America's Next Drag Race By Edward Quinn

Throughout history, reality television has impacted American society. This can be seen by how reality TV affects mental health and behaviors, reality TV's effect on relationship expectations, representation and stereotyping groups of people. One way that Reality TV affects society is its effect on mental health, in both positive and negative ways. It is shown that reality TV affects mainly young adults and teenagers as that is the main audience of the genre, and it has a larger impact on mental health and behaviors than most people would think. An article written by Edward Quinn. He talks a lot about how all reality TV is dramatized and that people believe that reality should look like what they see on TV even though it’s all scripted and fake, in the article he explains that, even since the beginning of television programs there has always been “reality TV” and it’s depicts real events that are hyper dramatized to make people enjoy the show,

In the show they don’t just show the performances of the drag queens, they also show behind the scenes of them getting ready and here is where there are a lot of arguments and being a little bit dramatic about plenty of things. Carolina Are wrote an article about how drag race and the culture is starting to change a lot about how people behave and talk everyday, in it she writes “Drag Race is influencing the way we speak and the content we create, to the extent that it is now becoming the subject of academic papers and studies.”(Are 17). So for some people it might seem like a fun show that over dramatizes every situation, but it has also changed how some people look and live and how people behave. For some, this might be a good thing; they might start to speak up for themselves or start finding ways to relate to other people, but in a lot of cases it might have a more negative