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Transcript

00:01

We speak student!

00:05

[ yodeling ]

00:07

Reality TV Part Eight

00:09

Voyeurism

00:11

[ bird caws ]

00:12

What is voyeurism?

00:14

Voyeurism is when we have the urge to

00:18

see other people in intimate settings.

00:20

With reality TV, this is what we're doing all the time.

00:22

A lot of people would say,

00:23

"It's not voyeurism. We're not watching them have sex."

00:25

But we are watching them in some incredibly intimate situations.

00:29

And it's just this desire that we all have

00:31

to see what other people's lives are like.

00:34

Again, from the tamest people-watching

00:38

to why you turn and look when there's a car accident

00:42

or why you wanna watch the video on YouTube

00:45

of someone dying.

00:47

Something about seeing into other people's lives

00:49

just grabs us and always has.

00:51

And that's absolutely what we're doing with reality TV.

00:53

Whether you're doing it to feel superior to someone

00:55

or to then go blog about it or whatever,

00:57

we're doing it because we wanna see a snippet of someone else's life.

01:01

[ pen writing ]

01:03

What is voyeurism?

01:05

Remember Aaron, the reporter from ESPN? Yeah.

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