What's on TV is a bit different from things they do in person.

But in regards to your point, I've hated "reality TV" since almost the beginning. Like when "The Real World" (season 1) came out on MTV i did think it was pretty interesting as a unique concept. I realized pretty quickly that "Road Rules" was far more interesting because the people actually had tasks to overcome instead of just sitting around being dramatic.

The infinite spin offs were just more and more shit and I found "RuPaul's" to be just as bad as everything else. It felt like friends and family were all in on the useless drama though and I just found it incredibly annoying that they would turn on the TV to watch this stuff as a choice. RuPaul's in particular brothered me because it feels like the media force diverted the zeitgeist of the gay community to be a full on caricature of what unfriendly straights used to pretend we were.