Is the idea of having people compete for life changing/saving amounts of money, then have it crash down on their head for our amusement, something that should end for you?
Mr. Beast of course does things like “Stay in this room for 100 days to win a million dollars” but he is mostly just turning an old format into internet. Biggest Loser of course made dozens of people drastically change their bodies in irreversible ways, just to give one of them money. Survivor once again has people compete for months in brutal fashion with only one walking away with a prize. Mr. Beast is more or less just stealing Big Brother whole sale for most of his contest videos, but making them click bait.
Then of course we have things like Deal or No deal, which is mostly just offering people a hope of a life changing amount of money, then the chance for a better life vanish before them case by case. It still seems a lot less brutal than the other three, but still rather dark when you realize we are watching someone be given the hope to get out of debt and buy a house have it taken from them case by case.
Try not to focus on Mr. Beast too much since everyone is talking about him, he’s just the latest example of giant game show so felt like I need to mention him. I’m mostly curious how you all feel about large cash prize game shows in general!
(I do love game shows with bs prizes. Bring on Task Master! Win that golden head so you can put it in your garage to be stolen by another contestant! Also Game Changer, go watch game changer. They all get paid regardless of if they win or not and every episode is super creative.)
I prefer my Price is Right where people go through mini-games to win prizes or cash.
Doing stuff like whatever Beast is doing (I don’t watch a second of his content) or these shows where people do drastic things just for a sniff of success but for our amusement, I find it pathetic and sad.
Fair enough! Yeah a lot of people complain about Mr Beast, but I’ve yet to see something that isn’t a knock off of other game shows, so that’s why I was curious if people in general just have turned against the more insane game shows.
90% of his game shows are survivor/big brother knock offs, which sounds like you probably detest as well.
Price is right is pretty chill! feel like people are less likely to wanna commit suicide over not winning compared to some other shows.