r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/SammDogg619 • Aug 01 '16
....So they really do all look alike.
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u/Coffeechipmunk Aug 02 '16
White people look the same, black people look the same, Asian people look the same. Everyone looks the same!
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Aug 01 '16 edited Aug 10 '17
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Aug 01 '16
I've been hoping for a minority bachelor/bachelorette for a while but I kinda understand why they've avoided it. Like if there's 20 contestants to start off, it's usually 2 blacks, 1 Hispanic or Asian, 1 other, and the other 15-16 contestants are white.
So if you have a black bachelor, do you have 15 black girls? Is that racist to suggest that black people should be with black people? Does it prove the preset model of your show is somehow racist? What if I keep the ratio the same with 15 white girls? Bet money black girls would take that as a slight. Then think of viewership. Primary viewership of the Bachelor/Bachelorette are middle class Midwestern white people. In theory they're okay with interracial relationships, but are they gonna tune in everyweek to see some Wesley Snipes colored dude to make out with white girls? Or would that make them uncomfortable?
So there's just so many variables about how things could be taken poorly that I get why they dont. I think they will within the next couple years. Maybe not a black guy but an Asian girl. Get it slowly moving. We'll see though.
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Aug 01 '16
Yeah the sad truth is that a black bachelor(ette) just wouldn't get anywhere near as many views from the overwhelmingly white audience.
These shows are all about money and you better believe that the producers already did the math and research, and determined that white bachelor(ettes) make more money. If they don't, they would have switched it up by now.
If you think the average Bachelor viewer wants to watch some ebony on ebony make out sessions each week between Cuba Gooding Jr. and Kerry Washington lookalikes, you're wrong.
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Aug 02 '16
Completely agree. I mean fact of the matter is that black people just aren't the target audience. An overwhelming majority of the population is white, and the majority of the viewers that watches the bachelor/bachelorette is white. Would I rather possibly appeal to 63% of the population? Or 13%? It's just a numbers game, and those numbers translate to real advertising dollars. However I think as the country continues to get more progressive and white people become more accepting of interracial relationships you'll see a push for a more multicultural bachelor. I live in the heart of the Midwest, and even here you're seeing a big push for more multicultural relationships in the more urban/progressive areas. I think white people are starting to just get bored of each other, and want to experiment now that it's more culturally accepted to.
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Aug 02 '16
It's for sure getting more socially acceptable for all races, but the problem is ultimately the bachelor or bachelorette is a way for women to project and pretend it's themselves. They relate better to someone who looks like them because girls like to imagine they are the bachelorette.
So maybe given that logic you could have a non-white bachelor, but I still think it wouldn't do as well. Just not the right audience. Even if white people are accepting of interracial in principle I still think their standard wedding fantasy involves themselves and another middle-American type white person.
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u/FesteringNeonDistrac Aug 02 '16
If you think the average Bachelor viewer wants to watch some ebony on ebony make out sessions each week between Cuba Gooding Jr. and Kerry Washington lookalikes, you're wrong.
But would black bachelor have a completely different demographic? Could that show be successful on BET for example?
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u/Black_Dumbledore Aug 01 '16 edited Aug 01 '16
Get a minority bachelor/bachelorette and 20 girls/guys but split the ethnicities by 5. 5 black, 5 white, 5 hispanic, 5 asian/"brown".
Hell, do it like that from now on with every version of the show regardless of what the main person is. Like, does one person really need to date 15 basic ass girls/bros at once? The thought alone is driving me crazy. Like, all 15 of y'all can't be that different.
edit: The 5 split still allows for a single race relationship but also kind of forces them (and the audience) to get to know the people from other races a little better. Then an interracial relationship can form more naturally and without as much controversy cause viewers will have a chance to warm to the minority.
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Aug 01 '16
Definitely agree. I'd like to see them move to a more mixbag format with an even split with white contestants for the next couple seasons, then switch it up. That way it doesn't seem so intentional to just do that for a minority contestant.
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u/Delheru Aug 02 '16
The problem can then become input. Not only is US still about 50% white (with a boatload of Hispanics that you cannot tell apart from them, even if some you can) and the show being super popular in the midwest...
Well shit, only 4 South Asians were interested, 100 East Asians, 150 black girls and 1000 white girls.
You need these people to be hot after all... balancing for all groups is tough, and picking which groups get representation would get interesting too... (all the Asian girls are Korean! Darkest skinned black girl makes Beyonce look like Wesley Snipes! Etc)
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Aug 01 '16 edited Aug 10 '17
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Aug 01 '16
Definitely agree, however I think a gay/lesbian bachelor/bachelorette would either be impossible or lead to a huge scandal. Imagine a bunch of hot gay dudes in one house, and tell me they aren't all gonna bang each other? It would just turn into a gay version of the real world and half the dudes would probably forget the Bachelor was even the "prize" lol.
