October 13, 20195 yr Josh is awful. So boring. I can see what she’s trying to do, thinking that a middle class white man would be more successful but she’s made him really boring and she’s not exactly a hoot herself. I’m loving Joyce now, Jack and Beth are so thick I need them to stay longer but I know they’ll probably be out next.
October 13, 20195 yr Busayo going in playing a white stereotype is pretty annoying, imagine going in doing it the other way round there’d be an uproar. Georgina I’m hoping wins now, if not then Tim. I don’t get what people see in Ella she is so loud and just not that funny.
October 13, 20195 yr It was good to hear from Tim on Friday that, even if a person is a catfish, you have to look beyond that and whether you still get on with them. There's quite a big emphasis from the players on finding out who is the catfish and if someone is, as though they automatically need to leave because of it!
October 13, 20195 yr I agree. The game is about being the most popular, not hunting catfish. If players do that as a side project, fine. But blocking just because you think someone isn’t real rather than because they aren’t bringing anything to the show is pretty rubbish. They all known Joyce isn’t real but I bet they’re enjoying it. Josh though is not only a catfish but also boring af. I’d block him next.
October 13, 20195 yr I agree. The game is about being the most popular, not hunting catfish. If players do that as a side project, fine. But blocking just because you think someone isn’t real rather than because they aren’t bringing anything to the show is pretty rubbish. They all known Joyce isn’t real but I bet they’re enjoying it. Josh though is not only a catfish but also boring af. I’d block him next. I guess the point is that they've lied in a sense to be popular - so really are they only popular/ likeable because of the lies they've told and the personae they're playing. I get the point about the person behind it, but I guess from a blocking perspective i'd be more inclined to keep the people who are being honest/ 'real' that someone who I think is a fake and making things up just to win 100k. I think alot of keeping the catfishes in play is that it gives them the ability to knock out some stronger players. 'Joyce' has been a weak player, so really would be in the interests of the influencers to really keep her in play as really there is little chance of her winning anyway.
October 13, 20195 yr Busayo going in playing a white stereotype is pretty annoying, imagine going in doing it the other way round there’d be an uproar. Georgina I’m hoping wins now, if not then Tim. I don’t get what people see in Ella she is so loud and just not that funny. Well yes because black people experience racism much more than whitble people do. I don't know what you're trying to get at. I do agree Josh/Busayo is really dull even though I liked the idea of what she was trying to do initially.
October 13, 20195 yr Busayo going in playing a white stereotype is pretty annoying, imagine going in doing it the other way round there’d be an uproar. Georgina I’m hoping wins now, if not then Tim. I don’t get what people see in Ella she is so loud and just not that funny. Well yes because black people experience racism much more than whitble people do. I don't know what you're trying to get at. I do agree Josh/Busayo is really dull even though I liked the idea of what she was trying to do initially.
October 13, 20195 yr Well yes because black people experience racism much more than whitble people do. I don't know what you're trying to get at. I do agree Josh/Busayo is really dull even though I liked the idea of what she was trying to do initially. I agree with the point that she is making as a player... but I think she's jsut not really doing it well enough. Which is a bit of a shame. I'm guessing she may be in the firing line for the super-influencer this eve. Got to be her or 'Joyce'
October 13, 20195 yr Yeah she could've done it so much better - had she played someone who was flirtatious, a big personality then maybe it would've worked. Would be really surprised to see Josh or Joyce voted as super influencer. I think it's between Georgina, Woody & Sammie!
October 13, 20195 yr I also admire Busayo’s tactic but she’s not executing it well enough or badly enough for it to be entertaining. She’s not interesting to watch and she’s failed to make her catfish entertaining, she’s relying to heavily on the assumption that people will be drawn to a white male and giving him a personality is an afterthought.
October 13, 20195 yr UGH @1183436044345270272 Oh, gross. I know it's not a popular opinion, but I actually didn't mind 'Joyce' prior to this. Questionable motives aside (I'm too pretty!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: x 40000), Beth really hasn't done anything to annoy me, and Jack's 'move over bitch' to the random lady in Jan's profile gave me probably the biggest laugh all series. Really liked Tim until the Thatcher revelation. :puke2: Plus he's very obviously playing up to the 'clueless older man' narrative, which is a little tiresome. Georgina and 'Sammie' are the only likeable ones for me right now. The latter purely for how little f***s he gives now. :lol: Busayo going in playing a white stereotype is pretty annoying, imagine going in doing it the other way round there’d be an uproar. :manson::manson::manson: Honestly, Busayo's entire motive was justified by Brooke's time on the show. She barely set a foot wrong, was consistently nice to everyone and yet was still bottom two in most ratings. Ella deciding to antagonise her on the basis of... literally nothing when she hadn't spoke to her 1-on-1 says it all. I do agree that Busayo's catfish persona is boring as all hell, but equally, she's had very little screentime so far so it's hard to judge.
