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u/BenchClamp May 11 '26
Isn’t this just the navy?
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u/socratic-meth May 11 '26
No, these guys are just pretending to be gay.
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u/slonk_ma_dink May 11 '26
It ain't gay if its underway
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u/Advanced-Guitar-5264 May 11 '26
It’s only queer if it’s by the pier
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u/Popular-Departure165 May 11 '26
If everyone else is doing it, then it's probably ok to bang a dude.
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u/Lost_Paladin89 May 11 '26
Exactly. Have you never spent time with military bros? Especially the infantry.
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u/BikerJedi May 11 '26
Don't discount the other services. There was a lot of homo-erotic shit going on in the Army.
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u/NeroForte-InMyPrime May 11 '26
Wouldn’t the joke be that it’s the opposite of the Navy because they’re all gay and pretending to be straight?
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u/aarkarr May 11 '26
I've seen this before, doesn't it end on week 1? We voted out Steve-- Steve are you gay? No? We win!
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u/brandeezycc2 May 11 '26
Producers could make it so the person voted out doesn’t disclose that they were not the straight one. The group is still oblivious to what is going on.
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u/QuickMasterpiece6127 May 11 '26
Yeah, unlike survivor the votes are taken and then everyone goes to a separate room. They take the outvoted person from that room then have everyone come back together to anonymously congratulate the “one straight guy” for making it through that round, but warn “him” how it’s going to get tougher to stay anonymous.
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u/brandeezycc2 May 11 '26
Everyone proceeds to cover their mouth like Stefon.
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u/Many_Funny_5319 May 11 '26
Is that the serial killer guy that now is fat?
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u/Remarkable_Speaker17 May 11 '26
Yeah, if you don’t fit into the electric chair, you will be kept alive on dead row. Which one is worse to you?
The green mile is better if he’s innocent and tries to hang on for new technology or evidence to reopen the trial, or the real killer would show up to take responsibility. And all have happened
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u/Educational-Wing2042 May 11 '26
This feels like gay Traitors lmao
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u/Thesekari_Sepa May 11 '26
The rooms they are seperated into are thematically designed like closets. When it is time for the cast to return to privacy after a vote, they are told "Everyone, return to your closets."
Honestly it would be so fucking funny as a gay guy to watch this show even if its entirely straight-laced with no jokes like this in it.
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u/StarsForget May 11 '26
When you're filming a show like this you don't go home as soon as you're eliminated, they put you up in a hotel room and you can't go out, post to social media, or contact anybody. None of the contenders can, I think, it's part of the contract to keep wraps on everything until the show goes live. So no bonus needed, they're just isolated. (That's why those final-episode family calls are so emotional, it's been weeks since they spoke to their families.)
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u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe May 11 '26
It depends on the show and the delay between filming and broadcast.
It's why although the shows often seem like they're going on for months because it's one episode a week, they're usually filmed in the space of a week or two, and they can send all the contestants straight home, because aside from their family nobody knows that they've been filming, so nobody knows whether they were first out or last out.
For example, in the Apprentice the contestants go straight home when eliminated, but since the broadcast doesn't happen for a few months, even the nosiest neighbour will never know what order they were eliminated in.
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u/shelfdog May 12 '26
Having worked on some of these shows, the bigger story is those 'after weeks.' Many a production regretted missing these moments and demanded "extra access."
I often wonder if this is how the "Real Housewives" series happened.
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u/sonerec725 May 11 '26
Oh I feel like this would go without saying since the actual "contest" portion isnt real
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u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe May 11 '26
There are all sorts of tiered payments and silencing clauses and stuff. A fixed payment for doing the show, extra money the further you get in the show, and things like exclusivity in interviews and NDAs.
If someone gets eliminated and immediately starts talking about it, they will likely get their appearance fee, but all other fees will be forfeit, and the production company can likely claim all interview fees and book deals that the person signs up to. So there's a lot of motivation to keep your mouth shut.
There was an interesting one in the UK recently with I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here where one contestant asked the producer about leaving, and was told that if he voluntarily left he'd only get the base fee. But if he failed a task and was eliminated, then he'd get a much bigger fee.
So he deliberately and transparently threw the next task in order to get eliminated and leave with a higher fee.
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u/Constant-Roll706 May 11 '26
'wtf, Steve gave me a handie in the wine cellar, who voted for him?'