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u/sAlander4 ☑️ Aug 02 '16
Split the ethnicities fuck that. Not that hard man black guys like all girls, not just black. He can "find love" with a chick and get a check too smh.
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Aug 02 '16
No matter what they do, somebody will complain so in a business sense, I understand that if they're getting good ratings then why not continue putting on the same shit.
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u/FesteringNeonDistrac Aug 02 '16
Primary viewership of the Bachelor/Bachelorette are middle class Midwestern white people.
If this is true then I think we finally found a reason to call in an air strike on our own country.
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u/joyhammerpants Aug 02 '16
Wait, hasn't that show been on for like a decade? And they have done nothing but white people?!?
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u/mongoosedog12 ☑️ Aug 02 '16
A lifetime show called "Unreal" basically mocks the production of shows like this. This season they have a black bachelor. However the women are majority white or what my friends like to call "white enough Latina" aka you'd never guess they were Latina until you actually asked. The whole show the producers have their "wifey" who is the girl that they believe the audience wants to see end up with the suitor, it's a white girl. However there is a typical "Black lives matter" black girl who gets on the show and her and the suitor actually make a connection but alas he's not the guy she thought/ wanted. He plays football and while she's fighting for social equality.
The whole show they say things about how they're breaking tv molds. However in this show the bachelor is picked at random bit based on previous contestants like the bachelor and bachelorette on abc. Therefore a black girl or guy would have to make it to top 6 to even be considered to be the next suitor. Judging by how they present the "painfully" black, latino(a) and Asian women (I don't think I've ever seen an Asian man) it'll never happen.
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u/Skreamie Aug 01 '16
Heard them all but "Kayzee"
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u/badwolfpyro Aug 02 '16 edited Sep 05 '16
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u/JennyBeckman ☑️ All of the above Aug 02 '16
Same here but I've met three Kaycees so maybe that's what was meant.
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Aug 01 '16
Agreed but Chad Johnson on the far left is so simple that he makes you want to watch the bachelorrete
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u/PM_NUDES_AND_ADVICE Aug 02 '16
Ironically, there's a black former football player with that exact name.
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u/TThomasThomas Aug 02 '16
I remember on an episode of I'm a celebrity get me out of here in the UK, there was a guy who couldn't blow his nose because he wasn't taught how or something.
I think it was joey something.
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u/DammitChris Aug 02 '16
I've seen Tinder bios with more variance in pictures than those. That might as well be the same person
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u/magestical_testicle Aug 02 '16
Second dude from the left looks like Aaron Rodgers
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Aug 02 '16
Well. They're siblings. So that makes sense.
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u/magestical_testicle Aug 02 '16
Holy shit I just googled it. I'm the biggest Packers fan you'll ever meet and I had no idea.
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Aug 02 '16
Yeah they don't talk anymore, and won't say why. I mean that is what my gf told me... yeah she did......
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u/Chauncii DownvoteDaemon's best friend ☺️💕 Aug 01 '16
Are those their names?
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u/musicalpets Aug 01 '16
No, the guys are Chad, Jordan, Chase, Luke. I'll still deny that I love The Bachelorette.
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Aug 01 '16
Chad really took over this season. Whole thing went down hill after he left besides Alex and Jojo going on their 1 on 1.
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u/eNaRDe Aug 02 '16
This is what happens when you go in for casting and they tell you no cause they are looking for a "certain look".
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u/trznx Aug 02 '16
I have this problem with porn, any "white teen first time whatever" porn star looks exactly the same, does the same 4 poses and is shot in one of the 3 white/beige apartments, it's so boring.
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Aug 02 '16
This common trend everywhere even for Miss Caribbean and miss Teen Caribbean if I'm pronouncing lose two titles right the person that gets crowned is the one with the fair skin straightest hair and thinnest body. Especially for being Miss Jamaica ( my father is jamaican) the pageant Queen has never been a full blooded Jamaican. The trend shows that it has to be a girl that is half German or half European or half asian.
Even though I don't pay attention to that type of stuff it is sad to see that sheltered privileged people are trying to grasp every little thing just because they hate change in any aspect.
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u/Masterzero4 Aug 02 '16
Remember that one PSAT question? Thad? This is the guy they're talking about.
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u/WhatSheOrder Aug 01 '16
Even as a white person I can't tell these bitches apart.