Reality Shows That Were Faked 

Speaking of missed opportunities. Apparently Stephanie and Patrick were on an episode of Maury. To no surprise, you can see the same extremely fake overacting that you see from the couple on the Steve Wilkos show. I am sad I did not find this before I released this video.

"Do you not know that they are acting?" Bro, you greatly over estimate the intelligence of the average reality show viewer.

Think before you sleep is definitely a hidden gem on RU-vid.

This man is actually exposing the industry before I go to to sleep

Moving a lightbulb from room to room , is no different than leaving all the lightbulbs in socket and only turning 1 on at a time

The most common and egregious form of media bias is expressed by the stories that they *_don’t_* cover.

Guess I'm not going to sleep yet 😄

Holy shit I didn't even realize I watched 47 minutes of basically being told why I should fact check and refuse propaganda masquerading as entertainment because I was so interested.

I had 5 seconds of fame on kitchen nightmares, the episode with the Grasshopper. We did wait an incredibly long time for our food, Gordon Ramsay is a tall man, and when the food did come out my sister's food wasn't good but we were told to say that the food was good overall (this was the final night where Gordon transformed the restaurant). I also think our table was specifically singled out to wait a long time, as almost everyone else has food coming out. The cameraman and show runners kept coming up to our table asking for reactions and telling us things to say or guiding us to feel a certain way. It was a really eye opening experience for me, as I was (and still sort of am) a fan of kitchen nightmares. I know the BBC and Fox versions of the show were different, but just chalked it up to editing styles of the show. After that episode it really felt more like the producers and directors of the show wanted to see a certain reaction and guided us to make the reaction. I've never seen reality tv shows the same way ever again and tell anyone to take what you see on these shows with a grain of salt. Reality shows can be fun, but just know they are not reality.

Carrying a light bulb around is not gonna save 60 bucks a month.

Think Before you sleep: This cant be real, people dont act this way *Me who works in customer service and has seen some crazy shit:* I dont know man, seems plausible to me

The thing that really shows the fakeness of Kitchen Nightmares is that every restaurant has a giant tub of rotting meat sitting in their fridge ready for Gordon to throw a fit over. This is ostensibly when the restaurant owner is trying to show off for Gordon yet they don't think to do the most obvious cleaning? It would be the equivalent of bringing a date back to your place and blithely leaving a floater in the toilet for her to find.

Your comment about cancel culture was so spot on! People learn from past mistakes and don’t deserve to have those mistakes held against them forever.

I was actually about to go to sleep when I got this notification, better put on my thinking cap 🧢

You've made me see Carole Baskin in an entirely different light other than what Netflix portrayed. Thanks, man.

Never understood people's obsession for reality TV crap.

I can confirm that when an average person is trying to act, they're regularly holding back laughter, even when they're convinced they absolutely have to act out the absurdity solely for their own benefit. I saw quite a bit of it when I was married.

One big example of the media lying to you is the diamond industry. Diamonds aren't rare. They aren't expensive. They aren't hard to find and they aren't as precious as you think. All of these things are propaganda spread by a company who mines diamonds. If you wanted, you could go mine for diamonds yourself. The reason diamonds are pricey is because people believe this propaganda and I can't blame them for it. Most people don't know about this and have lived their lives believing a lie.

I can definitely identify. I dated a “Boarderline” as a teenager. Nothing let’s you know that evil people are real like dealing with someone who can metaphorically punch you in the face and then call you a monster because she hurt her hand.

I actually thought Maya was faking just because of the ridiculousness of her tantrum of blaming something on someone else that was blatantly her own responsibility; losing weight.

Jordan Paige was on Extreme Cheapskates. She did a video of her watching it and reacting, and she confirmed that the producers made her do all the crazy stuff.

I appreciate a content creator who believes in truth and integrity and is willing to take the time and make the sacrifices necessary to insure the final product is as accurate as possible. Good job TBYS.

THINK BEFORE YOU SLEEP: "Reality Shows That Were Faked." ME: "Do you know how little that narrows it down?"

