He Thought He Had Friends. They Were Paid Actors
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came in for the comments just to say it was the original jury duty 😅
"PRETTY WOKE FOR A STRAIGHT WHITE GUY" no it's the basic principle of being a decent human. I dislike you a lot
They did bro dirty
What a masterclass in cruelty and manipulation. I really can't believe they saw The Truman Show and thought "let's essentially do that". I'm glad Matt's humanity and kindness threw a wrench in their horrible intentions.
Exactly, I’m a minute in and I’m just immediately like “oh okay, so they did the Truman show but for real.” Like wtf they knew what they were doing
Dude there was a show in Japan in the 90s i think, that took a man pretending it was going to be a prize show with other contestants and they took him blindfolded and left him in a room for months, dude months, like he had to win stupid challenges to win a soup or some shit to eat, when it was finished he looked like a POW, like torture, theres a YT video that goes deep in that story. unreal.
@@fungus_am0nguz644 I was shocked to discover he was a character in the video game 428: Shibuya Scramble.
@@fungus_am0nguz644 oh yeah that guy was Nasubi
What a fucking nightmare. The result of the mental/emotional abuse inflicted upon him could have ended in tragedy.
Imagine being such a cool dude that you singlehandedly changed the plot of the whole reality show you’re in without even knowing you’re in one
Sigma fr
A true main character
Literally the definition of based. Also fuck the producers and actors
There's a main character.
Then there's _the_ main character.
That’s some real Truman show mess right there
Update on Matt Kennedy - after breakup with his girlfriend, he worked on himself to start fresh. He got married, and now has a two children and a stepson. He started working at a logistics company, where the most recent news confirms he still works.
why'd they breakup
@@vanesslifeygo becquse he finqlly found what he was looking for in relationships, I hope.
Hey, thanks for the update. I usually don't give time about an internet who, but damn, this Matt bloke deserves a happy life.
That's great. He deserves a happy life
Does he have real friends now???
reminds me of that "scientific" study where the guy got all these people on a boat and expected and eventually tried to get them all to turn on each other, but by the end they were all friends and turned on him together
The indomitable human will to band together and be mates
Man, bet his hypothesis gotta be 100% percent wrong 😂😂
It's hilarious seeing people conduct so many studies trying to show how manipulative or evil all humans are and every single time there's either a ton of shit being faked and nudged into place or it fails spectacularly
Yeah I loved The Dark Knight
Batman
To watch a grown man, in 2003, cry as his COMPETITION is voted out, shows you that even if this had been a real game show, he truly cared about people and probably felt that he was the reason these people wouldn’t get the money he assumes they need.
Competitor?
@@lastyhopper2792 I'm not sure what you and the 6 people who liked your comment don't understand here
@@ddennis2430 I don't know much about english, if you're a native english speaker, then I'd assume that the word 'competition' could either means two things: the competition event itself, or the participant that partake in said event.
Which to me and the other 6 people, is quite counter-intuitive.
For 'creation' always refers to the thing that's being created, while 'creator' always refers to the one who acted upon the creation.
Same as, execution: executioner.
Condition: conditioner.
Etc.
@@lastyhopper2792 the word competition however also refers to multiple people who compete against you in a competition. You can use the word competitors instead but the world competitor is singular while competition refers to multiple competitors.
@@lastyhopper2792 Lot's of counter-intuition in English. Competition is weird, you're right that it is the event, and "competitor" would be the person, but it is also correct to call the people who you compete against your "competition". You are competing in the event, this is a competition, but you are also competing with your competitors, who can be called "your competition". You don't only have to win the event (the competition) you have to beat your opponents (your competition). You are also a competitor, but you are not your own competition.
I looked him up and while it seems like he struggled with some personal things here and there he's now married, has two children, and a stepson. He also started working at a logistics company in Pittsburgh after moving back home some years after the show. So still a regular dude just doing his thing
It's so scary that someone could just search someone up and find out almost everything about them.
@@BigMoney398 My man appeared on Tv so probably an easy job, but yeah open-int is scawy
Thanks for the update. I was wondering and hoping Matt was having a good life.
Long may he thrive.
I love matt!
It's literally a rom com plot
"At first it was for fun, but then I really started to like you! Can you forgive me?"
Oh my God, like a polycule romcom. That's so real
Anime villain falling for the hero arc
"I wish I never made that stupid bet!" 😂
Literally this was my thought “Yes, they dared me to ask you out….but then I got to know you. The REAL you” 🤦🏾♀️
Dude was literally too nice to be mean to, what a fucking gigachad
The fact that Joe was so wholesome and genuine really threw their whole plan.
*Matt
to make you think that was part of their plan
or it really made your plans since we're still talking about the show over 10 years later
Plot twist: Matt is also an actor
1.1k ✨😊
According to him it destroyed his life for awhile. He was embarrassed and depressed. He quit his job and blew the cash on drugs and booze. He said he had a difficult time trusting anybody and felt like the butt of a very public joke. He’s come to terms with it and straightened his life out but regretted it and said if he had the choice to do it again he wouldn’t.
So the folks involved in the show and some who see this breakdown of it as some sort of triumph of humanity may want to rethink the ethics of it all. They set out to do this mean spirited thing then realized they were wrong but continued on with the charade thinking they could fix it, gave him money, then aired it to the pubic. They made millions and off of breaking a person and people still defend it as if it all worked out fine in the end.
and THIS is why i think the actors are pos as well. a lot of people are praising the actors for ending up having genuine feelings towards him, but that doesn't negate the trauma they caused him. sure the producers are the main ones to blame, but the actors willingly signed up in the first place.
@@sarinabina5487 Right??? I mean, if I was offered that role, I'd deny it regardless of how much it paid. It's just so immoral and shitty to actively participate in something you know is hurting someone. It's professional bullying.
Source: trust me bro
"In August 2008, Entertainment Weekly interviewed Gould about his experiences on the show. Gould said that the show made him feel "dumb" and that he "wouldn't do the show at all" if he was given the choice whether or not to do it again.[1]
In January 2013, however, Gould stated in a new interview released the day of the premiere of the show's third season that he had "come full circle" and had made peace with the experience. He noted that he still hears from fans of the show on Facebook, that in nine years, no one has ever said anything negative to him about it, and that the fear he felt about what people would think of him was "...something I drummed up in my head."[2]"
straight from wikipedia, can you provide a source for the drug binging and soul destruction?
