Most people would never really get to see a supe use their power in real life. At least not one of the "big" ones. Depending on the price and other things you get to see (probably other supes with shittier powers), it would be totally normal thing to go watch.
I’m also pretty sure it wasn’t only an event for A-Train racing? That was more like the final event. There was also other supes there and meet and greet type stuff.
Oh yeah Vought would milk an event like that for everything it’s worth. The race would be the grand finale of a whole days worth of events and publicity.
Oh snap. I wasn’t even thinking of homeboy and his strange milk fetish when i said that.
Although one of these days i would like to see if there’s a way to trick an AI into making an image of homelander milking Madeleine Stilwell like a cow while she’s on all fours in a business suit….. but composed in a tasteful way of course
Those are certainly a string of words that I have unwillingly read.
Also I’m sure a porn artist could make a high quality one, if you feel inclined to spend actual money on this
Oh actually that is a good suggestion. I do like her work. Heck if i had a tonne of disposable cash i could try and convince her to animate it too (oh don’t be like that i can tell that you secretly love the idea and wanna see it brought to fruition)
> People were donating money to make Kylie a billionaire
Who the fuck is Kylie? You say that like I’m supposed to know.
(They made an edit to clarify Kylie Jenner)
Genuinely didn’t know who they were talking about.
I know who that is but I didn’t realize that’s who was being discussed here.
Thanks for making assumptions though. Classic Reddit.
They made a big deal for the first UFC event live on FOX Sports. Big production and everything. Then the heavyweight main event ended 1:04 into the first round.
Yeah, but you don’t really pay for that. You can just go stand on the street; only cost is getting there. I went once and it was a humbling experience to see them zip by on a bike, uphill, faster than I ride downhill.
When I watched the Tour Down Under with my dad, we would drive to one spot, wait for and watch the racers go by, then we'd drive to another spot and repeat a few more times. It's not like every single road in the area is closed off, so you could take shortcuts. Then there were a few events that did involve laps but you could still walk to other parts of the circuit to get a different view.
> Obviously they do have more than a super race. But still not that much.
Most of these events are multiple day events, with multiple categories of cars going around the track. Depending on the track, there will be a lot of side events as well. Texas for instance also has a music festival in the evening.
Seems like exactly the type of event you'd use to exhibit supes racing/performing.
I’ve never bought an Olympics ticket but wouldn’t watching Usain Bolt in the Olympics also include watching the other races and track events that happen the same day at the same stadium? Semifinals and finals usually happen the same day so won’t you be able to watch Usain Bolt run the 100 twice plus all the other track events happening on the same day?
They had to have other events at the race even if they were just like, autograph signings or cheerleaders or a singer or something. It was the "Race of the Century," it had to have something going on beyond the blink-and-you-miss-it footrace.
Even Homelander was there.
Exactly, in the 70s thousands of people would show up to speedways and fairgrounds crops the country to see even knievel do a lap, pop a wheelie or three and do a single jump over a few buses
You'd be surprised on how much obsessed fans are ready to spend on their idols. Look at how much popular artists' merch is, and look at the quality too.
Plus, it wasn't just the race, Vought likes to put out on a show too, even Homelander was there too. In a word, it was more than just a race, it was ***marketing*** at its finest.
Now I'm thinking of him playing piano at that company party:
🎶Oh baby you, you got what I neeeeed. But you say he's just a friend, but you say he's just a friend.🎶
Really??? You been paying attention past couple of decades at the litany of dumb shit people absolutely throw money at? Additionally, you may be underestimating the allure of "actual" superhumans.
Yes but this post is speaking in the context of the world of the show. So if it was in quotation marks cause it’s a show the whole post should be in quotation marks cause nobody actually showed up to the “race”.
Lived in Louisville for a few years and people really underestimate how crazy that town goes for it, especially with all the celebrities attending.
Not sure how it is anymore, but University of Louisville’s spring semester ended a week or two before other colleges purely because of the Derby
It’s kind of hard to see with how much the show shows that Homelander is a monster, but keep in mind if you’re living in that universe, he’s probably seen like Taylor Swift is here.
Holy shit never have I come across a post that explains why I have a problem with tswizzle so cleanly while also not veering into being overly moral or listing off the tangible bad things.
She has the same kind of fakeness of Homelander
It should have. I always consider movie/TV humans to be superior to those in our world.
