It’s a ‘»Jeopardy!» of three games. winner who has a curious problem with the show that brought him some television fame and fortune.
Who is Yogesh Raut?
The trivia pundit, blogger and podcaster has been railing for a week on social media against the show, claiming it’s not a true quiz show, questioning its value to society and accusing it of being «fundamentally incompatible with true social justice.» «.
Raut said Monday that his criticism of «Jeopardy!» It’s not bad sportsmanship and he turned down anyone who called him a sore loser.
«I don’t know if there’s any way it wouldn’t feel that way to someone who wants to read it that way,» said Raut, a 38-year-old Vancouver, Wash., resident.
«People who know me know that long before I was called on the show, I was saying the exact same things, the exact same feeling, the exact same words.»
Fans of the venerable quiz show first met Raut on Jan. 11 when he won the first of three games, which were taped in mid-November.
A well-known figure in quiz show circles, Raut won $96,403 in prizes before being eliminated by a museum performer, Katie Palumbo, in an animated quiz show that aired on January 16.
Raut’s ongoing tirades generated renewed interest Monday when the former Megan Greenwell, Deadspin Editor-in-Chief mocked the «Jeopardy!» the champion’s «multi-week Facebook crash» to her more than 31,000 followers of hers on Twitter.
Although Raut did not compare himself to Muhammad Ali, as Greenwell said, he cited the famed boxer as an example of a non-white American who stood up to powerful interests.
Raut’s recent rants related to «Jeopardy!» They fell into several categories.
- That true talent for questions doesn’t show on «Jeopardy!» a show that has been on the air for 39 seasons. He wrote on January 14 that «Danger!» «will never top the list of my quiz achievements, not even my 2022 quiz achievements.» Raut also compared «Jeopardy!» to an ABC show that takes place on a crazy miniature golf course, writing on January 12: «It’s entertaining to watch, but it has the same relationship to the real questions that ‘Holey Moley’ does golf».
- The «questioning community has a horrible gossip problem«, as he wrote on Wednesday. Raut was upset that news leaked that another big name in the quiz community, Troy Meyer, was on the set of «Jeopardy!» at the same time, but that dream «Clash of titans» it did not come to fruition.
- Raut was targeted by racist trolls during his «Jeopardy!» season and seemed to hold the show accountable in some way.
«‘Danger!’ «It’s a fun TV show, but putting it on a pedestal is objectively bad. It’s bad for the future of questionnaires,» he wrote in a January 12 criticism of the program.
“It’s bad for women and POCs who want to be treated with the same levels of dignity as their white male counterparts. It is fundamentally incompatible with incentivizing the next generation of contestants to excel, and it is fundamentally incompatible with true social justice.”
A danger!» The spokeswoman declined to comment Monday.
bianca britton contributed.