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Mrph1
MOD
(4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2023-07-30 10:45:42
A quick review of other reality show pages finds that Big Brother, MasterChef, Survivor and The Amazing Race all trope judges and hosts in the same way.
So if we do decide to cut, it might need a little work on cleanup.
Mrph1
MOD
(4 Score & 7 Years Ago)

Bringing this to ATT following the mods' suggestion that we should gather more opinions before taking action...
For Reality Show contestants, our policy is that the shows build an artificial narrative (via manipulative editing etc.), which means that we can trope contestants as if they were fictional characters.
(Some exceptions may still apply, but that's a different conversation
)
However... pages like the main Characters.Ru Pauls Drag Race page aren't troping contestants. They're troping the show's hosts, judges and onstage assistants (e.g. the Drag Race "Pit Crew").
For Drag Race, some of them are drag queens, but none are explicitly "in character" while presenting or judging - or, at least, no more than any other gameshow host (judges like Alan Carr and Graham Norton on RuPaul's Drag Race UK are talkshow hosts as well, and we can't trope them as 'characters' for presenting their own shows, so why can we for judging something like Drag Race?).
With that in mind, the proposal is that:
Please comment here