With every absurd curveball The Masked Singer throws at us, it’s easy to miss the true hidden gem: the audience. Whether the camera’s cutting to The Masked Singer audience for exaggerated reaction shots, a chorus of terrifying chants, or choreography pegged to each masked performer that some poor producer surely had to teach them, they’re always doing the most. I don’t know whether I love these people, fear them, or want to save them from the cabin fever they surely have after watching a taping of The Masked Singer.

Here’s why I can’t take my eyes off this bananas audience. For one thing, their dance moves are full out, every time. One might call it too much, but not me. Like this instant icon, for example, who was absolutely living while a Christmas Tree covered Whitney Houston.

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Whip that hair, sir!

Another thing I love about this crowd is that they have absolutely no loyalty. They’ll throw their support behind whomever is singing.

Somehow, Nick Cannon always finds a way to shimmy up to someone in the audience during each 45-second performance. Sure, Jan.

Look, this girl doesn’t even realize Nick is behind her. What’s going on in this audience?!

Then, when the panel throws out guesses, we cut to the audience serving up the most active listening you have ever seen. They are engrossed, y’all!

Honestly, get you an audience that looks at you like The Masked Singer audience.

Sign us TF up.

I’ll happily suspend my disbelief for most things, but something tells me these are not real votes.

Finally, at the end of each episode, the audience ascends from overenthusiastic dance party to cult status. Don’t you find the “take it off” chants to be oddly aggro? Like, I get that it’s literally what the performers have to do with their masks in order to reveal their identity, but it is always at this moment that I fully believe the Masked Singer audience could go Lord of the Flies and commit a murder.

Please, please play close attention to the audience when you sit down to watch the next episode. Is it staged? Have they been coached a tad too much? Who cares! Let me enjoy things.