In today’s installment of Did Anyone Think This Through for More Than Five Seconds, we’re highlighting CBS’s forthcoming competition series The Activist.
The reality show, hosted by Usher and cohosted by Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Julianne Hough, will see six activist contestants compete “to bring meaningful change to one of three urgent universal causes: health, education, and the environment,” according to a news release quoted by the Los Angeles Times.
Despite that the entertainment industrial complex has turned just about everything else into a reality competition, this particular idea left people ice cold.
“If we needed any further proof that activism has officially been coopted for liberal playhouse fun, making issues that need systemic overhauls into cute slogans, celebrity worship cults and quirky competitions – here you go!” tweeted AJ+ host Sana Saeed.
“We are so close to ‘The GoFundMe Show’ pitting a teacher who needs supplies for her students against a 20-year-old in thousands of dollars of medical debt on prime time tv,” tweeted Wired writer Caitlin Kelly.
Throughout the five-week televised competition, contestants will go head-to-head in a series of challenges to “promote their causes, with their success measured via online engagement, social metrics, and hosts’ input.” Huffpost reports that the activists will compete in “missions, media stunts, digital campaigns, and community events aimed at garnering the attention of the world’s most powerful...
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