I worked at a bridal salon and we had TLC come to the store to film several different shows. It was the same camera crew each time, and anyone who wanted to be on the show had to sign a massive contract. I never wanted to be on, but it was enjoyable being a fly on the wall as they filmed. A few minute segment could take hours to film, multiple takes, acting and so forth. To spice things up or to make something more interesting, the subjects being filmed, who were not actors and sometimes were my coworkers themselves, suddenly had to be actors and would take direction to play out drama or to pose as someone that they weren't. It was great. So, when customers would come in and want to recreate what they see on TLC, I would give them a brief lesson on how none of what they saw was real. There may be a general premise that is real, and they are real people, but what you see is still just as manufactured as TV shows and politics.

I once saw me and my dad on TV saying something that we never ever said. It was an irrigation project that we built for the community to have their few women who were a cooperative to grow vegetables for sale and it wasn't free. My Dad was a high level government official and this was a weekend project from money he had loaned from a mutual bank. A reporter from a local newspaper heard about the project and did a great piece. Then a TV national broadcaster saw it & thats when the propaganda started. Elections were months away and the ruling party stepped in & while my dad was in China they organized an opening ceremony with bells and whistles. A clip of my father explaining the story of the project and how the cooperative was fetching water in 20ltr buckets on their heads from a kilometer away and how the project will pay back the loan by opening a legit business account and get a financial advisor free at the bank. But they chopped it up to look like everything was done and paid for by the government / political party The party then says this on TV 1) This is a free gift for the (entire village) of 1000 people. 2) We built it with our money 3) the village can eat produce for free 4) We will build 100s more projects like this all over the country for our people. Next few days a cooperative chairwoman, secretary and treasurer show up to our house looking for dad saying they where kicked out of their positions and the farm was taken over by the party and no one is working because the diesel generator was out of fuel for pumping water and the vegetables are wilting. But dad was in China, turns out dad was approached by the party asking for his blessing to use the project as campaign material and he refused and sent them to the cooperative leaders because it wasn't his place to decide. And they responded by sending him to China for a month long conference. They were told to go to the first reporter for help and then they broke the story of what happened & the invaders got angry and vandalized everything and burned the generator. The public was p*ssed off and that's when the government decided to burn those guys saying that they were not part of their party. Arrests were made & after that my father started getting unfair treatment because they thought he was the one who snitched 😏 The media and manipulated narratives have been out here terrorising the world.

Corruption starts when people realize that there is an easy path in life. Thing is.. there's always a catch. Taking the easy path makes us weak, mentally, physically and spiritually.

"Try that yourself, can you replicate that demon scream?" Yes with ease.

You know what would be cheaper, getting led light bulb, and put some of that solar panel if you hate paying electrical bill so much

TLC really is just the Jerry Springer show expanded

Did CNN write the script for this show? Nothing about this story adds up. I find it strange that he has to explain her absurd "house rules" to his friends. Did they all just magically become friends yesterday? If I put myself into that living situation, first and foremost, I'd be too ashamed to invite anyone over and if I was a friend being invited over and I knew they lived like that, it would be too awkward for me not to lie about having other plans, just to avoid them. His method of information delivery to his friends is like going to a dating site and then going on a date with one of those chicks who has only head and shoulder photos. You know what I'm talking about. Keep up the great videos man. Cheers

Destruction and evil is easier than being constructive and honest.

Yes, I remember when they attacked Nick and his friends. We had grown adults throwing death threats around because of what they were told. We had grown adults wishing death/violence upon kids because of the lying press. I will never forget what those people did and the evil they wished upon others.

i've always been skeptical of people's behaviors in a lot of these shows, but i would have totally believed the show about Carol if i had seen it. Thanks for the life lesson

The British version of Kitchen Nightmares is actually pretty good. Very realistic and believable which is what makes it entertaining. Watching Ramsay actually provide real solutions to a badly managed restaurant.

"Never believe what you see on daytime television" - George Washington

"Don't try and ruin my life with lies when yours can be ruined with the truth."

