Proof That Alaskan Bush People Is Totally Fake 

My tribe is from Alaska, we are Tlingit people of the tides, and I knew this was fake from the moment it aired, one of the wife's claimed to be this great fisherman, but when her skills were put to the test she acted like a fucking prissy ass bitch , screaming because a salmon touched her foot. My grandmother was cracking up the whole time.

I met an Alaskan female engineer in Oxford, UK. I jokingly said, it must be great being a goodlooking female in Alaska what with the ratio of men to women. She replied, Alaskan women have a saying, the odds are good, but the goods are fucking odd!

What's weird to me is that when the hard work starts the FATHER always gets sick 🤔🤨

still better then the kardashians :D

What do you think about Alaskan Bush People?

Always get a kick out of it when Billy says comments like "the kids have to show me they can handle things on their own". Are you kidding me? Matt, age 34, Bam, 33, Bear, 29 and Gabe 27. They should all be able to everything without Billy being there. When do they become gown-ups, age 50?

Lol, did people really believe that hot girl from California came to live in Alaska under a tarp with a 5'4" impoverished gnome?

The show may be fake... But the inbreeding is very real

If I ever do a reality series about being marooned on a deserted island, I'm going to insist that it be within walking distance from a decent pizzeria.

For being a family that had lived in the bush with bears before I found that the season three episodes were so full of it it was a laugh. The boarding of the windows with large gaps so the bear claws could rip them off again, doors swinging inwards so easy for a bear to push in. Building of the grid showed the doors swing out so the frame helps keep the door from breaking inwards. So many small things and always seems to be a drama each episode - so much bad luck.

It's fun looking at their equipment and adding them up. I can't afford half the things they own, clothes alone are new

I lived in the Alaskan bush from 1990 to 2000..... Real folks living in the bush are too busy to make a TV show. I do have lots of great video footage I took showing animals and log cabins I built during my time there. The people living in the bush I knew, were generally honest, generous and hard working people.

Anyone who's ever lived in Alaska could tell you that they are total fakes. Especially when you see that they waited till the weather started changing to build their cabin. People who live/lived in Alaska know that summertime is work and preparation time. So that winter doesn't catch you unawares

It kept the ratings up for several seasons. They show how families should work together all the time!! I enjoyed it!!!

in 70's a well known tv host said "it's called program because everything on tv is programmed before go on air, even improvisation"

Honestly, this is the first time I've ever heard of this show.

News Flash - If a show has "reality" in front of it, unless it's a game show (and you can't always trust those), it's not reality. There are producers , directors, writers, etc. involved. I remember meeting a documentary producer years ago that informed me how produced MTV's Real World was. He went on to explain to me how nothing you see on TV is real, it's all produced. I talked to a girl that was on Blind Date. I thought "surely that's a realty show." She told me that the shows producers followed them everywhere feeding them the questions to ask one another. Ever notice how almost every end dinner scene had the same mindless adolescent questions about sex? Best thing to truly not support these shows is to stop watching them, and up your traffic renting or streaming scripted TV shows past and present.

I’ve been trying to tell my mom and aunt since season one that this was just another reality show

Never thought it was real and anytime I see an episode on that billy old guy never does ANYTHING only tell the kids what needs done he's always saying he's tired or feels sick what's the point in shows like this

who cares if reality tv is fake, ya can still enjoy them as much as any other tv show or movie

Oh wow,thank you sooo much for clearing that up. Here i was,living my life under the allusion that all 'reality' shows were 100% real and non scripted.Phew,now i can get live again.

"she accepted an invitation to brown town"

If you want to see how Alaskan "Bush people" really live, watch Life below Zero. No BS there!

News flash once you get your first paycheck for being on a reality show that's showcasing backwoods bartering, you no longer need to do backwoods bartering.

I miss the old Discovery Channel too. just not the same.