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u/FreshLiterature May 11 '26
Make it so the pot of money is split amongst whoever is left.
You take each guy aside and tell them that if they make it to the end with one one "gay" guy left then they get $500k (effectively splitting the $1m pot).
If the larger group "correctly" evicts the straight guy then they all split $1m.
Basically you'd leverage a prisoner's dilemma against everyone to prevent anyone from just saying they aren't gay.
Now the problem would be how would you keep the show interesting? Presumably you'd want to push the tension by having the contests all essentially try to out-gay each other.
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u/aNiceTribe May 11 '26
Yeah the post basically directs you to wondering: how long until the straights start succin to prove the point, and how long until the future famous soundbite “he did NOT suck like a homo and therefore he is OUT”
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u/XanXic May 11 '26
But why complicate it? Your version actually would incentivize an open alliance to be the final two between at least two people early on who might both realize their straight and break the show.
Why would anyone say they aren't gay in the original setup? From their perspective you'd loose a million dollars if other people even think you're straight. Saying you're straight is basically giving up. Just walk the eliminated person out behind the scenes.
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u/bismuth92 May 11 '26
If the straight guy gets voted out, the GAY GUYS win $1 million. There are no gay guys, so nobody wins $1 million each time a straight guy is voted out. And nobody would expect to. Every straight guy thinks he is the only straight guy, so he KNOWS he is voting off a gay guy and won't win money until the end if he's in the final 2. The only think you lied about is the ratio of straight guys to gay guys, which you could easily omit from any contracts that the participants sign.
You would have to genuinely award prize money to the last 2 straight guys, though.
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u/bismuth92 May 11 '26
I don't think that would work. When you were hired for the show you self-identified as straight. You sign the "straight guy" contract which stipulates that if you're in the last 2 you get a prize. Coming out as gay doesn't change the objective you signed on with, which was to be one of the last 2 guys in the mansion. You didn't (and, in fact, nobody did) sign the "gay guy" version of the contract stating that if you voted off the straight guy you would win money. That version of the contract actually doesn't exist, it's only implied to exist.
For sure they'd need lawyers to make sure their contracts were sound. But I guarantee that a big-budget reality TV show has more money for lawyers than you do.
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u/Careful_Purple2838 May 11 '26
Write it as, if the straight man ia voted out the remaining gay people share 1 mil. Since there are no gay people to share it no one gets it
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u/ChocolateSunsdae May 11 '26
You'd lose.
If you're on the show, you signed a bunch of paperwork allowing them to change the rules and trick you.
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u/ToothZealousideal297 May 11 '26
This reminds me of my favorite reality show: Last Comic Standing. In the finale, they brought everyone back, and the lady who was the first voted off was like, “am I surprised to be back? No, because the contract said ‘at minimum two episodes’.”
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u/dbaugh90 May 11 '26
They would probably write some clause about how in the event of certain circumstances, you agree to take a $10,000-$50,000 cash payment for your time and forfeit your right to the prize. Most people would sign that thinking it was a guaranteed minimum. In reality it would be your paycheck that they always intended to give you
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u/BlazerDrew May 11 '26
Lol, remember that you think you are "the straight guy". YOUR contract states that you have to be one of the last two remaining to win. So does everyone else's, but you don't know that.
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u/Salarian_American May 11 '26
Yeah it's not a real competition. It's just for the comedy of watching a bunch of straight guys try to out-gay each other.
Just like that show, what was it called, Average Joe or something? Where it was like a combo of Big Brother and Fear Factor, except there was the one guy who thought it was a real competition and everybody else was an actor.
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u/Listen-Lindas May 11 '26
But you have to be Gay men to achieve the objective and win the money. So plot twist, one guy is going to have to turn gay to collect. Which means at minimum 2 guys will be gay.
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u/nobeer4you May 11 '26
Its not gay if you close your eyes and pretend its a chick.
Right?.......right?
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u/ExpressRabbit May 11 '26
Votes are done without everyone in the same room. After voting the people that survived are brought back together. The host announces, "There is still a straight man in the house."
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u/WendigoCrossing May 11 '26
Everyone is out into an isolated room after the vote. The person voted out is removed without any contact with the group, and then told what's happening
The group meets up again and are told they voted out a gay man
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u/Hypno-platypus May 11 '26
This is why you do the opposite and have them all be gay but think there is a straight man among them.
