Audience Alienating Premise: The Game

Do we have this one?

This is like How Do We Make Springtime for Hitler Bad, only more general.

Basically, you have to come up with a premise with the intent that nobody would want to consume that work, and the next person has to come up with possible niche audiences before coming up with a premise of their own.

...etc.

Try to keep politics to a minimum, please.

Additionally, the forum rules are still in play.

I'll get us started.

Picture a stage play where everyone just stands around playing trees. No dialogue, no nuthin'. Just a bunch of people standing still, and silent, in ridiculous arboreal themed costumes.

Edited by SkyCat32 on Jan 15th 2021 at 7:24:05 AM

Some bored kid from the audience comes up and takes a foam apple off the branch at the matinee, then spits it out because it's disgusting.

Picture a comedic play done entirely in Lingua Franca Nova.

Linguists love it.

Picture a raunchy comedy about women who work as sex traffickers.

It’s a hit with naughty women going for girls-night-out movies.

Picture a teen romance movie about a “quirky” not-like-other-girls girl with a massive superiority complex.

Edited by Lindo-Honorindo on Aug 30th 2020 at 9:26:02 AM

Since it was made by Quentin Tarantino, it's an instant hit.

Picture yourself when you're getting old, sat by the fireside a-pondering on.

You still enjoy campfires with the little kiddies, so it's a hit.

Picture a Teen Drama where the Girl Posse gets turned into witches via Freak Lab Accident.

You kidding? I, personally, would pay to watch that.

An Undertale TV Series following 4 different AU Sanses that get together for one purpose: Fucking

While theoretically and logistically questionable down to the concept itself, Rule 34 obsessed people love it.

A monster movie wherein the monster is actually a very thinly veiled allegory for binge drinking. To aid with this concept, the action scenes are extremely blurry and are run through a filter that makes the camera appear to see double, and the actors slur their lines frequently.

It becomes a hit with the psychedelic crowd.

Picture a silent heist film set in the present times.

Bump

It's a brilliant study/tribute to the use of visuals in heist movies.

A film consisting entirely of shot of an actor's bare crotch.

It's a hit with desperately horny gay men and housewives.

A movie set in a perpetually pitch-black and silent setting.

People who are sensitive to light find it very soothing.

Picture a romantic comedy about a witch who falls in love with a humanoid crocodile. And yes, there's a bedroom scene.

Scalies love the shit out of it.

a sitcom with a black serial killer who targets white people, but the horrible deaths are treated as comedy.

Edited by Superjohn on Sep 4th 2020 at 12:13:10 PM

The Tumblr SJW’s go nuts for this thing.

Picture an animated Funny Animal movie that makes references kids wouldn’t get every ten seconds, and the soundtrack is done by Cardi B.

Despite this, it has really good character designs and underneath those references, there's a pretty good story. Furries love it.

Picture a slasher movie where there's only one death, and it's accidental because the killer is incompetent at what he does.

It turns out to be the smash hit Halloween comedy of the year, and goes down in cultural history as one of the best bits of Black Comedy ever to be shown on screen.

A movie about a leatherworker going on an adventure... to buy more leatherworking supplies. The remaining half of the movie is the leatherworker making mundane objects, such as wallets, out of leather.

you're supposed to come up with a reason it would succeed, or a periphery demographic that would like it, given only the information in the post.

Edited by Florien on Sep 4th 2020 at 11:36:13 AM

He ends up getting sent to jail for panic buying, and much of the plot is about him trying to escape the hard way. I'd rather not watch it though.

Picture Thunderbirds AS A SUPER SENTAI SHOW WITH TRAINS AND TEENAGERS WITH ATTITUDE!

So, just a regular Super Sentai show?

The Grim Reaper gets addicted to Monster Energy

The craziness and death of the show fits right in with the Adult Swim fanbase.

A typical Die Hard scenario from the perspective of a random observer outside the building.

It's a brilliant Genre Deconstruction that shows how it'll actually be to be a bystander in such a scenario.

A newborn baby is turned into a superhero.

children between the ages of 2 and 6 love it.

a man watches paint dry while monologuing about his unfulfilling marriage.

It's popular among depressed people and painters.

A woman who ends up naked every episode, and no one ever bothers to help her put clothes back on.

Edited by Superjohn on Sep 6th 2020 at 5:09:56 AM

Ashamed teens love the show because they can feel less ashamed about seeing those boobies—they’re watching it for the plot, after all.

A cop show, but it’s about cops on their break. 90% of the show is just the cops having mindless conversations at the local donut shop.

It becomes like Cheers, except with the focus more on the customers (who happen to be cops). It lasts for several seasons on that nostalgia alone.

Consider: A biopic about 14th president of the US Franklin Peirce, shot entirely in shaky-cam to represent his perpetual drunkenness. The only image on screen is a painting of Peirce, which alternates between slowly zooming in, and slowly zooming out, while the shaky-cam is happening.