I've trashed a number of these profound thumbsuckers in the past, but they keep coming. Which is fine with me, because I like to make fun. The latest is a blast from a site called Zimbio - nope, never heard of it, either - entitled The Resurgence Of Competition Shows And What That Says About Us.
Oh boy, even the heading is a hoot. We're gonna hear about game shows telling us about us, whoever we are. (Americans? The human race? All sentient creatures in the Galaxy within electromagnetic range?)
As it turns out, only one of the "competition shows" is a real game show. The other two are a talent contest (Masked Singer) and what Sports Illustrated used to call "trash sport" (Titan Games).
The game show is Ellen's Game of Games. And the only freakin' thing this stunt fest tells anybody is that Ellen has a built-in fanbase from her syndie talker, and they like her silly game show segments. But Zimbio intones that the show has a "whopping" audience of 6.3 million. Do the math. In a country of 328 million people, that means the show is saying exactly nothing to well over 300 million people because they're not even watching.
No matter. Zimbio huffs that Ellen's goofy show offers "immersion, spectacle, and audience connection without investment." Oh, puleeze. Ellen's Game of Games offers some loony stunts. And that's it.
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