MST3K, Rocky Horror, The Room, etc.

It IS the experience. Without the chat I would have checked out of the nonsense in a minute but the audience reacting to the endless non sequiturs truly made this an art.

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Yep, it's the TV equivalent of Blaseball, or Dwarf Fortress(DF). Given a sufficiently complex generator of event strips, framing[1] becomes a social activity. Blaseball saw the production of wikis[2], songs[3], and announcer recap[4] framings.

Likewise, DF wouldn't be the same without Boatmurdered[5] or any of the other story tellings that followed suit.

Conspiracy theorists follow the same pattern but applied to news and current events - a participatory group activity that discards the majority frame and synthesizes new frames under a different genre. Participants reuse people[6] and locations[7] but rewrite the script to become both playwrights and audience members to a substantially transformed alternate experience of reality.

Watchmeforever, is exactly this group mythmaking experience that pairs a random event strip with improvisational community framing that takes the meaningless output of AI-generated content and transforms it into a meaningful group experience.

EDIT: Also The Sims franchise to a large extent. Longtime players have a certain tendency to embellish in-game events beyond the game's pre-packaged framing in a way that produces deeper meaning than the novice/out-of-the-box-frame engages in. Certainly CK1/2/3 and countless others as well.

1. In the Erving Goffman sense

2. https://www.blaseball.wiki/w/Main_Page

3. https://thegarages.bandcamp.com/track/my-name-is-mike

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diAHuUV2Meg

5. https://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/

6,7. People qua actors, and locations qua sets.

Blaseball is so great. Baseball already serializes well to text based (like listening to a play by play on the radio) and then they started mixing things in like 4th base, unruns, crow attacks, etc that I loved. I almost want to make my own blaseball style sim (maybe based on WWE wrestling?) but don't really have the time.