• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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      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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        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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          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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            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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              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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          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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            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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              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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              The reason people pay to store junk is they get attached to the junk. Then they’re homeless for a bit, just staying on someone’s couch. They need storage then. Then they get themselves an apartment but it’s such a pain to move all their stuff or they don’t have a car so they put it off.

              Then their money gets tight, and they can’t afford the storage unit. But also can’t afford to empty it. They miss a payment or two, and a lock gets put on the unit. You can’t empty your unit when you’re behind on the bill. You have to settle up before you can empty it. So the monthly fees keep accruing and eventually they have the right to sell the unit.

              You’re not allowed to participate in that auction (because then you could just get your stuff).

              Storage places are allowed to use your stuff as collateral, so the stuff ends up for sale any time anyone can’t afford to keep their stuff. And most people’s stuff is junk so that’s why people spend hundreds to store it.

              I lost all my junk in the above way, and it was a blessing. But at no point would I have consented to lose my junk, including at the start when the choice as toss all my junk in the trash, or pay hundreds to store it.

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            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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                Pretty much. Few things here and there I still had. You know it happened so long ago I just can’t be that worked up about it anymore.

                Yes, I did go to the police but I dropped the charges. While we were filling out the paperwork one of the criminals there found something made of glass, smashed it, took a jagged edge and held it to her own throat. The cop taking the paperwork down for me walked over to a younger cop and ordered him to subdue her. Which he did while the woman screamed and thrashed her jagged glass around. Lots of screams and people laughing “she is bleeding like a cut pig”.

                After I saw that I decided that my former friend didn’t deserve that and a few hundred dollars in stuff wasn’t worth it. I told them I changed my mind and left.

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          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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          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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        They used to have real biddings and just throw in fake items for excitement (like antique shows) but people were starting to recognize the characters

        Or that’s how the story goes

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        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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        Agreed with one exception: Alone.

        That’s a great show, even if it’s a reality TV show. Can’t script that shit.

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        My wife and I enjoy shows like House Hunters occasionally. We like watching house tours plus they discussed the pros and cons of each home and how they would renovate or remodel the home. Plus, you get to see one of the houses redecorated (even if it was just staging).

        Sure, the buyers and agent might be actors, but the houses are almost certainly real (it seems much cheaper to just rent and stage a couple of houses to film in than to build multiple rooms just to get 10 minutes of footage).

        Also, reality shows have inspired some amazing progress in documentary editing. I don’t think shows like Last Chance U and Drive to Survive would have been half as good without it (even if they are not educational or totally accurate).