[Mesnick]

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

The Desire Grand Prix isn't a drama show though, it?s a game show. The participants are real. Hence their fans and supporters, or rather the bad seeds among them, are our worlds idol supporters and pop-star worshippers. Not j-drama fans.

What we watch is fake drama, we know and enjoy that. These people want real drama; they want to see real people suffer. That?s the stuff Geats criticizes, how people forget that participants in public events or performances are real people too. How they are pushed into extreme situations over and over again like playthings to eventually break for entertainment purposes.

At least that?s how I understood it. Being a Kamen Rider in their universe just means idol in ours. Feeling aggravated as a Kamen Rider fan about that feels to me like you?re missing the point. You're getting irritated by the analogy itself rather then what it points at.

But all of this is also not true. Idols, bloggers, even reality TV contestants are also roles that have little in common with their real personalities. Scripts are written for them, their public relationships are fake for the sake of hype. The only difference between celebrity life and a soap opera is the poorer acting. And you can believe in its reality only by deliberately engaging in self-deception.
Plus, the cases where a celebrity is actually harassed by fans is a tiny percentage. The main role in their misfortunes is played by producers and labels with their slave contracts. And this part really turned out to be very crumpled, because even the main villain is so incomprehensible that it is very difficult to hate him seriously. And considering that Geats was created by people who are part of this industry, it is clearly a matter of shifting responsibility.
That is, the real world is not “The Squid Game”. There is no need to pretend that the audience and the organizers of the show are the same people. Also, it`s not like the problematic aspects of fandom are really revealed. Where is the persecution, where is the cancellation, where is the shipping in the end? Almost every other media that raised this topic did so much more boldly and brazenly. Besides, I?m not sure that the person who forced Guy Amatsu to apologize so much and talk about Akari and Neon six times in two episodes is so strong in implicit subtext.