The content creator Luc Loren has starred in a video that has gone viral these days on social networks. In this piece you can see the progress of a new reality called Duels in which eight contestants who will live in a house and try to win a prize of 100,000 euros.
The applicants to get the jackpot are people who have suffered some personal misfortunes that they will rely on to prove that they deserve the prize. ”I’m Marta and I had an accident in which I lost my sight”, ”My parents abandoned me when I was a girl”, ”My dog ??Tango recently died”, ”My son Milan was born lifeless ” or ”I had a double mastectomy for breast cancer” are some of the arguments of the different contestants of the reality show.
But, who decides the person deserving of the award? The audience? The answer is clarified by Dulceida’s friend in the same piece: “There is only one problem. They enter without knowing the rules and a popular jury is already deciding.”
In the promotional video you can see how a group of people, apparently unknown and whom one of the contestants refers to as “psychopaths”, analyzes, comments and judges the attitude and behavior of the different applicants in the coexistence to decide who should win the competition.
This new ‘contest’ has brought a lot of tail on social networks, since many people have criticized the use of the pain of the victims to make television, especially when serious topics such as death, illnesses, accidents, etc. are dealt with.
There are even public figures who have positioned themselves regarding this format. The presenter Nuria Martín uploaded a video to her official TikTok account reacting to the progress and explaining that, despite loving reality shows, this seems too much to her: “I don’t understand how a project like this could have been given the green light. How do people lend themselves to competing like ‘I’m worse than you’? In short, the world is going to shit”.
”This is a lie, isn’t it? Tell me this is a lie”, ”We’ve been in Black Mirror for a long time but this is already terrifying”, ”I have an upset stomach”, ”It’s a shame” or ”I think civilization has already collapsed” are some of the comments that can be read on social networks.
Faced with such a wave of negative messages, many people have wanted to give their opinion and explain that it is surely a campaign against bullying so that the public can put themselves in the shoes of others: ”Tell me it is an anti-bullying campaign on social networks or something like that because it’s very heavy that this is a real program”, ”I don’t even think it’s a real project but rather an awareness campaign on social networks”, etc.