@@TheRazzyDazzle Thats good to hear at least. And from what i saw in another comment, the friend character said hed still be his friend. I hope thats true still. This whole thing is sad either way though.
Matt beat the producers. He beat them at their own game he didn't even know he was playing! They wanted to make Matt look like a goofy moron but what they got was a genuine, kind and loving person. I'm happy Matt was able to walk away with 100k and never betrayed his true self.
"Producers" LOL is that what you call demons these days...oh wait yeah
@@red_words bro what have you got against producers? You saw this one thing and automatically came to the conclusion they all done this? That's so random.
@Diolline Branderson Hellywood is pretty self-explanatory. People got demons, and they dont even know it.
i think anyone would have been absolutely crushed and would react that way i think
He was such a good person that the audience noticed & heavily on his side. Forcing the producers to change. For many reasons the biggest is so they don’t get backlash
For people who ever say that kindness doesn't pay, look at Matt. He singlehandedly and unintentionally beat cruelty with how genuinely kind he was as a person. I wish more Reality Shows had a Matt that would force their sinister "game setups" into more wholesome formats. We need more of that!
which he wasted the money on booze and weed and could even trust his own mother for a while after that yep kindess sure does pay...
@@thecoolestofthe834s2 He has 2 kids, a loving wife, and an amazing job. He also appeared on the show in season 2 soooo yeah.
Nah lol, Matts just lucky one, there is millions of people like Matt that at the end gets horrible lifes and we should spread awareness on that
@@peshka96024yeah he was so lucky for these people to traumatize him 😒
Kindness won him trauma. It usually does.
The amazing thing is, Mat isn't even a Joe Schmoe. THE MAN IS LITRALLY A ONE OF A KIND PERSON. He is respectful, kind, goofy and his whole personality is so Awesome. We all need a guy like Mat in our lives cause it is really hard to come by people like him!
Or maybe the point is that in each and every Joe Schmoe, there is a one of a kind person? That when we take the time to actually know people we learn special and important things about each of them? Obviously he was especially awesome, but you know, food for thought.
@@epiphany8429 you aint wrong about that brother, agreed 👌
He's too wholesome, no way he hasn't murdered a hobo or something.
@@ryanisnttryin3733 I mean as a Christian I'd like to think I would, but your point is valid.
Ehh that sounds pretty average.
Dude was such a good person... that he made professional paid actors break character.. ❤️ wholesome
Right ironic tho😂😂😭😭
Bruh he's an actor too
@@austin2727 proof: "i made it the F up" 🤡
@@austin2727 if he is an actor... he's awful at his job. 😆 🤣
@@gamershadow8 lmao thank you. Dudes will find any reason to take someone's shine away... "Nah bro, he was born when mercury was in retrograde. Therefore he is obviously an A rated actor." Lmao
One of my favorite moments on this show was when they were all in a hot tub together and played a game called "Kiss the Ugly Frog" in which they all took turns saying nice things to one another. When it was time for Matt to be the subject, all the actors (while still in character) gave their actual true feelings about him, and it was a really touching moment.
Yeah, I remember that. It was pretty touching.
What episode was that?
The actors, real feelings about him? The actors have real feelings that Trump causes hurricanes and shit. It’s still just actors feelings. Not reasonable, thought out, articulate, talking points descriptions of their emotions that they have been faking.
I remember they were doing some kinda water event and they blurred the chubby guys man boobs 🤣
@huge galaxy brain the second one I believe, the only one not on UA-cam of course.
No wonder he dropped out of law school. He has a soul and good heart.
this is the realest shit
I was going into this video worried that I was going to be disgusted by some awful reality show manipulation, but instead Matt's resilience is so powerful, he couldn't be broken. Thank God for people like him
Glory to God
I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul.
@@IndiaNumberOneCoubtry glory to deez
I want to like this comment but it has 777 likes and I don’t want to mess that up 😁
The black host race baits against White people several times in this video
I think they really did become friends during the show because he was such a genuinely good guy and every single one of them hated themselves because they had to keep their characters up. In fact the show almost ended because of the actors and not Matt, some of the actors almost quit and said it was one of the worst experiences of their life.
Now that sounds like something that will make a producer rework the show. Their own talent threatening to run off.
I wouldn't completely believe what the actors said. They participated with something wrong and they probably wanted to excuse themselves.
i agree haha
@@radosawkapuscinski2808 maybe so, but then again they probably was under a contract
Reminds me strangely of the prison experiment
Im glad he still got the money but its still so fucked to realize that for weeks your life was a lie and everyone around you was manipulating you. Has to cause some trust issues to form... its so dystopian
Sounds like something that could easily go very bad very quickly.
Somehow, I don't think Matt would look at it that way.
At least he thought he was a reality competition show where everyone already expects lies and betrayals and stuff like that. I thought from the title that they infiltrated his real life
@@msjkramey same- I was thinking how horrible and mean spirited that would be!
Sounds like your mental strength issue. Matt is pretty chill I don't think he has a problem.
Matt purposely losing the porn star challenge is the best thing I’ve ever seen, suddenly all the actors that thought they were the ones in on “the joke” were awkwardly touching this woman for a fake challenge
I started crying when he said it wasn’t worth any amount of money. He’s so sincere and I haven’t even watched the show.
Dude is so wholesome, honestly I feel so bad for dude
It's honestly the best "reality show". Season one was so good.
i only watched the first episode and i'm really curious to see the rest but it also makes me feel sick to my stomach what they put this kind soul through for money, although he did agree to be on the show. nothing could've prepared him for the emotional trauma, which i think is way worse than a few moments of shock being on fear factor. it's just hard for me to stomach.
These little woke minds today would crumble if this happened today. They should do it again for that reason. Hahahahahaha.
@@geehadarillo1 why did you feel the need to comment this
Matt is truly the protagonist. Was thrown in a competition stacked against him, but with his sensibilities and moral compass, he made the competition stacked for him.
