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Joe Exotic posts on instagram that his husband was deported by ICE after years of shilling for Donald Trump.

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 67 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Joe Exotic is the guy from the Tiger King documentary that went viral during lockdowns. He's a gay republican presidential candidate, a (former) zoo owner, a tiger breeder and illegal seller, and currently in jail for attempting to have a rival zoo owner murdered.

[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 55 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I'm still proud of the fact that I haven't seen Tiger King to this day.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's an odd thing of which to be proud, but I'm the same way with mainstream music. We just like to feel like we are unique sometimes.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If more people would have rejected reality tv slop, we wouldn't have had The Apprentice. Tiger King is in the same category of weird, voyeuristic shit.

[–] Walican132@lemmy.today 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wasn’t the apprentice was a game show? I believe tiger king was a documentary. Both slop sure but I don’t know that either count as reality TV do they?

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

If a game show leans heavy on the scripted drama, I classify it as reality tv. People aren't interested in the competition. They're interested in the conflict.

[–] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Me neither. Never saw Star Wars or any of the Harry Potter movies either.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Congrats on your superiority

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

As I tell my wife every time she reveals another pop-culture media source she's never seen, "m'eh. You're not really missing out on anything unless you actually want to watch it. In that case, I'm sure we can find a copy on the seven seas."

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Same. Zero interest in that drama.

[–] Kaput@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Thats because you think of it as just another carefully choreagraphed reality show. But this is more a WTF lets sit here and see what happens documentary. The guy who filmed it saw a train heading for a pile of dumpster fires and took a seat in it.

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Steve@startrek.website 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

He's actually from Oklahoma. But the lady he tried to kill was from Florida

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Pretty standard, really.