I Was On MTV's The Real World: It Was Not Like You Think
When MTV decided to throw a bunch of Gen-Xers into a New York City loft and film the results -- calling it the Real World -- they basically invented reality TV as we know it today. A whole bunch of '90s kids grew up thinking some day they, too, could get famous just by hanging around and being themselves. Fast-forward about a quarter century, and we now live in a world in which every kid who doesn't have a popular Twitch channel by age five is tossed off a cliff, 300-style.
Meanwhile, the Real World is still going. We talked to "Pat," a member of the 2009 Real World: Cancun cast, to find out what really happens when people stop being polite, and start being completely aware that they're on television.
He told us ...