October 13, 20195 yr Oh, gross. I know it's not a popular opinion, but I actually didn't mind 'Joyce' prior to this. Questionable motives aside (I'm too pretty!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: x 40000), Beth really hasn't done anything to annoy me, and Jack's 'move over bitch' to the random lady in Jan's profile gave me probably the biggest laugh all series. Really liked Tim until the Thatcher revelation. :puke2: Plus he's very obviously playing up to the 'clueless older man' narrative, which is a little tiresome. Georgina and 'Sammie' are the only likeable ones for me right now. The latter purely for how little f***s he gives now. :lol: :manson::manson::manson: Honestly, Busayo's entire motive was justified by Brooke's time on the show. She barely set a foot wrong, was consistently nice to everyone and yet was still bottom two in most ratings. Ella deciding to antagonise her on the basis of... literally nothing when she hadn't spoke to her 1-on-1 says it all. I do agree that Busayo's catfish persona is boring as all hell, but equally, she's had very little screentime so far so it's hard to judge. Brooke didn’t set a foot wrong but she was exactly outstanding either. She developed her scholar squad early and only ever really bothered with them. She was fun for us to watch but was she as entertaining for those who were competing? Clearly not. Ella called her out not because of something she had done but because she hadn’t been given any reason to like her. Once Brooke was making an effort, Ella changed her mind at least initially. I really don’t think Brooke’s skin colour came into it at all.
October 13, 20195 yr I have a bit of a problem with Busayo's motives, purely because it makes no sense. She says she wanted to prove that a young, single, white male would be more popular than she would be as herself. But what's her basis for comparison. Had she already been in The Circle and blocked early, and then gone back in as Josh, I'd understand it. But as it stands, how does she know "Josh" is proving more popular than she would have? She might have been instantly liked by everyone. She'll never know, making her theory baseless. What has become clear is that Busayo is boring. She hasn't given "Josh" one ounce of personality and is instead just playing him as a cardboard cut out stereotype. She has no imagination and hasn't come across as very likeable at all. As for using Brooke as an example, you can't do that either, just because she's also a young, black woman. They're very different. Brooke had genuinely good moments, and that was reflected when she climbed up the rankings. But overall, she was as dull as ditch water if you look at only her replies in Circle Chat. We might have seen a reasonably sassy, fun side to her, but nobody else did. I'm not surprised she was blocked. EDIT: T Boy, you replied first while I was typing this, but we clearly feel the same about this. For me, the most entertaining are Ella, Woody and Sammie. All have bags of personality. I actually prefer James to "Sammie" as he's hilarious when he's talking about people for us. I genuinely hope he gets to be super influencer, just for the reaction of whoever he blocks. But I've got a funny feeling we're looking at Georgina blocking Tim. I just hope that they get told they need to block someone and need to make the choice and then find out they have to do it in person, so they're more likely to be really honest with the choice. Edited October 13, 20195 yr by PaulM1983
October 13, 20195 yr Brooke didn’t set a foot wrong but she was exactly outstanding either. She developed her scholar squad early and only ever really bothered with them. She was fun for us to watch but was she as entertaining for those who were competing? Clearly not. Ella called her out not because of something she had done but because she hadn’t been given any reason to like her. Once Brooke was making an effort, Ella changed her mind at least initially. I really don’t think Brooke’s skin colour came into it at all. I completely agree, Brooke just came to the lend of the her story in there. There wasn’t anything else interesting coming from her that’s all, nothing to do with her skin colour.
October 13, 20195 yr Jan doesn't have appeared to have moved from the sofa since she has arrived - every single shot is of her on the chair Edited October 13, 20195 yr by ElectroBoy
October 13, 20195 yr I'm amazed that some of the younger ones didn't realise that it was the Berlin Wall in that picture. It happened before I was born and I knew it straight away.
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