The Internet Ruined My Life
| The Internet Ruined My Life | |
|---|---|
| Theme music composer |
Craig Dodge Michael Harrison |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) |
Adam Davis Ken Druckerman Jerry Kolber Banks Tarver |
| Editor(s) |
Giacomo Ambrosini Max Heller |
| Cinematography | Jeremy Gould |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Atomic Entertainment Left/Right |
| Release | |
| Original network | Syfy |
| Original release | March 9, 2016 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Internet Ruined My Life is an American reality television series that was made by Atomic Entertainment and Left/Right for the SyFy Network in the United States that "exposes the unexpected perils of living in a social media obsessed world."
The first season aired on Wednesdays at 10:00 pm on Syfy on March 9, 2016, and concluded April 13, 2016.[1]
Plot
This show profiles different people who have had severe impacts upon their lives from using Internet technology and social media.
Episodes
Each half-hour episode is split into two segments telling two different stories.
| No. | Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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| 1 | "#CancelColbert" | March 9, 2016 | 0.47[2] |
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Segment 1 (#CancelColbert): A Korean-American writer and activist named Suey Park was a person who often spoke against racism. When Stephen Colbert made a satire joke that some people mistook as racist including Suey she posted a tweet on Twitter to cancel The Colbert Report. But little did she know that this post would cause her life to spiral out of control with a viral number of haters towards her, up to the point where she would have to hide for her own life's safety after a sniper was sighted outside her house. Following the incident, Suey fled to New York where she was still targeted by many and now no longer participates in social media. Segment 2 (Terror for a Tweet): British man Londoner Leigh Van Byran was looking forward to visit the United States for the first time. He decided to post a tweet saying that he was going to "destroy" America, British slang for partying and having a good time. But the Department of Homeland Security read his post literally and once Leigh and his friend Emily made it to the United States, they were suddenly being accused of being terrorists. This caused them to spend the night in jail despite the claims of Leigh and his friend Emily. Both of them were released upon the Department of Homeland Security identifying this as sarcasm and are allowed to return to the United Kingdom. | |||
| 2 | "Food Fight" | March 16, 2016 | 0.42[3] |
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Segment 1 (Food Fight): An executive chef of a restaurant named Mark was a person who succeeded on both personal and professional levels. He had a loving girlfriend and a seven-year-old daughter. However, things turned out for the worse when he fought with an animal rights activist woman on Facebook who was insulting practices of serving foie gras and veal at the restaurant he worked at, even though she had never been to that eatery. After defending one of his own in the culinary industry, the woman threatened his daughter and Mark himself. He was so upset that she made threats to his own child that he said some nasty things to the woman. But then, the woman deleted everything she said about Mark and took a screenshot to make everyone think that he was the only one saying bad things. Then many overwhelmingly negative reviews suddenly started popping up and this problem has nearly cost him his job and nearly threatened to ruin his own career from the claims that he was a misogynist chef who hates vegetarians. Since the incident, Mark is now more careful for what he does on social media. Segment 2 (#GamerGate): Game designer Brianna Wu faces hundreds of threats and backlashes after she had made a post on Twitter about the alleged misogynistic representation of women in the video game industry. Brianna and her husband felt that they could no longer be safe at their own home and they ran off together using various hotels just for the sake of remaining safe. There hasn't been any prosecutions against the people that threatened Brianna. While being emotionally shaken by this experience, Brianna still continues to speak out against precieved misogyny in the gaming industry. | |||
| 3 | "Sext Gone Wrong" | March 23, 2016 | 0.38[4] |
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Segment 1 (#PissOlympics): A lover of social media and shock value pulls a prank that became a national twisted event. Cameron hears of Piss Olympics, a new internet trend and was feeling "inspired" to take participation. He decided to film a video of himself peeing on an order of nachos, during his day working at Taco Bell as his job and upload it on Twitter. The video got lots of likes, but there was one entity that didn't like the video. The FBI. An anonymous user contacted Cameron to point out that what he did was a level 6 felony violation on federal law in food regulation. He then got arrested, interrogated and faced federal jail time due to his actions being a threat to public safety (urinating on food is a health hazard since he worked at a restaurant). After taking a lie detector test, it turned out that it was only Mountain Dew. Aside from being questioned by the FBI, he also received death threats online and he lost his job and was unable to find work for months. This incident nearly landed Cameron in prison and has marred his presence on social media. Segment 2 (Sext Gone Wrong): Allyson Pereira was a high school student who loved her boyfriend, who wanted to grow up and get married. But her heart sunk when her boyfriend broke up with her. Days later, her ex-boyfriend would tell her to send a topless picture to him. She did so when she thought it would get her and him back together. But her life forever changed when her ex-boyfriend started sending the picture to her other friends, before she found out. Almost everyone saw the image and Allyson was bullied and harassed, much to how embarrassed she felt after sending the picture. This was enough to cause Allyson to consider committing suicide. With help from counseling and the support of her family, Allyson has recovered from this incident. | |||
