As Andy Warhol notoriously said, "In the future, everybody will have their fifteen minutes of popularity." While this once seemed like a rather flippant remark, it has become strangely accurate. Nowadays, there are more opportunities than ever to attain popularity and individuals are eager to go to excellent lengths to capitalize on them. In the early ’90s, a Channel 4 TELEVISION program called The Word showcased a routine segment, The Hopefuls, in which audiences would finish disgusting acts to appear on television. The Hopefuls were made to eat maggots, kiss a dead fish and do a variety of various other vile deeds, before muttering, "I ’d do anything to obtain on TELEVISION." Practically a decade on, we haven’t progressed much further.