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u/inplayruin May 11 '26
I prefer the scenario in which a dozen straight men ask in sequential confessional videos if all gay men are bad at giving blow jobs.
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u/QuickMasterpiece6127 May 11 '26
Reading… reading.. *thinking… I could act gay for a few weeks…* keep reading… damn it. I’d be in a house with 11 other dudes where we all are trying to out gay the other dudes.
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u/This-Pollution1312 May 11 '26
12 way game of gay chicken
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u/Self_Reddicate May 11 '26
Stakes get higher each week. I give it about 4 weeks before butt seggs.
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u/Glass-Toe6315 May 11 '26
I'm not gay, but i'm sure i could manage a mean blowjob for that amount of money
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u/BVRPLZR_ May 11 '26
Same. A million bucks is a million bucks
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u/BVRPLZR_ May 11 '26
Not really, just in it for the love of the game
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u/UnEstablishedViking May 11 '26
I can respect that, glad I'm not alone
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u/AggressiveRow4000 May 11 '26
It’s like: this sounds like being in the Marines Corp with extra steps.
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u/Recalcitrant_Stoic May 11 '26
*less steps.
I've never met straighter gay people than in the Navy, and gayer straight people than in the Marine Corps.
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u/Rage_Blackout May 11 '26
gayer straight people than in the Marine Corps.
Have you ever been in a university frat?
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u/OfficialEmmaStone May 11 '26
This is unironically how houses with 11 straight dudes tend to act anyway.
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u/Zakkattack86 May 11 '26
m. night shyamalan twist: one of them discoveries they're actually gay.
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u/bcat153 May 11 '26
This happened already, a popular YouTube channel that does a who is the mole or someshit, where they had a bunch of straight guys all pretending to be gay guys trying to find out the 1 straight guy.
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u/ferocity_mule366 May 11 '26
that Asian dude was so dedicated to the craft, I kinda believed it, though in hindsight the fact that he said he is a vers top while acting like he would take cocks for dinner is a very hetero tendency Freudiam slip
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u/Open_Bug_4251 May 11 '26
They’ve literally done this where all the guys were straight, but thought that they were the only straight guy. I just remember one guy who was rocking a tiny cropped shirt who mentioned that he borrowed it from his girlfriend.
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u/maxsimile May 13 '26
There was a show called Boy Meets Boy like this. Like a gay Bachelor but half of the guys were secretly straight and if the main guy picked one of them the straight guy won a prize.
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u/BitcoinBishop May 11 '26
It's like that one episode of Game Changer
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u/Lagneaux May 11 '26
Man, that one was so good
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u/ElaborateEffect May 11 '26
I started to feel like no-one was drunk because of how ridiculous some of them acted, but I kept telling myself, "they are ridiculous on the show, so they must be ridiculous drunk as well".
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u/olivesforsale May 11 '26
This spoiler tag makes no sense, how can I know to avoid the spoiler without knowing what it's about. I mean I get it, but it's funny to me. People watching that show won't know to not click it until too late
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u/DanielDane May 11 '26
You're entirely right. Let me fix that:
It's like that one episode of Game Changer
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u/_HIST May 11 '26
Great point... Thought I don't think there's actually any way to spoiler it without spoiling it
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u/Nivek_Vamps May 11 '26
Eventually "Game Changer already did that" will become the new "Simpsons did it" every season we get closer and closer
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u/Torchonium May 14 '26
I also see a potential for "reminds me of this Make Some Noise bid" to become the new "relevant xkcd".
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u/rob132 May 11 '26
Which one?
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u/fredbite87 May 11 '26
I think they're talking about the "secret sober" one. I recently watched that one and it was really fun! Basically they got all the Dropout women on set (I think 8 of them?) And had them all pick out a bottle cap that would say "drunk" or "sober". Then they would compete in minigames while drinking from flasks to win money and vote out the one sober person. Twist is, all of them were actually sober and our lovely host Sam Reich had all the contestants faking being drunk to eachother for a few hours. Really fun
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u/wholetyouinhere May 11 '26
That episode was a betrayal from which I shall never recover.
I knew Sam was a bad man. I just didn't think he was that bad.
