I’m rewatching Pop Star Academy: Katseye / The Dream Academy right now. I’m at the Mission 1 Elimination video right now. It’s wild re-watching the eliminations after watching the Netflix documentary because it exposed just how much the girls had been struggling in the background.
As viewers, we just see who gets eliminated and adjust our votes. But we have no idea the level of intense and perverse mental torture that being in a 24-hour competition does to you.
Like, from the point of view of a contestant, someone getting eliminated means that person just… disappears from your surroundings. No rhyme or explanation other than some numbers on a board. Whether you’re in competition or not, eliminating people feels like disappearing people.
And the day of filming the elimination must be sooo torturous.
I’m talking about like Produce 48, Boys Planet, Girls Planet, I-LAND.
And there’s always an elimination episode.
But the actual process of filming the competition show?
Being a contestant. Having to sit through hours of excruciating wait to see if you got in or not. After an entire week of working yourself to zero. And they do say that those elimination episode filmings… can last longer than 12 hours.
Guys.
I think the competition shows are inherently unethical. No more.
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