it revolves around making both the host and said interviewee increasingly suffer by way of capsaicin while general interview questions (both career and personal) are asked. they do a “flight” of incrementally-hotter hot sauces until it’s just asinine scoville levels toward the end. idk what the gag is here, if the VA ate wings as the character or what. I don’t care enough to watch it to figure this one out.
people don’t watch celebrities for intellectual reasons as your comment would seem to expect. Its for the spectacle / parasocial relations / interpassivity. To marx, the substitution of actual social life with the commodity. As such, the value of the commodity is the illusion of realness, and yes seeing them in pain does enhance this via our brains wiring toward empathy.
Hot ones has some great celebrity interviews if you’re into that sort of thing. This video is a very unfunny outlier.
does the interview revolve around ones appreciation for wings?
it revolves around making both the host and said interviewee increasingly suffer by way of capsaicin while general interview questions (both career and personal) are asked. they do a “flight” of incrementally-hotter hot sauces until it’s just asinine scoville levels toward the end. idk what the gag is here, if the VA ate wings as the character or what. I don’t care enough to watch it to figure this one out.
??? why is the interview more entertaining if the participants are suffering?
edit: I don’t expect you to have an answer for this, I’m realizing this is a question I’m asking myself
what the fuck
because its a way to manufacture relatability for celebrity-commodities
“oh look, hot things hurt them, just like me” ???
really???
💀🙃
you know what else hurts them? bullets and assault and thorough denigration, just like every-fuckin-body else
it is incomprehensible to me that this is a thing
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people don’t watch celebrities for intellectual reasons as your comment would seem to expect. Its for the spectacle / parasocial relations / interpassivity. To marx, the substitution of actual social life with the commodity. As such, the value of the commodity is the illusion of realness, and yes seeing them in pain does enhance this via our brains wiring toward empathy.
being autistic, other people do often watch things for reasons that make little sense to me, it’s true
The idea is that as the guest becomes more distracted by the spiciness they become more authentic because they’re too distracted to put up their masks