Reality shows lack reality
By Amanda Seef
NEWS EDITOR

I’m done with Brockport. I have bigger and better goals than getting a college degree. My school work and lengthy hours at The Stylus have just gotten in the way, and I won’t be able to handle any of it all when I move on to my next life goal.

I’m going to become a reality-show star … and probably a reality-show reject shortly after that.

Reality shows are all that is left in the land of mindless entertainment. Shows where people find love repeat for season on end, and then the spin-offs from the ridiculous characters on the original show also continue to repeat season upon season.

My plan is to come up with a ridiculous stage name. Probably something to do with my last name, since that’s simple and easy to remember, yet so many puns can come of it. I will get casted for the show and then live my life.

I will get paid to become intertwined with drama. I will acquire celebrity status for saying things that don’t make sense. But most of all, I will broadcast my entire life for the world to see.

Preferably, I would enjoy being on the fifth or sixth season of “Flavor of Love.” I would probably be thrown off the show within the first five minutes, since I really enjoy monogamous relationships. Once I have obtained official reject status, I will tell the world how unfairly I was treated. I will get my own reality show, in which hoards of men line up to love “The Seef,” though they know nothing about me or how unenthusiastic about life I am in the morning.

Of course, this is all wishful thinking.

Television has turned into boring, broadcasted dramatized alcoholism. If I wanted to see that, I could catch the live version anywhere on Holley Street Thursday, Friday or Saturday nights.

Urban Dictionary defines a reality show as a “highly-overrated show which grows into many different varieties, yet lacks the reality itself.” The point of reality television began as a way to show how diverse cultures are, and how others live. Now, it has turned into mindless babble that shows the different ways for people to fight about irrelevant issues.

The stardom that has followed these shows’ individuals has completely taken over network television. If Lauren and Audrina are publicly fighting it’s considered breaking news.

The amount of money that goes into reality shows disgust me. I’m working my way through college, paying bills and my own tuition, like many other students. But these reality show “stars” get a chance at millions of dollars, because they are capable of back-stabbing counterparts in order to stay on the show. The behavior produced by most reality show cast members is incomprehensible and barbaric.

The members are set off as inferior and become perpetual media whores. Every last move they make is exaggerated. These people have come into an industry, shown absolutely no talent, and still somehow worked off of their severe lack of intelligence.

Of course, if I do go the reality show reject route, I could always come back to Brockport to give a lecture.

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