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Are TV game shows (Jeopardy?) also poverty porn? How do you even know the contestants are poor and not participating just for fun?
by Invictus0 3y ago
Are TV game shows (Jeopardy?) also poverty porn? How do you even know the contestants are poor and not participating just for fun?
- kortilla 3y agoNo, it’s not poverty porn if it’s not showing the poverty. Poverty porn requires the demonstration of how life changing it is.
- jerojero 3y agoYou know the people participating in most of Mr.Beast videos are poor because, well that's the point of the videos in a lot of cases. I'd say a lot of his videos are fine, but some of them can be quite jarring. In a lot of them for example there's families that are struggling and he spends almost no time in the emotional aspects of it and just kind of jumps into the "BUT HERES 10 THOUSAND DOLLARS!" to get reactions. It actually feels very dehumanising, as if these people are but a prop in the stage. Of course, no one will say he's doing something bad by giving people money. But ultimately, to make a spectacle out of poverty is worth criticising, no?