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With a (questionable) W from James Drake, how would you rate season 5 of Fishtank?

  • 1 Star — Absolute disaster. Unwatchable, boring, production fucked it up bad, the fish were lame

    Votes: 59 7.5%
  • 2 Stars — Pretty bad. Some funny moments, dragged, too many vibe repair days. Barely worth checking.

    Votes: 91 11.6%
  • 3 Stars — Average. Solid entertainment in spots, some good chaos and crashouts, but nothing special

    Votes: 177 22.6%
  • 4 Stars — Really good. Lots of hilarious moments, strong fish personalities, solid content and vibes

    Votes: 408 52.2%
  • 5 Stars — Peak Fishtank / Masterpiece. Non-stop insanity, legendary fish and production, pure chaos

    Votes: 47 6.0%

  • Total voters
    782
TJ is a good looking guy if you only saw his face in a picture. Any perceived good looks instantly goes out the window the moment you see him in person and realize he's short guy, he has no muscles, he's stimming like crazy, and he can't form a complete sentence. Not to mention, his lack of confidence and inability to make decisions by himself is a complete turn off for women.

A girl like Taylor would never be into TJ. Not just because of his looks or stimming, but also very different personalities. TJ said he's a homebody and rarely leaves the home. Taylor likes to party, get drunk, and gamble. She didn't look the least bit interested in TJ any time she was with him. Even when they cuddled or kissed it felt so incredibly forced and awkward as hell.

If you see a woman like Taylor going after a guy like TJ, it's for one of two reasons:

1. She's wants something the man has (money, fame, information, connections, etc)
2. She's a batshit insane woman that gets off on going after virgins/losers because it makes her feel powerful and gives her an ego boost. This is rare, but does happen.

I personally think Taylor went after TJ in the tank because she was told to, and she is now in his orbit because he won. She wants his money, his connections with the Fish Tank crew, and his fan base. That's all. Sam even tried to tell TJ not to go after Taylor after the show and to keep focusing on himself, but I doubt he'll listen.
Explained very well.
"damn, all the men left in the house are (vocab word) paedomorphic." The kinds of guys who are going to age hard and fast at 30 and instantly jump from looking like children to weird old dudes

Jet is paedomorphic, Chris would also be paedomorphic if he didn't have facial hair
That is by far the most retarded take I've seen yet, no hard feelings. By phenotype you can argue that people are hwite, azn, slavs or niggers, but being pedos? Might as well try to explain if people are screaming "AMBATUKAM", shoot up schools or being Kazuya mains by their looks. People should be measured by the actions that they've taken (TJ being a example of this), not by the way they look. Sure, a black person may be a nigger, but if he does his job and living his life without chimping out, he's fine by me.
The only exceptions are trannies. TTD.

EDIT: I did not know the actual meaning of the term "paedomorphic" and am retarded.
 
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I imagine Sam, Jet, or someone else on production would have told him if they told her to be around him because that would have been one of the first things he asked after the show ended
I don't think the crew gave Taylor explicit directions of what to do. I think they told her to hang around TJ and flirt with him, and she did.
I don’t think Taylor would still be lying about not being told to do anything by production 2 weeks after the show ended.
She has every reason to keep up this lie because she wants TJ's money, fans, and connections. She's trying to start a streaming channel and don't forget she loves to party and gamble, which isn't something you can do if you don't have a steady income. Gold diggers go through great lengths to rinse a simp.
I also disagree that she was never interested in him. Obviously they had a lot of awkward interactions but there were times like when they kissed on New Years or when she was petting his hair were she was clearly into him.
We'll have to agree to disagree because I saw those moments as her reluctantly doing it. Taylor was constantly leaning away from TJ and never enthusiastic about whatever she did with him, and unless I'm missing something, she only did stuff after TJ asked or TTS bugged her to do it.
The real smoking gun is that TJ’s black queen already conceded that Taylor actually likes him.
What this black woman has concluded is that TJ is hopelessly in love with Taylor and she stands no chance of getting with him. Of course the black woman isn't going to admit that TJ finds another woman more attractive than her, that's a hard thing to admit lol
 
the leap from TJ to James Franco is insane. do people not consider James Franco conventionally attractive? since when (besides the whole pedophile thing)?
I was about to agree with you, I remember him being somewhat handsome, but after checking google images, he's just painfully average; you see a James Franco anywhere, your neighbor is probably a James Franco. That's probably why the girl went to the media instead of accepting a date with him, she felt insulted by how average he looked. It doesn't help that he's lazy and doesn't shave his awful facial hair that makes him look even more average. I'll give you that he's in the not weird side of average, and has a good smile, that would make him attractive enough for most women if there isn't anything better. I still think TJ has a better face, but of course Franco wins by a mile with the height, charisma, fame, etc.
 
everyone thought for a second he was some genius mastermind comedian that got in the show just to fuck with Sam, and that at that moment he was about to Marky and Edie post to Sam's face.
I just want it on the record I never once questioned whether Jimmy was anything other then an autistic manchild. Even a highly skilled actor couldn't replicate that level of terminal "I was raised by the internet" autism. It's one of those things that you see and you automatically know "oh he's actually like this it isn't a bit"
 
That is by far the most retarded take I've seen yet, no hard feelings.
I like how on this form if you make a stupid take, it’s laughed at, but it’s all in good fun.

