Truman

Humanity's cruelty towards itself really has no limits. There is a movie called, "The Truman Show," where the main character, Truman, is unaware that everything around them is fabricated. Their whole life since birth was naturally also streamed. His whole life was a reality show. That however was all fiction.

Then there's Tomoaki Hamatsu, someone who many know as Nasubi. As a part of a "challenge," he had to stay alone in a small apartment with just the following list of items and nothing more:

a shower

a radio

a telephone

a gas burner

a sink

a large rack of magazines

a giant stack of postcards

a small table

a single cushion

The opportunity to take part in this challenge was something he won without being aware of the actual premise of the show.

The only other things he could use to survive, were things he won from sweepstakes.

To "win" and leave, he had to win ¥1,000,000 worth of prizes.

As a bonus, he was never able to win clothes before winning, so he was naked 24/7 (besides a pair of tiny panties that didn't fit).

He also was under the impression that the show would be cut together from all the recordings. In actuality, at some point it became a 24/7 live stream following the decent to insanity of a naked man. Greed obviously noticed the gold mine they were sitting on, with 17 million views every Sunday night.

After "winning," he was flown to Korea to celebrate and have a bit of fun. Shortly after, he was brought into a room with the goal this time being a plane ticket home to Japan.

The goal was also secretly upgraded from economy class to business class and then finally to first class without ever informing Nasubi.

There was just a lot of casual psychological torture. No clothes after tens of thousands of submissions is just slightly sus. Before forced to survive off of dog food is also just a great experience.

[This live torture lasted 15 months back in the late 1990s of Japan]