Frankly, and rather obviously, it was because I was completely appalled by what I was reading.
Unfortunately, I can easily believe that this type of community exists, but I wish it didn't. It seems so wasteful.
WHO CARES ABOUT SURVIVOR THAT MUCH?!
I understand that this 'game' of chasing knowledge that nobody else knows and outsmarting the CBS producers provides a thrill. Still, couldn't they chose something to 'spoil' that was more interesting and useful?
An interesting point was made in the book: "Imagine the kinds of information these fans could collect, if they sought to spoil the government rather than the network." I personally would rather have all of the people in the Survivor-spoiling community funneling their talents into digging up secrets about our government. At least that kind of spoiling would yield more useful information than who won a pointless reality television show.
Maybe I just missed the Survivor bandwagon when it came around, but I think that all of the talent and effort that is poured into spoiling the show is an epic waste.
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I agree. On one hand I can understand being involved in a tv show. I love Biggest Loser and will go as "far" as to see what the trainers are up to on Facebook, but I cannot understand the lengths these people go to. You're right. It's a tv show.. a GAME. yes, they might feel smart for "figuring it out," but it does seem like such a waste. I would agree that some of the methods they use to figure certain things out require a great level of talent, but I feel like those skills could be (and should be) put to greater use.
ReplyDeleteThis reading reminded me of "the big bang theory" episode where Raj and Howard are desperate to find the "America's Next Top Model" house and so they used government satellites to find the house which they were able to recognize because they freezed the picture on the tv showing what the house looked like. Too funny. I didn't know people ACTUALLY did that... :-/
The activity of spoiling does seem like an enormous waste of time and mental energy, I'll grant you that. Intense fans of pop culture-- people who collect Hollywood memorabilia, people who can rattle off the batting average of every player in the majors, people who have enormous collections of Grateful Dead Albums or can recite the script of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" by heart-- have always been the butt of ridicule. But how different is this than, say, the English professor who has memorized every line of every one of Shakespeare's sonnets or can tell you on exactly what page of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason the concept of "synthetic judgement" first occurs?
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