'I'm not here to make friends' captures more than the spirit of reality TV, writes RichJuz. Read about where the phrase came from—and how it's infected our culture
. Contestants on reality shows, especially those that pit people against each other in the name of competing for love, say the phrase, or something close, to this day. Even I, as the person who called attention to the popularity of the phrase more than a decade ago, didn’t realize exactly how ubiquitous it was.
. In fact, it had already been uttered—some four years prior—in a noncompetitive context on the fifth season of, the show that, fittingly, established reality programming as we know it. During a meeting about an ill-fated business venture, cast member Flora Alekseyeun uttered the phrase to her housemates, whom she, in fact,Another thing I was wrong about: OnI said that the novelty of the phrase derived from it being “impossible to imagine ever saying it in real life.
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