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Shablagoo posted...

Thats fair, I admit Im not very familiar with the show (although I have enoyed the episode or 2 that Ive watched). Ive come to be cynical about media in general. I read your previous post though and respect it. Im also way too drunk to say anything actually meaningful here lol >.>

lol. No worries. Like I said, I'm a bit of an expert. I know people who follow and interact with some former players on social media so I often learn about upcoming season info before the general public does. I know (from this site, on another board actually) a youtuber who makes analysis/opinion/ranking videos about Survivor who gets about the same view counts on his videos as some actual former Survivor players (nothing crazy, like 5 digits to low 6 digits) and have actually played in Survivor and Big Brother themed user-hosted competitions with him on this site. I was even in a Survivor/Big Brother competition on CE years ago (he was not in that one) that had 100 players to start (highest player count in US Survivor is 20, highest in English-speaking non-US Survivor is 24, which would be the Australian version) and I actually won it (competing against 99 others) so I have insights into the psychology and strategy of such games that are so far beyond player demographics that player demographics don't even matter.

Is this optics on CBS' part? Sure... but there isn't any logic behind it. Every season is cast to have equal numbers of male and female players (8-10 of each). If CBS was only willing to cast 5 dudes out of 10 total dudes and I was their 6th pick and thus potentially lost my spot due to racial quotas because only the top 5 were picked, I would absolutely not be pissed off or butthurt or whatever. The margin we are talking about is so slim (typically thousands to tens of thousands of people apply per season and casting will also recruit instead of just sticking to strictly applications, plus everyone they ultimately choose has to be cleared for a number of factors such as legal and medical), so the argument "they should pick people based on racial population census data!" falls flat on its face, genitals and ass at the same time because it means 1 or 2 cast spots per season (out of thousands to tens of thousands of applicants/recruits) might potentially change but are not guaranteed to... plus they hang on to submissions and applicants can submit for later seasons. Some players tried to get on the show for like 10+ seasons before they were finally cast, so it's not like you get the one chance and they toss your video in the trash and blacklist you from ever trying to get on again :P.

I just wanted to make it perfectly clear right out of the gate that anyone who might want to argue with me itt is arguing with someone who has watched all 40 seasons and has been a fan of the show for 15ish years has more background and behind the scenes knowledge than knowledge from what has actually aired... not just some keyboard warrior that saw a topic about race and decided to click and offer an uninformed knee jerk opinion


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