| 4 | "Adults Only" | March 30, 2016 | 0.47[5] |
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Segment 1 (Adults Only): Following her divorce, a college professor named Annmarie Chiarini has started dating again. A problem ensues in her new relationship where her boyfriend started to become aggressive and verbally abusive while her ex-boyfriend started posting naked photos of Annmarie on the Internet which she did not want to have released. This caused her to be stalked, humiliated, and ridiculed. Although she considered committing suicide, her love for her mother and children kept her going. She then took part with other women to establish the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative which provides resources and information to the public about revenge postings. Since the incident, Annmarie has fought back against the revenge postings. Segment 2 (Beauty and the Meme): Ashley Vanpevenage prepared for a party by getting her makeup done. After posting before and after photos, the Internet went wild where Ashley met harsh criticism. This caused her to be mocked in real life and be bullied on social media. With the support of her father who wrote about his love and pride for her daughter, Ashley regained her confidence and spoke out against her commentators and cyber-bullies. Her response video received over 1 million hits on YouTube and has since been interviewed by her local news and other shows where she addressed cyber-bullying. | |||
| 5 | "Gleek Tragedy" | April 6, 2016 | 0.38[6] |
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Segment 1 (Gleek Tragedy): Nicole Crowther is an actress with high potential, who also happens to be a fan of the TV show Glee. When she was cast as an extra on the show, her career ended very quickly, before it actually begun; when she talked about the season finale about what characters should be named Prom King and Prom Queen. Most people took this comment out as a spoiler. Upon the various death threats that Nicole received, her father ended up hiring a bodyguard to keep her safe. Even the executive producers of Glee voiced their displeasure about this where background actors now need to sign strict confidentiality contracts while onset. Following the incident, Nicole left the acting business and moved back in with her family where she manages the social media accounts of her family's company Crowther Roofing. Segment 2 (Emoj-ency): Sierra McCurdy was always active on Social Media where she commented about pop culture and other news. When she commented about two police officers that were killed in her hometown, she accidentally clicked the laughing emoji instead of the crying emoji. As a result, she received death threats and her car was run off the road in her hometown upon being labeled as a "cop hater." After some information of her was leaked on the Internet, Sierra had apologized to the families of the cops while voicing her consolidence to them. Though the harsh criticism didn't subside. As a result of this, Sierra and her family had to go into hiding. Even her little brother got arrested in the middle of the night, when he tried to stand up for Sierra and threaten those who were also threatening her. Some people in her hometown to this day still give off bad vibes near Sierra. | |||
| 6 | "Video Villain" | April 13, 2016 | 0.41[7] |
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Segment 1 (Video Villain): A actress with high potential named Jennifer Box, took part of a prank video called: "Drunk Girl" on YouTube. In this video, she pretends to be drunk and hopes if "random men" (who were actors) would get her home safely. Unfortunately, cyberspace took it out of context as many thought that it was actually making fun of rape and Jennifer and all the men involved in the video got attacked on social media. It gets worse when the video made national news when it came to talk about how to do prank videos with responsibility. She found out that the producers of the prank video were purposely making the men involved look bad and had the intention to want to make the video viral. After all the heat, she is now organizing her life back to normal shape. Segment 2 (A Writer Wronged): Christopher Hermelin is a writer from New York who can type short stories very fast. He sat at the park with a typewriter and would write stories for onlookers as to make quick easy money, while improve his writing skills at the same time. But someone secretly got a picture of him and his typewriter and the picture went viral on the internet. He discovered the image on the front page of Reddit. Cyberbullies have gotten tools to work with, so they decided to go on and attack him to no end, by saying that for instance, he was only having the typewriter out, just to make him look ironic and seek attention. Everything in the image was ridiculed and it only got violent when someone threaten to "smash the typewriter" over his head. All of this turned Christopher's life for the worst, and has hid away for the sake of his livelihood and his safety. | |||
References
- ↑ "The Internet Ruined My Life Listings". The Futon Critic. Retrieved March 31, 2016.
- ↑ Metcalf, Mitch (March 10, 2016). "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.9.2016". ShowBuzzDaily. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
- ↑ Metcalf, Mitch (March 17, 2016). "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.16.2016". ShowBuzzDaily. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
- ↑ Metcalf, Mitch (March 24, 2016). "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.23.2016". ShowBuzzDaily. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
- ↑ Metcalf, Mitch (March 31, 2016). "UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.30.2016". ShowBuzzDaily. Retrieved March 31, 2016.
- ↑ Metcalf, Mitch (April 7, 2016). "UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 4.6.2016". ShowBuzzDaily. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
- ↑ Metcalf, Mitch (April 14, 2016). "UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 4.13.2016". ShowBuzzDaily. Retrieved April 14, 2016.