Slowpoke here (love how the last couple years 'slowpopke' can mean days/weeks...

slowpoke here (love how the last couple years 'slowpopke' can mean days/weeks, because that's how fast shit can blink in and out of the public eye - even entire series)

Admittedly watched this because everyone was talking about it. Co-workers, podcasters, etc. 7 episodes, that's it? So I binged it all... and I guess I get why everyone was fascinated but what a let down for a show. This series exemplifies how this shit gets super popular so fast. It's the example of society's meme fascination. The cringey meme though, the "bunch of lolsorandum amirite???" kind of meme. "I'm a gay gun-toting tiger owner with a mullet" solidified that for me.

No no no, I didn't go into this trying to hate it because it was SO popular (man seriously, this show was talked about for like a week NONSTOP and has now disappeared... NO ONE is talking about it now). I genuinely will watch anything and give it a shot. SO as spoiler -free as the world kept it for me, and as spoiler-free as I kept myself, I genuinely went in to see if I'd enjoy this uber popular show. And..... it was meh? Yes, I admit I was growing intrigue as the shows went on, but the intrigue was to see if there was a huge story unfolding - the kind with a point and an ending, like a murder mystery or something. But it just kinda.... went on. And yes, there were points where I laughed, points where I gasped and put my hand over my mouth... but the majority of this show was like OH MAN LOOK AT THIS NEW RANDUM THING HE SAID/DID

I hate sounding like a contrarian, but I really feel like this was the maddenbro/gamerbro of popularity/series equivalent. People were putting this series up there with the greats, but it wasn't. It was the LOL LOOK AT THE COUNTRY-TALKIN MULLET TRAILER METH TRASH lolsorandum series that spanned from "oh.... wow" to the "uh.... okay". to the "*yawn*". I think this is why it has flashed so fast. It has no lasting substance, no great through-plot, no impactful conclusion.

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Yeah, and see I didn't even understand the first one. I had heard the CAROLE BASKIN BAD meme a lot, but as I watched the show..... okay yeah she was a hypocrite and bad, but damn they all were!!! And yeah the BAD might be her alleged husband killing, but that never paid off! She wasn't found guilty by a mountain of evidence, so it's left to a "come on man, she did it" mentality which is NOT fair or right, it's the damn OJ shit all over again - but way less popular. So yeah, about the only popular word/meme I could get along with about this series is the "man shit was so randum and unexpected and look at all the crazy shit this guy did in his life lulsouthernmethrednecks amirite!!??"

>cause i saw a tiger
>now i understand
>well i saw a tiger
>and the tiger saw a man

>cringe

>tell all the hunters
>lay down their guns
>tell em that the tiger
>needs a little bit of love

>cringe at normies cringe'ing at this, as they say "it's so cringe, amirite??"

This is what happens with literally everything big. Even shit like Breaking Bad and Twin Peaks lose their steam a week after they end, with the occasional revival thread or discussion at work or whatever. GoT would have been the same even if it didn't fuck itself up in the final seasons.

Nobody retains or critically evaluates what they consume, they just have that zoomer "hahaha man go grrrr" reaction and then it's gone from their brains.

I dunno if BB and GoT are good examples compared to this. TK is pretty much one season - 7 episodes. You can binge it, so it's there and gone for you, and for everyone else. But I don't think that's the true issue with TK. TK has no TRUE substance to go on. You and folks will talk at work about 'LOL YEAH REMEMBER THAT PART WHEN HE BLEW UP HIS WATCH, SO REDNECK AND METH AMIRITE???".... but those points are it. There was no great, swelling narrative, no grand over-arching plot - and the parts that were close to those never had a payoff. The show was just... there. No climax, no point, just a rolling ball of meme.

BB and GoT at least had more seasons to follow, and more gripping points.

>no grand over-arching plot
We literally see the Tiger King lose his throne
Retard

>Admittedly watched this because everyone was talking about it. Co-workers,
>hate sounding like a contrarian, but I really feel like this was the maddenbro/gamerbro of popularity/series equivalent
You are only contradicting yourself.
Make peace and learn to live with your life choices

And then it kept going... just showing him go into obscurity and jail. Man, what a ride.

Meh.

>it's the damn OJ shit all over again
Except he did actually do it. OJ got away with it because the glove didn't fit but there are explanations as to why the glove no longer fit that the judge ignored and allowed OJ to put the glove that everyone knew had shrunk on.
Come on, he asked the police "Who killed her" before they had even told him or the media she was dead.

Almost like real life eh?
Sounds like you have trouble appreciating a narrative that isn't formulaic or artificial Joseph Campbell dick sucking

fucking niggers

I guess. I didn't know what to expect when I went in, but I went in and did enjoy some parts/moments, but ultimately kinda shrugged it off. But I do see why the world went meme crazy over it. Maybe it's because I live in the south and I've heard of/seen most of this crazy shit too many times, who knows. More perpetuation of the redneck stereotype. Yes, this show was filled with some out-there shit. I guess I was hoping for more of a payoff as the 'drama' kept building.

I think people connected with Joe because under all his showboating redneckism it's revealed that he's just as scared and lonely as many of us. The doc does a good job of humanizing his ridiculous character.

>and "I want a cut pet tiger too"
What? Maybe that's what degenerate rednecks got from it but most people actually think it's a despicable thing to do. I'm pretty sure the whole documentary also gave the animal activists a huge push too as it's actual evidence of absolute bullshit behavior in those establishments

I thought it was pretty shit documentary. It feels like every five minutes someone says something incredibly melodramatic like, "We knew he was fucked up, we just didn't know HOW incredibly fucked up things were going to get," and there's no fucking follow through.

The way it's edited is atrocious, the narrative skips all over the place: one minute Jeff is going to Vegas, then we're back before he was in Vegas, then he's back from Vegas, and then we're at a point when he's still in Vegas.

I'm also not sure why I'm supposed to give two shits about what a bunch of slimeballs and convicted felons say about each other while providing scant evidence for any of it. Anyone with a brain ought to be aware that it's mostly bullshit.

Weird shit happens but it's not exactly Jonestown is it?

>It feels like every five minutes someone says something incredibly melodramatic like, "We knew he was fucked up, we just didn't know HOW incredibly fucked up things were going to get," and there's no fucking follow through.
very true
i think the appeal was mostly "look at how crazy these inbred schizos are"
like if you did a jim jones dumentary it wouldnt be "outrageous" and "funny" for normies it would just be sad
part of me still thinks all the people in tiger king are actors and the whole thing is scripted

I still can't bring myself to watch it. Something something crazy tiger mullet man ponzy scheme drugs rock n roll something something... there's nothing there that hasn't been seen before.

The chimpanzees

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i feel sad for the gators joe burned