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The mischievous clauses tend to pop up from time to time, usually in cheeky England.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, 22,000 people who signed up for free public Wi-Fi inadvertently agreed to 1,000 hours of community service—including cleaning toilets and \"relieving sewer blockages,\" the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/14/wifi-terms-and-conditions-thousands-sign-up-clean-sewage-did-not-read-small-print\">Guardian \u003c/a>reported. The company, Manchester-based Purple, said it inserted the clause in its agreement \"to illustrate the lack of consumer awareness of what they are signing up to when they access free wifi.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years earlier, several Londoners agreed (presumably inadvertently) to give away their oldest child in exchange for Wi-Fi access. Before they could get on the Internet, users had to check a box agreeing to \"assign their first born child to us for the duration of eternity.\" According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/29/londoners-wi-fi-security-herod-clause\">Guardian\u003c/a>, six people signed up, but the company providing the Wi-Fi said the clause likely wouldn't be enforceable in a court of law. \"It is contrary to public policy to sell children in return for free services,\" the company explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on April Fool's Day in 2010, the British retailer GameStation \u003ca href=\"https://www.geek.com/games/gamestation-eula-collects-7500-souls-from-unsuspecting-customers-1194091/\">inserted \u003c/a>a new clause into its license agreement, with a check box already ticked. 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Amazon says that section doesn't apply, however, if the U.S. Centers for Disease Control certifies the existence of \"a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MailChimp is \u003ca href=\"https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms/\">more direct\u003c/a>: \"We won't be held liable for any delays or failure in performance of any part of the Service, from any cause beyond our control.\" Such causes may include \"fires, earthquakes, nuclear accidents,\" and \"zombie apocalypse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Apple iTunes end-user agreement mysteriously contains a clause prohibiting its use to construct weapons of mass destruction. \"You will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacturer, or production of nuclear, missile, or chemical or biological weapons,\" the \u003ca href=\"https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/\">agreement \u003c/a>reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear how one might use iTunes to construct such weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/opinion/internet-facebook-google-consent.html\">pushed back\u003c/a> on onerous terms and conditions that \"no one reads\" yet \"continue to be the legal backbone of the internet.\" In an editorial last month, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> criticized what it called \"the legal fiction of consent,\" suggesting that people have unwittingly signed away their privacy rights to big Internet companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Americans deserve strong privacy protections,\" the editorial board wrote. \"Consent is not enough to replace them. 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"content": "\u003cp>College sophomore Jake Schwartz looks up at the red Solo cup teetering dangerously close to the 15-foot ledge above him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cup is full of water, and it's attached to his arm by a string. One wrong move and it will dump on his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwartz tries to be still, but it's hard not to move. The cup inches forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then it happens: about 10 minutes in, his arm jerks and the cup drops, soaking him and his leather jacket—in 30-degree weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has lost the challenge. But the 17 other strangers surrounding him sigh in relief. No one wanted to be the first one out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This may seem like a typical hazing scenario, but it's \u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em>, a fan-made version of CBS' hit television show \u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em>. Created in 2012 by \u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em> fan Austin Trupp,\u003cem> Survivor Maryland\u003c/em> was the first college version, but many more have followed. Now, college students around the country—from University of Virginia to Ohio State University—are remaking the show in between classes and homework. At least six campuses post their \u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em> re-creations on YouTube. Others are competing, but haven't posted their episodes yet. And around 20 schools reached out about starting their own versions, Trupp says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9PMhYOlm4s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the moment of real emotion, real fights, real anger, real joy, are what make this more than just like an extracurricular—it makes it an actual experience that makes it something worthwhile,\" says Anders Norberg, former host of \u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em>. Norberg graduated in May, and now lives in Los Angeles where he's working in the entertainment business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em>'s 12th season kicked off with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/30/507505728/creator-of-red-solo-cup-robert-hulseman-dies-at-84\">the Solo cup challenge\u003c/a> on Feb. 10. The challenges, tribal councils, secret meetings and confessionals are all recorded and edited into episodes and then posted on YouTube. (You can watch previous seasons \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN9B1MVCFcyc9lpD6UKOjtg\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJodA_5VePCTVmMmkTc7bZA\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as some \u003cem>Survivor \u003c/em>fans are gearing up for the premiere of the 38th season of CBS' \u003cem>Survivor \u003c/em>on Wednesday\u003cem>, \u003c/em>the 18 players of \u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em> are fully focused on the game unfolding on their campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109512\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/dsc0416_enl-ed04fb674d47a3958ad94893140502e98cd107e0-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"'Survivor Maryland' kicks off its 12th season with a challenge where participants' arms are tied to a plastic cup of water that's resting on the top of a ledge. One wrong move and the cup (and its contents) will tumble.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Survivor Maryland' kicks off its 12th season with a challenge where participants' arms are tied to a plastic cup of water that's resting on the top of a ledge. One wrong move and the cup (and its contents) will tumble.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Game culture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campus shows have taken on a life online—and have an extremely devoted fan base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are super fans. They tune into live steam recaps of the newly released episodes, some which have more than 25,000 views on YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One super fan, Jack Estavanik of Ramapo College of New Jersey, spends a few hours a week \u003ca href=\"http://survivormaryland.wikia.com/wiki/Survivor_Maryland_Wikia\">updating wiki pages\u003c/a> he created for \u003cem>Survivor Boston\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Survivor Michigan\u003c/em>. Recently, an immunity necklace used in season 5 of \u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebay.com/itm/232921715535\">sold for more than $380 on eBay\u003c/a>. And past \u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em> player Alex Paskal says fans have reached out to him from as far as Peru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I find this \u003cem>Survivor \u003c/em>fan base as a whole to be a bizarrely varied group of people,\" says Alex Thal, a former contestant on \u003cem>Survivor Michigan.\u003c/em> \u003cem>\"\u003c/em>It seems like you almost just take the most random possible subsection of America and you get \u003cem>Survivor \u003c/em>fans.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like on the real television show, the campus contestants are split into tribes and vote each other out. Contestants use various strategies—from forging alliances to outright deception—as they strive to be the last person standing and ultimate survivor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were definitely times where people cried, people were in distress, people were furious at each other,\" Norberg says. \"Like, friendships ended because of the game.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, while there are similarities between the TV and campus versions—the tiki torch props, the hidden immunity idols and the drama—there are key differences. \u003cem>Survivor \u003c/em>lasts 39 days, whereas the college shows last one semester—anywhere from 75 and 100 days depending on the school. The television series offers a $1 million prize for winning, while most college shows offer $100. And there's no tropical island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the biggest difference: the game takes its cues from campus life. Red Solo cups. Players in university-themed gear. Crew members recording footage not with a big video camera rig, but on smartphones. And it's primarily self-financed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This game screams college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109514\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109514\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/dsc0306_enl-f6e99826f73a91d597a6bcc4ff935c614a7b3d97-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"Contestant Alejandro Valdes, a sophomore at the University of Maryland, decided to compete in 'Survivor Maryland' because he wanted to be uncomfortable. "I just want to see how long I can last," he says.\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contestant Alejandro Valdes, a sophomore at the University of Maryland, decided to compete in 'Survivor Maryland' because he wanted to be uncomfortable. \"I just want to see how long I can last,\" he says.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then there's the strategizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contestants have tricked other players into thinking some of them were hooking up, spent hours searching campus for hidden clues or even bought fake idols to trick other players. One player even hid in another contestant's closet for hours to avoid being seen colluding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you want to do well in the game on a social level, you have to put in that amount of time,\" says Amani Desormeaux, a past \u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em> player who admitted to skipping class to strategize. \"If I wasn't in class, if I wasn't sleeping, I was doing \u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thal says he spent 20 hours a week playing and strategizing. Chris LeCompte, a two-season \u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em> veteran, says the game starts to blend with real life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're always thinking about it, and you're always on, because the thing about it is it's not a clock-in-and-clock-out-type... game,\" he says. \"It really is a live 24/7 game.