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Taylor for the majority of this game has been absent. She has spent 90% of the time she isn’t voluntarily cooking and cleaning, in her pod sleeping and isolating herself. She was barely involved in any gameplay all season. She didn’t move the game along in any real meaningful way. She was on the block 6x because she was such a non threat, that everyone was a bigger one and got sent home. She was never in danger to go home, not because of her social game or because she campaigned to stay, but because she was such a non entity in the game. The majority of moves were not made by her own volition but by default or because other people dragged her there. She was literally a pawn on a gameboard moved around by other people, she barely had any agency in her own game. Her closest ally wanted to send her home because he felt she was basically useless. She treated her other closest ally, Lala, pretty badly and was constantly saying she wasn’t working with her.
She didn’t lay low because this was some masterful strategy, she just didn’t put barely any effort into playing the game, and when she tried to play the game she wasn’t very good at it. She tried with Lala’s HOH and got out… Chuk.
Other than a veto, she didn’t win anything until the very end when she had the best odds. It’s good for her that she started to win competitions, but the fact is she would have been dragged to the end by the majority of people anyway because they could all beat her.
If she ends up winning the final HOH and cutting Devens, it’s a default move that Drew forced by cutting Dee. And somehow people act like this is some game winning move and that this negates the fact that she didn’t really play the game up until the end.
We’re supposed to clap and cheer that she did a minuscule amount of things in the game, and that’s deserving of a win?
Everyone in the house called her a coaster, and that all she did was play from her pod. Her own allies have said this. We have seen this with our own eyes from the live feeds. And yet people online are trying to act like this wasn't true? There is a lot of revisionist history going on with her.
I saw glimpses from her where I feel like she had potential to be a good player but she just wasn’t this season. I also saw times where she was entertaining, but that was very few and far between because she was so checked out the majority of the time.
Taylor has continually complained about not wanting to be there, said many times she just wanted to make it to jury, and also that she was fine with 2nd place. But people only get upset with Drew when he says he wants Devens to win if he doesn’t.
It seems that halfway through the season, people online started to victimize Taylor and because of this people do mental gymnastics to try to say she played the game or that she has been anywhere close to good at it.
There has been a lot of talk about other people’s comments towards Taylor, but for some reason people don’t discuss Taylor’s comments much.
So let’s go over some comments that were made by Taylor:
Was ableist towards Ashley, she said Ashley was stupid and implied a developmental delay/disability and that she “doesn't know any kids who act like Ashley and don't have an IEP”
Microaggressive racist comment towards Yash, "Yash Patel heavy on the Patel...I bet his family owns a gas station or beauty supply store".
Called Dee dumb and slow many times
The way she treated and talked about Lala all season in particular telling her to “just shut up and cook”. Lala’s daughter called out Taylor for her treatment of Lala and it doesn’t seem like her family cares for Taylor
How mean she was to Chuk trying to embarrass him by telling him he stinks
Said “bullying works” AS A SCHOOL COUNSELOR
Constantly talks personal ---- about Drew, who is Mexican, sounds pretty xenophobic then if we’re going by that same logic others use against him
The comments about Taylor people keep pointing out are not racist or microaggressions. It’s the typical ---- talking they all do towards each other. Every single person has said ---- about everyone and has had ---- said about them. That is to be expected in this pressure cooker of a game. Many comments people cherry pick, you can find an example of her saying something similar to other people or on the same level of ---- talking. Why is it okay for her to ---- talk others but not for others to ---- talk her? They should all be allowed lol
Most of the discourse has been around comments that Taylor was aggressive or about wanting her to cook and clean.
Taylor WAS aggressive towards Drew, she yelled at him at the nom ceremony and also came at him accusing him of going through her stuff when SHE was the one who stole something of his. She even said she knows she can give off that kind of energy. So he isn’t allowed to call out her behavior for what it is? How does that even make sense? And if HE was the one who stole something of hers, people would have absolutely lost their minds more than they already did.
By the way, multiple people in the house were aggressive to other people, it’s to be expected in this game. I want people to argue lol it’s just frustrating people give some people a pass and will crucify others. Taylor gets to be the victim in every scenario it seems.
The comments about wanting Taylor and Lala to cook and clean. Are they not the only two houseguests that voluntarily cooked and cleaned?? Somehow people twisted this into he wants them to cook and clean because they are black and not because they are literally the only two people who choose to cook and clean. I could understand this argument if they WEREN’T the houseguests who choose to do that and he was then saying he wanted them to. Again, Lala and Taylor voluntarily chose to cook and clean, they wanted to do it, people have offered and they turned them down. I don’t understand why people have victimized them like they were forced to do it.
Saying something negative about a black person doesn’t equal racism. The way all these comments have been cherry picked and taken out of game context is crazy. There is a false narrative that people want to run with because people fall for rage bait misinformation. It’s all performative selective outrage and it’s apparent these arguments aren’t made in good faith when everyone constantly leaves out Taylor’s problematic comments in these conversations. So if we are gonna label everything a microaggression then let’s hold Taylor to the same standard and criticism that everyone else is getting.
I understand that POC have absolutely faced racism on Big Brother before but it seems people now overcorrect and try to find racism where there isn’t. I think it’s important to call out racism when it’s actually real. But every negative comment against someone who is a person of color is now perceived as racism and there is no nuance or ability to be objective, people just look at the optics and just automatically label. Then everyone panders and jumps on the bandwagon. They go along with the narrative without even knowing the context because they don’t want to be perceived as what others are being accused of, and they want to think this makes them morally superior. IE, ---- Twitter and the cringe BB alum.
People want to say that the people who are rooting against Taylor are only doing so because of her race. It’s actually quite the opposite, the majority of people rooting FOR Taylor are only doing so either because they are so blinded by being anti icon (which she really wasn’t even anti icon herself because she voted to keep Dee over Angela, and then formed a F4 with them) or only BECAUSE of her race.
The majority of people rooting AGAINST Taylor is because of her GAME not her race.
I dragged Melody for the same game reasons as Taylor, and I would be saying the same things if this was Melody in the F3 because her game was terrible too. But what’s interesting is that Melody would not be getting the amount of overhyped love that Taylor is getting. Why is that when their games were similar?? So many people would NOT be bending backwards (nor should they be) to try to make her game something it wasn’t because she hasn’t been victimized online like Taylor.
I don’t have any hatred for Taylor as a person outside of the game. Everyone has overwhelmingly shared their opinions about the other players here and everywhere else online. Most of the absolute vitriol has been towards Drew, Devens, and Dee all season, and I don’t think it’s fair that Taylor gets to come off as a victim who has done no wrong and can do no wrong, and that she played a game even REMOTELY on par with them. She does not deserve any hate or vitriol at all, but she isn’t above criticism for her behavior and poor game either, if everyone else is being so harshly judged.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BigBrotherUSA/s/r0Wovqrn6W
Edited (09/27/26 04:41 PM)
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All the talk about Drew's microA's but what about Taylors? Interesting article about Taylor's & lack of gameplay.Pretty decent article...
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