TSFU: Ep. 138- Coercion: Romance Reality TV, Culty AF

That's So Fcked Up

Ashley Love Richards

Comedy, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.5 • 541 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

It's raining episodes! Are you a fan of "The Bachelor", a sucker for "Love is Blind" or lover of "90 Day Fiancé"? We're so sorry for presenting this ugly peek behind the curtains, it can really take the fun out of watching this stuff when you know what the actors/subjects/contestants are subjected to.

Fallon breaks Ash's heart as she tells her about how the producers pull a lot of strings behind the scenes to get the narrative that they want. They manipulate people and use culty tactics on the reality stars to present the story that they think we'll most enjoy (and they're unfortunately right). Why can't we have nice things?!

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0:00.0	Highly controlled environments, right? So that's the first one is sort of the location control.
0:07.4	Most reality series do not let their contestants have cell phones or contact with the outside world,
0:12.7	except really controlled contact with the outside world. They're also usually not allowed to use the
0:17.6	internet. And they can't watch TV either, right? Right, right, most of the time.
0:21.6	It's like being a sequestered jury.
0:23.4	Like, you just go dark.
0:24.5	That would be where I was out.
0:25.9	I'd be like, I can't even watch TV to pass the fucking time.
0:29.0	Are you kidding me?
0:29.9	That is so fucked up.
0:32.7	It's fucked up.
0:34.6	So fucked up.
0:40.3	It is just so fucked up. It is just so damn fucked up. That's fucked up.
0:43.3	You are live, see?
0:47.3	We're live.
0:49.3	Yeah, we are live on the YouTube.
0:56.1	Oh my gosh.
0:57.4	This is crazy.
0:58.3	Fallon, it's your first time.
1:00.4	It is my first time.
1:01.6	I'm a YouTube live virgin.
1:03.9	This is it.
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