ilmscore | Recession TV: How Reality Shows Built Our Relationship With Money

Predictions from this Video

Total: 5
Correct: 0
Incorrect: 0
Pending: 5
Prediction
Topic
Status
The general audience's interest in the Kardashians' reality show will continue to decline due to its perceived lack of reality, leading to a decrease in viewership, beyond just their 'Die Hard fans.'
"I actually feel like people are starting to jump off the Kardashian train I mean even me specifically as somebody who who watches reality TV for a living um I don't find them super compelling anymore and I think that's been a shift um not necessarily in the reality TV genre but just in the in the way that people view reality TV because it's gotten so far removed from reality that people just aren't really that interested anymore of course they will have the Die Hard fans that will watch no matter what but when it comes to choosing you know because that's how most people watch TV not everybody is gonna sit down every single night and watch every show that's on I feel like the Kardashians aren't at the top of the list anymore"
Reality TV Viewership
Pending
The social pressure to constantly maintain aspirational appearances on social media will increasingly drive individuals to make poor financial decisions.
"Even many normal people don't want to reuse outfits twice on Instagram and the pressure to keep up with appearances only leads to more and more bad financial decision making"
Personal Finance / Consumer Behavior
Pending
The Bachelor franchise will continue to be a less effective platform for contestants to automatically gain large social media followings and establish a significant social media presence compared to its past peak.
"...we've seen a decline in that recently I feel like the the peak of the mountain when it came to Bachelor franchise was Hannah Brown pilot Peter and even Matt james' season but after that you know people aren't getting as big of a following as they once were um they're just not automatically guaranteed to be you know a social media presence as they were a couple years ago"
Reality TV / Social Media Influence
Pending
Millennials and Gen Z are predicted to be largely unable to achieve homeownership.
"Millennials in jenzi may never have homeownership but they have an entire backlog of selling Sunset so they can watch foreign aristocracy purchase an investment property they will spend a total of 3 days of their life in"
Homeownership / Generational Economics
Pending
Individuals will increasingly incur credit card debt to meet aspirational beauty standards inspired by reality TV and to curate their online presence, despite their declining financial capacity.
"We can all go into credit card debt attempting to make ourselves look as beautiful as the reality TV contestants who come back for a second season and we can present more and more expertly curated Final Cuts of our own lives on social media as we become less and less financially able to afford them"
Personal Finance / Consumer Debt
Pending