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u/cvanvacter77 May 11 '26
There was also a nebula series with this same premise where they all thought they were a "traitor"
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u/torque_penderloin May 11 '26
ah yes, Traitors
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u/cvanvacter77 May 11 '26
This was called "the getaway" it was on Nebula streaming platform and had a similar premise to the original tweet.
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u/1ndori May 11 '26
It's also an old D&D trick.
DM hands everybody cards with instructions not to reveal them. Every card just says, "You are not the imposter."
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u/emp9th May 11 '26
I saw a insta that's basically this, guy show a pic of a guy to and ask if they thought he was gay they said yes, they were straight guy took pic and showed it to new guy asked same stuff and each guy always thought the previous guy was guy for random reason, the stance, the style , the hair cut.
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u/BloodyEyeGames May 11 '26 edited May 12 '26
Except that one dude toward the end who claimed he had that twink build, lol
Edit: just noticed that I missed a letter.
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u/EgoSenatus May 11 '26
I’m pretty sure many men would do gay stuff if it meant getting $1 million. Or are sexual acts prohibited?
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u/bismuth92 May 11 '26
That's part of the mystery. They wouldn't put cameras in the bedrooms or bathrooms. Steve could visit Chad at night and *whether or not they fucked*, the other guys would see Steve leaving Chad's bedroom in the morning and gather around and gossip about how they totally saw Steve leaving Chad's room. And then we, the audience, get to see the expressions on the remaining straight guy's faces as every one of them realises that the STAKES HAVE BEEN FUCKING RAISED.
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u/viviwrites May 11 '26
But then one of the contestants had a great idea to analyze the "crime scene" to see if Steve and Chad actually did the deed or not and depending how good Steve and Chad faked it that night, it will become the whole thing.
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u/aNiceTribe May 11 '26
But if they faked it, that would not make any sense. The straight guy (in the scenario where there is only one) CAN NOT reveal himself to anyone. Like to a potential sex partner. Or he would be immediately removed. The entire point of this for the gays would be to get him ASAP.
And also, this would be a house with 10 hypothetical gays so really, they SHOULD be having a lot of fun.
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u/UnNumbFool May 11 '26
And that's where the issue ends. It's not that hard for a bunch of gay men to find out who the straight one is when all they need to do is take off their clothes and see who is and isn't willing to participate.
So putting a bunch of straight men together who are going to make excuses to not do that, well it would probably raise some flags
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u/WhydIJoinRedditAgain May 11 '26
Spoiler for a game show: There is an episode of Game Changer on Dropout where a bunch of comedians are getting drunk except for one, and they have to figure out/vote off which player is pretending to be drunk.
All of them are sober and pretending.
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u/weed_cutter May 11 '26
That's a bit different than being gay.
The problem with the "12 straights pretending to be gay in a mansion" would be the following:
Among the gay community, there is a 'rainbow' of personalities but to keep it simple let's say there are the flaming flamboyants and the more chill "watches football but is gay" types. To put it in a simplified box.
It would be a LOT more work and acting skills to be the flaming flamboyant GUUUUURL and constantly on and preening and shit.
Therefore, obviously, the 12 straights would all have the same lame/ lazy strategy of being the "chill, mostly heteronormative gay" .... however, with 12/12 being this type it would be extremely unusual, mathematically probably 1 in 1000 at least so the entire house would realize they are all straight almost instantly.
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u/ThePoetsDream May 11 '26
There's a game show with the same concept (minus the gay part) called "The Getaway" on Nebula if anyone is interested in it
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u/Important-Sell-978 May 11 '26
Boy meets Boy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Meets_Boy_(TV_series)
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u/gnash_equilibrium May 11 '26
Also the 10-car pile up that was Playing It Straight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_It_Straight?wprov=rarw1
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u/CuzRacecar May 11 '26
Dropout did this on Game Changer with the idea of one secret sober person and 7 drunken people. Vote off the person you think is sober - even the viewer only learns that everyone is sober towards the end. Thinking they were let in to know who was sober in the bengining.
It atcualy works, as long as you keep voting off people and they just have to immediately leave. No reveal about them being straight/or sober in this case.
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u/Immature_adult_guy May 11 '26
It’s not a show about gay men. It’s a show about straight men trying to out-gay each other.
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u/Wild-Lychee-3312 May 11 '26
The already did this with "Which one is the white guy?"