I've been searching RU-vid high and low for some really good commentary. It's becoming a lot more difficult than I predicted. HOWEVER.... I think I found it. Loved this video!! I can't wait to watch more!

Think before sleep > Uploads 47min videos. Thanks for keeping me awake. No really, thank you. This is way better content than 80% videos in yt.

Remember kids: long time ago. the Learning Channel was about learning stuff

I like these kinds of videos of yours more. It reminds me of your older videos; we learn the truth, learning something new and incorporate those new learnings on our daily lives.

Bro said "5 cents of time"😂😂😂

A sister of a friend of mine went on Jerry Springer something like 20 years ago. She said that backstage they only give you sugary stuff to eat and they won't give you water, just soda or fruit juice. then there are people on the production staff that come around and goad the guests so that when they pop out on stage theyre fired up and pissed off and sugared up. that might lend some explanation as to why those shows feel screwed with in the even that they don't plant actors when production requires it.

I may be an idiot, but I've never watched the news. And when my brain tells me something is garbage, it's for good reason. Or as Raging Golden Eagle put it; When the media reported on something I didn't know I just believed them complicity, but when they talked about a story/subject I was actually well versed in, they lied tooth and nail. And I thought, how can I actually trust them in subjects I don't know anything about? Btw I paraphrased his thoughts, but that was the jist of it.

having lived in a poor "ghetto" areas and lower middle class neighborhoods growing up: there are actually real people like this. might be emotionial or mental or drug issues but there are real folks like this..and that's the truly frightening thing

That Tiger King one really opened my eyes to how misleading that entire show was.... documentary in some aspects, "reality" TV in most.

We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed and we've been quite possibly bamboozled

There was one girl on extreme cheapskates who just liked to thrift shop and had a blog. She was the only one that seemed real.

I was not expecting deep and insightful commentary from a video about fake reality TV. Much respect for you, dude

08:34 “because actors who are that good, are busy making real money instead of being on reality tv” Me: *laughs in Hollywood casting couch*

No ads in a 50 minute video just beautiful 👏

Carole Baskin actually sounds kind of cool she let twelve-year-old daughter on her property with her own little yard and stuff. Giving her a great deal of responsibility while still ensuring her safety.

Your honesty has earned a subscription. Thank you and keep up the good work

The part about the tiger king is eye opening and it angers me that so many are very quick to *publicly* judge something without taking even a brief amount of time to wait until for even a little more information to come out.

Big respect to you for fact-checking everything and making sure everything is accurate in your videos, seriously

Honestly I wish you made this video around the time of Tiger King because this sheds Carole Baskin's "controversy" in a new light.

I actually knew kitchen nightmares was fake because I had a teacher whose husband owned a bakery. She would bring me a blueberry muffin almost every day and one day she told me that her husband met Gordan and offered to pay big to shoot a episode of kitchen nightmares but he said no. The bakery wasn't struggling at all and the food and pastries were perfectly fine. I was surprised to hear that because imagine all the other episodes that were staged.

This is why we love you. You're a good person who values integrity and honestly. That, my friend, is a rare trait in these days.

I use to identify as democrat, or at least I blindly accepted their ideology. This channel & Kevin Samuel influenced me to reevaluate my belief system. I’m nobody’s republican. But Im damn sure no longer apart of the left

As someone who studied acting at university - It's often very easy to tell who's acting by asking a simple question. Does this sound like a speach from a play? Actors never ever want to use filler words such as "like, um and er" because it shows a badly prepared actor however ironically it's what real people do. Very few actors are able to take saying "um, like" without it sounding fake. That's the biggest give away that they don't want people to know. 😉

Matpat made a film theory episode on tiger king where he calculated if that many big cats could even eat a human, bones and all, he discovered that the amount of big cats there at the time could not eat and digest a human in as short of a time span as there was.

Thinking before I sleep tonight.

Hey! Just wanted to say thanks for promoting honesty and truth. You're one of the best creators on this platform who put in effort to doing that. It is much appreciated.

Damn bro your content so fire I didn't even think before clicking

Thank you for being honest, and for all the work you put into your videos.

