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\n<\/span>n a hot March day in 2000, 16 ordinary Americans arrived on the beaches of Borneo to participate in a grand new experiment: a television show called Survivor<\/em>. Reality competition was still new, and no one \u2014 not even the show\u2019s top brass \u2014 knew exactly what they were making or how the next 39 days would play out. But one contestant seemed certain of how it would end. \u201cI\u2019ve got the million-dollar check written already. I mean, I\u2019m the winner,\u201d Richard Hatch told the camera in his first \u201cconfessional\u201d interview. He was playing up his confidence, performing a cheeky swagger.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHe also was right: Hatch won the first season of Survivor<\/em>. And with that win, he wrote the first playbook. On Survivor<\/em> you could perform \u2014 play a more ruthless, more cutthroat, heightened version of yourself \u2014 and if that persona told the most compelling<\/em> story, not necessarily the truest, you could win. Even now, with Survivor\u2019s<\/em> landmark 50th season coming to an end, that playbook can still be seen in the game. But it can also be felt beyond it, in the political culture of this country \u2014 one in which ruthlessness and fraudulent fear-mongering can outperform decency and truth in the fight for power.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tAs early as the casting process, Hatch understood he had to entertain. \u201cI wasn\u2019t just me; I was me beyond, me on steroids,\u201d he told me 25 years later, while I was reporting my book, Survivor Legends<\/em>, which came out this month. In one of his final interviews to get on the show, Hatch walked into a conference room with Executive Producer Mark Burnett and other CBS executives, but he didn\u2019t sit down. \u201cI put my hand on the chair and I said, \u2018Listen, you know you\u2019re gonna pick me. What you don\u2019t know is I\u2019m gonna win.\u2019\u201d He walked out to them laughing. Casting director Lynne Spillman remembers seeing Hatch sitting in the lobby taking notes on the other potential contestants. She didn\u2019t understand what he was doing at the time, but now she does: \u201cHe was already playing Survivor.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHatch brought this heightened self \u2014 witty, confident, perspicacious \u2014 to the game, and was ready to play hard to win the $1 million prize. The game\u2019s rules were clear to him: outwit, outplay, outlast. Do what it takes to win. He created the first alliance \u2014 a strategy that is now core to the game \u2014 to gain numerical power, sowed seeds of distrust among friends so they would turn on each other, and made false promises to shape the game in his favor. These strategies are par for the course to modern Survivor <\/em>viewers, but at the time they were shocking.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tOther castaways struggled with how to present themselves on screen while playing this game of cons and elimination. Colleen Haskell, a girl-next-door college student who parlayed her popularity into a short-lived acting career, was appalled: \u201cThey\u2019re outright lying on national television! . . . Is a deserving person going to win this money? The answer to that question is no,\u201d she said in a confessional. Kelly Wigglesworth, a 22-year-old rafting instructor, was in Hatch\u2019s alliance, but struggled with her role. \u201cHow do you stay true to yourself and maintain integrity and still play this game?\u201d she asked in that first season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a later episode, she came around: \u201cWe\u2019re not bad people. We just play them on TV.\u201d Little did she know at the time how far the consequences of that understanding would reach.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tTo Hatch, there was never a dilemma. \u201cA football player doesn\u2019t tap his opponent on his shoulder and say, \u2018Hey, I\u2019m about to tackle you,\u2019\u201d he tells me. \u201cHe fucking plows him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThis was the moral innovation of Survivor<\/em>: it asked ordinary people to play themselves on television, in a game that required them to behave in ways they might reject in ordinary life. Ruthlessness could be understood as performance. Lying was \u201cgameplay,\u201d justified for the win. The island contained the game. The logic proved harder to contain.