Friends who have watched reality TV may have had doubts about the authenticity of the plot, sometimes because the participants' reactions are not real enough, and sometimes because the plot is too coincidental.
So it has led many people to speculate - this so-called reality show, will not be the producer behind the scenes in advance to write the script, deliberately create a false atmosphere and shots??
Recently, netizens on Reddit have raised such a topic -
"I want to ask those who participated in reality TV when they were children, how much of the plot in the show is true and how much is false? Is there any setting that was deliberately invented? ”
As a result, under this topic, netizens have spoken enthusiastically, using their personal experience to uncover the 'black curtain' of many so-called reality SHOWs.
"When I was ten years old, I was on Wife Swap, where my family was exchanging wives or mothers for two weeks, and our family was exchanging with a peasant family, and we were supposed to be 'urban families,' but in fact my family lived in the suburbs.
Just as many people think, there are a lot of words taken out of context in the show, and the producers have deliberately provoked a lot of drama.
I was 'framed' for being a kid addicted to video games, so they put away my console for a week, and then one day a staff member took it out to me and said, 'Look, I found this!' ’
Then they also had the woman who had exchanged for my mother call over and arrest me, and it's really not surprising that a plot like this..."
"MTV's reality show 'Made' used to come to our high school to shoot, and the production team transformed two girls into each other, one portrayed as an artistic star performing musicals and choirs, and the other a sports healthy girl.
But the truth is, both girls love sports and the performing arts..."
"One of my neighbors was on a show in Germany, and one day they were out with a film crew and one of their daughters suddenly started screaming in public, which is not something she usually does.
It wasn't until someone later asked her mother what had happened, and the answer was, 'You can get an extra $200 for your temper'..."
"I had a female classmate who had previously starred in My Super Sweet Sixteen, and she was usually very quiet and popular with everyone, and the children on that show were usually 'monsters', so we were curious how the crew would portray her.
As a result, there is a scene in the film where she is going to have a birthday, and when she asks a supplier, they say that some things may not be completed before the party, she does not collapse, but says something very dramatic:
'Oh! No! That would ruin my whole birthday party! ’
After that episode aired, she told her friends that the segment was filmed several times because she was calm when she heard the news, and her real first reaction was: 'Oh, that's terrible, but thank you for telling me'..."
"I was on a dog training show when I was over 8 years old and thought the dog trainer would help us integrate our new puppies into the family, or give us some tips and advice on training dogs.
The whole thing turned out to be almost fake, and the so-called dog trainer came to our house for at most half an hour and gave us some very basic advice.
Then the producer told us to change our clothes later, pretending that he had come to visit us again in 3 months, and pretending that his suggestions would make our lives better!
It was really stupid because the puppy we bought was obviously the same size 'before the shoot' and '3 months after the shoot', and none of my family were professional actors, so our reaction was fake to the point of flying.
One of the producers also asked me to say during filming: 'I love you, xx (puppy's name)' and then hugged it 6 times..."
"I used to play a real estate agent on the Million Dollar Reality Show.
But my profession wasn't that, and I've never been a real estate agent..."
"My dad was invited to TLC's My Strange Hobbies, and he usually ran a niche business.
At that time, the production team asked him: 'Is it addictive to this?' He said no.
They asked him if he could pretend to be addicted to the job, and he replied no.
Because my dad was working on honey gathering, they wanted his character to be a man who was stung by bees..."
"Even a show like Dog Whisperer, which isn't played by a human being, is fake!
When a shawl is added to the dogs' collars, it means that the program team has installed a click device on it, and when they give a command, the dog will be shocked to obey the order! ”
"I know someone who went to Wife Swap and her husband cheated on the wife who had changed over, causing them to actually get divorced.
After that, she was depressed for a long time..."
"My friend has been on the reality show 'Cheaters', which is about if you suspect your partner is cheating, ask the production team to help you 'investigate' and then dramatically show you the evidence.
My friend was the character who was supposed to 'steal' with his wife, and the production team gave him two choices, either by pretending to pull open the curtains and having sex and being 'caught', he could get paid $200; or he could actually have sex with her and get $600.
I didn't watch the episode, but he got paid $600 anyway..."
"My sister was 13 years old on a Hong Kong TV show about a day when teenagers were living in a particular profession when she was invited to work in a bakery.
On the day of filming, she got up early to get ready, but the crew was two hours late, and they later made the clip that my sister had overslept.
Then in the bakery, they deliberately asked her to change the sugar for salt and overturned a pile of toast, all just to create a dramatic plot, and when she asked why she did it, the program team said it was for the camera.
Although I was only 11 years old at the time, from that day on, I knew never to believe anything that happened on reality TV..."
"Back in the mid-2000s, i had a friend who was on a home improvement show with her mom and she said it was horrible!
The production team created all the dramatic stories between her and her mom as side narratives, all actually to match the 'before the makeover' shot, and then their house was destroyed, making the makement look even more extreme..."
"I haven't participated in a family reality show, but I did have a cooking competition once, and it was all bullshit!"
They stopped the timer halfway through the challenge, then allowed the group behind to catch up, and the judges didn't taste the prepared food until four hours later..."
"My parents once participated in a short-distance racing show, and the clip of them was a 'showdown' between husband and wife.
The producers said that only if my wife won could she be added to the show, so they raced my mom's slowest speed with my mom's slowest speed, and the end result, of course, was that my mom won.
But my parents didn't care about this, they were just excited to star, and later gave the production team a little gift..."
"Ten years ago I was on a short, low-budget show called 'Morning Exercise Warm-up,' and I don't know if it's on TV now.
I was one of the reserve team members doing the exercises, after all, the 30-minute program had to shoot for 9 hours, and the same practice would last for 9 hours!
If that day was a weightless squat, we would have to do hundreds or even thousands of times, because of muscle fatigue, we simply can't shoot continuously, so we need so many reserve players.
Anyway, after filming that episode, I was in pain for a whole week..."
The script seems to be everywhere, just look at it...