call it something like Horny Benefits Scrounges.
MTV should play music videos (gasp)
No one who currently watches MTV has ever known it to play music videos. It's been this kind of garbage their entire lives
So they changed the M from music to manure?
Put it this way MTV used to be broadcast outside the US. Used to.
In addition to music vidoes, I liked Beavis and Butthead, Daria, TRL, and Celebrity Deathmatch. Shows about bands, artists, and music.
Old but gold. I wouldn't watch it, but I would watch the highlight reels on YouTube
"No that's not my son... David always writes the whole thing when he is texting me, never shortens it to 'WAP'."
YOU NEED TO PRESS THE RESET BUTTON ON THE WIRELESS ACCESS POINT MOM. ITS THE GLOWING BUTTON NEXT TO THE....
nevermind, I'll come over after work.
Honestly, just tell her to unplug it, go make coffee or something (say it needs to "cool off" or whatever), and plug it back in. Letting the capacitors discharge is usually enough to fix 90% of problems, which is why phone techs tell you to turn it off, check some BS cables for about 30 seconds or so, and then turn it back on. It's not about the cables, it's about the capacitors.
My router takes forever to discharge. I was trying to unplug the Christmas lights earlier this month and I unplugged the router by mistake it must have been a good 30 seconds before I plugged it back in again and it was still on.
I don't know if that's supposed to be a feature, or if it's just got some really out of specs electronics inside.
It's just some cheap router that you get from your ISP I don't know why it's like that.
Wireless Access Point?
Japanese gameshow?
Honestly, I don't even think it'd get through to them. So many people have zero capability to feel shame and would just be excited to be "famous".
Yeah! I'd worry about directly incentivizng men to sexually harass women, conversely: providing harassers the cover of "fame seeking" to obscure genuine harassment.
I wouldn't subject the young women to it. Why make the target of the messages have to be involved. Pay someone who knows what they are getting into and can quit whenever they feel like it.
Pay someone who knows what they are getting into and can quit whenever they feel like it.
How do you think these young women would appear on the show? This may come as a surprise, but despite the 3 letter name, MTV lacks widespread intelligence gathering capacity and definitely can’t read your text messages without your consent.
I’m fairly confident that anybody appearing on this show would have sent in an application to the company, and signed a non-indentured contract.
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