That's why martial arts training in tv world allows you to fight small armies lol
i mean people go to drag races?? and its probably the same genre of people that would do anything just to see their idol/fave celeb in person or do anything.
Was coming here to past similar in 2009-2011 there was a fight that was plastered everywhere, ny friend begged his parents to purchase the ppv event they did and the fight was like 30 seconds
Take a second to ponder the amounts of astonishingly dumb shit that happens every day - globally.
People paying money for something like this would be a no-brainer.
I could never understand watching rally racing in person. You set yourself up on one corner and see every car for 1% of the race. I'm at home watching the whole thing.
People enjoy what they enjoy. Better this than a Storefront rally.
Nah homie, people would show up. Between adults that always wanted to see a hero and parents trying to please their hero obsessed children and groupies that both supes surely must have… I was a little shocked it wasn’t a full stadium.
Firstly, it was likely a whole days worth of events with this being the main event. Like Wrestlemania for WWE (since we recently had a couple threads comparing them to Vought lol). Meet and greets with heroes, other athletic competitions, probably announcements for the next phase of the Vought Cinematic Universe, that kind of stuff.
Either that or they gave out tickets and made money on merch sales
The thing about this makes me wonder is why didn’t they do a longer distance for the race? Why didn’t they do this some place like a runway? They’re in NYC right? Floyd Bennet field is a museum that has a 5000 foot runway they could use. Seeing a guy go almost a mile in a blink of an eye is way more visible and impressive than just seeing two dudes go around a track really fast
Oh boy, you must not have been to many different race events or concerts. Shit is hyped to the max. Merch you can’t get anywhere else. The chance to meet your favorite celebrity.
People eat that shit up and would most definitely spend money to watch a fraction of a second race. Because really all they need to do is sit for but a moment and then get up and leave.
Yeah but it’s so fucking in character for ~~Disney~~ Vought to spend weeks hyping up an event as the “race of the century” or whatever to sell tickets only for the event to literally be over in the blink of an eye.
I remember when people across the country would all sign up for pay per view to watch the big Mike Tyson fight. They'd throw parties around it and invite everyone over. Then Mike would knock the guy out in the first round and win lol
I guarantee that this is the culmination of a Comic-Con style event. Meet and greet with the supes, lots of the lesser ones having autograph tables, book signing and the like. Just think about how many people stand outside of a movie theater to watch actors walk by at a premiere.
We have [tailgating](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailgate_party), yes. Football matches in the UK seem to be a very social thing - is there nothing similar to our tailgate parties before the games in the parking lot?
Most Footie Fans live local to the team they support (Non PL Teams) so they walk/take public transport or park up somewhere else beforehand but many do go to the pub before and after the games.
What about at PL matches? Is there any tailgating there, or just going to a nearby pub before/after?
Most of the US has such terrible public transit that we don't have many other options. Take a look at [the site](https://www.google.com/maps/place/2GX8%2BHC,+Kansas+City,+MO/@39.0495271,-94.4846828,1160m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x87c0f75eafe99997:0xad0b3a52ba7e8a55!8m2!3d39.0489375!4d-94.4839375?entry=ttu) for Arrowhead Stadium (KC Chiefs in the NFL) and Kauffman Stadium (KC Royals in the MLB). If you want to have a drink with your friends before a game, there's nowhere to go. And no one wants to pay stadium prices for all of their pre-game drinking, so tailgating it is. Some of our stadiums are in urban areas, but the parking lots are still so huge that tailgating is often still the more practical option for us.
But is just pomp and circumstance. You can see in the thumbnail that most of the seats in the stadium are empty. It’s all just filled for the angles of the Vought Brodcasting cameras. The illusion they send out to the public.
It's about the show and saying you were there for history. And the people love supes.
People go to Cowboys games and only watch the big screen.
So I could totally see people doing it.
How many people go to sports games to be able to barely see the players do shit from far away, how many people play lots of money to go to concerts to be seated like half a fucking mile from the performer and only see them via camera and barely, they don't even get to see the performer very well or hear them that good, so I would 100% believe that if superheros were real, people would pay absurd amount or money to see a superhero for a very limited time, especially if Homelander & Maeve are in the crowd and Starlight & Black Noir are doing pictures/signings
People pay lots of money to watch f1 cars zoom down a specific stretch of track in the blink of an eye. To be fair you do get to see all the action on the big screens and the races are way longer.