Alot of people waste dozens of hours of time trying to be cheap. Counter intuitive. And I have met people like the first clip. They do exist.

Turns out Netflix is worse than Carol Baskin.. not surprised.

I was literally just going through the community posts to see if you made any updates for this video. Keep up the good work.

Bruh. Literally got into a tiff with my great aunt today. she thinks I’m dumb because I don’t watch the mainstream news 😐 even though I told her it was because the news has gotten caught several times LYING she said she knows but everything else is true 😳HUH?! Like ma’am..I’m dumb because I do my own research while you let people you don’t know who’s job is to keep you watching them do it for you…and it really got to me. I’m so glad you said that at the end I needed it 😭😂

A girl I was seeing at the time told me years ago that Springer was fake, and I didn’t believe her. I needed to see evidence beyond just the behavior of the people on the show, which I only saw brief portions of here and there and never watched in its entirety, because unlike her, it wasn’t hard for me to imagine that people were that obnoxious and idiotic, because I saw people who were like that everyday.

I knew that Carol wasn't what she seemed on the show. I used to volunteer at a shelter for dogs and one of the tricks we used to keep them from knocking over the food and water bowls was to elevate them. It also helps with scared and timid dogs to make them lift their heads when they eat. It helps build confidence. We used to also sit with the really scared ones and remove their tails from between their legs. So right away I saw how the show tried to make Carol seem nuts for making her 800 lb cats not piss or shit in their own water. I know how to work with big dogs. I know nothing about big cats and ill admit it. But one thing I do know is that cats and dogs alike will turn over their water and food bowls and even piss and shit in them to establish dominance. It makes sense to keep them off the ground and to make the area small to contain them. These aren't helpless pets. These are giant "fuck everything up" tigers. They weigh more than one of Dr. Nowzaradans patients and they have steak knives for fingers. Imagine Steven Assanti. Now imagine he is a hungry tiger with steak knives for fingers. He'd be breaking RVs and backs in no time flat.

Honestly feel super valued by this channel because he threw away alot of work he had done once he found that he had bad information, you can tell how upset that made him and yet he scrapped it for our sake and for the sake of honesty. Keep up the great work!

I used to work in the Self Storage Industry so I can definitely tell you that all those Storage War shows were staged with paid actors who know of the business.

One of my friends was on a reality show. It was about her boyfriend having to renovate the house, while she couldn't see it and could build her own "dream house" in a studio. The hook the producers wanted for them was something about her not wanting kids or something, but they couldn't really get the quotes they wanted on that, and her being bossy (and the guy being an idiot). They had several tricks: 1) Making her repeat a bunch of sentences because "the audio was bad", and then after 10 sentences she said, slip in one she didn't say. They liked to do this at the end of the day, so you're tired, want to be done for the day and just quickly repeat it. 2) They edited her answers to different questions. Snippets like "we'll see about that" can be inserted almost anywhere. 3) When they have nothing, they use voice-over. "Bossy -woman- doesn't trust -boyfriend's- skills at all..." *insert unrelated quote: "we'll have to see about that". 4) They also ask questions and make you answer in full sentences. One of the girls on America's Next Top Model once explained they asked her things like: "do you think that being smarter than the rest of the girls gives you and advantage?" When you answer in a full sentence and want to deny it, it will sound like "I don't think me being smarter than the other girls gives me an advantage because..." Sounds bad, very bad. 5) They also fucked with my friend's mind during filming by coming to her place saying things like: "-boyfriend- needs this piece of furniture" and she would be all like: "omg what is he going to do with it?" (they were not allowed to speak to each other during the show) and it turned out he didn't even ask for the items, they just did that to stress her out.

Thing before you sleep: But first- "Sorry dude i have to turn it off when an ad plays..."

I literally dated a girl who was on Jerry Springer (yeah yeah I know I was a young buck in a small southern town lol) and yeah, they do tell you to act it all up and take it to the extreme. Some of the very basic premise is real but everything after that is all made up. They fly you out pay for your hotel stay, your cigarettes and whatnot and coach you on how to make it way more extreme. If anyone ever sees this and wants the episode I’ll find it.

