im on the verge of tears him showing the nervous inventor guy the movie bugs life is literally so sweet

IM SO GLAD I WASNT THE ONLY ONE WHO FOUND THIS TERRIFYING im so unbeliably glad hes mentally stable I feel so so so so so so so bad for him

I mean Im glad they didnt accidently choose a schizophrenic or someone who struggles with delusions or even paranoia. Interesting concept but it really truly could have gone wrong. Dude they did end up choosing was a cool guy, so chill he's lowkey a legend!

There’s no way they didn’t have people pass some type of psych exam before this and frame it as “oh yeah it’s just part of the process for selected jurors” before throwing some poor person on this show. I’d honestly freak if sum shi like this happened to me

insanity aside "if your mom sells a beanie baby, i will be mad at you, ken" is such a good line 😭 need to see this show as a whole i think

The way you transitioned from bits of the Truman show to jury duty and the way you ended this video was done so poetically. Well done.

This is a genuinely terrifying concept oml

Ronald gave me hope for humanity. What a pure soul.

i loved it but morally i hated it. It seems to have had no long term negative affect on him thank god but that’s a risk i don’t think the entertainment industry is well equipped to deal with usually.

i’m really loving the new direction the videos are taking. nikki really is coming into her own and carving her own path on the youtube-scape. now the only thing we need is more uploads!

I fr can’t believe how long they did it for. like a day is one thing, maybe a week, but THREE WEEKS? that just HAS to mess you up man. how do you recover from knowing everything you experienced in that time was a lie?

It makes me paranoid just watching this video, I can't imagine how paranoid he must have felt and just how badly it could've gone if they'd chosen someone with mental health issues. I really don't understand how they got it approved, seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen

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dude the Bugs Life part probably would have made me cry if I saw this show, thats so cute of him to show Todd that movie ❤

I’m so happy he seems well. Even being so positive, hearing him say even afterwards he needed reassurance that it wasn’t continuing. im sure its instilled some trust issues, especially as someone so kind and ready to care for others. im glad he was compensated fairly, but i hope he gets therapy.

Growing up as a child I always thought my life was being filmed and at the end of my time in high school everyone would show me a film of every single thing I did and laugh at me. So I believed people put cameras in my bathroom, in my mirrors, and any time I was alone I believed I was being filmed. I kind of just grew out of it once I hit like 16 I stopped having those thoughts as much. But I always remember it and think it’s weird, so idk seeing the start of this video was odd to me because it kind of described this weird feeling my entire childhood held, which was my belief that everyone was lying to me and I was filmed at all times for a show or for the amusement of others. So idk how to feel but I just wanted to say I’m glad I found this video…guess I’ll look into that

He literally handled this so well omg. I would've died dead right there

i would just like to add that Yut is in fact not a fictional board game! they definitely weren't playing it right, but it is a legitimate game!! however, no matter how many times i've seen people play it, i still don't know what the rules are so who tf am i to really say 🤷‍♀

Reality TV is so scary

Very strange idea...On the other hand, this video is really well done Nikki. Sound, editing, lighting, transitions, the cat emergence twist ending...you've got some real talent showing here!

I thought Ronald was going to be sooooo mad when he found out what was going on. I really shouldn't have been so surprised that he handled it so well, considering how he handled everything else. Just a genuinely loyal, sweet dude. You can't help but love him, while also feeling weird that he's the only real person we're seeing in this show

this is probably the best version of an irl truman show could be (not making fun of ronald, making everyone else the butt of the joke) but that doesn’t change how horrific of a concept this is

Huuuuuuge thumbs up for that hotdog joke. It didn't make me laugh a lot but its good enough to be worthy of praise.

I thought the jorf shirts were made intentionally but jaquis didn’t know what jorf was and accidentally was going to release a line of products under the name jorf sorta like goop. So to cover up her tracks she was gonna sue the guy.

I can personally say as a schizophrenic man who had his emergent symptoms at quite a young age- I had the “Truman delusion” before I ever knew what the internet was or had access to it- or TV! When I was young I wasn’t allowed to watch anything but animated media, and wasn’t allowed photos except specific ones from obvious, large cameras. And yet I had a delusion about being followed and documented, even broadcast. It varied from newspapers to magazines, as those were the media I most commonly interacted with. As long as media exists, the delusion of being centered in it exists.

You need to watch the Push. It’s a social experiment that a psychologist put together over the course of a night to see how much “hypothetically” it would take to get a random person to commit murder via pushing them off a building and what the actors and psychologists did to attempt to get the one person out of the loop to do it. It’s a very similar to this and very fascinating to watch how easily human beings can be manipulated.