The oldest son is shown fishing for salmon. He holds the rod and reel upside down and reels backwards. If he were truly self sufficient in the wild, there is no way he wouldn’t know how to properly operate a spinning rod and reel kit. Fake!

always like how these type shows shows backwoods people with brand new power equipment and very nice hunting and fishing gear. must have gone by the outdoor store on the producers dime.

Whenever I come across that show, the only thing I can think of is wanting to cut that stupid mustache/beard thing off of the dad. I don't know why it bugs me so much but it does. They also need to get the oldest daughter some dental appointments.

Alaskan Bush People is one of the very few shows I watch. It makes me smile and I like to daydream that I could live like that one day. In short, it gives me a much needed break from reality. Real or not, I'll continue to enjoy watching. I've never really thought Alaskan Bush People was a real thing. It is television after all. Don't believe everything you see and hear. (especially when it comes to the media and government)

Omg I dont know how she didn't bust out laughing when he was singing his love song about his ex!! 😂😂😂😂😂

When you hear "The amazing true story" on TV you should know it means exactly the same thing as when you hear truck drivers say, "And this ain't no shit!"

You lost me at, "CNN says.."

I'm from Alaska. I know the Browns. I met them when they first arrived. The show is fake.

Lmao there’s also the scene where the older girl is wearing an Apple Watch during an interview

We didn’t need a whole video telling us why it’s fake, you can just tell

I like how all these reality shows are miles away from everyone but the tools they use are new.

I love when so called reality shows are exposed as totally fraudulent....i'd like to see Gold Rush exposed.

They were living in Oroville WA. They would eat at the local Omak Arby's a lot.

Good morning Nicki! Thanks much for the info. Granted not all reality t.v. shows are completely legit, as you raise several interesting points, BUT I still watch the show anyways and root for the family's success writ large as they are a fun and interesting troop. Best wishes!

Who really cares? I like the show and couldn't care less if it's real or not. Tell me though, name 1 reality show that is 'real'?

This was a show I really liked watching. My husband just told me today there was a TV show. that proved it was fake and I was so shocked! I knew there must have been some sort of story line to direct them into different situations and what not, but thought they pretty much did live the Alaskan bush lifestyle. I still enjoy the show. Wonder how long it will stay on the air.

Hard to fake a 30 to 30 foot wave. Deadliest catch rules

Survivorman is the only real "reality show" that has been broadcast on cable with any amount of popularity.

I'm from Alaska originally. Most of the people I know from there saw through this crap right away. an observant individual would have noticed that while building their "house" they were stapling the cardboard over drywall. why would you need cardboard if the drywall is already installed? fake! the whole show is another attempt by discovery to interest people in alaska. they should represent the state of AK in a better light. I have honestly had people ask me if alot of people talk with the accent that this family does. Alaska is an incredible place full of tough and independent people. remember, Sara Palin isn't originally from Alaska so don't judge us too harshly

My family and I truly do live "off-grid" in the same Cascades forest where they filmed the Viggo Mortensen movie, "Captain Fantastic" about a family that lives off grid in the Pacific Northwest. Off-grid does not mean you don't have HBO or a W/D. We have both because we generate our own electricity (solar and propane generators). We have a gravity feed water system and composting toilets. We watched a few episodes of the Brown's and we were suspect right away that it was fake. For example, when you live off-grid the main year long chore is harvesting firewood. Each year we need 10 cords of seasoned firewood stacked by October and that's just enough to get us through winter months. The Browns have firewood here and there but not nearly the amount they would to get through the winter. Also, they don't hunt, fish, or gather nearly enough. Instead, they spend time doing dumb but entertaining stuff like building huts out of tires. And last season's finale when one of the brothers, Matt I think, admitted to secretly driving into town each night to get drunk at the bar. How does he get to town any night without the rest of the family knowing when all they have, supposedly, is a huge boat? We are sick and tired of off-grid people like us being portrayed as white trash anti-social idiots who don't have a clue how to survive or are so into survival that they come off as just plain weird. Ours is an alternative lifestyle. We bath and drink wildwater instead of treated water that all our neighbors peed in over and over again.

