https://old.reddit.com/r/BeastGames/comments/1i2aox0/has_this_show_been_a_major_flop/

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There's no real connection made to any of the contestants. Very few backstories presented, no hometown B-roll or family shown. This is understandable, because there are just so many people it would've been impossible. Tracking contestants at that personalized level would've been a spoiler for future episodes because you'd figure out that person must make it to the next stage to be featured. But the result is that the audience doesn't get as invested in individual stories, and don't want to follow their journey outside the game. Maybe it reflects ratings/views, maybe not. I think it's more likely people just don't follow the contestants because the audience wasn't given the chance to know or care about them as people. (19)

Who cares about the backstory, youre watching the show to see hella people get eliminated in fun games, although the games could be better (2)

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My kids like it but it is terrible, the contestants are awful. I don't know if they are scripted actors or just weird people but seem to over do it. (9)

not scripted actors lol. (1)

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Yea no one is taking a million dollars c'mon you don't think they were paid off to do that. (4)

i don't find it hard to believe no one would take the million lol. it's blood money. you're being very pessimistic. and my brother was in the games, it's not scripted (-1)

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The biggest problem with these games was most of them in the beginning made it so that people could be eliminated through no fault of their own. It was a dumb way to get rid of a lot of contestants fast. Viewers would see this as not entirely fair. If they only want 60 contestants to fight for the prize, then they should choose 60 people, not 500 or whatever they started out with. I had a chance to get on this show and I refused for this reason, because knowing my luck I would have been in one of those rows where someone takes the money and eliminates me, or get stuck in a group of 50+ who loses because one guy dropped a ball...think about it, a former wide receiver dropped a red playground ball? I wouldn't be surprised if he was a studio plant. It's ridiculous. I'm a former athlete and would have asked for a 10ft circle of space to catch any ball myself. These dumb eliminations don't typically happen in a mr. beast contest, at least not so often. (2)

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There's no real connection made to any of the contestants. Very few backstories presented, no hometown B-roll or family shown. This is understandable, because there are just so many people it would've been impossible. Tracking contestants at that personalized level would've been a spoiler for future episodes because you'd figure out that person must make it to the next stage to be featured. But the result is that the audience doesn't get as invested in individual stories, and don't want to follow their journey outside the game. Maybe it reflects ratings/views, maybe not. I think it's more likely people just don't follow the contestants because the audience wasn't given the chance to know or care about them as people. (19)

the thing that's kills these type of reality tv show games is inauthenticity, everyone has a sob story ("i lost my home, i've struggled very much in life, my family needs this, i have a sick family member", etc.) even tho it is unfortunate everyone in multiple reality game shows have the same rehearsed story atp as much as it sounds mean or insensitive but who knows if they're just making stuff up. at the end of the day they just want money so all these sob stories to move further in the game really doesn't make you root for anyone cause the more people eliminated the more the remaining players will say or do anything to stay. what the show needs is to be cutthroat and really have games where everyone try using their actual skills (7)

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My kids like it but it is terrible, the contestants are awful. I don't know if they are scripted actors or just weird people but seem to over do it. (9)