What Is Going On With America's Got Talent??

AMERICA'S GOT TALENT AND WE DON'T CARE WHO KNOWS IT!! :)
I often hear that the show has gotten a little out of control in the "emotional moments" department. Seems like a lot of folks hold the opinion that it's become more about sappy stories and less about talent lately. The Golden Buzzer has taken over our society in a way that we never could have imagined! Let's see if there's any truth to that.

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0:00 America's Got Talent
1:48 The Newest Season
12:10 Sponsor
13:23 The First Season
28:36 How do they compare?

Outro song: 8 Bit Universe - "Fight Song"

[ScottCramer]

Too many violin fans in my audience, I’m gonna need you all to find a new hobby immediately please 😡

[nhp]

"What you've done tonight is more dangerous than anything I've ever seen before, " proceeds to show clips of them doing an average highschool cheer team's routine

[fatguy]

“My parents died before I was born”
Gold Buzzer

[cdaaat]

"I actually broke the record for youngest person when i was born in 1993"
**crowd goes ooohhh**
GOLDEN BUZZER

[valenciasainz]

*"I didn't talk to my parents for the first 2 years when i was born."*
*_GOLDEN BUZZER_*

[lordburgendy]

There's nothing that pisses me off more than a judge smacking another judge's buzzer.

[Valmerix]

"it doesn't matter that you fell down what matters is that you got up" uhh is this a talent show or a keep trying show

[evanbrown]

I'm not even half way through, and I've noticed that several of the acts aren't even from America. It's not "America's Got Talent" it should be called "People who traveled to and are auditioning in America that have some degree of talent maybe"

[vinhix]

I wish there was a version of Got Talent, where there're no stories allowed. You just enter, say your name, and do your thing, no yapping your sob story. Just raw talent, and the market is so saturated with this sobbing garbage everywhere, that I bet it would be quite popular 🤔

[HitchcockStarlet]

Steel Panther, a professional band that's been making a living for decades, being on a talent show is really unfair.

[zvezdoblyat]

Can you imagine an Olympic gymnast getting a gold metal because "it doesn't matter that you fell down, it matters that you got back up"

[wjgthatsit]

“I was raised in a nation… where every sixty seconds… a minute passes…”
*ALL FOUR JUDJES PRESS THE GOLDEN BUZZER*

[bat]

The parrot is actually really impressive.
It can take years to get birds to say words on command, and a vocab that extensive + that clear is very, very rare among even African Greys.

[Astriddddddd]

I went to a recording of AGT a few years ago and it lowkey ruined everything about it.

Us as the audience were heavily encouraged to scream and applaud and basically go crazy for every single act no matter what. They also took a ton of extra takes of fake audience reactions, where we were all supposed to do a standing ovation, then boo, then act disgusted, etc. We had a shot were they told us to use our phone flashlights and sway them in the air as if there were a heartfelt song playing.
We even did a fake golden buzzer take. We would be told what emotion we were portraying, then have to act like we saw the best act ever or the worst act ever for twenty seconds until they told us we could stop.

(It's actually quite hilarious because if you look at the audience in the final cut of any gameshow the audience will be throwing their hands up, falling over, etc. which is something people just don't do in real life... But it looks good on camera)

A guy over the loud speaker would talk nonstop about how we have to "act big if we want to be shown in the final cut!" And basically say the more we overact the more they'll want us to be in the show.

The acts were also very fake. At the end, the audience was told that if we have children with us, we should leave the show now. They knew that the next act would be voted out by the judges and that the "contestant" would then start cussing them out and throwing a fit. They basically just told us it was fake by asking kids to leave.
There was an act from a different day of filming (btw one episode of the show is several days of filming) that was being refilmed that day and we were told how to respond to it ahead of time.


I guess I knew it was all fake ahead of time, but seeing it in person, and how they don't try to hide it at all in tapings, was truly fascinating.

[butoutofcontext]

I hate that there are so many child singers who sound so average but because the judges don't wanna be mean to kids they send them through.

[aluzuka]

bro literally every single act that howie sees he’s like “we have seen this tons of other times but this is by far the most impressive.” and then it’s like some guy eating 50 marshmallows really fast

[Alex-K]

"Whats your talent?"
"76 Years ago someone died in my family"
*all judges cry*
Simon: *ANNIHILATES GOLDEN BUZZER*

[TheOriginalItsCake]

You know Dr. Doofenshmirtz would win purely off of dramatic backstory

[grfadams]

The new seasons of AGT is basically small children + tragic backstory= ratings gold

[Deano_P]

The standing ovation is over used. 😂 Every act gets a standing ovation. 😊