Inside MTV Reality - MTV's Following: Bretman Rock

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Once upon a time in the early stages of its development, reality television embraced the opportunity to feature the biggest stars in showbiz in their own series: the Osbourne family, Nick Lachey & Jessica Simpson, Paris Hilton & Nicole Richie, and so many more. Thursday night saw a final curtain call for the most famous celeb-reality series ever, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, which has followed over the past decade & a half the royal family of this genre, while also documenting the remarkable growth from adolescence to adulthood of Kendall, Kim, Khloé, Kourtney, Kylie and Rob.

Two years ago, MTV tapped back into this field to follow the biggest stars in YouTube in their own reality series... but not for the traditional linear cable network, but for the MTV YouTube channel. The first subject of No Filter was none other than powerhouse social influencer Tana Mongeau as cameras followed her always fascinating life as one of the biggest stars in all of YouTube. This includes, of course, her much publicized romance and even more publicized wedding night with Jake Paul, as well as friendships and relationships with family and friends in her inner circle.

For its second installment this spring, the focus of MTV Following turned its attention westward from the continental United States to our fiftieth state in the union. Awaiting the MTV cameras in the Hawaiian Islands was someone who lives his life as vibrantly as his personality, and one who had grown his profile even before the lens were focused on him, as Bretman Rock welcomed everyone to his own humble abode in this tropical paradise.