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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 81 points 2 years ago (16 children)

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.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 years ago (12 children)

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.

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[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

Thats always been their method. The "Real world" would intentionally cast the most insane people to live together, then goad them to fight or fuck.

Literally been rigging the "reality" since day 1.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Right, but that's still capturing the responses of insane people who have been goaded. It would quite different for the director to walk into a room of calm people and say "Johnny, punch Jose in the face!".

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[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago*

When the prompt is "Johny, dont you want to punch Jose in the face?!" from the director, there isn't really a difference.

"Won't anyone rid me of this meddlesome priest" is just "someone kill this guy" with extra steps.

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[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I mean think about it. You could probably do 3 lockers a week for a year and not find anything valuable. Most people don’t keep Jackson Pollock paintings in some rundown storage locker.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

Idk, it seems plausible to me. Why would anyone pay hundreds of dollars per month to store junk? Then they die, or end up in jail, or whatever, and next of kin doesn't know about the locker, and bammo! You just bought a dirt bike for $300! I think it probably was an okay way to spend a weekend before the shows led to everyone going to the auctions and driving the prices of a locker up. But you really do need an eBay store, or a physical thrift store, because it's not easy to sell 20 old toaster ovens, and a used suit.

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[–] Spellinbee@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Some people are just really weird, I used to work for a real estate company that has really big storage buildings for rent, they're designed for like storing rvs in the off season. Rent was something like 1000 bucks a month. One guy rented 3 of those lockers year round literally just to store Santas. Like life size Santa statutes and shit. Dude paid 3k a month for that.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

They must have been for a business that rents out Santas or something.

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[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Had a falling out with a roommate and he decided to dump my stuff in a storage locker. Time I had hunted it down it had already been raided. The storage locker people told me all those shows changed everything for them.

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[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Problem is that the “big hit” lockers are months to years apart in reality. That makes for difficult tv show production when it’s a bunch of just barely profitable lockers and then a hit once a year for good money. That doesn’t make exciting television

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[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

They're just soap operas

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[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

I don't understand how the Revelation that reality shows are strictly didn't just kill off the whole genre. I mean at that point why not just wash a scripted show that isn't trying to hide it behind fake drama bullshit? I mean the real answer is that cable is a dying industry and most shows are just there to fill the airwaves during the odd hours when more expensive produce programming doesn't make Financial sense in the managed decline scenario but really

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I just don’t get how anyone is entertained by “reality tv”. It’s just… utter drivel.

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[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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.

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[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Because most don’t realize it’s “reality”. Sadly.

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[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Was bullshitting one night with a coworker and asked him what his greatest culture shock was coming to America and without hesitation he said the Jerry Springer show and started telling me how he would tape it and watch it every day after work calling up everyone back home telling people how insane it was. I mentioned that it was all fake and watched as he crumbled. I really regret those words.

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[–] Misconduct@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You're a monster 😔

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https://perchance.org/1z379oafms

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[–] psyc@lemmy.world 83 points 2 years ago (14 children)

This is where they find them

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[–] AwkwardTurtle@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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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[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 years ago

I would unironically watch a paranormal ghost pepper streamer at least three times.

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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Average twitch streamer revenue

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[–] seang96@spgrn.com 5 points 2 years ago

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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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago

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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[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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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[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

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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[–] vortexsurfer@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm an unlicensed air guitar keeper, my partner is a certified butterfly instructor, and our budget is $2.1 million.

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You should totally get your license bruh. It's not that hard and there are some public venues you can't even play at without one.

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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I'm just getting in to Air guitar keeping, but I've always been confused about the difference between a Sport Air Guitar License and a Private Air Guitar License. Should I go for the SAGL/PAGL Instrumentation endorsement as well?

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[–] zepheriths@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

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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[–] gbuttersnaps@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

You can't just say perchance

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[–] Jesusaurus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I'm an unlicensed watercolor repairman, my partner is a freelance glitter fighter, and our budget is $1.3 million

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[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 32 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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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[–] AspieEgg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 2 years ago*

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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[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago*

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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[–] livewithinyourmemes@lemmy.world [S] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Haha, no. It's a government rebate for buying a new heat pump.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What's a heat pump?

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[–] xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 2 years ago

A reverseable air condition unit.

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[–] dudewitbow@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What AC does in essence. A heat pump moves hot air from one area to another. Heatpumps are bi directional(thus heat or cool by fliping direction of airflow) AC is technically single directional, and some people mistaken Heatpumps for AC.

For typical uses, ACs are setup to remove heat inside and push it outside. If an AC can also be used as a heater, then its probably not AC (or it probably is a combo unit). Heat pumps dont have that problem.

Example of a utility that uses the same concept as AC is a refrigerator. It regulates temps with a compressor inside to move heat from inside to out, but never the reverse.

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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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[–] roboticide@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago*

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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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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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[–] OrangeJoe@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

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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[–] FunkyMonk@kbin.social 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I do this too. Usually pretty obv

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 6 points 2 years ago

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.