They jazzed it up with fake scenarios specially to boost ratings. Haven’t you seen the movie? That was more of the point than just the fact he was being filmed. His life was all Hollywood bullshit. His own father was “killed off” when he was a kid, but the man didn’t actually die.
Says the person who’s never had a baby, clearly.
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The first couple of years were exclusive to OnlyFans and made huge sums of money from breast feeding fetishists. This financed them well into the toddler years.
Have you (rhetorical you) seen the ridiculously boring and shallow shit that people watch nearly 24/7 now, though? Video platforms are filled with useless nonsense and people eat it up.
There are people who will have a show playing in the background every hour of the day, showing the “news” or soap operas or reality shows or game shows or movie reruns or etc etc, just soaking it up subconsciously forever until they die.
Go to any doctors office or bar or restaurant (in the US, anyway, maybe it’s different elsewhere) and there’s a high chance they’ll also be playing some nonsense drivel on a dozen TVs strategically positioned so you can’t sit anywhere in the place without being subjected to a view of one.
Society loves giving attention to the most inane shit available, even if just for background noise.
The idea of there being an audience for the early years of the Truman Show doesn’t seem at all like an unfathomable stretch to me.
Reaction videos are a popular format right now. People watch other people watch dumb TV. The Truman Show seems damned near brilliant compared to that.
I really hate that. I hate the idea that society has given up on making good TV. A good TV show is like a crack rock. It’s all promethazine and 7Up now
Blue Eye Samurai.
We agree on that score. That’s the tricky thing about shows that are genuinely that good, you finish them fast. I actually don’t mind when they release them once per week. Delicious in Dungeon looms larger in my memory than Blue Eyes Samurai, even though I liked BES a bit more.
Dead End: Paranormal Park
I noticed it but haven’t gotten into it yet, saving it for when the boy is mature enough to get those themes. Owl House is more his level.
You’ve got pretty good taste in toons, by the way.
Children are never too young to be traumatized by Infinity Train!
Arcane was brilliant. They’re still making good TV, but like always, it’s the exception.
I haven’t given it a chance yet, but thanks for the nudge. I should keep a more open mind.
I wasn’t interested and walked away half way through the first episode, but my wife kept watching. That got me to give it another try. It changes dramatically after the first episode. That’s the only episode where they’re kids. The show spans decades, and time jumps quickly.
I went to work for a cable company in 2007. This old timer there told me about his cable TV dog turd theory. His theory said that you could put a camera on a dog turd in your yard and leave it on for a month. When you switched it off there would be hundreds of calls about why this channel was off. There would complaint after complaint that there was a fly that was about to land on the dog turd and they missed it.
Being lightly scripted, drama would be easy to add:
Oh no, the mom put the baby on the counter near the stove with boiling water!
Oh god, they foreshadowed the whole slew of YouTube channels based on kids and their parents.
I feel like this comment is ignoring a whole bunch of cat TikTok. Plus a whole bunch of grocery haul Youtube, for good measure.
I mean, canonically they aired a live birth and then just had a 24/7 babycam. I’d watch.
What I don’t get is how they got through the 5-15 period, because there are plenty of real world parents that tune out for that already.
Hahaha this person thinks babies are boring
Keep in mind his birth was live. They said by random chance in the film, but I suspect they induced labor and this was something like a post-Superbowl event that was hyped up.
So even if the show got boring, everyone would have been aware. So maybe you are just flipping through the channels (as was the style at the time), if the baby shows up you might watch for a few minutes just to see what it’s up to.
Remember Reddit had that hotdog in gelatin? I’d want to check in on that every few months.
The first few years were probably inexpensive and eventually things would get interesting.
Never saw a hot dog in gelatin, but there was one encased in resin
That’s terrifying, thank you
Oh resin! That’s what it was.
Guy was living the fantasy of a somewhat happy suburban life.
Reads post
Has the author not met humans?
Bit of trivia I learned this week… The Truman Show house is Matt Gaetz’ childhood home.
No way!
It had to be somebody’s house… 😆
And yet it is somehow diminished by this fact.
One could look at it as the movie trying to redeem the house, making sure at least something good came from it. 🤔
That’s true. Plus it’s not the house’s fault. That was unfair of me.
It was understandable reaction to have. I’d be a bit upset about any house having him in it.
Nothing is sacred in this world!
This would definitely get hella views on twitch just for the fact that its live 24/7
Please stop giving them ideas…
I’m honestly not sure, I think it’s actually been tried at this point. There’s novelty there, at first, but it has to get boring after awhile. Most people just aren’t that interesting, when you get down to it. Not on a constant 24/7 level.
A guy in Japan already try it, with an hotel that was 24/7 streaming everyone even inside the rooms. The streaming revenue was not enough to keep it ans it had to revert to being a normal hotel.
They had a guy volunteer to be in a room for awhile too, he had a hard time of it:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/01/entertainment/the-contestant-hulu-documentary-nasubi/index.html
Have you ever watched Jim Carey? Say one thing for Jim Carey. Say he’s entertaining.
He’s entertaining.
one thing for Jim Carey.
he’s entertaining.
The only one that was really able to entertain me non-stop, was Freddie Mercury.
Edit: not saying Jim Carey isn’t entertaining. Jim Carey is absolutely entertaining!
I was saying the parts that started with “say” which I realize now may not have been too obvious
Have you ever watched Jim Carrey just sleep? How about scrolling the stock market while taking his morning dump? Brushing his teeth?
How much mundane shit does your average person do in a day?
People would die from boredom, watching me browsing Lemmy at work, at home, commuting and while sleeping.
They would love to see me for over an hour writing a comment, just to discard it, then upvote the great comment i wasn’t able to write a good response to.
Day 17,800
“subscribed to a new community?”
“Yeah, the first new subscription, in 20 years”
Yule log of poop
