In a post on LiveJournal, one user documented her experience auditioning on “America’s Got Talent,” alleging that the audience was filled with plants who prompt the rest of the audience to boo and cheer based on the acts the producers like. She said she discovered this after reconnecting with her mother following her audition, writing, “We [learned] that the audience was seeded with plants, paid to be there, knowing who wins, the locals who lined up for tickets instructed, ‘If someone next to you jumps up or makes an X, you do it, too!’ Knowing that the contest and the voting and the judging is rigged, I don’t know why it surprises me so much that the audience is rigged, too.” She added that the contract for the show states that producers “reserve the right to determine the winner by any means they choose.”
One Reddit commenter who said they were a guest on the show claimed shots of the crowd cheering, booing, and making “X” signs with their hands are filmed beforehand and then edited into the broadcast. However, a Season 10 “America’s Got Talent” employee told a Reddit AMA that the votes are not rigged. The staffer did acknowledge that producers have their favorites and will “prep future stuff” in case they make it to the finals.
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It’s possible we’re either dealing with the little guy fighting the big man — or just a bunch of bitter contestants who didn’t get what they wanted.
