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??? why is the interview more entertaining if the participants are suffering?
edit: I don't expect you to have an answer for this, I'm realizing this is a question I'm asking myself
what the fuck
Maybe it's fun to see rich people deliberately hurt themselves
It's a few different things combined:
Competent host: Sean Evans seems like a perfectly normal guy with above average charisma that isn't as manufactured as Fake Laugh Fallon or Waitstaff Abuser Cordon. The team also seems to do their research in terms of guests and tend to ask questions they didn't already just answer in another interview
Novel premise: Instead of the host asking raunchy or off cuff questions, the host asks mundane albeit obscure questions regarding the celebrity in question loses composure due to increasing spice. A part of the spectacle is seeing someone famous lose composure in a way that isn't in a public mental breakdown or substance induced rampage.
Generally wholesome: Or at the very least not mean spirited. Despite some dramatic sound effects added after the fact, the show is actually extremely benign and doesn't antagonize anyone. Fairly accommodating, if the interviewee is vegan they'll have vegan wings, if they don't eat processed food they get like fried cauliflower.
I get the appeal and have seen like 4 or 5 episodes.
because its a way to manufacture relatability for celebrity-commodities
"oh look, hot things hurt them, just like me" ????
really??????
💀🙃
you know what else hurts them? bullets and assault and thorough denigration, just like every-fuckin-body else
it is incomprehensible to me that this is a thing
how do celebrities feel about paper cuts?!?! check out my new YouTube show to find out
people don't watch celebrities for intellectual reasons as your comment would seem to expect. Its for the spectacle / parasocial relations / interpassivity. To marx, the substitution of actual social life with the commodity. As such, the value of the commodity is the illusion of realness, and yes seeing them in pain does enhance this via our brains wiring toward empathy.
being autistic, other people do often watch things for reasons that make little sense to me, it's true
The idea is that as the guest becomes more distracted by the spiciness they become more authentic because they're too distracted to put up their masks