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the finale, Hatch and Wigglesworth each made their case to the jury of players they had eliminated. Wigglesworth asked to be judged by who she was. Hatch said it was the better player, not the better person, who should win. In one of the most iconic speeches in reality TV history, Wisconsin truck driver, Sue Hawk \u2014 once an ally, later betrayed \u2014 compared Hatch and Wigglesworth to the two things that filled their island home: snakes and rats. With torchlight flickering in her eyes, she said Hatch was a snake who knowingly went after his prey and Wigglesworth, a rat who scurried around fecklessly. \u201cI feel we owe it to the island\u2019s spirit\u2026to let it be, in the end, the way Mother Nature intended it to be: for the Snake to eat the Rat.\u201d More than 51 million Americans tuned in as she placed the deciding vote for Richard Hatch. This inaugural jury set a new precedent: snakes would win Survivor<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tJust off camera, Mark Burnett watched, too, taking in this moment that would become a launchpad to his illustrious career in reality television.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen the season aired, Hatch expected to be celebrated for the smart, genre-defining game he played. \u201cWow, how wrong was I?\u201d he says now. He became America\u2019s first reality TV villain, chastised by press and public alike as evil and manipulative. (\u201c\u2018Machiavellian\u2019 I didn\u2019t really mind,\u201d he says.) Viewers scorned this rupturing of the facade of decency they expected. Hatch was treated as a moral offender (perhaps exacerbated by the fact he was openly gay, atheist, and often nude throughout the show). But over the next 49 seasons, the audience\u2019s acceptance and ultimate celebration of \u201cvillainous\u201d behavior would reflect how vastly and how quickly those societal norms shifted.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThese changes can be seen most clearly through straight, white men, who didn\u2019t have to contend with additional expectations placed on them. In Season Two, production was eager for a hero viewers would root for. Their answer came in the form of Colby Donaldson, the Texan mama\u2019s boy who performed rugged gentlemanliness. He was dubbed the \u201cAll-American Hero,\u201d and a new archetype was minted. By Season Four, \u201cBoston Rob\u201d Mariano warmed audiences to the anti-hero by placing his fear-based strategy in a context Sopranos<\/em>-era audiences understood well: the mob boss. Dubbed \u201cthe Robfather,\u201d he gave musing monologues in his slow, Boston drawl, narrating his desire to keep allies who wouldn\u2019t question him or who would fear turning on him. In Season Seven, Jonny Fairplay came to Survivor <\/em>from the world of wrestling. He became the heel \u2014 the arrogant antagonist \u2014 anticipating his villainous reception with a wink. During one challenge, he told his competitors he got news of his grandmother passing away. They let him win the reward. \u201cMy grandmother\u2019s sitting at home watching Jerry Springer right now,\u201d he told the cameras later with a sly smile. It was a shocking lie \u2014 one that went beyond the confines of the game\u2014 that reality TV viewers had never yet seen.<\/p>\n

\n\tStill in the early years of reality television, contestants were starting to understand that by separating their true selves<\/em> from their performed selves<\/em> they could have more freedom to become bolder, more entertaining characters, or more heartless strategic tacticians.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBy the end of the aughts, Survivor\u2019s<\/em> 19th and 20th seasons introduced viewers to a player willing to take this logic to its limits: Russell Hantz. On his first night at camp, Hantz told his fellow castaways the tragic story of how his beloved German Shepherd, Rocky, drowned during Hurricane Katrina while he, as a firefighter, was trying to help his neighbors. Later, in a confessional, he admitted there wasn\u2019t a shred of truth to the story. \u201cI never lived in New Orleans. I\u2019m not a fireman. I\u2019ve never even had a German Shepherd. It\u2019s crazy how you can break their hearts by telling them a lie,\u201d he said.\u00a0 Hantz was there to prove \u201chow easy it is to win this game\u201d if you make it \u201cas miserable as possible.