All reality shows are fake.
The viewers’ willingness to put their brains aside when watching is the amazing thing!
You buy a locker and expect to find a vintage Russian Motorcycle, antique firearms, or anything else like this? Not hardly. Also, there’s no way a locker is going to set there for years without being opened and be full of vintage jewelry, etc. These things turn over very quickly.
I’ve done some locker buys as well. Got some good things, got some junk. They did Texas Storage Wars here earlier this year, completely staged.
For that matter, if you go out to the storage forums you will find that the producers will actually rent stuff (cannon, motorcycles, etc) to put in the storage lockers that are being “bid” on.