Beyond the Rhetoric

It seems like the days where television was filled with mindless sitcoms with cheesy Full House moments are gone. In their place, we have found an endless onslaught of reality TV shows, encouraging us to survive on tropical islands, marry millionaires, and become pop singing idols. Well, fewer people are actually watching television today and more people are finding their entertainment fix online, so what have the producers done? They took the whole reality TV craze onto the world wide web, of course. Go viral or go home.

I stumbled across this interesting endeavor and thought that their project was actually kind of funny. There are already free videos at GoFish.com, but now they’ve added an online reality show to the mix wherein contestants — which include pretty much anyone with a webcam and an internet connection — attempt to seduce a celebrity. Well, a pseudo-celebrity who didn’t have enough marketing pull to get a “real” reality show off the ground. She’s no Paris Hilton.

You, yes you, are encouraged to submit a video wherein you try to seduce actress Mirelly Taylor. They say that she “has appeared on movies such as Kiss Me Again and Serving Sara and television shows including Las Vegas, Punk’d, and Numb3rs.” Other people involved in the web production include Scott Sternberg (an Emmy Award winning producer) and The Bachelor’s Andrew Firestone. The contest runs for 14 weeks, during which time the online audience can submit their own revealing videos.

To get a sense of the kinds of people who actually enter these crazy contests (undoubtedly to get their 15 seconds of fame), here’s one of the user submissions. What a douche.

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