This is a promotional graphic for casting for MTV’s upcoming geek reality show. Can you find something wrong with it? Here’s a hint: it’s in the first line. Here’s another hint: Jersey Shore.

Maybe I’m cynical, but I have a feeling Fandom Rising will be less “experimental documentary” and more “let’s make The Big Bang Theory on a much smaller budget and have it be openly humiliating to its subject matter.” Maybe if it was Science or TLC or even freaking SyFy, but does anyone really think MTV and the “masterminds behind Jersey Shore” will treat geeks with any respect?

I’m going to predict a few things.

  • They’ll have at least one furry, possibly a suited one.
  • They’ll have at least one blatantly deluded otherkin/literal animal person/half-alien.
  • They won’t have tabletop RPG games at all.
  • They won’t have LAN parties or much gaming at all besides couch-based Call of Duty and the occasional sad, lingering shot on the lone guy playing World of Warcraft.
  • It’ll eventually become Road Rules with Nerds as the producers try to find things for them to do.
  • It’ll suck.

We’ll find out when they make the show.