Dear reader, I thought it important to point out that this is my first ever entry on the HiveGhana community. Today, I will be talking about the dating shows we have all grown to love.
Dating shows 👫are currently a wild sensation on social media and on TV📺. A very popular one is the TV3's Date Rush and perhaps lesser known ones are the "Pop the balloon" shows on Youtube. These shows are a must watch, very exciting to watch really. Ummm🤔, Let's make a deep dive into the analysis and the nitty-gritties of these shows. And at the end decide whether or not they make sense.
Dear reader, our conversation here will be in two parts; what happens on the show and what happens after the show. Do people really find love?
Skip the next paragraph if you already know how "pop-the-balloon" shows work.
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People come on these shows to "find love". I honestly think it's brave to put oneself out like that. What happens on these shows is that, a number of women👩 are lined up as seen on in the picture below and they bring in a single guy👨 in (for "pop-your-balloon-shows"🎈 not "date-rush"). The host asks him questions. Questions about himself, name, age, what he does, his preference in women, etc. After the introduction, the women holding the balloon🎈 will decide to either pop their balloon🎈 or leave it un-popped depending on whether or not they interested in the guy. Ladies with popped balloons give reasons why they popped and then the gentlemen now get to also ask questions to those ladies with un-popped balloons. It's that back and forth game of questioning and answering that will determine if the gentleman gets a match or not.
For their appearances, participants on these shows would normally come dressed to kill. Dressing as they would when going out on a date. Mostly a casual look both the ladies and gentle men. That's a plus for them. At least the promote good dressing😅
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For their mannerisms, these shows are made so that the opposite genders ask each other questions and interact. Questions they think would let them know more about the other person better. Questions like, "What do you look for in a woman?", "What is your ideal first date?👫", "How do you handle misunderstanding with your partner?", etc... Most participants answer sincerely and you can tell by the way they express themselves on the show. For a TV show like TV3's Date Rush, being on national television, participants are usually better mannered than their Youtube counterparts (Youtube also have guidelines for their content but less strict comapred to TV shows). It sometimes gets really nasty on these Youtube show. Try and what some if you haven't. I recommend the "CampusWithSharkboy" Youtube channel.
Basically, Some find their "love matches" on these shows and some do not. Fine! I don't have a problem with that. Probably the people they match are the best options to them on the show. However, what happens when these supposed couples leave the set? Do things work out? What do they not tell us? What don't we see?
Well, some of these shows do follow-ups to see how the couples go/got after being matched on the shows. From my experience, 90% of them do not make it past the second date. Reality catches up to them. It's either this-or-that or that-or-this. Long story short, I think shows are just selling us a fantasy just to make a buck.
I want to hear your thought on this in the comments. What do you think about these shows?