\u201d That same night, he dumped water out of his tribemates\u2019 canteens and burned their socks. \u201cIf I can control how they feel, I can control how they think,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThis misery-making helped Hantz brute-force his way to two successive finales. He lost both times. The jury wouldn\u2019t reward this behavior. But production was smitten by this boundary-breaking gameplay. In Season 19, he had 108 confessionals, compared to just 15 for the season\u2019s eventual winner, Natalie White. The result: Russell won the audience \u201cFan Favorite\u201d vote both seasons, beating out returning favorites like Donaldson and Mariano on the Heroes vs Villains<\/em>-themed 20th season. That split was revealing: the juries of his peers that refused to support the cruelty they personally experienced, and the audience at home that cheered him on, entertained and infatuated. Hantz was turning callousness into spectacle and many viewers were hungry for it. Barely a decade after Hatch faced widespread wrath for his relatively tame antics, Hantz was celebrated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tTony Vlachos became one of the most successful players ever, winning seasons 28 and 40, by figuring out how to toggle between the manipulation and authenticity. He studied the seasons before his and understood that \u201cthe one thing the greatest players on the show had in common was lies. Lies, lies, and more lies.\u201d Deceit, Vlachos told me, was a difficult but necessary tool. \u201cIt\u2019s very difficult for a genuinely good person to look someone in the eyes and promise them something they know isn\u2019t true,\u201d he said. \u201dTo be able to shut all that down and go against your natural being is usually the difference between losing and winning this game.\u201d Vlachos was a funny and generous player, helpful around camp. His genius was not simply that he lied \u2014 hiding his job as a cop, making alliances he didn\u2019t intend on keeping, even falsely swearing on his father\u2019s grave \u2014 it was that he knew where the lie ended.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tVlachos succeeded where Hantz failed because \u201cthe relationships [with the other castaways] were real,\u201d Vlachos said, and he knew when to be his authentic and genuinely kind self. For him, the game, his performance, had a clear boundary. But not everyone has that sort of discipline, with this playbook for power and attention suddenly so clear.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs reality TV grew and social media meant everyone became a performer of their own, the line between true self<\/em> and performed self<\/em> has eroded, and with it, the expectations of truth and decency. Digital life has become an arena where the best told story can beat the truest one.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter years of hustling, Survivor\u2019s <\/em>booming popularity turned Executive Producer Mark Burnett into a champion of the genre. He produced The Voice, Shark Tank, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader<\/em>. His search for a host for The Apprentice<\/em> led him to the brash, tabloid-friendly and financially flailing New York real estate tycoon, Donald Trump. Burnett offered Trump a job and something more: the opportunity to perform himself as successful and decisive. It was a chance for Trump to escape his failures, a weekly platform to develop this new, powerful character. As that performance grew, and eventually sought real power, the rules of the game were already established: the better player, not the better person, wins.\u00a0 Lies and ruthlessness were acceptable in pursuit of the ultimate win.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tTwenty-five years after Hatch\u2019s win, Survivor\u2019s<\/em> 49th finale was interrupted: Trump, now president, was delivering a primetime address. He spoke of a country being \u201cinvaded\u201d by millions of migrants coming out of \u201cprisons and jails and mental institutions,\u201d with the worst inflation \u201cin the history of our country.\u201d Then he boasted that he had fixed these problems, creating more positive change than any \u201cadministration in American history.\u201d The truth \u2014 reality<\/em> \u2014\u00a0seemed to matter less than selling his success convincingly. An hour later, the season\u2019s finalists on Fiji made their own case to the jury, propagandizing their games, presenting a narrative a majority of voters would accept. The logic Burnett saw on that Borneo evening of the first finale in 2000 now defined his most consequential performer. (Trump has since returned the favor, having named his \u201cspecial, special friend,\u201d Burnett Special Envoy to the U.K. in 2024.)<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI played the game with full awareness it was a game,\u201d Richard Hatch tells me now. \u201cThe game is an interesting look at what people do, how we can be, and how we pursue winning.\u201d But he never saw that power-building strategy extending beyond the island like it has. \u201cI couldn\u2019t imagine people would live their real lives that way,\u201d he adds, speaking directly of Burnett and Trump. \u201cI guess I was ridiculously naive.\u201d<\/p>\n

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