Are you severely disappointed with the people who didn't realize that ANTM was abuse when it first aired?

[Jaysonava]

I kind of lose my faith in humanity when people go "Tyra Banks Has Been Exposed"

... as if the cruelty on the show was 'uncovered' or was ever hidden or covert.

She wasn't 'exposed'. The show was on TV and all the bad behavior, putting modes in plastic orbs over pools, was always on TV. And some people were always criticizing it.

It was always trash. ANTM was always trash. I don't remember anyone in my friend group not realizing how horribly everyone was treated. Only shallow family friends that I stayed with once were completely okay with it.

And now people cannot even see that David Doverick is a raging psychopaths who abuses his workers and his material is fake.

Spineless people with no moral compass, waiting for a social justice warrior to tell them when something is bad.

[VDrago14]

Shows like that (or reality tv in general) is all about putting somebody on a pedestal and seeing what happens. Usually it's disastrous as a result, and that's what people enjoy about it.

[Jaysonava]

Who is on the pedestal?