Opposites Attract
A future reality tv dating show that is a kind of Married At First Sight crossed with that Handcuffs thing with graham norton
#XAlphaMetaSoft chatbot is one of the experts - replaced Mel R.I.P after a couple of controversial and provocative replacements including, briefly, J. K. Rowling who was as a result removed from her mouldy castle for the duration of filming and forced to confront several trans contestants in her season because the producers had finally achieved a level of ironic-post-reality metaconsciousness about the transformative potential of reality television following an influx of unemployed-humanities-degree-holding-effete-intellectual-snobs-with-pronouns-and-diagnoses who, having been through the various degrees of post pandemic post ai bubble post postal service post-exodic crises had decided that instead of perpetually dodging accusations of influencing the culture via the media etc. it might be a better idea to put some of that effort into doing so.
research from the future series
perhaps it is the first season after the colonisation of Mars. The gears of capitalism are slowly grinding to a halt, and there's an air in the various apartments and studios of shift.
Ok so the format - the MAFS Fanfiction - is a fictional married at first sight - chapters have excerpts from research/books/articles about the time period the season takes place in, including some actual quotes from real texts that exist now.
Am I ready to make it a scrivener project?
‘Point of no return’ New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds
one of the honeymoons could be to an emptied out New Orleans that has been converted entirely to tourism as the residents have all been evacuated and their homes taken over by air bnb's and hotel chains to squeeze out as much profit from the place as possible before it is swallowed entirely by the gulf of mexico.
one of the contestants could be a professional ecosystem engineer in the vein of AntsCanada - she helped build and design the vivarium system on the Mars colony ships but was deemed "too low-value" to go. There is a contingent of MAFS participants that year who had a similar experience. Like the prevalence of social media managers, dropshipping entrepreneurs etc. on current MAFS.
I feel like there should be an air or hum in the background somewhere of a past attempt at a MAFS allstars at the height of its popularity that had to be cut short because of a death on the retreat.
oooh oooh oooh - they use an A.I. to crawl people's social media accounts as part of the matchmaking process. - what does social media look like?
- as big platforms have become enshittified, people have moved into private chats/ fragmented across so many different apps and platforms it's the only way to do it, and after learning from previous iterations/versions/the past of reality dating shows, the vetting is incredibly invasive, involving enhanced DBS checks as well as the social media crawling
one of the contestants is one of Musk's children from his just giving them numbers instead of names era.