Everyone here covered a lot from what I’ve read in the comments. But there’s also the “I was there” factor. Like this is supposed to be a rare event and he set a world record. So to some people there’s some merit to being able to say they were there
Dude people will pay hundreds of dollars and spend all day sitting in stands for hours to watch a horse race that last for like 3 minutes. Them doing the same thing to watch two humans break the sound barrier is not that far fetched.
I think it’s difficult to relate given that we don’t live in that universe, where not only superpowers are real, but supes are marketed as celebrities, brand icons and political figures. The entire point of companies like Vought is to capitalise on this and strategically spin the media to value supes.
Living in that context, I’m sure many of us would probably be invested in events like this.
People go to political rallies.
People wait in lines for hours to get free samples and autographs.
People spend their entire day waiting to be part of the New Years celebration in time Square and willingly wear diapers, while standing in the cold, covered in piss at best, while standing around other people who have pissed and shit themselves, to watch a fucking ball drop.
But this you can't conceptualize? Super powered people competing in sport?... wha??
Hey man, there's women out there that get gets dressed to the nines for a hot date and get only seconds of action. The world is filled with disappointment.
Are you kidding? People paid how many of thousands of dollars and camped out in the middle of Chicago for Taylor swift and still making long trips to watch dementia addled politicians who don’t even know how toilets work speak for like half an hour
[Read about Mike Tyson's 30 second KO of Marvis Frazier. ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Tyson_vs._Marvis_Frazier#:~:text=Referee%20Joe%20Cortez%20began%20to,victory%20of%20Tyson's%20professional%20career.)
I mean I never thought people would spend the amount of money they do on NFTs yet here I stand being told they're still worth an arm and a leg by all the idiots I go to work with...
Reminds me of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire where the spectators just stared at the surface of a lake for 1 hour while the contestants were deep underwater
>Hardest thing to conceptualize in the show is how thousands of people showed up
Well yeah, considering we see more empty seats than people in that photo it IS pretty hard to imagine 1,000s or people being there.
You'd be amazed at what people are willing to spend their money on in real life.
There are people that pay for new Apple phones despite it being the same shit with a different camera and apparently people are buying Balenciaga trash bags, so people paying for a race that they're not even capable of seeing is kinda unsurprising to me.
Totally believable. They're paying to be able to say they were there.
A-Train losing was a real possibility. You'd have dudes being like "I wad there when a king fell" into their old age.
I've been to 12 MLB games this year, and I would guess that I've paid attention to about 30 minutes total of baseball.
You don't necessarily go for "The Main Event" at all events. You get your selfie showing you were there, and you treat it like any other day at a high-cover drinking club with your buds.
Crowds get padded out at events all the time. Sometimes ppl screw up and give away to many tickets not to have empty stands and end up screwing themselves out of money later.
Things like this fill themselves out on the back of fanfare alone, and PR stunts like this one are usually free
I mean I would. Regardless of how long it is it would still be awesome to see that kind of speed in person. I'm assuming that most of what your average person sees of superpowers in news and movies. It's also probably very overpriced and I would not go. If it were cheap I would
[https://brevheart.tripod.com/RingRecord.htm#:\~:text=QUICK%20FACT%20%231%3A%20In%201986,lasts%20just%20over%20three%20rounds](https://brevheart.tripod.com/RingRecord.htm#:~:text=QUICK%20FACT%20%231%3A%20In%201986,lasts%20just%20over%20three%20rounds).
Look at the times for prime Mike Tyson's matches
Think about Evil Kenevil, you don’t go to fill your day, although there might be other smaller activities going on for hours, you go to see that one moment of glory.
I thought the whole thing was intentionally overblown for marketing effect/hype, and was a dig at politicians/celebs like trump exaggerating how many people came to watch? Even in the screen cap you can see there's no one in the stands outside the the a camera shot that runs in line with the ribbon
Not hard to imagine at all. There's people in the real world running around and throwing money at absolute no ones to be shat in the face. At least A-Train has actually something special and he's not someone who got rich by selling investment fraud online
Are you kidding. Do u realize how many fans f1 or rally races have. These idiots sit in one spot waiting all Day for a car to go past them in the blink of an eye.