Everyone likes a good sounding comment but unfortunately it seems he was in fact traumatized.
Someone going to hell for this
Except it destroyed his life for a while ago and he ended up dealing with it by blowing all the money he was rewarded on booze and drugs?
That’s actually really cool
To see his character change the hearts of everyone involved and forcing them to rethink their whole shows premise. It’s a testament to how human empathy can really change things
Anndd then, there was a SECOND season, haha
@@itsADHDforME Yeah, that wasn't so good.
There was also a third.
@@itsADHDforME 😂😂😂
Absolutely no sense
This is almost as bad as that Japanese reality show where the dude was filmed and was only allowed to get things through magazine sweepstakes. Including food and clothing.
And then because of a contract he was forced to do it 2 more times
@@joshuaconnall4237 yea tbh in hindsight, i shouldnt have said its almost as bad. It's just similar. To be real what that Japanese guy had to go through was a million times worse
I think I could get through this reality show okay compared to this guy. Like it wouldn't have traumatized me nearly as much
What the Japanese guy had to do though, never. I would've been done within a month easily. Let alone over a full year he had to do that (I think. A few months at least)
nah that was worst
the way he immediately realised his mistakes and apologised for them!!! More men like Matt please
this kind of man is invisible for women no matter how many they would be.
1/ he's not really as good looking as women expect men to be.
2/ he obviously doesn't have enough money to be taken in consideration.
3/ he's not thin and doesn't have a perfect body.
3/ he won't be a match for a modern woman who will take advantage of his kindness and I'm absolutely not surprised that he is actually married to a woman who already had kids. SHE DOESN'T DESERVE HIM AT ALL except if she was a single mother because her husband died.
@@gillesgrindel7985 go outside
@@jodajoda2863 in what name ?
@@gillesgrindel7985 "in what name" wth are you talking about
@@gillesgrindel7985 stop learning about people via the internet, it warps ones perception
Matt is my new role model, Holy shit. I hope he is happy and healthy where he is.
As a fellow Matt, I want to make shirts and bumper stickers with "WWMFJSD?" What would Matt from Joe Schmoo do?
I feel like I've seen a better version of me that I want to emulate.
him acting like that is part of the script. like anyone would really care if their friends were fake. most friends already are fake lol
@@cagneybillingsley2165 That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard
@@cagneybillingsley2165 Sorry you've had such crappy experiences
He's seriously the exact type of person I strive to be. It's so rare to come across someone who actually has a good, kind heart and genuinely cares for others.
I feel so bad for Matt. There's no way he doesn't have trust issues and/or paranoia now
I read somewhere that he felt very insecure about it for years but then realized that nobody had ever said anything negative about him since he had done the show and people loved him and his insecurity was all in his head
@@ddennis2430that makes me so happy, thank you for sharing this
@@ddennis2430 that makes me wonder, what happened to the other actors
@@moneybxndz161 I know the guy who played hutch has been in some movies and shoes, dr pat was on snl I believe, and the guy who played earl passed away a few years ago
@@ddennis2430 So basically they traumatised him good but luckily he pulled through? Still sounds awful to me
0:12 omg look at those sad teddy eyes I hope this fake 😭
legion main spotted in the wild ? :0
@@solarheartzdbd legion or legion?
@@Infinite-style.
Ik what dbd legion is. But whats just legion?🤔
@@Cardinalbins I also don't know what legion his talking about
what's legion
I actually remember watching Joe Schmo in its entirety as episodes were still airing. Matt's reaction at the end was priceless when everyone was revealing that they were actors. He went up to "The Friend" character and asked/pleaded that he wasn't an actor. "The Friend" said "I'm an actor, but I'll still be your friend" and Matt hugged him. The premise of the show was trashy, but it brought out how wholesome Matt was.
what is "funny" is that the producers didn't change the script because they felt deeply sorry aftewards for Matt, but because they saw the audience reaction and were annoyed they would become the bad guys.
@@八木あえ実Hollywood & narcissism, one in the same 😂
"Priceless"? To me it's horrifying, can you imagine how traumatizing this would be? Apparently this really fucked with this dudes mental health (obviously)
@@isaiahromero9861 priceless as in wholesome because he actually grew fond of the actors. Matt was such a genuine pure guy
@@solblackguySo priceless that he developed trust issues and went on to worsen his addiction to alcohol and weed! How wholesome!
This is like anti-reality tv... It's such a unique concept. Very fascinating, yet very twisted. One of a kind.
@Doom Posterior true lol
It's meta-reality-TV, because all "reality TV" is heavily scripted with stereotypes, and contrived conflict. "What happens when we put the gay guy in the same house with the christian from texas? How will the boisterous black woman™ react?"
This version just does it openly.
@@randalalansmith9883 ur right!
It was the norm in the early 2000's. If we call politically correct people woke nowdays then mfs where deeeeeply asleep back then. Which is hilarious, but in retrospective you can also see how maybe the change was for the better.
Idk; feel like it's almost a direct rip from The Truman Show (one of the GOATs and a wildly perplexing movie which can be torn apart on so many levels...from social human behavior to solipsistic dread..came out in '98). Creators of Schmo, stoned - "Bro, u kno tha Truman Show? I know! But like, what if, like, we did that to a guy, but like for real in real life? Tho? Nah it's not fucked up, we'll give him a buncha money. Cancels out."
It's a totally unique concept (again, TS did it first...fictitiously), but imo, wayyy too unethical to ever be repeated or even to have come to fruition in the first place (kinda like Milgram's experiment...the one where innocent test subjects were lead to believe they'd administered increasingly powerful electric shocks to another human, essentially to the point of their death...but at the end, experimenters were like "nah, it's just a prank bro.")
Shit like The Joe Schmo show (and experiments like Milgram's) literally have the potential to induce life-long trauma and shouldn't be attempted. #ThatIsJustMeThough
The producers took all the gifts from Whoville but they couldnt stop Matt from singing his heart out.
Okay, now I'm crying.
