This week on The Deep Dive: Why today’s concertgoers feel the need to throw things onstage, how America’s Next Top Model destroyed a generation of scalps across the nation, Chuck E. Cheese is hanging on for dear life and it may just survive, how we deeply failed Anne Heche, and the secret story Goldfish commercials were telling us for more than 15 years.

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MUSIC

Why Do Concerts Suck Now? A Dystopian Investigation by kayla says (19:44)

You’re staring at your computer screen, watching the little figurine run across it as you see your position in line get closer to the front. Finally, you’re in. You can barely contain your excitement as you purchase tickets to see [Taylor Swift / Beyonce / Harry Styles] live. You end up spending a bit more than you were hoping and dedicated an entire day to securing these tickets, so nobody can tell you anything about what you can and can’t do while you’re there. Right? Well, not really. In this video, kayla says investigates what on earth has been going on with concerts lately, between skyrocketing pricing, random items being hurled onstage, and the general sense that people just don’t know how to act anymore.

TV

the rise and fall of America’s Next Top Model by film fatales (1:19:06)

America’s Next Top Model: It was camp, groundbreaking, entertaining, and endlessly memeable. It was also beyond problematic, riddled with racism, exploitation, colorism, homophobia, ableism, slut shaming, fatphobia, and transphobia. In this video, film fatales takes us on a trip down ANTM’s whopping 15-year journey, from its beginnings and peak ratings to the gimmicks that ultimately led to the reality show’s demise. How did America’s Next Top Model go from being an earnest effort to scout employable models and prepare them for the industry, to becoming The Tyra Show 2.0? Whose idea was it to do that ethnicity-swapping photoshoot…twice? And what were the long-term effects of the show’s surface-level representation?