[ SECRET POST #5389 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5389 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Most amateur bakers got into baking because of sentimental reasons so IDK what you expected. Especially since most of the non-technicals ask that you have some kind of emotional connection to it.

[(Anonymous)]

Not the OP but for me, it's not a problem that people have touching emotional associations with things they bake. What is a problem is that a lot of reality shows milk the living hell out of it for sympathy points until you feel like you're being jerked around.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes - it feels like it's either the show trying to manipulate the viewer, or the baker trying to manipulate the judges.

[(Anonymous)]

da- yea it's very clearly being either encouraged or outright prompted by the showrunners to squeeze a narrative out of people. when you start watching episodes of these shows back-to-back it gets super obvious and i always skip past those parts

[(Anonymous)]

It reminds me of how they used to do that for every athlete at the Olympics, except slightly more ridiculous because dude. It's an amateur baking competition.

[(Anonymous)]

Did Paul Hollywood make this secret?

[(Anonymous)]

My biggest pet peeve of reality competition shows is giving the contestants such emotional backstories that end up shielding them from criticism. (I will never forgive American Idol for spending so much time of Lazaro and then not critiquing him when he blatantly F-ed up)

[(Anonymous)]

In GBBO, I like when they mention it's a family recipe but not a cut away story because then it's actually going to be good. The big screw ups happen most often with recipes they aren't very familiar with.

[(Anonymous)]

I was actually kind of impressed by one baker last year (Linda?) who baked something related to her dead daughter. And that’s obviously a huge tragedy, to lose a child, but she was surprisingly composed and didn’t really delve into it.

Yet another reason I prefer GBBO to basically any other competition show I’ve seen.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't watch this show, but I'm very much down with the sentiment of this secret.

I'm someone who feels emotionally manipulated very easily, and as soon as I feel emotionally manipulated it's all over.

[(Anonymous)]

GBBO is the show that does this the *least* I think. One reason why I very rarely watch reality shows.

(Though I do like that in Glow Up they get all the tragic/touching backstories out then ruthlessly kick people off anyway.)

[(Anonymous)]

'The great pottery show down' does it even less! It's why I like it even more. Keith he judge might cry over your development and tenacity or your background story, but if your piece of pottery is the worst, you're still out.

[meadowphoenix]

it feels like something that was developed out of competitions with voting by the audience, so that sentimentality was used to developed favorites to vote on, and then used in situations where it doesn't really make sense about how hard people go on it.

that said, I think it's pretty normal for artists to create with their history in mind and to explain that.