What a cruel, fucked up thing. I am sick to my stomach. He propbably has/had trust issues after this and no amount of money can change the humiliation he experienced. And I am sure he values friendship more than money, the betrayal he must have felt finding out his "role model" and friends were just there to intentionally hurt him I can't even imagine. I hope he is doing ok now, high five for being such a stand up guy that you completely change the script.
idk about that if i got 100k i wouldnt care if my life was a lie
@@KwikBR Oh you absolutely would. If somebody manages to fuck with your social psyche on a fundamental level, you'll most likely want to end yourself. Human beings are social creatures through and through. Disrupt that and society becomes hell on earth. Trust and love is everything for us. Except for the very few sociopaths, but statistically it's unlikely you're one of them.
It’s not that serious & you know you don’t care that much. Sick to your stomach? Stop the bull
The whole experience was a tv production, im 99% he can disassociate that from his at home life and have 0 trust issues
Silentium, debes crecer
"They had to rearrange the whole show because of one mans integrity".
Wow. I've watched this twice today and it hit even harder than before. That's legitimately inspiring.
they planned that shit from the start on God
@@ClaimClam The plan was probably to switch it up somehow for the second half, but him being a genuinely good dude likely pushed them into treating him better.
If he'd been an asshole, you know they would have made his life hell later, just for fun.
I'm sure it's not just me, but this is basically my greatest fear. The idea that my relationships were fake and that no one actually felt the way I did was enough to get me to end relationships when I was young
kids were brutal, learned that the hard way as a kid
Yea... the Truman show traumatized me as a kid too.
I'd be greatly relieved if alot of the people I've met seen or know were just actors to screw with me
I just wouldn't want 90% of what I say or did to be shown to the world lol
But at least I would know the world isn't as messed up as it is
@@Laocoon283wish I did not have watched it as a Ki
I had this fear even before the Truman show came out. I think it's a common theme with humans
The fact that they killed off Truman's dad (the character, they didn't actually kill the actor) so he could have a tragic backstlry and be afraid of the sea, and here they got Earl, who was the father figure, off, is just way too much of a coincidence to not be intentional.
Hahaha that’s so true and fucked up wow
It was intentional
I love that in the early 2000s it was apparently normal to be like “you’re gay right?” upon seeing an obviously gay guy. Like he wasn’t being malicious or bothered by it but it’s strange enough back then to point out. Really funny
I watched this when it first aired. It was incredible watching Matt bring the whole show to its knees just by being a great guy. And their nervousness about telling him the truth was so intense and stressful. Everyone was so relieved when he took it well.
Legit
Wow, I was 2 in 2003 lol, how’s that for how old you feel? Lol
@@lslice5283 nobody asked
@@lslice5283ur no spring chicken yourself. Ur literally about to be thirty. I wasn’t even a clump of cells in 2003
@@nothereforit.605 do ur math right, if they were 2 in 2003 how does that make them almost 30?
"He looked at me like yeah I'm gay, which is right! Why would I have said that?" - that made me instantly want to be this guy's friend. Someone recognizing their mistakes so casually is downright the rarest quality in a person ever. What a great guy! He didn't deserved this. He went on to find success for himself after that instead of falling for this kind of trap. Bravo!
They didn’t hurt him. The show wasn’t as negative as this video is making it out to be. It was actually a fun show, and you could tell the whole crew really liked Matt.
@@danieljohnson2005 i don't know dude, even if all of them liked matt, something like that lead someone to have long term psychological and trust issues
But luckily it didnt go that way
Their mistakes?
To be such a great and genuine guy that you force a bunch of actors and TV execs to totally change their show because they feel bad being mean to you... That's kinda crazy
Shout out Matt, you're the kind of person who gives us all a bit of faith in this world and whose kindness and compassion reminds us to be better ourselves. What a wholesome story and I'm glad you shared it T1J
They didn't change because they felt bad, they were just going with the ratings. The producers were still heartless soulless playground bullies
@@singingway these shows aren't live lol
@@singingway it was pre taped. There were no ratings at the time of recording. They changed the tone of the show on the fly based on how good of a person Matt was
@@QueLoKevin Gies to show that one good genuine person can awaken the compassion in anyone.
@@Izzmonster beautifully said
Matt is such an inspiration. Just by being genuinely kind and authentic, he even had the people who set him up to fail rooting for him to win. Absolute legend.
I was curious and looked up how he was doing. Immediately after the show he fell into alcohol and marijuana abuse, spending his winnings on these new addictions. He stopped trying to work, and had deep insecurity about being the butt of the joke. 😔
Thankfully, he got a wake up call when his girlfriend broke up with him, and he moved back to the east coast, where he got help with his struggles and now is happily married 🙂. Sad to see how this show hurt such a genuinely nice person, but I’m glad to see that he’s doing ok now.
I was hoping someone knew about this. I loved the show at the time, but I remember reading an interview that he did a few years after the show, and was saddened to hear what it did to him. If memory serves, he said he locked himself in a hotel room and spent most of winnings on weed (I probably would have gone for cocaine, personally, but to each his own). It's crazy to think what kind of effect a little "experiment" like this can have on someone. What's even sadder is the fact that Spike couldn't care less-as long as there are good ratings, WEEEEE!
Also, I would like to think that a couple of the actors remained friends with Matt (assuming he was accepting of the idea after the fact). Seemed like some genuine connections were made during the show. It's also sad to think that perceived himself as the butt of a big joke. I'm not sure he realizes that most people viewed him as an awesome guy.
My god this is freaking sad 😭 I'm just glad that he's able to bounce back, what a way to destroy a good person
Man I'm so happy he's better now. He has to have been a positive influence on some people, seeing him act that kind and respectful way and earn all that admiration love and respect by the end even when he was supposed to be a dislikable character or object of cringe
That evil plant, he didn't watch "Reefer Madness" and done some learning
@@chuchonchuchon7640 now that's a little out there 😭 who believes anything in reefer madness lmaooo
So, I actually went to the 1st Spike TV Video Game Awards, and had a chance to meet and hang out with Matt, and Brian("the best friend" with curly hair and glasses) at a private P.O.D. concert. Matt was legitimately one of the nicest and most genuine people I've ever spoke to.
did you ask him how he felt about the show or were you aware of it at the time?