Ronald was so sweet and the show was hilarious but I can't even imagine the paranoia he must've gone through after it

hi Nikki!! the editing was absolutely phenomenal on this video, i enjoyed it so much & feel like i haven’t seen something like this before in any commentary youtube video i’ve ever watched! thank you for being amazing out here 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽

I think the normalization of reality tv does a disservice to a lot of people who value privacy and control over their own life. When anybody can find your social media no matter how many steps you take to stay private and gossip about you that ends up hurting you. These shows encourage us to be trashy and chaotic and downright cruel to each other. Prank shows and reality tv are a depressing side effect of corporate greed and a disregard for artistic merit and good writers. Soon we'll just have ai reality tv.

i love ur editing throughout the video, with the references to truman show- especially at the end! very creative and wraps the video up well :)

I’m not the most mentally stable person out there but me personally?? I would LOVE this. Lmaooo like I love chaos and just doing stuff out of the norm, meeting interesting ppl etc. I feel like it would be such a great funny little story to have.

As someone who has the Truman show delusions this show freaked me OUTTT. I watched it with my mom and I think it triggered an episode because of just how traumatizing the whole idea is.

I’ve watched this show, it’s a literal brain aneurysm.

This video mixed with clips from the Truman Show is genuinely a masterpiece. 26:00 really got me lol this shit is crazy, how will they even be able to make more episodes?

Idk if you've heard about The Joe Schmo Show, but it's exactly what you thought this show would be: a massive prank at the "Joe Schmo's" expense. Matt (the Joe Schmo) thought he was on a typical reality show called the "Lap of Luxury" and that he was genuinely competing with the other "contestants," but they were all actors. And unlike Jury Duty, their goal WAS to make fun of Matt and put him in embarrassing situations. They literally made him have a breakdown mid-season, which led to them finally realizing that he was a real person with feelings, and it was shitty to mess with him like that. Did they end the show, admit everything, and call it off? Of course not! They just switched to treating him like the protagonist instead of making a joke out of him. AND THEN THEY MADE TWO MORE SEASONS. They just changed the fake show every season, so no one could tie it back to any previous ones. Season 2 was a dating show that had TWO fake contestants (a man and a woman). Season 3 was a phony bounty hunter show. I've seen some people talking about the first season, but I didn't learn they made two more seasons until I looked up the show. It's wild. I mean, for Pete's sake, it was Kristin Wiig's screen debut. What more can you want from an ethically dubious fake reality show prank?

I feel like this concept just so so greatly depends on the person you happen to choose, considering there is no way for them to actively consent to it or reject it. I think they got very lucky with Ronald, a kind-hearted and mentally well person who seems to be okay with this entire thing. It's a risk for sure, and this time it happened to end well, but by god I hope this NEVER happens again.

I really liked the show because for the most part it was very wholesome in the interactions which i think is partially why he took it so well lol

They somehow found the perfect person to run this thing on, and it absolutely was HILARIOUS. Todd's chair pants made me laugh harder than I have in so long. Then the girl who kept trying to seduce the mormon kid....JAMES MARSDEN aka Caleb....it was all so funny.

My mom was telling me about how funny this show was and I was absolutely enraged and terrified at the concept. As someone with a history of being gaslit this sounds like my worst fucking nightmare and I would be beyond enraged if I was this guy. Looking forward to watching your analysis here.

that moment at 27:00 i thought for real the guy was going to pop out of your closet

Ronald seems like such a genuinely good person it makes me sick

FINALLY SOMEONE IS TALKING ABT THIS SHOW ITS SO GOOD

I knew i loved ronald from the moment he backtracked on calling sonic a shit movie to james after he watched it himself and loved it

Ok last comment but i love the editing wasn’t expecting anything cinematic from a commentary video i love it it looks like someone’s pinterest

As a person with Schizoaffective Disorder I don't think I'd be able to actually watch this show without having a psychotic episode. If this happened to me I'd have consequences from it for years, if not the rest of my life.

This is such a great video!! Big agree with @herodoesstuff about the editing and Truman Show references, it's so well executed and the ending shot with multiple cameras felt connected to that blueprint/topdown map of the courthouse the video keeps cutting back to. At first I thought that was a schematic of a set the character Truman would walk around in in the in-universe Truman Show, but later in the video I realised it was from this actually-produced-irl court show and that sent a chill down my spine.

As someone who deals with paranoia this is quite literally my worst nightmare.

nobody talks about 27 dresses when talking about james marsden performaces but my god that is one of my favorite movies ever

the fact that he was even willing to help noah soak shows how real he is 😂😂

this video was truly beautifully made, the clips from the movie so gently placed throughout and your compassion really made the whole thing come together beautifully i think !!

nikkie the amount of effort you put into your videos is phenomenal. and they’re consistently so funny too omg 😭🫶 I LOVE YOUU

saw this post about a nurse that put the Truman show on during a psych hospital's movie night as you can imagine that caused a lot of schizophrenic people to get extremely paranoid and have episodes...... her response was ''how was I supposed to know everyone's triggers''

this is such a beautifully done video. the editing is so amazing

gosh there is some real artistry in the way you edit your videos. the sections where you seamlessly compared jury duty to the truman show were so evocative and engaging

The show was very fun, however at the end, all I could think about is how terrified it would be for this to happen to me.

It's always a lovely surprise whenever Nikki uploads!!

This proves it! Everyone is watching me, I'm not paranoid!

Thank you Nikki. Very nice content, always have a nice time watching while hitting the bong. Putting good energy out for you.

