Ana joins Cenk for SCS. A Kim Kardashian themed app called Kim Kardashian Hollywood rakes in $700,000/day. The objective is to move from the “E List” to the “A List” in Hollywood. In order to make it, users buy accessories for their avatar so that they can move ahead. Nicki Minaj’s latest album cover has garnered a lot of negative attention over the shot of her round ass. She responded by posting a picture of Sports Illustrated bikini models with g-strings on with their butts facing the camera. Cenk talks about his confusion over whether or not to be turned on by Minaj. Sinead O’Connor spoke out against the rabid oversexualization of child performers in the music business while not realizing we’re pushing it to child predators. NYPD arrested a woman in her home and a tape showed that they pulled her out of her apartment with no clothes on. Her 12 year old daughter and other young family members were also abused and arrested by the police. They showed up to the wrong floor of the building where a disturbance was reported and abused this woman instead. The NYPD released a tape of a gunfight between two rap artists that were shooting a low budget music video. After one guy was shot 5 times and survived, the others just walked away. Cenk notices that the shooter never spilled his drink after shooting and pistol whipping the victim 3-4 times. The Atlantic did a study of how success is based on a male name vs a female name of a person. Women with more masculine names enjoyed more success than women with traditionally feminine names. A 14 year old Nigerian girl is facing a murder trial after she poisoned her 35 year old husband she was forced to marry. The poisoned food was also consumed by 3 other people that also died.
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700k / day is over 1/4 billion a year! FUCK!
It’s okay to sexualize a 15 year old because 15 year olds are sexual…
Ana, GREAT argument on behalf of that 14-y-o girl. Thank you for not yielding.
The fact that a “black-sounding” name keeps you from being hired etc — you say it’s “crazy”, and of course it is, but when I worked in the Mental Health field, there was “crazy” and there was “sick.” This is sick. And it seems like no matter how many years I live, nothing changes.
What I remember about the game of LIFE — if you went to college, you didn’t do as well as the players who went into business. I remember playing it with a 12-y-o nephew while I was in school, getting my B.A. in my early 30s. His parents and all my sibs didn’t go to college and made more money than I ever did — I worked with women and children who were abused, battered and/or raped. They worked in corporations, banking and construction. My nephew who is a brilliant man now, got his GED in prison on a nonviolent drug charge.
And yet Cenk believes we don’t need Affirmative Action.
Here’s what I don’t get about Ana. She seems very sex positive, but when it comes to people making sex tapes or posing on their album cover exposing their butt, she always calls it out as not “classy”. There’s some residual religion left in her that wants to judge women for exposing their bodies, even though logically she doesn’t want to. She’s very strong about rejecting such judgements when they are turned on her for her expressing her sexuality, or exposing her breasts in Ibiza on the beach. That’s all fine and “do you boo”, but when it comes to other women, that old religious judgement sometimes creeps into her discussion. I’m not sayin’ anything. I’m just sayin’. No hate, though. I like Ana. At least she doesn’t support the imprisonment of Edward Snowden like Ben Mankiewicz does. His residual cold war mentality infects his decisions far more than Ana’s residual religion.
The example of the lottery and the games was great Cenk.
I am very disappointed in Ana, who has this prejudice or cognitive bias (or lack of insight?). She couldn’t be more wrong in saying its different and then insulting those consumers (who are probably mostly teenagers and children…)
Lots of respect lost for Ana for belittling children because they like a video game. My goodness Ana, I mean wtf? Lots of respect gai ed for Cenk for attempting to empathize and understand those consumers for that hilarious game.
Even if the app was mostly adults, which is most likely not the case, the judgement and condemnation is uncalled for. It is a game intended to be fun, even if it is arguably a scam and a ridiculous concept. I find celebrity worship detestable, but I don’t judge people, especially children, for being into that. I can’t judge what I don’t understand, and would not condemn if I did .
I guess I may be wrong and Ana does not mean to think little of people who buy these games. I could be wrong but that is how it came off in my eyes.
TYT is a bit embarassing when they discuss video games. Especially games related to social topics or psychology.
The people to blame are the developers who exploit apps like this, They purposefully feed on psychological varables and purposefuflly create addictive games with (arguably unethical) in-app purchases. Often they do so to exploit big spenders, called “whales”, who spend thousands of dollars. Idk if this kardashian game focuses on whales or not, but I guarantee it exploits addictive personalities for profit if it is free and pulling in that much money with in-app purchases.
Sure, you can view the consumers as losers or weirdos, or those who don’t have a “real life”, but with so much marketing and so many psychological tricks, can you really blame them when their culture tells them to idolize celebrities and their games manipulate them? Remember most of all that teenagers have the most disposable income. Teenagers are normal if they fall for celebrity idols and get addicted to games they play during all that free time and summer boredom.
Your argument sounds terrible, I love video games too but don’t waste your life defending that bullshit.
how many more times can you say’ what about the children!’
I love Ana
These apps aren’t like the lottery though. They’re flashy light simulators like slot machines. They play on people’s reward response.