@@Eversoul12 I had seen the whole show, and I congratulated him on the "win", when I saw him. Other than that, we mostly talked about the VG award show, and things to do while in Vegas. He invited my friend, and I, to go play blackjack at the MGM Grand, but we had other plans.
@@ryanh9548 yeah, what other plans did you have?
@@SKAR__FOX We were taking our girlfriends to Studio 54, because they wanted to go clubbing, and DMX was there.
@@ryanh9548 well I hope you're still with your girlfriend or I'd say you should've hit the casino with Matt haha
This hurt my heart. I have been there, on a much smaller scale. In my undergrad positive psych class, our professor anonymously gave us the name of someone in the room we were supposed to make feel special or do something positive for through out the semester. I would give my secret person lip gloss and skin care stuff before she got to class and leave it on her desk. The person who had me did something cruel… I had no idea I was “her person” in the assignment. She invited me to dinner and told me she needed tutoring for another psychology class we were in that a lot of ppl were struggling but that I loved (behavior modification & conditioning). She invited me to a college party after dinner and I made a fool out of myself (which wasn’t her fail by any means). I had been feeling very lonely and feeling like she actually liked me and wanted to be my friend felt good. But then she ghosted me and a couple months later in class, when we were told to reveal who our anonymous person was for that semester, she proudly said I was hers. I felt so ashamed, to actually think she wanted to be my friend.. it was twisted and I never forgot it.
Well why did she go that far for an assignment when I'm assuming everybody else probably did something you did.
@@Cmoehlman12 Nail on the head. She probably wasn't a very good person. She couldn't even keep up the act for as long as the assignmentnwas going.
damn
@@Cmoehlman12 I was pretty hurt by it. I think one of the worst parts of it was that the professor didn’t make a point, in front of the whole class when the secret was revealed, to talk about ethical boundaries in psychology. The professor was a narcissist as well, but that’s a story for another time and trust me it's a good one.
@@sublimesamoyed so uh.. Whens the other time? About rdy to sht on a narc
The shout out to Star Trek reruns on Spike brought me back man. Basically every day as a teenager I would come home from school, turn on Spike, and watch whatever episode of TNG or Voyager was on while I did my homework.
This reminds me of that Japanese voice actor, they made him think he had a role at this new popular anime, and even made him do a lot of stuff. He even cancelled a job at another show for it. Then at one of the conventions I think, they did a livestream, where they announced in front of the entire audience that his role didn't even exist, like it was some prank. Everyone was in on it, the staff and other voice actors. After it was revealed that his role didn't exist, they made him the "publicist" instead, made him promote the anime. I remember he was given tasks and if he didn't achieve them, he was given punishments. At one such interview, he would be electrocuted for comedy. The japanese public was not ok with it ofc, since they felt it was elaborate bullying. The anime wasn't renewed for a new season, and the people involved still get backlash to this day. The guy that was "pranked" still defends them though, because he believes it was all just a joke & not anything serious, etc.
Ah yeah, the Kokoro Connect incident. That was terrible, because the other people that were in on it really was just laughing at the guy trying to work his ass off for a role that doesnt exist. Fortunately, 2chan and another VA helped him reveal it all to the public. Props to Ichiki for being the bigger man, though.
@theSceptile01 wait this was for Kokoro Connect? The anime with a main cast that swaps bodies and have to learn to empathize with other people? Ironic.
@@theSceptile01 The seiyuu that helped Ichiki out and get his voice heard was Tomokazu Sugita. Sugita invited Ichiki to his radio show and when a caller asked Ichiki how he was after the incident, Sugita questioned Ichiki about everything. Sugita's such a fucking legend.
That was the Kokoro Connect incident and it happened around 10 or so years ago. Mitsuhiro Ichiki was the seiyuu who was affected by it. It was truly horrible, but it was good that the Japanese public was highly against it and disapproved of it. The seiyuu that helped Ichiki the most was Tomokazu Sugita - the two were video game buddies. Sugita invited Ichiki to his radio show and when a caller asked Ichiki how he was after the incident, Sugita asked Ichiki about it. One of the seiyuu who was part of the Kokoro Connect incident was Takuma Terashima and he was actually blackballed in the industry from 2012-2016 due to the intense blacklash (even today, people haven't forgotten it). Another was a female seiyuu, Hisako Kanemoto, but last I heard, she quit voice-acting and moved on to university studies.
that is just like” the Gang Broke Dee”
I loved when someone would get evicted. The host would say "ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. You're dead to us." Then break a plate with a picture of the evicted roommate.
Lol.
WHAT ??!!!
This legit feels like a “it’s morbin time” meme but i never watched the show so i cant even refute this.
If they did that on the Bachelor, I would watch every episode
@@sigh824 It’s been forever, but i think the second season of Joe Schmoe was a parody of the bachelor, and the guy, instead of giving the ladies a classic red rose, would give them a pearl necklace.
"And in case i don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening and good night."
It's sad that genuinely good and nice people are often easy to manipulate because their first instinct is to trust people and offer help. Matt was just so unrelenting wholesome he turned what was supposed to be just a mean trick into something better.
matt and other people like him need to be protected, man. dude's a legit good person. i remember seeing this show when i was a kid and i had no idea it was this cruel. hope he's doing well today.
Yeah but then the good and nice people get to edit those people out of their lives. The long loss is with cruel manipulators who shame and are mean. It's a long slow slide for the malicious
I can’t even imagine the toll this would take psychologically… I hope he’s doing well
According to another commentor it really did take a toll on him for years but he eventually overcame it
I feel so sorry for him he poured his whole heart out throughout the whole show and in the end they literally tried to break down his ability to trust someone because it did affect him when the closes friend he had in the show confessed about being an actor and asking for apology he kept asking if he's still acting.
Why? I think it is hilarious. Also everybody knows that reality shows are scripted anyway.
@@armingleiner5292oh god you're one of those ben shapiro fanboys
That’s insane I just binged watched it and he looks like he’s having fun, maby the people around him laughed about it and he felt like everybody else was doing so
My husband is Matt's cousin. They are all from the Pittsburgh area, but my husband is over a decade his junior and they haven't talked in forever.
