Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5598112-20180703234647/@comment-29775574-20180712203748

Seasickspinach wrote: If I'm being honest I kind of hate Golden Buzzers as a concept. They always get an unnecessary amount of hype even though, by definition, they are acts that get an automatic pass from ONE of the judges. GB's like Makayla, who would probably get like, at best 100k views on AGT's YT channel without the GB gets all this news attention and hype just because Heidi thought she was good, regardless of the other judges. If anything, I'm more impressed by acts that all the judges have to agree on because that's a better consensus than just one person being amazed.

Also GB's making up 1/4th of the top 36 is pretty dumb too. Idk, I just highly prefer the show before the Golden Buzzer was introduced, but it's a viral video goldmine so clearly I'm in the minority. The Golden buzzer is a good idea, but the judges just don’t use it well. Excluding Tyra, all the gbs this year went to undeserving acts instead of good acts like Shin Lim or Aaron Crow.