Episode idea - "Yelp" for people
Branching off of the "Nosedive" episode of people rating each other 5 stars - I'd be curious to see this idea explored further. Particularly, if the rating had more behind it, like the user reviews that Yelp has. Imagine being a woman on a first date with a man, and she goes into the bathroom to "freshen up", but instead she quickly scans the guy's reviews and notices words in reviews from past roommates and coworkers like "controlling" and "brash" and "future abusive husband". The protagonist might be a man with a frat-boy past that he's matured out of, but can't escape because the permanent online reviews label him in a negative light.
Was just thinking about how enough bad Yelp reviews can tarnish a business, but what if that applied to individual people. Could be interesting to explore.
Posted Jan 28, 2018, 6:03 AM UTC
To add to this you could also bring in celebrities/public figures and see how they could use their audience to completely destroy someones reputation by all leaving bad reviews. Or if it isn't a celebrity telling people what to do it could just be something that their fans decide on. For example, if someone leaves a negative comment on a celebrities instagram and their fans go after them.