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/untitled-1-33-7b0e6b464a81f0b5749a94d72d88911bf7e006e0-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Left: Junior Drew Lerner, in his second season as host, poses for a portrait. Right: Sophomore Adriano Backes Pilla cradles his shoulder after the Solo cup challenge.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Junior Drew Lerner, in his second season as host, poses for a portrait. Right: Sophomore Adriano Backes Pilla cradles his shoulder after the Solo cup challenge.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Huge \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> family'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Executing a show like this is a mammoth undertaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before each season, hosts spend months planning out each week's challenge and interviewing potential contestants. George Jayne, former host for \u003cem>Survivor Michigan\u003c/em>, received 130 applications for the first season of 18 contestants. Host of \u003cem>Survivor Boston\u003c/em> Jacob Falberg says he focuses on making sure the chosen players have the drive to win. That means interviewing everyone who applies, which at its peak was 60 applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the host and cast, a crew of anywhere from five to 20 students constantly films during challenges, so no moment goes unseen. And for \u003cem>Survivor Michigan\u003c/em>, there's an entire social media team along with an editing team dedicated to the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trupp says for his last season as host, he had to sift through 300 hours of footage while editing it, which took about two years. The season aired in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norberg, who is currently editing his seasons as host, spends 15 hours editing the show each week—basically whenever he isn't at work, he says. He releases a new episode of season six every Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109522\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/cal_6031_enl-4dc6f638e3892369105006e22f755f288d0b9ea7-1-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"A 'Survivor Maryland' player is filmed after she gets out in the Solo cup challenge. An hour into the challenge, half the players are out. "The emotion and the drive and everything is so real and so raw, you don't get that anywhere else," says Anders Norberg, former 'Survivor Maryland' host. "You probably won't get it for the rest of your life after this."\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/cal_6031_enl-4dc6f638e3892369105006e22f755f288d0b9ea7-1-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/cal_6031_enl-4dc6f638e3892369105006e22f755f288d0b9ea7-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/cal_6031_enl-4dc6f638e3892369105006e22f755f288d0b9ea7-1-768x509.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/cal_6031_enl-4dc6f638e3892369105006e22f755f288d0b9ea7-1-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/cal_6031_enl-4dc6f638e3892369105006e22f755f288d0b9ea7-1-1200x795.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/cal_6031_enl-4dc6f638e3892369105006e22f755f288d0b9ea7-1-1920x1272.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 'Survivor Maryland' player is filmed after she gets out in the Solo cup challenge. An hour into the challenge, half the players are out. \"The emotion and the drive and everything is so real and so raw, you don't get that anywhere else,\" says Anders Norberg, former 'Survivor Maryland' host. \"You probably won't get it for the rest of your life after this.\" \u003ccite>(Noah Fortson/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While critics say playing the game cuts into schoolwork, many contestants say they received higher grades when they played the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was my best semester... academically because it made me be more in tune with my time management,\" says \u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em> crewmember Swale Nida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even through the turmoil and backstabbing, most players end up as friends and many return in later seasons or become part of the crew. Even after graduating, some still come by to help out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Once you play, once you're a part of it, it's like this huge \u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em> family, and I didn't want my journey to end just with playing,\" says Carly Weinstein, a former \u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em> player and current crewmember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109523\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/cal_6059-2_enl-a543c50107ec5050b872fe80f4b2d9bb6e7d8b30-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"'Survivor Maryland's 12th season kicked off on Feb. 10. Maryland's version was the first of the fan-made campus re-creations. Its creator, Austin Trupp, estimates hundreds of college students have played in fan-made 'Survivor' shows by now.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/cal_6059-2_enl-a543c50107ec5050b872fe80f4b2d9bb6e7d8b30-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/cal_6059-2_enl-a543c50107ec5050b872fe80f4b2d9bb6e7d8b30-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/cal_6059-2_enl-a543c50107ec5050b872fe80f4b2d9bb6e7d8b30-768x509.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/cal_6059-2_enl-a543c50107ec5050b872fe80f4b2d9bb6e7d8b30-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/cal_6059-2_enl-a543c50107ec5050b872fe80f4b2d9bb6e7d8b30-1200x795.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/cal_6059-2_enl-a543c50107ec5050b872fe80f4b2d9bb6e7d8b30-1920x1272.