How do gametes which possess no chromosomes survive?

I'm studying polyploidy and aneuploidy in an intro genetics class, and the book mentions that if an organism has a triple compliment of chromosomes, the number of chromosomes apportioned to each gamete during meiosis can vary between zero and three (for each triplet of autosomes and the sex chromosomes). It states that the resulting zygote would almost never survive, but how would a gamete (say, a sperm cell for example) even develop without any DNA inside it in the case where all of the chromosomes are given to one gamete and none to the other? Would it be the same as how a red blood cell survives? I would have thought sperm cells would have to perform some kind of transcription of genes as they are more complicated than red blood cells.