Forum - View topicINTEREST: Jersey Shore Team Seeks Anime/Manga/Cosplay Fans for Show
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Apollo-kun
 Posts: 1213 Location: City 7, Macross 7 |
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Hey, let's exploit a small niche group of fans and make them look completely weird and quirky to the outside world, while trying to convince the masses that they're people too, just like us!
*Sigh* I hate reality TV. It should be smitten. |
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Daimao Raki
 Posts: 593 Location: Dark Side of the Moon |
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I smell train wreck.
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mimosa_usagi
 Posts: 85 Location: New York |
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Oh boy here we go. This may not end well. All reality TV shows are train wrecks, I doubt that this one will be an exception.
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st_owly
 Posts: 5234 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland |
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This. I hope all they get are a bunch of applications from "normal" people who just happen to like geeky things. Yay exploiting socially awkward people who won't know they're being exploited. Although I imagine a lot of hardcore nerds might be too shy to apply. I smll train wreck too :/ |
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daichi383
 Posts: 313 Location: England |
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This won't end well
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prime_pm
 Posts: 2372 Location: Your Mother's Bedroom |
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They're probably hoping to find a bunch of smelly otaku.
But nobody smells worse than those douchebags from Jersey Shore! Booya! |
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Faiga_Raisa
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It's like America's Greatest Otaku all over again.
Let's hope there's an age requirement of 21 and older. That way they can filter out the majority of the weeaboos. |
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Surrender Artist
 Posts: 3264 Location: Pennsylvania, USA |
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I can't help but think that this will end up as a drunker, but somehow less shameful version of America's Greatest Otaku.
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Zin5ki
 Posts: 6680 Location: London, UK |
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Should all these criteria be jointly necessary, especially the lattermost, one expects that those trained in other disciplines will have cause to feel misrepresented. |
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Chagen46
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This can only go horribly, horribly wrong.
Though maybe it will inspire Otaku not to end up acting like the neckbeards that they will inevitably get |
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504NOSON2
 Subscriber Posts: 647 Location: Body:Santa Barbara, CA ~ Heart:New Orleans, LA |
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Right.... Why not exploit anime fans for comedic purposes, thereby, perpetuating and reinforcing any negative stereotypes? This is getting old. |
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 9902 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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In Taiwan, there was a anime/manga fan who fought valiantly to bring a positive image in a similar reality show. The result? All his efforts were cut from the final release.
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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Proof that there is no God. If He existed, He would stop crap like this from ever getting made.
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Brand
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This is something I could see being cute, smart, and funny. Ugh, but from the people who brought us Jersey Shore. I'm sure it will be more exploitative crap.
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Hagaren_Otaku726
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Same here, I can't see this ending well. For the participants and the American view of pop culture fanatics, anyways.
(Although, I would love to be proven wrong...doubt it'll happen though.) |
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