Anywhere else on the website
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“I just want it on the record I never once questioned whether Jimmy was anything other then an autistic manchild.”

Oh no I don’t think anyone on this thread actually thought of him as smart. YouTube though don’t get me started.
 
I don't think so, they lack basic knowledge of the platforms they use (cloudflare and vercel).
I know their devs were outside of their timezone and given the attached screen (took me like 15 min to find both endpoints), they failed in the most basic of senses.
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The above is fully avoidable if you just do a simple google search, but apparently that's too hard, or they just didn't know(?); if anyone on the team would have been competent, they would have at least done an IP whitelist on those endpoints, but they did not, you could easily log in and ooperate the website from the first link however I would be weary if you paid for access.
(this is most likely why redditors were able to DDoS them, since once you get around cloudflare you can just flood the base vercel ip until it chokes)

My thoughts on S1, I don't know where I said it, was that the thought of locally hosting entire archives of the show on their website is something that will hurt the wallet for the little benefit it provides most users, and I had hoped that offering S2 archives was a hint they had found some solution to manage costs but given the most recent information, they clearly don't want to pay. (from my point of view at least)
They also have the entire backend API documentation exposed that shows some of the admin functions/frontend to backend communications. https://pastebin.com/4StreNAj
 
@Punitive Castration
Are you asking why they did all that? My take was that they initially wanted to figure out what Jimmy's gayops mission was, then decided to just have fun/fuck with him when they figured out it wasn't too deep. I think they/Sam had more planned when they brought him up to the attic and told him Tay was an actor, but Jimmy throttled that bit before it could even begin. I personally think this is when they decided to back off from the Initiative Group/cult stuff but who knows.
 
I just want it on the record I never once questioned whether Jimmy was anything other then an autistic manchild. Even a highly skilled actor couldn't replicate that level of terminal "I was raised by the internet" autism. It's one of those things that you see and you automatically know "oh he's actually like this it isn't a bit"
I did for a second, and others did as well, call us gullible. But yeah he had to be the best actor on the planet, a genius, a prodigy, doing the perfect sperg impression.
 
The best actor in the world can't keep it turned on 24/7 for weeks, and people who watched season 1 and remember the actor/plant accusations during it should be especially aware
 
That is by far the most retarded take I've seen yet, no hard feelings. By phenotype you can argue that people are hwite, azn, slavs or niggers, but being pedos? Might as well try to explain if people are screaming "AMBATUKAM", shoot up schools or being Kazuya mains by their looks. People should be measured by the actions that they've taken (TJ being a example of this), not by the way they look. Sure, a black person may be a nigger, but if he does his job and living his life without chimping out, he's fine by me.
The only exceptions are trannies. TTD.
Pedomorphic. As in, resembling children. Not as in resembling pedophiles.
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Shinji's asian, TJ's got a baby body, a big head, and the posture of a 14 year old, Jimmy would probably look older if he didn't have a teenager from the 2000s' hat-hair cut but he's also not remarkably tall and doesn't have a very impressive frame. Cole and Brian were men, and Octavius was there until just after Brian was eliminated, so the morning after Brian and Octavius left it was just three boys.
Oliver was sort of a midpoint between looking like a kid and looking like a man but next to Shinji and the others he looked a lot more masculine.

@retard strength II
I personally think this is when they decided to back off from the Initiative Group/cult stuff but who knows.

I think they persisted with it a few more times after this point but you're right that it started to peter out from here. I think they did the missions for Shinji to throw all the food out and TJ to put peanut butter on the toilet paper and Tayleigh to destroy the plates from here to sloppily "qualify" them for the initiative group, like it mattered to do that.

It's also this that made me think, they're just trying to eliminate Jimmy, because they never really even proposed any sort of challenge for him to be initiated. Trish had already done the attic too so Jimmy was clearly intended to be next to go home or else they'd be giving him real things to do up there.
 
