In September 2023, the eccentric, larger-than-life folks cast for Season 10 of reality TV show 90 Day Fiancé were revealed. Among them was now-30-year-old Kentucky resident Clayton, matched with 26-year-old Anali of Peru. While it wasn't immediately obvious, it's since become abundantly clear that Clayton is a hardcore Old School RuneScape player – a 20,000-hour type of hardcore player. The MMO's community pounced on the news back in November, and after a new episode which aired on January 7, Clayton's story has once again become a legendary meme factory.
Clayton, it turns out, is not just any old OSRS player. He's also named Clayton in-game, and is best known as the rank-one Magic user across the entire MMO. This means he was the first to reach 200 million experience in the skill – roughly 187 million XP more than what you need to actually hit the max level of 99. He also commands several other 200 million XP records, including rank nine in Farming and rank 90 in Cooking. Just getting 99 in every skill in OSRS is a massive achievement and time sink. Having multiple skills at 200 million XP takes rare dedication.
To the surprise of no one, TLC has taken this opportunity to play up just about every basement-dwelling, Doritos-munching, sunlight-avoiding gamer stereotype you can think of. "Is Clayton Spending Too Much Time on the Computer?!" asks one panicked video on the show's official YouTube channel. "Anali Gives Clayton Blue Balls!" exclaims another classy clip. I especially like this highlight about Clayton's two guinea pigs, but only because it has footage of guinea pigs in it – a welcome distraction.
The tone isn't far off the out-of-touch thinking that, rather than a diverse art and the biggest form of media
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