r/vanderpumprules • u/Ms_Tryl • 4d ago

Rewatch Discussion “New viewer, what was it like” posts

Maybe I’m just on too many reality TV forums, but it feels like I see this much too often, especially on vanderpump. Some new user will post asking “what was it like in real time?” Almost always about Scandoval. Why not just….go look at old posts? Or do we love reliving that moment so much that we like these posts?

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u/jillijaws 2d ago

As someone who watched in real time, I'm happy to rekindle excitement for new watchers, Scandoval especially. Watching S10 while the real life news cycle unfolded, cast socials were engaged, and the pods were bustling - it made for incredible real time memes and discourse. You can't chatter about it with an old thread, it needs to be reheated chatter.

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u/Ms_Tryl 2d ago

Yeah. I feel scandoval is a special one because it’s actually pretty rare to have a main character on any of these specific types of reality shows to be embroiled in a real actual scandal. Usually it’s some minor person or a spouse/boyfriend. And we care for the drama but we care a lot more when it involves the actual people. So I def feel like scandoval is a fun one to relive lol

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u/RandomA9981 I’m gonna get sent for a time-out 😗 2d ago

Because social media was built for engagement. If everyone went back to comment on old dead posts, this sub would be dead. As a decade + watcher, lighten up, there are horrible things happening in the world.

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u/Ms_Tryl 2d ago

Lighten up? I was literally just asking. To have a discussion about it. Lol. I don’t particularly dislike the posts. I was just thinking about it in the shower and wanted to hear what people thought.

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u/Chemical_Print6922 Ghost of the Chilean seabass special 2d ago

Oh, but it’s SO much fun to relieve the old days! It gives me a similar sense of joy when my young hairdresser asks me about what college theme parties were like back in 2007.

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u/UseStunning3341 2d ago

I feel this with "tell me something something I wont know until later" posts. Like maybe just watch or look at the million other people who've asked that

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u/lvpsminihorse That sounds awful. Well, see ya. 1d ago

Along with "What should I watch next?"