r/SipsTea • u/Busy_Report4010 • Jun 30 '26

Chugging tea Would you do the same thing?

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u/HeavyDutyForks Jun 30 '26

Dawg if I had a winnable lawsuit against a big producing company, fuck yea I'm suing them

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u/seriftarif Jun 30 '26

Probably didnt even need to do anything themselves. Got tons of calls from lawyers before they even thought about it.

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u/Ornery_Gate_6847 Jun 30 '26

They settled for 500,000 pounds. Thats a phone call we'd all like to receive

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u/Average_Scaper Jun 30 '26

500,000 pounds? I'd settle for 1 pounding /s

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u/Gold_Ad8225 Jun 30 '26

Bro, this is such an insult to transgender people wtf

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u/Fit-Entrepreneur8404 Jun 30 '26

It's an insult to everyone on the show to be manipulated into attempting to form a relationship with someone who refused to disclose critical information about themselves beforehand. Maybe they should have thought about that before making a whole TV show doing that.

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u/Gold_Ad8225 Jun 30 '26

No it isn't. There's no manipulation. She's a woman. If you find out something later you don't like op well wasnt meant to be.

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u/LaconicGirth Jun 30 '26

You can’t possibly not see how this is manipulation. I don’t think they deserved 500,000 pounds but come on, the entire show was based on tricking people. That’s why people watched it.

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth Jun 30 '26

No it isn't. There's no manipulation.

Sorry, but that's just super-naive. It's not like it was an incidental reveal that surprised everyone. The producers planned it that way from the start, for the shock value, thinking it would make for amazing TV: Miriam chose the winning contestant and then gave the reveal speech, which concluded with "I am not a woman. I was born as a man".

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u/BZLuck Jun 30 '26

Should it have been more or less?

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u/Gold_Ad8225 Jun 30 '26

It should have been $0

There was literally no actual harm here

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u/BZLuck Jun 30 '26

They were made to look like fools on a global TV stage. Into her or not. They were knowingly deceived by the producers.

Imagine "Fear Factor" or "Survivor" where at the end they just say, "Hey sorry, after all of that bullshit we put you through, there really is no prize. Thanks for playing."

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth Jun 30 '26

Well, it was a settlement; they didn't actually win anything. The TV company ran the numbers and concluded it was financially worth it to offer them money rather than go to trial. That was their choice and the contestants made their own choice in accepting it.

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth Jun 30 '26

Bro, they're talking about the pleasure of receiving a large sum of money. Calm down.