I’m so happy to see this. I thought the show was so funny until I started to put myself in Ronald’s shoes. Like not just the paranoia of being constantly followed by cameras, but also, imagining building these bonds/relationships with the other ‘jurors’ only to find out they were completely fake. You invested your time and emotions into these people who weren’t even real; their names (sans James Marsden) aren’t even what you thought they were -the character they stepped into does not exist. That could really feel like a betrayal and change how you approach people in the future.

My mother in law suggested this to us, haven't watched it yet but definitely more intrigued now.

All of your videos are fantastic and so so funny, can’t wait to see more!

the editing was so cool for this vid!!

I love all your videos Nikki, but this one was definitely a cut above the rest! Keep doing what you’re doing ❤️

I love this video, got to it a little late but it’s great. I love the Truman show, so glad you put scenes from it in. The editing is great

Hey Nkki this video is very good, it's about a very interesting topic. I love every minute of this! We shall all go bowling soon cousin!

this is one of my favourite youtube videos ever fr keep it up

this is my first time seeing a video from you and it was really nice. consice, entertaining, and the way you edited and drew ties to the truman show made it ultimately profound.

best James Marsden role since Hop (2011) 🧡

This is my favorite channel on KZfaq. You are hilarious

I FEEL SO BADFOR HIM TBH HES SO NICE TOO 💀💀💀

Everytime I watch any of your videos you talk about cults and I love it

i am just now watching this video but ur content is literally amazing and i love watching ur content grow! ur such a genuinely entertaining and interesting creator to watch and i appreciate ur videos :D

love when nikki whips out the corkboard

Surpise kitty appearance made me have to subscribe 🥰. He walked in like he owns the place 😂

omg i wish this video was longer 😭😭😭sooooo good

This is so good Nikki!!!

Amazing video nickiii!! Keep it up, love you!

When that door opened I swear I thought Ronald was about to come in the room💀💀💀

i always love a new nikki vid

your cat just about to wander back into your closet at the end is grade A comedy

There was another show like this called the Joe Schmo show. Basically a fake reality tv show with one guy (joe) not knowing it was fake. 😗

Very well done video essay! Also when that closet door opened i thought you had somebody going along for a bit about the Truman Show…but it was just your cat 😅

I don’t think I would have been able to pass the tests, so omg props to ronald 😭😭😭

i loved the show but somehow never thought about the psychological aspect of it💀

nikki, this is brilliant. i love your videos!!!!!

Bruh being on that show would literally break me… like how is that legal? As someone who does struggle with paranoia even just the sheer existence of that show makes me scared

Fantastic analysis of a very layered subject.

i fr love your channel sm 😭💓💓 makeup tut when

A another show that gives me turman vibes is the rehearsal by Nathan fielder. He’s also done Nathan for you which is a similar thing and actually ends in a way that would be foreshadowing for the rehearsal. The point of the rehearsal is the idea of trying to stage out events with actors and full on sets and locations opened to be convincing. It starts with a guy practicing how to tell his friend he’s lied about a job he had for years and, he had the bar remade to every detail and hired an actress to play his friend he would tell this secret to. She’s told to talk to her on a set up he did to play her better, the main thing being this guy loves trivia games so they put one in at this real bar and have him purposefully ruining into what would end up being the answers and he’s upset because he was never told that would be apart of it and he didn’t want others to see him as a cheater, this leads into the main part a women who wants kids, so they play this out same type of deal but it actually gets serious very quickly not only does she come at Nathan for religious beliefs he’s teaching “their kid” to a whole fake OD and d3ath of this fake kid character after she talks about her struggles with addiction in relation with her relationship with her father. He ends up hiring a new kid so they basically start over throughout all of this they are pretending to plant food and such, mirrors that only show them aged to the appropriate time passed in this act. We end up learning this kid gets attached to Nathan and calls him dad after the fact. I’m not even explaining it in a way that does it justice it’s the most wild ride you will ever take.

this was so lovely

The 10 seconds for the nerds was so real. Ty❤😭

If you think about it, they put private cameras in a lot of devices now

Is basically a real life RPG with NPC guiding the quest and all lol

I love how happy Nikki is

23:55 the audio only is in one ear here for me, anybody else felt this?

This show is super entertaining, it looks like, but it’s terrifying to think about. I have paranoia issues despite not being psychotic or the like, and this show would genuinely make me spiral if I was at the center of it. Honestly, just knowing this *exists* sets off my paranoia. This could have gone *so wrong* and it sounds like even if this guy eventually recovered, this will still be a lingering thought because who could totally put something like this from their mind?

this vid was so fucking funny😭😭 ur channel is so underrated nikki

When the cat opened the door I swore that Ronald would come out of that door 😭😭

There’s a movie called Windy City Heat, I think what happened to Ronald was slightly more similar to that than the Truman Show, except instead of ruining someone’s life with a prank that would never end, Jury Duty tests peoples morality which is cool. It’s still a total mind fuck but it isn’t as messed up as Truman Show and Windy City Heat. Windy City Heat is free to watch on KZfaq, it’s crass and trashy but entertaining in a messed up way. I highly recommend

4:22 my Christian brother you did not have to hit us with the greatest jumpscare of all time