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Survivor Maryland's 12th season kicked off on Feb. 10. Maryland's version was the first of the fan-made campus re-creations. Its creator, Austin Trupp, estimates hundreds of college students have played in fan-made 'Survivor' shows by now. \u003ccite>(Noah Fortson/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>'\u003cstrong>You dream about \u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Survivor\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Solo cup challenge, contestants have been at it for about an hour and 20 minutes, and there are two players left, one from each tribe. Both refuse to give up. Current host Drew Lerner has them each stand on one foot. Seven minutes later, there is a winner. Everyone cheers, excited to go back to warmth. A similar challenge on CBS' \u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em> has lasted six hours—although it wasn't so cold out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While one tribe disperses into small groups, the other meets as a whole. The strategic game play has already begun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's something about this game that keeps you coming back... It takes up your entire mental capacity all the time,\" says Liam Mercer, a past player of \u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em>. \"You dream about \u003cem>Survivor \u003c/em>when you're playing, and you dream about \u003cem>Survivor \u003c/em>after you get out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://oliviasun.us/\">\u003cem>Olivia Sun\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and Noah Fortson contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lindseyf96?lang=en\">\u003cem>Lindsey Feingold\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is the NPR digital content intern.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=It%27s+Survivor%3A+College+Edition%2C+As+Students+Create+Their+Own+Reality+Shows&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This may seem like a typical hazing scenario, but it's \u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em>, a fan-made version of CBS' hit television show \u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em>. Created in 2012 by \u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em> fan Austin Trupp,\u003cem> Survivor Maryland\u003c/em> was the first college version, but many more have followed. Now, college students around the country—from University of Virginia to Ohio State University—are remaking the show in between classes and homework. At least six campuses post their \u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em> re-creations on YouTube. Others are competing, but haven't posted their episodes yet. And around 20 schools reached out about starting their own versions, Trupp says.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/p9PMhYOlm4s'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/p9PMhYOlm4s'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\"I think the moment of real emotion, real fights, real anger, real joy, are what make this more than just like an extracurricular—it makes it an actual experience that makes it something worthwhile,\" says Anders Norberg, former host of \u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em>. Norberg graduated in May, and now lives in Los Angeles where he's working in the entertainment business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em>'s 12th season kicked off with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/30/507505728/creator-of-red-solo-cup-robert-hulseman-dies-at-84\">the Solo cup challenge\u003c/a> on Feb. 10. The challenges, tribal councils, secret meetings and confessionals are all recorded and edited into episodes and then posted on YouTube. (You can watch previous seasons \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN9B1MVCFcyc9lpD6UKOjtg\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJodA_5VePCTVmMmkTc7bZA\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as some \u003cem>Survivor \u003c/em>fans are gearing up for the premiere of the 38th season of CBS' \u003cem>Survivor \u003c/em>on Wednesday\u003cem>, \u003c/em>the 18 players of \u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em> are fully focused on the game unfolding on their campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109512\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/dsc0416_enl-ed04fb674d47a3958ad94893140502e98cd107e0-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"'Survivor Maryland' kicks off its 12th season with a challenge where participants' arms are tied to a plastic cup of water that's resting on the top of a ledge. One wrong move and the cup (and its contents) will tumble.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Survivor Maryland' kicks off its 12th season with a challenge where participants' arms are tied to a plastic cup of water that's resting on the top of a ledge. One wrong move and the cup (and its contents) will tumble.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Game culture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campus shows have taken on a life online—and have an extremely devoted fan base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are super fans. They tune into live steam recaps of the newly released episodes, some which have more than 25,000 views on YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One super fan, Jack Estavanik of Ramapo College of New Jersey, spends a few hours a week \u003ca href=\"http://survivormaryland.wikia.com/wiki/Survivor_Maryland_Wikia\">updating wiki pages\u003c/a> he created for \u003cem>Survivor Boston\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Survivor Michigan\u003c/em>. Recently, an immunity necklace used in season 5 of \u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebay.com/itm/232921715535\">sold for more than $380 on eBay\u003c/a>. And past \u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em> player Alex Paskal says fans have reached out to him from as far as Peru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I find this \u003cem>Survivor \u003c/em>fan base as a whole to be a bizarrely varied group of people,\" says Alex Thal, a former contestant on \u003cem>Survivor Michigan.