Design Interns on HGTV. If you haven’t seen it and you’re a designer, tune in. It will make your blood boil. The basic premise is that a team of student designers essentially work for this agency for free for the opportunity, the opportunity (!) to get an internship at said agency. It’s spec work on a grand, evil, televised scale.

What’s worse is that the agency “judges” are such witches to these poor students that they’re doing the opposite of what every internship should do: allow the students to gain experience and confidence so they can successfully pursue their careers. Instead, these judges seem to take glee in tearing the students down. And for what? The opportunity for an internship.

Here’s an idea. How about fucking paying these students for their work, because you know these f-ers are going to steal the students’ best ideas and market them as their own. HGTV, as a network that lives and breathes on the work of talented designers, should be ashamed. And if they aren’t, then FU HGTV and FU to the sham design agency portrayed on the show.