Sotodashi said: Out of the 17 calls, 13 was made by me.
That's not how phone voting works, they use number identificators to prevent same number voting and you know "cheat the system", if anything you wasted 12 of your 13 calls by hogging up call positions that could had been used by 12 different people that would had raised the number from 17 to 29.
And that without counting the possibility of Abyuse channel being playing with both abyuser and lovers faking numbers to keep both groups watching the show and have the ratings over the roof, leading to the producers gaining loads of money thanks to obsessive Yu Aficionados being glued to the TV...
It will be more fun if they're released back into the wild as they are now. Burnt feet, accessory loss, blindness, other yukkuris would tear into them for these things.
Meh, he's trolling. Of course no one will make the 5000 calls. Sotodashi, while your defense of the yukkuri may be admirable, this is technically abuse oriented so be cautious before you get hit with a warning.
Being honest I'm more jaded by the fact that this is a typical "PhoneVote TV Show" and those are always rigged to get results to get the highest audience and ratings. Lovers and Abyusers would be played by the show's producers for the sake of gain, like any PhoneVote Show audience is.
This kind of shows always give you the "illusion of choice" but in reality you don't choose at all, it's all lies for the sake of rating and profit.
JIE: that's in better country. In my country, phone voting is counted as premium call, so the producer is encouraging the viewers to send as many vote sms as possible. Participant also have their campaign team who would invest millions to fund votes from their group. 15 minutes of fame is serious business.
Even in those cases the Rigged part is still in play, while the calls are still billed, the results are modified to cater a higher rating and audience. All those damned things are rigged, no exception!
How many public phones are there in an average town? I am worried that those damned PETY would go around each of the phones to make the calls and spoil the abuser's fun.
While I personally do not really enjoy abuse of yukkuris that didn't seem to have done anything wrong, people who ruin other's fun are even worse.