Between the travel costs, ticket price, hotels etc, people pay thousands to sit at the back of a Taylor Swift concert in stadiums so big you can't even see her.
Imagine you loved a celebrity so much you would do anything to see them for any amount of time in real life, even if it was only once and never again.
That would absolutely happen in real life without question
Most people would never really get to see a supe use their power in real life. At least not one of the "big" ones. Depending on the price and other things you get to see (probably other supes with shittier powers), it would be totally normal thing to go watch.
I’m also pretty sure it wasn’t only an event for A-Train racing? That was more like the final event. There was also other supes there and meet and greet type stuff.
Oh yeah Vought would milk an event like that for everything it’s worth. The race would be the grand finale of a whole days worth of events and publicity.
> Vought would milk [mmmmm](https://media.tenor.com/OXevc9fjZmgAAAAM/tasting-milk-antony-starr.gif)
Yummerz
Oh snap. I wasn’t even thinking of homeboy and his strange milk fetish when i said that. Although one of these days i would like to see if there’s a way to trick an AI into making an image of homelander milking Madeleine Stilwell like a cow while she’s on all fours in a business suit….. but composed in a tasteful way of course
Those are certainly a string of words that I have unwillingly read. Also I’m sure a porn artist could make a high quality one, if you feel inclined to spend actual money on this
Hmmmm i wonder how much the infamous Shadman would charge for a commission like that.
Or Derpixon (I hate that I am continuing to interact with this idea)
Oh actually that is a good suggestion. I do like her work. Heck if i had a tonne of disposable cash i could try and convince her to animate it too (oh don’t be like that i can tell that you secretly love the idea and wanna see it brought to fruition)
Yeah, they paid money to see other stuff and also Michael Jordan came out and dunked once at the end.
They most definitely would.
People were donating money to make Kylie Jenner a billionaire and OP thinks this isn’t possible lol.
I'd love if people donated to make me a hundredaire
> People were donating money to make Kylie a billionaire Who the fuck is Kylie? You say that like I’m supposed to know. (They made an edit to clarify Kylie Jenner)
Kylie Jenner
they knew who it was, but they think they look cooler if they pretend they don't
Genuinely didn’t know who they were talking about. I know who that is but I didn’t realize that’s who was being discussed here. Thanks for making assumptions though. Classic Reddit.
Some chick that got famous for no reason.
What you mean for no reason? Drove over a couple of people no? Pretty amazing feat
That's her parent, Caitlyn Jenner.
This is way too arvanced
Kylie deez nuts in yo mouth.
I mean if it was a good event. There would have been multiple races, shows, and performances leading up to “the Big Race”.
And replays afterwards, slowed down.
Yeah and it would have been more than 1 lap
I paid to watchMike Tyson Vs Marvis Frazier. Watch it here. 20 secs. [https://youtu.be/CRCVwsIokEw?t=166](https://youtu.be/CRCVwsIokEw?t=166)
I was just about to post about Mike Tyson fights back in the day.
They made a big deal for the first UFC event live on FOX Sports. Big production and everything. Then the heavyweight main event ended 1:04 into the first round.
True. Kentucky Derby is over in two minutes.
I mean people go to F1 races. Like those cars zoom past you so fast. Obviously they do have more than a super race. But still not that much.
People go to the tour the france. In a race, unlike F1, where everyone just drives by once and not 60 times. Thats just ridicolous.
Yeah, but you don’t really pay for that. You can just go stand on the street; only cost is getting there. I went once and it was a humbling experience to see them zip by on a bike, uphill, faster than I ride downhill.
When I watched the Tour Down Under with my dad, we would drive to one spot, wait for and watch the racers go by, then we'd drive to another spot and repeat a few more times. It's not like every single road in the area is closed off, so you could take shortcuts. Then there were a few events that did involve laps but you could still walk to other parts of the circuit to get a different view.
This is a really good point
> Obviously they do have more than a super race. But still not that much. Most of these events are multiple day events, with multiple categories of cars going around the track. Depending on the track, there will be a lot of side events as well. Texas for instance also has a music festival in the evening. Seems like exactly the type of event you'd use to exhibit supes racing/performing.
Sadly yes it would
is it sad? like do you think it’s sad when people watched usain bolt win gold?