Your dedication to researching, analysing, and laying out the facts of a subject are astounding.

me see's think before you sleep video. me: a blessing from the lord.

32:44 " Which is better? To be born good? Or overcome evil through great efforts." - Paarthunax -

I follow the actress that did the episode of the beauty salon using farmer stuff and reusing the hair of customers in the couch... She said she is an actress, she was paid and that guy in the episode is NOT her father.

That Anfissa demon scream is one of the realest moments in reality tv history ! Lol I’ve screamed that scream a time or 2 in my 20’s, at a cheating boyfriend 😂

“Is it better to be born good and perfect? Or might it be better to have done wrong, learned from it, then surpass your peers with your new-found goodness and contribution to the world?”

Also when people speak naturally, they constantly interrupt one another, we aren't aware of this because our brains ignore it, but if you record a natural conversation and listen you will see the truth. Actors say their part, finish and then the next actor says his or her line. It is very choppy by comparison.

To be fair somethings are dumb, to save money. There is a car that needed fixing she did not do it and wasted time.

This is why I always encourage people to take statistics courses, even if they’re just introductory. The basics of statistics is just learning to know what you’re looking at, being able to analyze data you’re given, and also checking the bias/motives of the source and any commentary/interpretations of that source. It’s super simple stuff but learning how to parse through and critically think about information you’re given is half the battle

I threw my tv out 9 years ago, have never been more happy and productive. Will never go back.

You are teaching a deeper needed message in a unique way. 💚

I've always thought that being honest was easier because you never have to remember what lies you've told. It also takes more energy to make shit up and I'm just too lazy for that. Thanks a million for the rad vid man, much appreciated.

it would even be cheaper on the long term if she had used an solar charged flashlight instead of a candle.

Aye man, just wanted to say how much we all appreciate you still making this sweet, detailed video on something nobody covers even after you had to completely scrap the kitchen nightmares one. Your dedication and perseverance are truly appreciated

I like how you sacrificed the hours you worked in your kitchen's hell video just for the sake of truth. I am subscribing for that, you deserve more followers.

Opportunity cost: grandpa said he had so many of the same things because if it took more than 5 minutes to find something he'd quit looking and go buy another one.

There's an episode of kitchen nightmares that made me think it's fake or staged, Ramsey found a rat by the front door when he walked in. Just the way he acts and everyone else does makes me honestly think it was planted

This makes me feel very differently about Carol Baskin. I think the world was unfairly cruel to her. What a strong woman.

I have alot of people who watch these shows and then incorporate those personalities into their everyday...

The look on Christian’s face when Maya was having a meltdown made it obvious it was real.

Man, i appreciate your hard work and your honesty, thanks for what you do

It's sad that many content creators link source material, meanwhile most of the media we consume will use anonymous sources, no links to source material, or facts, research/statistics. We're supposed to take them at their word because they are the authority on information. Good history books and autobiographies link to research, scientific papers and journals link to research and explain it thoroughly. Media: trust us.

I read the title of the video and my mind immediately went to: "ORANGE MAN NAZI BAD BAD ORAGE NAZI MAN"

I tell ya man, it's refreshing to find someone with integrity, at least like the kind you display. Also, what you said about cancel culture, and how it only affects those on the "wrong team", that is so true. Just look at our PM, Justin Castro- I mean, Turdeau- I mean, Trudeau. He was shown to have been wearing blackface and what could be construed as touching womxn inappropriately but was still re-elected. No clearer example of double standards and honestly was the point where those kind of people permanently lost all credibility(not that they had much to begin with).

The way Tiger king portrayed Carole and big Cat rescue was criminal. I used to lead trips for my university over winter break and I went to big cat rescue twice. It was by far the best run animal sanctuary I’ve been to. She not only goes above and beyond caring for these animals. She is also puts a huge emphasis on educating everyone about why it’s cruel to buy these animals. Also you are correct about the cages. The parts they showed are just for feeding and isolating while the main enclosure is way bigger