\u003c/em> \u003cem>\"\u003c/em>It seems like you almost just take the most random possible subsection of America and you get \u003cem>Survivor \u003c/em>fans.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like on the real television show, the campus contestants are split into tribes and vote each other out. Contestants use various strategies—from forging alliances to outright deception—as they strive to be the last person standing and ultimate survivor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were definitely times where people cried, people were in distress, people were furious at each other,\" Norberg says. \"Like, friendships ended because of the game.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, while there are similarities between the TV and campus versions—the tiki torch props, the hidden immunity idols and the drama—there are key differences. \u003cem>Survivor \u003c/em>lasts 39 days, whereas the college shows last one semester—anywhere from 75 and 100 days depending on the school. The television series offers a $1 million prize for winning, while most college shows offer $100. And there's no tropical island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the biggest difference: the game takes its cues from campus life. Red Solo cups. Players in university-themed gear. Crew members recording footage not with a big video camera rig, but on smartphones. And it's primarily self-financed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This game screams college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109514\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109514\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/dsc0306_enl-f6e99826f73a91d597a6bcc4ff935c614a7b3d97-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"Contestant Alejandro Valdes, a sophomore at the University of Maryland, decided to compete in 'Survivor Maryland' because he wanted to be uncomfortable. "I just want to see how long I can last," he says.\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contestant Alejandro Valdes, a sophomore at the University of Maryland, decided to compete in 'Survivor Maryland' because he wanted to be uncomfortable. \"I just want to see how long I can last,\" he says.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then there's the strategizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contestants have tricked other players into thinking some of them were hooking up, spent hours searching campus for hidden clues or even bought fake idols to trick other players. One player even hid in another contestant's closet for hours to avoid being seen colluding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you want to do well in the game on a social level, you have to put in that amount of time,\" says Amani Desormeaux, a past \u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em> player who admitted to skipping class to strategize. \"If I wasn't in class, if I wasn't sleeping, I was doing \u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thal says he spent 20 hours a week playing and strategizing. Chris LeCompte, a two-season \u003cem>Survivor Maryland\u003c/em> veteran, says the game starts to blend with real life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're always thinking about it, and you're always on, because the thing about it is it's not a clock-in-and-clock-out-type... game,\" he says. \"It really is a live 24/7 game.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/untitled-1-33-7b0e6b464a81f0b5749a94d72d88911bf7e006e0-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Left: Junior Drew Lerner, in his second season as host, poses for a portrait. Right: Sophomore Adriano Backes Pilla cradles his shoulder after the Solo cup challenge.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Junior Drew Lerner, in his second season as host, poses for a portrait. Right: Sophomore Adriano Backes Pilla cradles his shoulder after the Solo cup challenge.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Huge \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Survivor\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> family'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Executing a show like this is a mammoth undertaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before each season, hosts spend months planning out each week's challenge and interviewing potential contestants. George Jayne, former host for \u003cem>Survivor Michigan\u003c/em>, received 130 applications for the first season of 18 contestants. Host of \u003cem>Survivor Boston\u003c/em> Jacob Falberg says he focuses on making sure the chosen players have the drive to win. That means interviewing everyone who applies, which at its peak was 60 applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the host and cast, a crew of anywhere from five to 20 students constantly films during challenges, so no moment goes unseen. And for \u003cem>Survivor Michigan\u003c/em>, there's an entire social media team along with an editing team dedicated to the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trupp says for his last season as host, he had to sift through 300 hours of footage while editing it, which took about two years. The season aired in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norberg, who is currently editing his seasons as host, spends 15 hours editing the show each week—basically whenever he isn't at work, he says. He releases a new episode of season six every Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109522\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/cal_6031_enl-4dc6f638e3892369105006e22f755f288d0b9ea7-1-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"A 'Survivor Maryland' player is filmed after she gets out in the Solo cup challenge. An hour into the challenge, half the players are out. "The emotion and the drive and everything is so real and so raw, you don't get that anywhere else," says Anders Norberg, former 'Survivor Maryland' host. 