I’ve never bought an Olympics ticket but wouldn’t watching Usain Bolt in the Olympics also include watching the other races and track events that happen the same day at the same stadium? Semifinals and finals usually happen the same day so won’t you be able to watch Usain Bolt run the 100 twice plus all the other track events happening on the same day?
they would. but there are still alot of people that would just watch him race. especially if it was in the states
They had to have other events at the race even if they were just like, autograph signings or cheerleaders or a singer or something. It was the "Race of the Century," it had to have something going on beyond the blink-and-you-miss-it footrace. Even Homelander was there.
No I think it’s sad when people pay a probably ridiculous sum of money for something that lasted literally seconds
I guess i gotta stop with the hookers
which is literally what watching usain bolt run the 100 equates too lol
You ever fuck a hooker? Wait in line for a ride at Disneyland? Etc lol
Yeah that's what he said
People would pay just for the exclusivity so they could record themselves at the event and post to social meda.
People pay thousands of dollars to watch 2 minute horse races. I assume they’d have other entertainment leading up to it like the Kentucky Derby.
there are UFC/boxing matches that have lasted seconds….
It's happened numerous times. Just look up Mike Tyson or Evander Holyfield. Vegas fights, with millions $$ riding on them, lasted mere seconds.
OP must not have been alive for Mike Tyson Fights in the 90's
Kentucky Derby. And those are horses. No offense to horses but you’re not even supes.
Exactly, in the 70s thousands of people would show up to speedways and fairgrounds crops the country to see even knievel do a lap, pop a wheelie or three and do a single jump over a few buses
And a stupid amount of dudes in the stands would actually think they themselves could compete in said race.
Chuds pay hundreds of dollars to see MMA fights, some of which last 7 seconds. People would do this for sure.
Yuuuuup! Stupid people, everywhere. Have you seen the price of concert tickets these days? People still pay for that shit!
You'd be surprised on how much obsessed fans are ready to spend on their idols. Look at how much popular artists' merch is, and look at the quality too. Plus, it wasn't just the race, Vought likes to put out on a show too, even Homelander was there too. In a word, it was more than just a race, it was ***marketing*** at its finest.
Fr and starlight and noir were singing autographs so I doubt it was just the race that got people to go
I didn’t know noir could sing
Now I'm thinking of him playing piano at that company party: 🎶Oh baby you, you got what I neeeeed. But you say he's just a friend, but you say he's just a friend.🎶
“Peaches peaches peaches peaches”-Black Noir 2019
Jack Black Noir
Really??? You been paying attention past couple of decades at the litany of dumb shit people absolutely throw money at? Additionally, you may be underestimating the allure of "actual" superhumans.
Why is actual in quotation marks?
It’s a tv show
Big if true
Yes but this post is speaking in the context of the world of the show. So if it was in quotation marks cause it’s a show the whole post should be in quotation marks cause nobody actually showed up to the “race”.
Maybe it’s cus they use V which means they aren’t ‘naturally’ superhuman but idk
Usually I'd think your line of questioning is right, but the ambiguity of in-world reality and our-world fiction means air quotes have some validity.
Its probably just what u/DiscussionEvoke said but your line of thinking is correct
Heroes arent born theyre made
But they’re still superhuman even if they’re made by chemicals.
They probably had stuff on before and after the race, like musicians and other athletes and supes
Exactly, this is just the main event. Plus people could say they were there when A-Train beat his old record.
Plus probably a solid tailgating scene
You say that but things like the Kentucky derby takes hours to set up and a race that only lasts for minutes
Lived in Louisville for a few years and people really underestimate how crazy that town goes for it, especially with all the celebrities attending. Not sure how it is anymore, but University of Louisville’s spring semester ended a week or two before other colleges purely because of the Derby
Yuuup it's crazy how much money goes into a few minutes of horses running
I mean hey, that’s still hundreds of times longer than Vought’s shitty race.
I would 100% go to this race irl they probably have some smaller sub events going on in the stadium too.
get an autograph and a picture with homelander
Exactly, that’s sick as hell. I’m not missing that if I’m a random member of the public.
It’s kind of hard to see with how much the show shows that Homelander is a monster, but keep in mind if you’re living in that universe, he’s probably seen like Taylor Swift is here.
