They continue, "This probably would have been a good occasion to employ a similar fix. Yes, it may be an innocent or ignorant reply, and yes, it was technically correct. But on a television show for an international audience, the impact on a larger stage needs to be taken into account."

yes, it was technically correct

Nooo you can’t answer the question correctly 😭😭😭

It's funny, since loads of actual Roma actually prefer being referred to as gypsies. I've seen some online being very adamant about how they wear the name with pride. But somehow, even if against their will, they must be saved by The Eternal Mayo.

Gypsies have access to the internet?

pickpocketed smartphones

They are hooked to my water and electricity grid so it won't be a stretch

Your misuse of the conditional tense convinces me you are a yuro

They have access to anything mobile, an IRL buff their God gave them which includes a bartering and caravan acquiring buff as well.

Numbers are racist especially certain numbers like the one after twelve and half of one-hundred.

They're also really going with the 👌 being a mayopower symbol, apparently. I really thought they'd eventually shut that off - apparently not, though, and it's been quite a while.

It's becoming a bit of a shibboleth - if you recognise it as bad, you might just be nutty enough to be accepted into the woke inner circle.

It's so fucking funny that 4chan trolls, even in the site's pitiful current state, have continued to bamboozle both leftoids (okay sign meme) and rightoids (Q) to this day.

You’re quickly becoming one of my fave drama posters.

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The true crime here is flashing numbers like some kind of Yuropoor. Use your three central fingers like a normal American, for God's sake.

Speaking of Americana, how goes the forklift hustle, friend?

I think the last time we chatted I had moved out of logistics and into tech. I spent the last few years working in a data center, then combined that with the logistics and went to work for a large hosting company helping with the management of their inventory and shipping. I still have my diploma from the Tijuana School of Forklift Artistry, I've just added some electives to it. How about you?

Oh, nice, I had no idea. Was just assuming that you'd kept at the forklife ever since the FUBU days. Good to see my mans moving up, especially compared to some of the rest of that drama haven.

Hey, does Pizzashill remind you of Aestu? I almost feel like they're kindred spirits.

Pizza is clearly Ethan's cursed post-suicide reincarnation.

Oh, I had forgotten about him being an hero. Kinda sad, but it's not like no one saw it coming. I think I would have purposely shuffled off the mortal coil after the whole "Zarya and the vegetable oil" story was revealed to everyone. Of course, if I was Zarya I would have offed myself once everyone found out about getting naked with Aestu.

I had always assumed Zaryi/Simone had something weird going on with him, so it was affirming to find out that suspicion was correct. Hilarious how she's now married to Tuhl.

I've been wanting for a while to do a snally-type writeup on here of all the shit Ethan got up to on that board, but there's just so fucking much that it seems like it would take ages. "Killed himself after getting interviewed by feds for making terroristic threats" is such a hilarious conclusion, though, that I might have to.

The man was one of the most milkable of LOLCOWs. His 'tism will be missed.

Congrats king. :)

Then he said the worse of the racial slurs! "G*psey"!!!

He already fucking explained it. He did the gesture for 1 when he won once, 2 when he won twice, and 3 when he won three times. Amazing how the Jeopardy contestants complaining can be so stupid.

this is your brain 🧠

this is your brain high on outrage culture 🍳

I always like those commercials bc I love eggs

Nobody said it was 450 past champions lol. The average Jeopardy contestant isn't all that particularly bright.

They still compete to get on the show. Usually

Yeah, I've actually gotten an audition before and it was pretty intensive. You have to first pass an online test to qualify, and once at the audition you do another written test, and then play a mock game with the other people there. You also have to appear TV-ready during your interview, which is allegedly the most important part in the eyes of the producers.

That process is enough to disqualify most r-slurs from the running, but given that 467 people signed this letter, it obviously doesn't filter out all of them.

I bet that was a cool experience

It was pretty cool, yeah. But also kind of shitty, since the coordinators had only booked the hall for three hours and took forever to score the written test results, so the last few mock games (including my own) were incredibly rushed.

I only got to play, like, a category and a half before they ushered us over for the contestant interviews, and because they were so pressed for time they only asked my group about incredibly surface-level details on our contestant applications without actually reading any of our personal anecdotes. (The contestant stories you hear during the interview segment each game are all pulled from the five that every contestant has to submit at their audition.)

Weirdly, not a single person from my audition group (at least as far as I can remember) ended up getting onto the show. So my best guess is that they just scrapped the entire group lmao.

How did you end up doing when you played? I know it's different to be good at trivia at like a bar setting compared to when it's a high pressure situation like that competition. Did they at least give you guys snacks?

No snacks. Just water from dirty hotel glasses. It was only from 9am to noon, so nobody had any expectation of food.

I did okay, but clearly not well enough to be seen as some sort of standout by the producers. I've actually been on a TV trivia show before, and was my team's MVP for five rounds all the way up to the finals (where I was still the best player in the match, but my team ate shit in the back half and we lost) so it really wasn't all that high-pressure compared to the average bar trivia night. I had very little anxiety going into the audition.

But, ultimately, I think that if I ever get another one I'll probably just pop some Adderall beforehand and do a song-and-dance for the producers, since obviously they want "memorable" contestants. (It was, admittedly, a mistake to vape some weed before going to my audition lmao.)

If you want to actually get selected for the show then the best option would be to flash white supremacist gestures like the dude in the op!

inshallah

lol this article was posted to arrJeopardy last night but the thread got locked and all the comments were y'all'd. 😔

In any case, who could have possibly thunk that 450+ neurotic Facebook spergs could get themselves so easily riled up into a cancel mob over literally nothing?

Former Jeopardy contestants have a bunch of Facebook groups, by the way, that are apparently some good drama fodder. I've heard stories of dudes stalking g*ssy on there, and creeping on f*ids that are new to the group.

Evidently it's gotten so ubiquitous that the women have had to make their own girls-only group, which I'm sure was a fertile ground for drama after a 🚂 won for the first time a few months ago.

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450 isn't that much when you consider just how long jeopardy has been running. 3 contestants a show with 2 of them being new adds up quickly.

They think he was doing the ok symbol, even though his hand is horizontal instead of vertical. It's ok though reddit told me people only sp**g out about it when racists do it

Being angry over nonsense is white privilege

Not even a picture or video of the incident in the article... what are journos even being paid for? I know some internet janitors who could do a better job for free.

Dude you see this all the time. I saw some story on the Joe Rogan incident about the vaccines. Had to click through like 2 other links to find out what he actually fucking said.

So much of this shit, they purposely leave it up to your imagination what the person did or said, because it's going to be way worse than what actually happened.

Idc about the OP but want to see reading man Levar Burton get to try hosting. Make it happen Jeopardy jannies.

He was just announced last week as the final guest host. I believe his episodes will run for a week in early August.