Served the kids twice in Spokane WA this year. Strange bunch...NON TIPPERS! Good professional service both times. Lost my respect right there.

If Gabe got a van and parked near a river, he would technically be Matt Foley Motivational Speaker..

They aren't much "Bush People". First, who the hell would live in the wilderness with black leather motorcycle jackets? They certainly do not wear survival or appropriate clothing for the conditions, most the time. They aren't poor. Look at all the silver jewelry they wear. Most of them wear glasses. They are collecting royalties off Billy's books, he's written several. 30 year old sons, unmarried, still living and hanging out with Mom and Dad? They have some building and mechanical skills, which is good, but some of the boys are just plain WEIRD. Believe me, they know about technology. I bet they all have cell phones, just not on the show. It's FAKE.

This shits more real then “keeping up with the Kardashian’s”

This show isnt that hard to debunk the first time i watched it i thought it was a parody until i realized it was serious....

Fake or Not, I love this show. From the people to the animals, and the scenery. It's all beautiful.

i really do not care if it is fake or not, it is something somewhat interesting to watch. i like the fact that they can carry on a coversation without every other word being bleeped.

Alaways knew it was BS how could they get all that money for a boat, guns, chainsaws etc

Duh!! I already knew that. My husband started watching it but we laughed at how fake it was and stopped. Case in point, we noticed that the windows in their "old" houses had stickers on the windows. We enlarged the screen and saw a sticker where you had just bought them. Also a lot of the buildings looked new, like they just built everything for a show. And that was just one thing. They fake as crap!!!

It's not even "fake", they still go out into the wilderness, probably a good bit more than most people. There's just always going to be a script, they're still getting paid to be actors. They just ask like they usually would sometimes and the rest is all drama written by the producers, because otherwise nobody would watch it, it would be more boring than you might think. That goes for almost any reality show

Back in '88, during the writer's strike, I was on an episode of "High Risk". A reality show that wasn't scripted. In that episode, they were following a car repossessor who has just taken a car around 145th and Crenshaw. I was on patrol and saw a red Nissan NX come out of a neighborhood "blacked out" (no lights). Thinking it might be a "fresh" stolen, my partner and I light it up. As we approached the driver, suddenly my partner and I were light up. Spinning around while I pulled my gun, The camera crew was yelling, "Don't shoot! Don't shoot! We're shooting a TV Show!".

I think all of the Brown buch are several french fries short of a happy meal.

I could have sworn I saw a semi cruise by in the background in one episode.

you wanna know how you know 100% it's fake? how you gonna live in the woods hunt for literally all the food you get and two of you're family members fat? how the fuck that happen?

I felt my head retract into my neck as she said "brown town".

Who's gonna clean up the pile of filth they left?

Well. all I can say is that the show provides some escape from high production , un funny sitcoms and other regurgitated series on Showtime, HBO, Cinemax and Starz..I look forward to each week's episodes and when the season ends, I catch myself watching reruns because I am fascinated by off-grid living. You mean they never built their home and tree houses and Noah didn't invent the wheel? Love the adventures on the Integrity. Wonder if Ami's cancer diagnosis is fake...what do you think??

I was totally hooked on the show for many years. Then I began to wonder how so many things could happen and they not wise up. Then one son was an electronic expert. Then when the father got sic and had to travel down to Calf. They all had driver licenses. That was the last time I watched.

God I tried to watch it late night while nothing was on, 3 mins and I just watched QVC.

I always thought they were fake....way too many "toys" to be living totally off grid and not having a job..

"..She later accepted an invitation to brown town." 🤣💩

Last night I watched the episode where Bear finds love. The whole time I was watching it I thought, “Man! I wonder how much it costs to be “bush like that”?

Show me proof that any of these reality shows are real... And then I'll be surprised.

So true; don't always believe what you see on TV, especially if it's a reality show.

Never say "invitation to browntown" again

Omg, it's just about a family living off the grid at times and trying to get by in life like anyone else.