*Either way, I remember watching this show with my parents as a kid and my Dad telling me to "find a good guy like Matt when you grow up" so it blew my mind when my husband mentioned it like 2 years after we were married* 😭😭😭
How did he felt that Kristen Wiig went on to be one of the biggest comedian actress in Hollywood?
@@therainmakerinsider Guessing he’s happy on her behalf.
I saw that pittsburgh shirt and I was just like "THATS MY BOY"
When did your husband go straight?!?!
Was Matt in on it?
That's just horrible... I'm glad that he's doing much better now, no one should have gone through something like that, seeing him cry hurt a lot.
I loved this show. My favorite part was when they put him in a competition to lick chocolate off of a naked woman, thinking they were giving some dudebro the experience of his life, only to find out Matt fucking hated chocolate and couldn't stop gagging.
I enjoy chocolate *and* women, but I would still be gagging in that scenario.
@@searchingfororion Tell us you like men without telling us you like men.
@@DracoPadilla LOL hahahaha fr.
I dont like the smell of chocolate. But I could look past it in that scenario.
@@DracoPadilla Or maybe you are a good person who's not gonna lick some random woman?
This was pretty disturbing in hindsight. One of people's deepest fears, and he experienced it on national tv. This is one way to Eva someone. Glad he was able to muscle through the bs and stayed true to himself.
Eva?
@@_lil_lil Evangelion reference. Just replace 'eva' with 'hedgehog dilemma' if you're confused.
@@bharbarawyrstwaemasyn8741 ah yes, hedgehog dilemma...
*wat*
@@DWN-020 Basically you mentally curl yourself up into a hedgehog, duh. Have fun googling~
@@DWN-020 have you ever heard of google? I’ve heard it works great…
In fact, it works so well, I was able to find out what the hedgehog’s dilemma is in probably less time than it took you to write your comment.
Copy, paste, search. And then you don’t have to make a comment showing that you either don’t know how or are too lazy to google something.
Reality shows during the 2000s were just straight cruel. Imagine the writers laughing when they came up with the idea to kick Earl off the show, the guy who Matt thinks of like a father figure
even the magazines were cruel in the 2000s
There was a show in the uk that purposely picked the dumbest people and made them believe they were in space lmaooo
@@JL_Lux lmao that's hilarious.
Seriously, the show creators are sociopaths. No one deserves to be lied to like that.
As someone who grew up in the 2000s, they kinda sucked and I hope people stop idealizing/romanticizing that decade. Some of it was nice but a lot of the culture was horrible, mean and always punching down.
I finally watched it after seeing this video and it was incredible. I remember seeing promos for this show when I was a kid and -- I shit you not -- based on the silly name alone avoided it like the plague. Luckily enough, I found the entire series on UA-cam after watching your video and watched the entire first season, and it was everything you said it was. Matt is just an incredible dude, and the show is rightly considered a classic because they lucked out and picked him to be in it.
Matt's voice saying "What is going on?!" at the big reveal has lived with me for the last 20 years and I don't think I'll ever forget it. I did, however, forget that Kristen Wiig was a cast member.
I was 13 when this show was on and me and my buddy have been saying "what the hell is goiinngg onnn??" ever since lol. I'm happy to see this show is still remembered by some.
Same.
I forgot this show existed, but as soon as I heard that line, it was like “HOLY SHIT THE JOE SCHMOE SHOW”.
I never watched it, just remembered the constant promos. Probably during MXC because wtf else would a teenage girl watch on Spike?
YES. I still to this day will sometimes pitch my voice high and say it just like he did when I am utterly baffled by some strange turn of events.
Luckily I’ve completely forgotten Kristen Wiig, period.
Goddamn a real life example of one truly kind person upending an evil system being supported by many more people. That's wild.
Paddington is based on Matt
I have a feeling that the same traits that made him easy to manipulate (why execs chose him) were the same traits that made him compassionate.
@@emma2884 🎯🎯🎯
@@emma2884 Well obviously. He's a nice guy. A nice guy is easy to manipulate.
Most superhero stories, mainly the original stories deal with that and a variety of things, the issue is that often the villain may be someone who is kind to a select few and cruel to others, hypocrisy and moral superiority within them, usually it’s why the enemies of iconic superheroes for kids are depicted to be full on armies.
0:53 Idk why but i appreciated this little history. I would never known anyyyy of this
A lot of people know this fr
This really does just go to show you how much being a good person really impacts the people around you, even though you aren't really going to ever see it representated this clearly in reality.
Exactly. I never watched this show but seeing this really made me think about how bad we see producers in this field most of the time, and not without its good reasons of course, but not all of them are like that. I was worried it was gonna be a really horrible experiment, and it could have been one had Matt been a more serious person, a very intorverted or socially awkward guy struggling to make friends. They really chose him wisely or at least his character surprised them enough to shift the show into a good thing in the end.
@@redduskironsky1058 OH yeah, this could have ended so badly for everyone involved had the character of Matt been different.
I was just left thinking about how disheartening it feels for people, for being a "good person," and yet feeling that bc of your goodness, and selfless nature you often find yourself taken advantage of. I mean we have all said, and heard people say, "I feel like I'm taken advantage of for my kindness." Or even the old saying, "Don't mistake kindness for weakness." So we've all felt that maybe it would be easier sometimes if we didn't care so much. We seem to assume that the people who are horrible, back stabbing, and self centered, must have it so much easier bc they aren't weighed down by their own morality in situations that we would be. They don't care, at least from an outside perspective, and they seem to benefit from their lack of caring. It kind of makes people feel like it would be easier, and they would be better off, if they too didn't care. Feels like being good doesn't benefit anyone, but that couldn't be further from the truth. It's simply nothing more than the perspective changing how we feel, and think, and believe. It's just we don't have our perspectives changed often enough. This turned out to be an excellent demonstration of changing someone's perspective very quickly. A fast change will almost always feel incredibly more profound. This program offers a really great bird's eye view of everyone, and what they started off thinking behind the scenes, and then what they grew to think once their own perspectives changed. Of course seeing everyone from the beginning to the end, changed our perspectives, as a viewer too, which is almost always a good thing. It has another effect tho that I especially enjoyed myself. It shows that being good actually matters, and it truly does have a real positive impact on others. When we watch this happen in real life in front of us, it triggers us to subconsciously apply it to our own lives too. So the viewers will be left with a heartwarming feeling, but I assume some don't really think about why. The reason is simple, and it's not really warm and fuzzy. We are going to apply it to ourselves, and if being the "nice guy" makes Matt's life better around him, then maybe it's good for my life too. So maybe all of those thoughts about getting taken advantage of, and being good, causing us weaknesses, maybe that's not true. Maybe we are ok. In the end, that's really all anyone wants to know, and feel anyway. They're ok, and it's all going to be alright, I'm doing good. That's the warm and fuzziness lol.