Because it's too unlikely. I think you're being too kind to TJ. He does have a decent face, he's also not an actual retard, he's intelligent (he was always the best at writing; his losing and winning speeches were great for example), but his speech and motor disabilities rendered him non verbal and spastic sadly, which is a negative in the category of being and appearing confident, one of the most important to attract women. And if you add on top of that that he's short, not rich, and his dick is slightly above average at best; do you really think Taylor can't get better anywhere she goes? It's still possible, although unlikely, for her to fall for someone like him (for example if she's disappointed of boring, fake alphas like Brian and wants to find some weirdo with a heart of gold), but not after just a few hours of TJ being just weird, slow, and even sex pesty; so she was obviously told by production to be around him and fake interest. Tj is also not in shape, he is slim and healthy for sure, but that shape only works for tall men, short men need to add muscle or they are twinks in the eyes of women.

Also, Adam Driver and James Franco are tall (Adam is a giant), rich, probably have big dicks, confident, famous. When you have all that, being ugly doesn't even matter, and they aren't even ugly, just average.
So it's too unlikely because TJ is short (he's average height), isn't rich, and doesn't have a huge dick? You sound like an incel who has no idea how women actually work.

Why would Sam reveal to TJ that she was an actress who was only pretending to like him, just to take it back a couple minutes later and continue to "lie" about it afterwards when she was off the show? Why would Taylor herself continue on pretending to like him after the show? Oh, because she's a woman and women are just whores who lie for attention and money, right?
 
It's also this that made me think, they're just trying to eliminate Jimmy, because they never really even proposed any sort of challenge for him to be initiated.
The problem with the "initiative group" stuff was that it had no real clear purpose or direction as to what it was intended to do, my suspicion was that it was meant to identify dead fish and get them active in one way or another through forced missions meant to screw with other fish or freeloaders. Jimmy and Trish never once had problems with "initiative" because they were active from basically the moment they came onto the show. Jimmy would do exactly what was asked of him, perhaps to an extreme, such as when asked to seduce Nifty, only for him to slide into bed with her which prompted Ben to storm up the steps and yank him from B2. By the time the attic stuff started Tay was frothing at mouth trying to destroy Nifty any way possible, which kept getting stepped on by Jet so her "initiative" challenge didn't even really make much sense since she was already in an active state. Obviously TJ needed to be prodded into doing anything beyond challenges and that is why they had him be responsible for kicking Taylor. Shinji was hardly doing anything but challenges so it made sense to have him steal the food and I don't really remember what Brian's challenge was.

Ultimately by the time any of the attic shit started the show was already in a rocky state and only three "dead fish" existed, one of which got eliminated almost immediately leaving Shinji and TJ, neither of which ever really displayed much "initiative," just merely going along with the dogpiles that happened.
 
So it's too unlikely because TJ is short (he's average height), isn't rich, and doesn't have a huge dick?
You forgot being a spastic and speaking like a retard. But yes, if the only thing you have going for you is a decent face, and none of the other important traits that attract women, you are at a huge disadvantage. Taylor, on the other hand, is very attractive, young, not an airhead; that's all already a lot of things men look for in women, and that puts her at a different and superior league than TJ. Think about it, as a man, if you have a few traits that attract women, would you try to find a good girl that is also attractive or would you look for a good girl in the below average looking and ugly group? Why would you think a woman would do differently? Sorry but the sex market is cruel like that, women aren't running their bodies like charities; if they can get better, they won't settle for a man 3 leagues below them.

You sound like an incel who has no idea how women actually work.
Then tell me how they work.
Why would Sam reveal to TJ that she was an actress who was only pretending to like him, just to take it back a couple minutes later and continue to "lie" about it afterwards when she was off the show?
Because he was messing with him and doing his "I'm serious, but also I'm not" bit that he does all the time. Sam is a performance artist; taking anything he says at face value is more stupid than believing women you don't know.
Why would Taylor herself continue on pretending to like him after the show?
I have not followed anything she's done after the show to judge how sincere she is at the moment; I was only judging her time in the tank, where it was obvious she was following orders from the wiggers. It's possible she now likes him romantically for some reason, but extremely unlikely considering all the details about her and their forced "relationship"; it's more likely she's after his money and/or clout. Why would I think she's an evil cunt and not just a girl who fell for a retard like Jenny in Forrest Gump? Because I'm not a retard and real life isn't like the movies. It's just logical that she understands her value in the sex market and knows she can get better than him easily; and even Jenny in the movie was a mental case who couldn't really get any better.

The other option is that she doesn't like him but doesn't want spergs who are obsessed with that nonexistent relationship to commit suicide, so she's being considerate with them with her answers and comments, "yes I like him hehe", but the spergs and simps won't take the hint, instead they double down and demand more, "see? she said it, she loves him and wants a serious relationship with him. Why would she lie? Cute women don't lie"
Oh, because she's a woman and women are just whores who lie for attention and money, right?
Not all women, but thinking that way is preferable for your well being than going the woman ally way.
 
Production allowing fat fuck Frank to break Shinji's glasses in the very last few days of the show was retarded. All it did was harm the show.
 