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"content": "\u003cp>John, a father of two in Colorado, had no idea what his 15-year-old son had gotten into, until one night last year when John walked into his home office. We're not using his last name to protect his son's privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John saw a large pile of papers facedown next to his printer. He turned them over and found a copy of a notorious neo-Nazi propaganda book. \"It's 'the white culture's in trouble, we are under attack by Jews, blacks, every other minority.' It was scary. It was absolutely frightening to even see that in my house. I was shaking, like, 'What in the world is this and why is it in my house?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John confronted his son angrily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was through the roof.\" And then, \"I went back into my room. I was crying. I felt like a failure that a child that I had raised would be remotely interested in that sort of stuff.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost every teen plays video games—97 percent of boys, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/17/5-facts-about-americans-and-video-games/\">Pew Research Center\u003c/a>, and 83 percent of girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, these games are played online, with strangers. And experts say that while it's by no means common, online games—and the associated chat rooms, livestreams and other channels—have become one avenue for recruitment by right-wing extremist groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, John's son liked playing first-person shooter games, like \u003ca href=\"http://blog.counter-strike.net/\">Counterstrike: Global Offensive\u003c/a>. Games like these are multiplayer—you must form teams with friends or strangers. You can chat in the game, over voice or text, or in separate chat rooms. Some of these are hosted by sites like Discord that make it easy for anyone to create a private chat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John knew his son was spending time playing video games and chatting either out loud or over text, but there were no obvious red flags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There wasn't anything obvious to me at first because it's common. This is the norm for kids. Instead of hanging out at the drive-in they're all online,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet it's exactly this way, John says, that his son started hanging out with avowed white supremacists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These people became his son's friends. They talked to him about problems he was having at school, and suggested some of his African-American classmates as scapegoats. They also keyed into his interest in history, especially military history, and in Nordic mythology. Above all, they offered him membership in a hierarchy: whites against others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He started to feel like he was in on something. He was now in the in crowd with these guys. It provided some structure and identity that he was searching for at the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John learned his son had been drawn into conversation with at least one group that the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a Nazi terrorist organization. He searched online for help and found a man named \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Picciolini\">Christian Picciolini\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picciolini runs the Free Radicals project, which he calls \"a global prevention network for extremism.\" He's a reformed skinhead himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDP2TSHZqyI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"\u003c/em>Thirty years ago, when I was involved in the white supremacist movement, it was very much a face to face interaction,\" he says. \"You know, you had to meet somebody to be recruited, or you had a pamphlet or a flyer put on your car.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today, he says, it's much more common for extremists to initially reach out online. And that includes over kids' headsets during video games. Picciolini describes the process: \"Well typically, they'll start out with dropping slurs about different races or religions and kind of test the waters ... Once they sense that they've got their hooks in them they ramp it up, and then they start sending propaganda, links to other sites, or they start talking about these old kind of racist anti-Semitic tropes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's also what Joan Donovan has seen. She is the media manipulation research lead at Data and Society, a research institute, and she has been following white supremacists online for years. She says they've been highly innovative in using new online spaces, like message boards in the '90s, for recruitment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I saw how these groups communicated and spread out to other spaces online with the intent of not telling people specifically that they were white supremacists, but they were really trying to figure out what young men were angry about and how they could leverage that to bring about a broad-based social movement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And violent first-person shooter games, she says, are one place to find angry young men. She calls \"gaming culture\" \"one of the spaces of recruitment that must be addressed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donovan says that recruitment, and even the planning of harassment campaigns, happens not only during in-game chat, but during livestreaming of game play on platforms like Twitch and YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, there's a feature on YouTube called Super Chat, where fans can offer cash tips while gamers are