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    407 hours ago

    Like, how much drama can they pull around a baby?

    Especially if it is 24/7 for multiple years.

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      7 hours ago

      Have you ever raised a baby? They’re 90% drama, 10% sleep. Guaranteed the early days of the Truman Show were flooded with parents watching the actor mom struggle to deal with the constant crying. Crying because hungry, refusing to eat because they’re too busy crying, crying because they’re tired, but too busy crying to sleep. I bet tons of parents were watching it, commiserating, or judging, or arguing about how she should be doing this instead of that. The drama writes itself.

      Not to mention the moments when they’re being extremely cute. When they roll over in bed and stare wide eyed at a stuffed toy, then flail at it and coo little baby noises at it. Maybe bite on it and shake it around like a little puppy. People love that shit. If a live stream of a fixed camera in a car cafe can get millions of views, a live stream of a baby doing baby things can easily get lots of viewers.

      • Nate Cox
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        205 hours ago

        Fucking hell that is the best description of a baby ever written. I’ve raised three of them now and that is exactly the experience: 90% testing your resolve not to leave them at the fire station and 10% being so ridiculously cute that you would die for them without hesitation.

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      116 hours ago

      In the early years he would have been barely a prop. Things happen around him but not to him.

      You watched Full House season 1, right?

      Compare Canonical. Shuttleworth has apparently lost bags of money on his dream, for like decades by now, and apparently only last year or so showed a real profit, but kept on going. Same deal.

    • Pennomi
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      127 hours ago

      Just lock a bunch of writers into a room and don’t let them out until that baby is in peril.