I don't really remember what Brian's challenge was.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure it was to take TJ's chips from him. TJ asked Brian to watch the chips while he was in the dog house and Brian went back and forth about what to do before deciding to give them back and threaten TJ that he was fucking stupid for being trusting and that TJ owed him going forward.

Honestly I think they were still not at a point in the show where TJ was the favorite so that could've killed TJ, if Brian had allowed it and if Jet didn't pussy out. Jet probably would've pussied out and told TJ where to find the chips though. Or they would've had Taylor sacrifice herself on New Year's for him. They did make a point of pretending like rent mattered to Taylor so it could have been a scene they thought they could create but forgot that the fish don't respect their authority enough to interpret "steal TJ's chips" to mean "steal TJ's chips and don't give them back an hour later"

I forget if before or after this was when Ben pulled Brian aside and told him to "just make one good decision" and to stop fucking up but I think it was before.
 
Jimmy grabs the horn box and hides it in the trapdoor in the bathroom and Sam kicks the lock off the doorknob (in retrospect, why?? what did they think he was going to do, seriously? were they defending the horn box or did they think he was going to start a bath with it or what)
I'm going off memory, so bear with me. A few days before this happened, someone DMd Vance that they recognized jimmy from a Fishtank Facebook group, and told Vance about codewords and scripts. It made the rounds on /tv/, anons didn't think much of it. Later, Sam goes through Jimmy's stuff, finds the notebook, and Jimmy sees Sam taking the notebook up to the attic. Jimmy's been made, cover's blown. Cue sperg out, he needs to divert attention, get rid of evidence. Steal horn, flush stuff down toilet, etc. It doesn't work, TTS snitches on Jimmy telling Sam that jimmy is hiding something in his pockets. Sam starts going through all his stuff.
Here's a link to the thread when this happened
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/sam-hydes-fishtank-live-general.164029/post-17445681
then they fight with him over the advil (did they really think there was something in the advil..?)
I'm sure they weren't threatened or anything, but they had caught him acting shifty and hiding shit.
sam breaks it by saying "green penis" to make jimmy laugh
I can't remember where I saw it, but someone said "Green penis" isn't a random phrase, it's a reference to some YTP that jimmy mentioned in a video on his channel.

jimmy thinks he makes sam stop by threatening to reveal that tayleigh is "the actor" which would ruin the actor bit (lol
sam takes jimmy into the attic and tells him he can't tell anyone that tayleigh is the actor and that mephisto works for production, tells him what code words to use, and that he has to make a super pizza or he's going to be eliminated
Ironically, jimmy tried to use one of his worst qualities as leverage. he can't gaslight or act, but thinks he's great at it, and he thinks everyone loves it. Here's an example, go to 6:20
In an effort to be funny/seek attention/whatever, he IMMEDIATELY tells on himself and ruins the bit for TJ and the audience.
An enormously strange interaction takes place between Jimmy and Brian
this was an inevitably, but I think they didn't expect jimmy to fold like an hour after he was instructed not reveal his mission thingy. Also Jimmy's weird fake crying pout at 4:50 was cringey and had me dying from laughter.
In a Twitter space, jimmy says he confessed because he "didn't think Brian would lie to him". Guess jimmy is that desperate for Brian's approval.
  • sam changes the subject to, did Jimmy say whisper to Brian who the actor is? Jimmy says no, Sam says yeah he did, Jimmy says no I said it out loud. Sam makes him eat a pepper and he chokes on it
where did they think it was going to go
Jimmy incessant lying and inability to follow instructions for more than a few minutes will ruin any slow burn joke, but watching everyone react to that is amusing in and of itself.
>Jimmy don't do this thing or we'll punish you, that's the rules
(Sam said this knowing he'd fail, but that's entertaining part)
>Ok well even though everyone saw me say it, I didn't say it. Ok maybe if I did say it, that doesn't matter
And it goes on and on. I remember Sam gave up interrogating him for a moment to laugh at his bold face juvenile logic tier lie.
>Eat this pepper as punishment
>Ok I'll eat it but I actually won't eat it so it doesn't hurt -ACK
The problem with the "initiative group" stuff was that it had no real clear purpose or direction as to what it was intended to do, my suspicion was that it was meant to identify dead fish and get them active in one way or another through forced missions meant to screw with other fish or freeloaders.
I was very intrigued by the initiative group ploy, it would've tied nicely into the secret fanboy spy mission. If it had gone according to (what I think was the) plan, we'd be watching a house full of fans turning on each other, every fish committed to the bit because they think they're the special one. Simultaneously, this charade is strung together by a cult mystery to keep a theme and engage the audience with a cult mystery narrative. Makes sense given Jet's history with ARGs.
 
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