This is a really good takeaway from this situation. I was actually telling my damn therapist how kind I thought Matt was. Twenty years after the fact, some stranger is talking to their therapist about what a kind person he is lol.
It goes for regular people too though, not just on TV. I have had moments where one small act of kindness absolutely made my day or reached me when I was at a really dark place, and those people probably don't even know how much it meant to me
So now I try to tell people when they have a positive influence on me because I am personally trying to focus more so on positive stuff.. ish lol. People think I'm sappy for that but I think if someone does something kind, thanking them and being specific in your gratitude is the way to go
This is like one of those movies where the popular guy pretends to like the nerdy girl as part of an elaborate prank but then ends up falling in love with her.
yep, the movie After for example
YESS
But only after she takes her hair down and her glasses off and starts dressing more provocatively.
A story about guileless goodness putting clever cruelty to shame was something I really needed today.
Literally killing with kindness.
10:53 he is too nice bless him
I love how someone on spike saw the Truman show. Thought I can do that but better. Then learned the exact moral of that movie in real life.
After the show, Matt grew pretty salty about his experience and felt humiliated and exploited.
I don't blame him.
Yeah because he was... Poor guy
I can believe it. the money would be cool but being manipulated for weeeeeeeeks isn't automatically gonna sit right with everybody- especially since he IS a genuinely nice real dude
@@juicyparsons Add in they cast him because they thought he would be easily manipulated, used the information they knew about him to tailor experiences that would cause him emotional distress, and attempted to degrade his character. I could definitely see why someone would become more distrusting, and cynical of people after that.
according to his Wikipedia he did end up coming back around on it, so I'm glad it didn't stay with him as a bad memory, but I wouldn't blame him if it did.
The real Joe Schmoe was the society inside us the whole time that we made along the way.
David Hornsby as the asshole character is amazing.
My boy cricket as the asshole is great. Poor Matt tho lol
I loved that they didn’t break him. He was who he was.. a genuinely great guy. The show had to turn because the audience didn’t want them to mess with him. It was cruel.
This was recorded in its entirety before it was ever released to a viewing audience. Their reaction would have had no bearing on the outcome. Why do people like to make up fake narratives that are so easily debunkable? Lol.
@@SB-se7vb Good question.
@@SB-se7vb I think she means in terms of the production as it was going. They could tell halfway through they're going to look like assholes and Matt would be not the butt of a joke, but a sympathetic underdog, and the show changed its production to match that, as said in the video.
@@TheSaltySeaman And I think your response is reasonable yet overly charitable to the OP who specifically implicated the audience and their influence as though this was somehow happening in real time.
It's scary how easy it is to go the sadistic route in this world. I know it would have been difficult for many ppl to maintain Matt's level of humanity with all that was around him. He truly transformed the energy from dark to light.
yeap, check out Milgram experiment. It's pretty messed up how you can condition the human mind to be cruel. Stanford prison experiment is another one. But yeah, Matt is such a honest and immediately likeable character.
It’s the social expectation. if everyone is killing Jews, or ignoring the the woman being assaulted and killed in the middle of the road, fuck it.
Both things happened though
This is heartbreaking as somebody that's kind of an outcast and doesn't have very many friends makes it relatable and also pretending to care about somebody is like one of the worst things you can do.
But, they did end up caring about him in the end.
I’d really like to hear David Hornsby and Kristin Wiig talk about their experiences on this show now. What a bizarre and unique moment in time. I was waiting for Nathan Fielder to pop up out of nowhere while watching this.
wait, david was in this?? i didnt catch him, what timestamp?
Willing to bet they can't, there was probably a NDA because it was original meant to antagonise matt
@@bl00dpaint77 he was Hutch, the asshole
@@bl00dpaint77 he is the guy who "won" at the end
Nathan Fielder was THE brains behind this operation, yet, nobody knows because he's not credited ANYWHERE and muhfuckuhz been paid handsomely to keep their mouths shut...just check his IMBD.
Real talk - "The Rehearsal" is prolly the closest reality show to "Joe Schmo" I can think of...AND he did create his own fake reality TV show in the first season of NFY.
This is literally one of my biggest fears. I always overthink about my friends being fake, boyfriend being fake, etc.
You aren’t that important . I mean that in a nice way.
@@nowirehangers2815 this isn’t about importance, i was relating my struggles to a situation lol
Learn about body language and about how to read people and you will be fine, after I got good with body language trust rises immensely bc the signs are clear, even the top liars slip on subtle things in body language
@@nightwishlady i actually do read body language (i love watching crime interrogations) and i think i read it pretty well. I just have episodes sometimes where i feel really badly and i seclude myself, this in turn makes me overthink about pretty much everything
I use to feel that way. Treating everyone with a cynical distrust. Thinking they’re out to hurt you. It’s painful and isolating. Solidarity, friend.
Sometimes I think _all_ the friends I thought I had in my life were actually paid actors. And not even _good_ actors, at that.
Paid by yourself, yeah I know the feel.
At this point, I wish I had paid actors to be friends with every one else is so disappointing anyway.
@@thomasjefferson2676 you'll find your people eventually
There are real people that will be there for you, don’t lose that hope
Man I shed a tear when the “veteran” that he grew close to got eliminated and Matt was crying. This was beyond cruel.
The people that raised Matt had to be amazing people
I hope Matt knows he was such an inspiration, he showed people what a decent human being should be.
Yes. Not just a schmuck
What is a high lighted reply?