"They look like a bunch of dorks"

wait, people actually thought it was real to begin with? Did they see the shoddy living spaces they built and how playful they built them? even the last Alaskans is more believable.

Still love the show. Always seems to be way entertaining for Californian's curious on what goes on up there in Alaska.

Not one person in this family had any family resemblance

dude, discovering this show from humble beginnings is the best thing ever, ignorance is bliss, everything about this show had me hooked, the kids accents, the dad trying all extra hard, do Hollywood movies really happen? fuck no but theyre still good, this show is so good as a whole omg, and my other fav shows are rick and morty, archer, and black mirror so yeah

My husband and I have watched Alaskan Bush People for the last 3 years and I can't help but feel they are so dysfunctional. I hate to see adult children still living with their parents and I wonder when they will grow up and branch out on their own. The oldest one has grey hair already and no family of his own. Then everyone wonders why he is so depressed. Just seems like they are too co-dependent as a family and the adult children lack independence and a sense of adulthood.

You ever notice they never show a shot of them in the same frame as the game they are hunting , or the bears that supposed to be in the area?

Here's some proof: They admitted it.

wearing leather jackets out in the wilderness even when it rains... ya im sold!

They could have at least dressed them accordingly! !??...leather jackets and sweatpants!!?? ...please!

why do some of the boys talk like they are on Game of Thrones?

If it realy is fake,than it's garbage and it should'nt be on tv no more.

i didn't realize that it was a reality tv show like the real world or anything on mtv or mainstream pop culture. dang.

I don't know if they are real or not. I do think the show should be called "The Bad Luck Browns", because they run into more problems than any family I've ever seen. If they have lived in Alaska for so long, it seems they would be more prepared for the weather and other mishaps. It seems more like the northern version of Gilligan's Island.

Isn't everything pretty much fake. I realize this and accept it. So therefore I am not amazed or pissed off by it. Their plan or idea paid off. Each person has to be aware and their own judge of anything and everything in life. Acceptance is the key to serenity. 👍

We've read there's a pizzeria around the corner from where they live...

The arcades could've been when they had to stay in a house house for a while

I knew that something was a miss when I would hear them say things like lines from movies and other things! I knew that they were not so isolated! Then after seeing this my suspicions were verified!It is what it is a TV show for my entertainment!

3:37 Columbine High School anyone?

I live in Ketchikan (one of the towns they produced in) and they were such a nuisance they were driven out of town and I know multiple people that have stories of them and how they also would just eat McDonald's all the time behind the scenes. If anybody has questions about the real Alaskan experience I'm a tour guide that's lived in Alaska my whole life so ask away.

if anyone has ever been homeless and having to live in a tent or in your car you learn to barter for what you need, been there done that for three yrs

How come they all have different accents ?

I live in Alaska we knew this was fake

Every bit of this aside, the problem I had with the show is that the area they were supposedly roughing it in is about the most plush area of Alaska to be "roughing it". Glen on Life Below Zero, that guy seems to be really living rough, and pretty lonely too when the filming crew isn't there.

Don’t forget, the show is filmed only 10-15 miles away from Ketchikan Alaska! I used to live at the Swan Lake Hydroelectric Facility, and that is 22 miles away

Alaskan Bush People. Next year they'll meet up with some Brazilian Wax People.That ought to be interesting.

"Reality" TV doesn't fool anyone, I don't believe. I like Survivor. Jeff Probst just says, I made all this shit up; I make millions of dollars from you watching this 39 day play I put on with people who apply to be on the show. The End. That's about as "reality" as I get. The producers interfere to greater or lesser degrees to get the ratings they need to survive, just like any big business. America has taken it too far, hasn't it? But no one argues that modern Dentistry is sorely needed (no pun intended) for all of the Alaskan Bush People! Please! Let them all get annual checkups before they die of sepsis on a TV Set a mile from a hospital in Alaska!

Fake as can get. Naked and Afraid also ever notice they come up with a big meal door last night

I miss watching the Alaskan Bush people show . We hope to see the show again soon.