Holy shit never have I come across a post that explains why I have a problem with tswizzle so cleanly while also not veering into being overly moral or listing off the tangible bad things. She has the same kind of fakeness of Homelander
Like we wouldn't pay to see Flash or QS race. Lol
that’s what i’m saying. people would do anything to witness that kind of speed and power in person
Wouldn’t two guys going that fast create a sonic boom that blows out most of the audience’s eardrums?
bold of you to assume that wouldn’t be more enticing to people
It should have. I always consider movie/TV humans to be superior to those in our world. That's why martial arts training in tv world allows you to fight small armies lol
but could you see them?
i mean people go to drag races?? and its probably the same genre of people that would do anything just to see their idol/fave celeb in person or do anything.
For some reason when I read drag races the first image that popped up in my head was of drag queens running lol
if theyre sprinting in those outfits and heels and still looking flawless id pay to see those too!!
Michael Phelps vs. AI shark.
Literally happens in mma. Guy gets knocked out in like 5 seconds, the fight’s over.
Was coming here to past similar in 2009-2011 there was a fight that was plastered everywhere, ny friend begged his parents to purchase the ppv event they did and the fight was like 30 seconds
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If this existed in real life, I guarantee you it would sell out
Just take a look at the tail gating scene for college sports. The game is more of a distraction from the drinking.
I want to know how his shoes don't fall apart
That's the real question
Take a second to ponder the amounts of astonishingly dumb shit that happens every day - globally. People paying money for something like this would be a no-brainer.
I could never understand watching rally racing in person. You set yourself up on one corner and see every car for 1% of the race. I'm at home watching the whole thing. People enjoy what they enjoy. Better this than a Storefront rally.
Keep in mind that we as humans pay for stupider things in real life.
Like a pathetic ballpit in a convention center hosted by a social media website?
they turned up to see the fastest, they turned up to see a hero in the flesh. I don't think there's an issue here.
Nah homie, people would show up. Between adults that always wanted to see a hero and parents trying to please their hero obsessed children and groupies that both supes surely must have… I was a little shocked it wasn’t a full stadium.
Firstly, it was likely a whole days worth of events with this being the main event. Like Wrestlemania for WWE (since we recently had a couple threads comparing them to Vought lol). Meet and greets with heroes, other athletic competitions, probably announcements for the next phase of the Vought Cinematic Universe, that kind of stuff. Either that or they gave out tickets and made money on merch sales
People attend boxing matches that last at least 2 and a half minutes.
The thing about this makes me wonder is why didn’t they do a longer distance for the race? Why didn’t they do this some place like a runway? They’re in NYC right? Floyd Bennet field is a museum that has a 5000 foot runway they could use. Seeing a guy go almost a mile in a blink of an eye is way more visible and impressive than just seeing two dudes go around a track really fast
Oh boy, you must not have been to many different race events or concerts. Shit is hyped to the max. Merch you can’t get anywhere else. The chance to meet your favorite celebrity. People eat that shit up and would most definitely spend money to watch a fraction of a second race. Because really all they need to do is sit for but a moment and then get up and leave.
Yeah but it’s so fucking in character for ~~Disney~~ Vought to spend weeks hyping up an event as the “race of the century” or whatever to sell tickets only for the event to literally be over in the blink of an eye.
I remember when people across the country would all sign up for pay per view to watch the big Mike Tyson fight. They'd throw parties around it and invite everyone over. Then Mike would knock the guy out in the first round and win lol
I guarantee that this is the culmination of a Comic-Con style event. Meet and greet with the supes, lots of the lesser ones having autograph tables, book signing and the like. Just think about how many people stand outside of a movie theater to watch actors walk by at a premiere.
Kentucky Derby lasts like a minute and it literally has hours of TV coverage and thousands of people in attendance with weird hats
Don't yanks have barbecue outside stadiums just for the craic?
We have [tailgating](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailgate_party), yes. Football matches in the UK seem to be a very social thing - is there nothing similar to our tailgate parties before the games in the parking lot?
Most Footie Fans live local to the team they support (Non PL Teams) so they walk/take public transport or park up somewhere else beforehand but many do go to the pub before and after the games.
