User blog comment:Courierthekid/Survivor: Island of Influencers Cast selection/@comment-35810228-20191008154011/@comment-31532800-20191008173201

Explaining the News Tribe situation.

The idea behind this Blog Season was to do something like The Amazing Race 28 and do a season based around using real internet influencers. Someone on the BBFanon did a few seasons like this too, but since the Survivor Fanon was so much more detailed I thought this would work best as a blog season.

The reason the news tribe defaulted to 5 members with only one slot left was because only five of the News castaways submitted were actually internet influencers while the rest were all actual television News Anchors who had careers well before the internet became more than just a fad. I think one even was reporting before the internet existed. When I pitched this I was thinking more along the lines of Buzzfeed or Kotaku reporters, and independent bloggers and YouTubers. Since the real news casters didn't fit the theme because they felt a lot more serious than the internet influencers though, I offered up a couple more option more fitting with the theme. That third poll will stay up until the other 3 tribes are selected and I'll continue with whatever is decided in the poll by then.