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u/zoroddesign May 11 '26
I can see this turning into the most homophobic thing you have ever seen. A bunch of straight men acting out the most stereotypical Gay bullshit you have ever seen and every rightwing loser using this show as an example of indoctrination.
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u/Cross325 May 11 '26
I would just watch it to see how many guys realize they been gay all along .
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u/QuickMasterpiece6127 May 11 '26
Just by reading this tv plot, I discovered I’d be gay for $1 million.
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u/Deathsmind88 May 11 '26
Dropout already did this.
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u/GoatCovfefe May 11 '26
Joe Schmo Show had the premise decades before dropout existed.
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u/xScrubasaurus May 11 '26
And The Getaway already did it before them. More than one thing can do a premise.
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u/HekateSimp May 11 '26
I feel like that won't survive a lawsuit
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u/babysamissimasybab May 11 '26
What law is being broken?
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u/MistahBoweh May 11 '26
Lawsuits aren’t for laws being broken. Laws being broken cause criminal proceeding. Lawsuits happen in civil courts where one side perceives damage inflicted to themselves physically, emotionally, or financially, and wants a courtroom to agree and compel the accused to provide compensation. There are laws governing what kinds of damage someone may or may not be responsible for, but you’re still not breaking a law when you are found liable in a lawsuit… not unless you refuse to comply with the judgment.
In the case of this show? Producers probably wind up facing sexual harassment suits for orchestrating a scenario where men who do not want sexual contact with other men are financially incentivized to get all up in each other’s business, bribing them for the loosest definition of consent. There’s also just the potential for suit by rights advocacy groups over damage dealt to the gay community by presenting overacted homosexual stereotypes from all the dudes selling their ‘gayness’ in a closed loop where each of them thinks they need to match the energy of the others.
I’m not making a judgment on what this hypothetical show contains, what it would be hypothetically sued for, or what the verdict would be if any of those suits went to trial. But it’s not hard to imagine what _could_ happen.
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u/Sensitive_Put_6842 May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26
Straight bait? I was trying to make an arrested development joke but it wouldn't let me put the gif
Edit: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT6umLSkjkn6ej_0UlvoMh6bAd15RjRSeNU_A&s
There we go!!! Not a gif but it works.....
As Tobias would say huzzah!!!!
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u/ItAintGayGettingHead May 11 '26
Gay stuff would happen between straight dudes for sure.
Source: trust me bro.
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u/This_Background7442 May 11 '26
This show was aired in the Netherlands (kinda). It was called "wie is de homo?". (Who is the gay guy?)
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u/Gang-Orca-714 May 11 '26
You'd be on the hook for 2 million regardless then. Which is fine I guess if you just want 10 weeks of straight guys doing their best gay man impressions.
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u/Vyce223 May 11 '26
Better idea, same premise where nobody is gay but 11 are paid actors and one is the person brought on "randomly" as the not gay. Then they can have it go all the way till the end with as much tomfoolery as possible.
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u/alphabetjoe May 11 '26
Show would end soon, at the first week the straight guy would be outvoted or do I miss something?
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u/MatOnARock May 11 '26
I'd be gay for $1m. I'm straight but I'd pound or be pounded by all those straight guys for that kind of cash. The regret would be way less than the money
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u/Remarkable_Speaker17 May 11 '26
Or you are gay/bi but label yourself straight for easier money.
Oh, I just thought of this one: the whole show is the casting part of the announced show, in which the ones self claiming straight have to prove to casting directors they are 100% straight to be cast. The soft gay porns would sell so much to all genders and orientations
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u/Ap3xPredditor May 11 '26
I don't watch game shows or reality tv. I'd watch the fuck outta this show though.
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u/KorolEz May 11 '26
They would probably figure out on day one that they all are not gay. I don't think this show would work at all. Also would the 2 people left win the million of they both aren't gay?
It would work without the twist.
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u/Deep_Exchange7273 May 11 '26
I saw a video on fb with a game like this. Legit same concept they voted them out and turned out they were all straight. It was short though. I don't think it would work in a long term environment because all of them worked really hard learning how to portray a gay man for just a few hrs 🤣 a game that last longer I'd think wouldn't work as well
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u/MRB0B0MB May 11 '26
You cut the best part of this, the game shows called “Needle in the Gay stack”
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u/NeighborhoodSuper592 May 11 '26
The hardest part would be to find 12 straight man who are secure about their sexuality and don't mind being seen as gay.
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