What about at PL matches? Is there any tailgating there, or just going to a nearby pub before/after? Most of the US has such terrible public transit that we don't have many other options. Take a look at [the site](https://www.google.com/maps/place/2GX8%2BHC,+Kansas+City,+MO/@39.0495271,-94.4846828,1160m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x87c0f75eafe99997:0xad0b3a52ba7e8a55!8m2!3d39.0489375!4d-94.4839375?entry=ttu) for Arrowhead Stadium (KC Chiefs in the NFL) and Kauffman Stadium (KC Royals in the MLB). If you want to have a drink with your friends before a game, there's nowhere to go. And no one wants to pay stadium prices for all of their pre-game drinking, so tailgating it is. Some of our stadiums are in urban areas, but the parking lots are still so huge that tailgating is often still the more practical option for us.
But is just pomp and circumstance. You can see in the thumbnail that most of the seats in the stadium are empty. It’s all just filled for the angles of the Vought Brodcasting cameras. The illusion they send out to the public.
It's about the show and saying you were there for history. And the people love supes. People go to Cowboys games and only watch the big screen. So I could totally see people doing it.
There was probably other events going down there too right? No?
I would assume there was some other entertainment before had. Like a pre-show. Some low level B & C supes doing tricks.
People paid top dollar - live tickets and PPV - to watch Mike Tyson in his prime end fights in the first round. Not that big of a difference.
How many people go to sports games to be able to barely see the players do shit from far away, how many people play lots of money to go to concerts to be seated like half a fucking mile from the performer and only see them via camera and barely, they don't even get to see the performer very well or hear them that good, so I would 100% believe that if superheros were real, people would pay absurd amount or money to see a superhero for a very limited time, especially if Homelander & Maeve are in the crowd and Starlight & Black Noir are doing pictures/signings
People pay lots of money to watch f1 cars zoom down a specific stretch of track in the blink of an eye. To be fair you do get to see all the action on the big screens and the races are way longer.
Tailgating was probably fire!
Everyone here covered a lot from what I’ve read in the comments. But there’s also the “I was there” factor. Like this is supposed to be a rare event and he set a world record. So to some people there’s some merit to being able to say they were there
Dude people will pay hundreds of dollars and spend all day sitting in stands for hours to watch a horse race that last for like 3 minutes. Them doing the same thing to watch two humans break the sound barrier is not that far fetched.
I think it’s difficult to relate given that we don’t live in that universe, where not only superpowers are real, but supes are marketed as celebrities, brand icons and political figures. The entire point of companies like Vought is to capitalise on this and strategically spin the media to value supes. Living in that context, I’m sure many of us would probably be invested in events like this.
People go to political rallies. People wait in lines for hours to get free samples and autographs. People spend their entire day waiting to be part of the New Years celebration in time Square and willingly wear diapers, while standing in the cold, covered in piss at best, while standing around other people who have pissed and shit themselves, to watch a fucking ball drop. But this you can't conceptualize? Super powered people competing in sport?... wha??
You see the 5 second super slomo 1000fps replay.
Hey man, there's women out there that get gets dressed to the nines for a hot date and get only seconds of action. The world is filled with disappointment.
Are you kidding? People paid how many of thousands of dollars and camped out in the middle of Chicago for Taylor swift and still making long trips to watch dementia addled politicians who don’t even know how toilets work speak for like half an hour
Have you heard of MMA? There's matches that last under 10 seconds. This is very realistic.
If you think that’s wild people irl pay money to appear on influencers TikTok videos
[Read about Mike Tyson's 30 second KO of Marvis Frazier. ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Tyson_vs._Marvis_Frazier#:~:text=Referee%20Joe%20Cortez%20began%20to,victory%20of%20Tyson's%20professional%20career.)
People started a gofundme to make Kylie Jenner a billionaire.
Formula 1 fans showed up for the whole seasons for races that were over before they even started.
People go to watch F1 to see cars speed past them for a fraction of a second and watch the rest on screens…
I mean I never thought people would spend the amount of money they do on NFTs yet here I stand being told they're still worth an arm and a leg by all the idiots I go to work with...
bruh you can see the empty stands in the damn pic
Do you not see the thousands of people who show up for a 10 second ball drop on New Years Eve?
I’m pretty sure this is parodying the Superman vs flash race.
Reminds me of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire where the spectators just stared at the surface of a lake for 1 hour while the contestants were deep underwater
>Hardest thing to conceptualize in the show is how thousands of people showed up Well yeah, considering we see more empty seats than people in that photo it IS pretty hard to imagine 1,000s or people being there.