playing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People will donate 14 dollars and 88 cents, which is a reference to ... a white nationalist slogan, as well as 88, which is most commonly found in prison tattoos, for Heil Hitler,\" Donovan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Game-related Reddit threads and chat sites like Discord also host similar conversations. Last year, a nonprofit media collective called Unicorn Riot published chat logs from Discord in which known white supremacists planned aspects of the Charlottesville \"Unite The Right\" rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Video games are a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-01-31-games-industry-generated-usd108-4bn-in-revenues-in-2017'\">hundred billion\u003c/a> dollar industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What are companies' responsibilities to ensure that young people won't encounter hate groups? We reached out to several game and chat companies for comment. Riot Games noted in a statement that it relies on volunteers to moderate game-related chats. And Discord, the chatroom site, forwarded a statement from the Southern Poverty Law Center, praising it for recently banning several far-right extremist communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Boyd, who represents video game companies for the law firm Frankfurt Kurnit, says \"toxic\" behavior including hate speech, to say nothing of recruitment, is a key industry concern and a frequent topic of conversation. \"If they could find it all they would get rid of it ASAP.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's a daunting technical challenge. The three biggest video game platforms—Microsoft, PlayStation and Steam—host 48 million, 70 million and 130 million monthly active players respectively, Boyd says. \"That's the populations of Spain, France and Russia. 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Efron later apologized, after it was pointed out that honoring the work, life and premature death of one of civil rights' most important figures should not, for obvious reasons, be equated with how many fans he had personally garnered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2016, Debra Messing was due to take part in an online \"day of advocacy... to bring awareness to gun violence in America.\" At the moment she was taking some photos to post, she heard news about a shooting at UCLA and tweeted this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-106145\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Cj4uXzFUkAA-RuC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Cj4uXzFUkAA-RuC.jpg 613w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Cj4uXzFUkAA-RuC-160x199.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Cj4uXzFUkAA-RuC-240x298.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Cj4uXzFUkAA-RuC-375x466.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/10/Cj4uXzFUkAA-RuC-520x646.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Twitter users pointed out the uselessness of posting a selfie while people were literally dying, Messing was forced to clarify. \"I am heartbroken and embarrassed that many people misconstrued my actions and that I caused offense,\" \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DebraMessing/status/738073326871023616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E738073326871023616&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etonline.com%2Fnews%2F190068_debra_messing_apologizes_for_posting_selfie_amid_ucla_shooting_news\">she wrote.\u003c/a> \"The horrendous irony of the timing, I was hoping, would shine an even brighter light on the crisis and need for all of us to do something together to make the US safer. I am so truly sorry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there was the time in 2014, when Courtney Love announced that she had solved the location of missing \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370\">Malaysia Airlines Flight 370\u003c/a> from her seat aboard a different plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Courtney/status/445475973891235840\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of these incidents are the result of a weird—and relatively new—cultural intersection where a desire to use one's fame for good collides with an inflated sense of self-importance and a need for the reassurance of thousands of people praising you for your actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ama.org/publications/MarketingNews/Pages/feeding-the-addiction.aspx\">American Marketing Association\u003c/a>, “people get a rush of dopamine when they post, share or 'like' something online.” This in turn means that people “get a ‘high’ from positive interactions with one another on social media.” When you take that and blow it up to the kinds of numbers that celebrities deal with online, it's easy to see how they can miss the bigger picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Potentially exacerbating the problem is a cultural obsession with reality television—the idea that every moment of our lives deserves documenting. The fact that Lohan has recently been filming \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/lohan-beach-club-first-look-at-lindsay-lohan-reality-show-1130614\">a reality TV show for MTV\u003c/a> might have been the thing that prompted her to try and turn passive bystanders into a dramatic scene of some sort. Away from the cameras and her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/104384/cancel-your-summer-plans-lindsay-lohan-has-a-beach-resort-in-greece-now\">beach resort in Mykonos,\u003c/a> it's possible that Lohan just missed a lens being pointed at her and tried to cultivate something similar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Older generations have spent years leveling (mostly) unfair accusations of narcissism and self-obsession against both Millennials and Generation Z, thanks to modern social media habits. 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