From ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ to ‘Love Island’, the rediscovery of old seasons of reality TV on streaming services can be both a blessing and a curse.
guest Dwayne Davison spoke about the debilitating effect his time on the show had had for his self-image, saying that the real damage had come from ITV’s decision to upload clips of him to YouTube.
The good part is that the show’s streamable presence affords its former contestants a much bigger platform. Without appearing on an on-demand video service, a growing reality show leaves contestants from earlier seasons behind. With Netflix, allqueens can benefit from the show’s exponential growth, in particular internationally.
“I saw a significant uplift in social media attention,” Chris says. “People were asking me questions about stuff that had happened three years ago, when I couldn’t remember what I’d had this morning for breakfast.” While the comments Chris was met with tended to be in good jest, he can see how the upload could negatively impact a former contestants mental health.
“Not everyone’s following you on Instagram or your day to day life, and people do come up to me in the street, not knowing that I’ve had transitioned or had surgery,” Gia tells me. Like Laganja, Gia was known for being an antagonist while on the show, as well as knocking out quotable catchphrases, which to many seems at odds with her activism online.
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