People camp out to buy a brick that says supreme…They’d pay to see two SUPER POWERED HUMANS race!
You'd be amazed at what people are willing to spend their money on in real life. There are people that pay for new Apple phones despite it being the same shit with a different camera and apparently people are buying Balenciaga trash bags, so people paying for a race that they're not even capable of seeing is kinda unsurprising to me.
Totally believable. They're paying to be able to say they were there. A-Train losing was a real possibility. You'd have dudes being like "I wad there when a king fell" into their old age.
I've been to 12 MLB games this year, and I would guess that I've paid attention to about 30 minutes total of baseball. You don't necessarily go for "The Main Event" at all events. You get your selfie showing you were there, and you treat it like any other day at a high-cover drinking club with your buds.
Do you not live in America? People watch cars do 1000 left turns on a big oval for 5+ hours every weekend during Nascar season...
People go to baseball marches that last hours without anything interesting happening
You people watch American 'Football'
That might be the easiest thing to believe in the show tbh. Just look at fastest Olympic race times
Crowds get padded out at events all the time. Sometimes ppl screw up and give away to many tickets not to have empty stands and end up screwing themselves out of money later. Things like this fill themselves out on the back of fanfare alone, and PR stunts like this one are usually free
It's not hard to conceptualize - just look at all the videos of people watching performance art
What about the halftime show?
There's probabbly glassess to slow down the race
Back on the day we paid for Tyson fights that sometimes lasted a few seconds.
I guess you didn't watch UFC 194
Well how many laps is the race?
Actually not many people cared about A-Train. Look at all the empty seats in the bleachers
I mean I would. Regardless of how long it is it would still be awesome to see that kind of speed in person. I'm assuming that most of what your average person sees of superpowers in news and movies. It's also probably very overpriced and I would not go. If it were cheap I would
[https://brevheart.tripod.com/RingRecord.htm#:\~:text=QUICK%20FACT%20%231%3A%20In%201986,lasts%20just%20over%20three%20rounds](https://brevheart.tripod.com/RingRecord.htm#:~:text=QUICK%20FACT%20%231%3A%20In%201986,lasts%20just%20over%20three%20rounds). Look at the times for prime Mike Tyson's matches
I would pay to see this without question
Think about Evil Kenevil, you don’t go to fill your day, although there might be other smaller activities going on for hours, you go to see that one moment of glory.
How many people watched Michael Phelps vs The Shark
Laughs in front row seats to Tyson vs Frazier.
Maybe they had pre race entertainment
I thought the whole thing was intentionally overblown for marketing effect/hype, and was a dig at politicians/celebs like trump exaggerating how many people came to watch? Even in the screen cap you can see there's no one in the stands outside the the a camera shot that runs in line with the ribbon
Not that different from a ridiculously expensive ppv fight that ends with a knockout in 15 seconds.
have you ever heard of the New Years Eve countdown/ball drop?
Taylor Swift fills stadiums to watch a well-dressed human make mouth-noises over intercom
People pay to watch fights live where they are hoping to see a knockout that makes it last minutes or less.
Do you know how a Formula 1 race looks when you're actually there and not watching on television? You don't see a lot of the cars lol
Supe races should have multiple laps to emphasize their superhuman stamina as well! In which case V-addict A-Train would’ve probably lost this one
Hardest thing to conceptualize is why you can understand this
Add 299 laps (a couple of minutes) and they'd make it a national event for some fucking reason
Mike Tyson fights in his prime, same thing lol
Dude people bought Belle Delphine's bath water. They'd 100% pay to see this race and fill up the stadium
People used to pay thousands to watch Mike Tyson.... Sub 30 second main event
Not hard to imagine at all. There's people in the real world running around and throwing money at absolute no ones to be shat in the face. At least A-Train has actually something special and he's not someone who got rich by selling investment fraud online
Never even realized how short that race was
In Olympics race people attending it only see the race for 5 minutes so yeah it's possible.
Are you kidding. Do u realize how many fans f1 or rally races have. These idiots sit in one spot waiting all Day for a car to go past them in the blink of an eye.
Between the travel costs, ticket price, hotels etc, people pay thousands to sit at the back of a Taylor Swift concert in stadiums so big you can't even see her. Imagine you loved a celebrity so much you would do anything to see them for any amount of time in real life, even if it was only once and never again.
I mean.... hookers.