"Contestants have been known to strip naked, pour cups of piss on one another, scream slurs, and fistfight. They have smoked crack or meth (viewers couldn’t quite tell which), masturbated, attempted to smear feces on each other, worn blackface, and run directly into plate glass doors."
"Producers—who run the show from the basement, where they also sleep amid scattered guns—often come upstairs and join the chaos. Like the masterminds behind many reality shows, they seem to revel in psychologically tormenting their subjects."
"They also, occasionally, strap on boxing gloves and beat the shit out of them for real." Inside the most unlikely internet hit, Fishtank. www.wired.com/story/intera...
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'Fishtank' is a reality show set inside a “fully-monitored smart house,” where contestants live together under constant surveillance while viewers watch and interact in real time.
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