Unscripted shows record hundreds of hours per episode and then construct a narrative in the edit — frankenbiting, selective framing and manufactured storylines are core tools, not exceptions.
Film trailers routinely reorder shots, cut dialogue mid-sentence and score scenes to music that never appears in the film — legal, standard and deliberately misleading.
Streaming platforms grade their own homework — they pick the metric, define the view and report only what they choose, which is why headline streaming numbers rarely mean what they seem to mean.