Accountability, in this case, does not look like nostalgia posts, reunion specials, or algorithm-boosted streams. It looks like refusing to participate. I will not be watching. I will be actively disliking, downvoting, and disengaging from the franchise across platforms. Viewership is currency, and I won’t spend mine on content that appears to have commodified someone’s pain.
As someone who survived DV, editing trauma into a storyline, pressuring someone to perform pain on camera, and framing victimization as wrongdoing is not entertainment. It’s cruelty with a production budget.
Loved reading every bit of this! Watching that doc I realised how much of that show I consumed, I felt like every comment and crazy challenge was stored in my deep memory box, and perhaps I need to reopen it to undo some harsh beliefs I have around my own body image. I think Tyra needs to just go away now, she had a moment, she needs to just show some remorse and move far away from the spotlight.
Thank you! Yes, I think that show, like so much of the media then and now does a lot of damage to how young women view themselves - frustrating that it was also so entertaining for some reason. I agree with you, she need to disappear for a bit
I want Shandi Sullivan to sue ANTM, Banks and Mok for millions of $$ so she can open a massive animal sanctuary where the visitors will be able to purchase cockroaches and name them after shitty people in media and feed them to snakes.
I believe Shandi.
Accountability, in this case, does not look like nostalgia posts, reunion specials, or algorithm-boosted streams. It looks like refusing to participate. I will not be watching. I will be actively disliking, downvoting, and disengaging from the franchise across platforms. Viewership is currency, and I won’t spend mine on content that appears to have commodified someone’s pain.
As someone who survived DV, editing trauma into a storyline, pressuring someone to perform pain on camera, and framing victimization as wrongdoing is not entertainment. It’s cruelty with a production budget.
Thank you for sharing. I understand why a lot of people wouldn't want to watch
Loved reading every bit of this! Watching that doc I realised how much of that show I consumed, I felt like every comment and crazy challenge was stored in my deep memory box, and perhaps I need to reopen it to undo some harsh beliefs I have around my own body image. I think Tyra needs to just go away now, she had a moment, she needs to just show some remorse and move far away from the spotlight.
Thank you! Yes, I think that show, like so much of the media then and now does a lot of damage to how young women view themselves - frustrating that it was also so entertaining for some reason. I agree with you, she need to disappear for a bit
I want Shandi Sullivan to sue ANTM, Banks and Mok for millions of $$ so she can open a massive animal sanctuary where the visitors will be able to purchase cockroaches and name them after shitty people in media and feed them to snakes.
LOL @ cockroaches - I'm with you that I wish Shandi only good, wholesome things, she deserves it