Didn't do much.. As we see what shows and the type of people that came after 😂😂😂
The thought that some people must have made fun of Matt really makes me angry, the sheer emotion on his face when he saw Earl getting eliminated actually made me tear up, this is a good man right there
I literally cried at that part because I knew it was fake but Matt’s emotions were real I got upset
Just utterly baffled that it took them to get halfway through the show, watching him genuinely cry like that to think "hmm maybe we're the problem". I feel like that has to be wilful ignorance, how can you go through that much planning and pre-production and NOBODY involved in the show cuts this off from the start?
i was honestly expecting the entire thing to be reversed and for him to reveal that HE was an actor too, i never expected something so wholesome
Now THAT would be a twist
Oddly enough, in the 2nd season, one of the "schmo"s figures out what's going on so the producers convert them over to being an actor
@@kwaselow wait, each season had a new shmoe? How many guys got put through this?
This story has not been fully told.
@@kwaselow I saw that one.
This is the type of experience that will give you trust issues for life 💀 I’m so happy this turned out the way it did and Matt is now happily married living his best life. He deserves it
Dude I was bawling my eyes out towards the end, Matt is such a fucking amazing human being that I genuinely wish I had him as a friend. I hope where ever Matt is, he is doing okay in life.
I actually really love this. It feels like an example of how even if it is devastatingly difficult, kindness and integrity can be just as contagious as cynicism.
If this had gone another way I would have felt terrible. So glad to see a good dude have a good impact.
The moment where they reveal it all to me makes me so sad for Matt. He is about to fall over in disbelief. He's in literal shock. In that moment his whole life was a lie and everything he knew to be true was wrong. I cant imagine feeling more vulnerable and unsure.
It was good in the end
oh come the fuck ON lmao y’all are acting like he watched his family get slaughtered in front of him 😂😂😂😂
If there were more genuine, empathetic and compassionate men like Matt, I wouldn't be 34 with no kids living in my parents basement with the cats 😂.
I’ve never heard of this show but this is so sociopathic that they did this to him
Honestly Matt was the perfect person to pick the actors legit ended up really liking the guy. Matt really did come off as a super good dude.
That is a psychologically dangerous thing to do to anyone. I work in mental health and it is so common for psychosis to revolve around the "Truman Show" theory in many ways. Not only that, it is not far fectched to think that this kind of thing could be done to someone as a cruel joke illegally with how fast technology and the internet is adapting and how deep the dark web goes. So in fact, it's quite easy to be gaslit to thinking so. We are in a time where society needs to shine a much brighter light on the true value of integrity and empathy beyond materialism and judgment. Every single person deserves dignity.
It's not that big of a deal, the police and CIA and scammers do it all the time.
duuude i caught this as it was airing as a kid, this was insane! his reactions were so genuine, and the cast was incredible.
Guy basically defeated a real life conspiracy with his heart. Thank you for sharing this, if I'd even heard of this then it's the kind thing I'd have instantly avoided. Glad you told this story, and glad I gritted my teeth and endured that premise. I never would have seen his victory
Mat the most wholesome guy that they literally went from trying to break him for laughs to changing the whole show because of him
He’s just so nice
They realised they were all about to be hated-off of TV.
Matt is normal person who keeps the community together. He's the glue that solidifies society into something decent.
His good behaviour stopped their brutal train wreck of attack.
He actually saved them from themselves.
Shout out to Matt and the guy who put this UA-cam video together.
It's genuinely insane how Matt ended up being an INCREDIBLY positive role model for positive masculinity on a show that was, basically, the "Haha, NEEEERD!" segment of The Mid 2000's Toxic Masculinity Channel. He's kind, he stands up for bullied people, he's respectful, he's not afraid to express emotions and be gracious to people he dislikes, he even treats women like actual human beings while being cool with gay guys, going so far as to say that he considers himself an ally.
Turned out “toxic masculinity” was really just an invention of Hollywood producers and male “feminists” who use their “allyship” as a mating strategy.
Get a grip, positive masculinity -_-
I’m glad, everyone should be an ally to marginalized communities. While it’s great he was kind and looked up too, I heard that after the show he struggled with depression because of it. However I’ve heard he’s doing better now and has a family, which is great 😊
The whole "ally" thing is incredibly common these days. People who weren't around, or at least weren't grown up, in 2003 probably don't realize how unusual that was for the time. The public at large still very much didn't support things like gay marriage. Props to him for being ahead of the times.
@@TheHamburgler123 yup, it’s real sad that homophobia is still a common thing tho. It’s better, but we have got ways too go. Good for him for being an ally and knowing what’s right
I'm tearing up, I didn't expect this to be sweet
Dude, this was the uplifting UA-cam video i was looking for. Thanks for putting it together.
His vibe reminds me of one of my dad’s friends who recently passed. He was just the most earnestly enthusiastic, wholesome guy you could meet.
damn that's sad, how did he die?
i would be so incredibly livid if someone did anything remotely like this this to me. matt a real one for putting up with this.
Me too, though I'd have played along solely to get the money secured.
There was a Japanese man(I think Japanese) that they put in a room for a year I believe and filmed him. A contest. He won. They did this repeatedly for years. He kept winning. Then they realized they were getting too many views to stop and kept making his life miserable all for the chance to win. I think it actually drove the man crazy
Yeah Tomoaki Hamatsu, the guys had extreme social issues so bad after the isolation he couldn’t successfully carrying a conversation properly.
Fake
@@EstuaryEstuary it's not at all. It's very well documented about and the man gave interviews later. It's on atrocity guide.
@@EstuaryEstuary This is actually true. It's heart wrenching to be honest.
@@EstuaryEstuary you forgot to add the "and gay" part, btw.
I can't watch this video, the idea of making friends and finding out they're just actors breaks my heart.
Give it a shot, he gets the last laugh in the end
What a sweetheart I feel so bad for him 😭😭😭
I hope he made good use of the money he got
Good on you Matt. You could've been scarred for life, but because you are such an incredible human being, you became a legend instead. I'm afraid, 20 years later, that someone like you is exceedingly harder to find. And thanks to T1J for showing me something I've yet to see on YT.