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Hypocrisy in fan reactions to the eliminations


I think that this show has been so unbearable to watch because of how the fans have been reacting to the eliminations. It has gotten very toxic to the point where people were telling Phi Phi to kill herself and saying that they are happy that Detox's father is dead. The bad thing is that no one is sticking to a plan with this venom that they are spitting.

Week 1: Coco is eliminated even though Adore got the worst critique and Phi Phi sang worse than Coco danced. No one was upset.
Week 2: Tati is sent home after doing equally as bad as Roxxxy in the snatch game but having a simple runway look, while Roxxxy's was amazing. Everyone is livid at Alaska.
Week 3. Ginger is sent home even though she slays the challenge and Katya does horrible. No one cares.
Week 4: Alyssa is sent home because she had the worst runway critique and performance. People are threatening Alaska's life.
Week 5: Phi Phi is sent home by both winners after doing better than Roxxxy in the challenge. No one cares and people say horrible things about her online.
Week 6: Tati is sent home after having a bottom two commercial but a good runway outfit. People again threaten Alaska's life
Week 7: Alyssa is sent home because the judges decided that if you weren't in the top you were in the bottom. The fans explode and swear that Katya must win even though she's been out performed by Alaska and Detox by far.

Where is the disconnect that is causing all of this behavior? I actually think that Roxxxy should have gone home a few weeks back but I'm not going to say horrible things about them. It's happening here on this board too and its really sad.

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Having feelings is okay but personal feelings do not give you a good reason to call someone names and send hate. Please tell me how it's justifiable what happened to Phi Phi, Alaska, or Detox this season at the hands of the viewers? I'm not a fan of any of the top 4 but of them Alaska deserves to win. I'm not going to judge her because she had a freak out. It left a bad taste in my mouth too. Alyssa isn't the true winner no matter how much people online believe it. The internet isn't real life, even reality tv isn't real life.

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Katya needs to win or there is no God.
Just like Chad won S1 All Stars to make up for her not winning Season 4, Katya winning All Stars 2 will make up for her not winning Season 7 (which she should have. Sorry not sorry Violet)
I liked Alaska until this week. She has shown herself to be very talented and funny but she was such a little brat this week and sending Tatiana home and Alyssa home just to keep there stupid rolasaktox around is unacceptable. She said that she was keeping roxxxy there over Alyssa because roxxxy lent her the shirt she was wearing?! Seriously Alaska?! I love the drama that it's created but Ru never should have trusted these girls to make the cuts bc they clearly can't be diplomatic about it, Alaska and detox are like middle school girls

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Katya was not robbed during season 7. If anything, Ginger was robbed. Katya performed the worst of all the contestants in the hello kitty challenge and Kennedy slayed her in the lip sync. We need to stop pretending like Ru does not know who is going home before the lip sync. The workroom and the main stage are in complete different buildings. All it takes is one person to open the box and phone over to the main stage. This can be done before the girls even reach the main stage. Alaska did not keep Roxxxy over a shirt. It was edited to look like she was talking about Tatianna but the entire time she only talked about Roxxxy. Her reasoning that Tati hadn't been there is actually a fair logic. Detox's reasoning was that Roxxxy didn't deserve to be in the bottom is valid too. She didn't get any negative feedback whereas Alaska did horrible and they didn't like one of Alyssa's outfits. The entire point of the girls making the decision is for it to get messy. Ru doesn't care who goes home, he doesn't even know most of their names or what season they were on.

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