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Originally Posted by HBIC

Consistently goading and antagonizing someone just for a reaction is bullying. Bear was absolutely a bully. He got away with the way he behaved because the rest of the CBB18 cast was, quite frankly, dumb. Stick him in CBB17 and see if anybody tolerates his behavior. The entire cast would stick together to isolate him or they would force the producers to eject him. You really think somebody like Tiffany, Gemma, or even John would tolerate half the stuff Bear did? And these HMs are all far more intelligent than Bear so they absolutely would tear him apart.

Bear was also a complete and utter coward. He crapped himself when he was confronted by the security guard in the diary room and he was visibly rattled when Aubrey ripped him apart. The CBB18 was literally too weak. Stick him in the house with someone like Dennis Rodman or Vinnie Jones or Razor from CBB11 and we would not have seen a single one of his pranks. He would have been the one evicted for being too boring. Somebody like Luisa would have drove Bear to a nervous breakdown through just verbal insults. We saw how he much it affected him when Aubrey called him a failure.

CBB18 was a colossal failure. It became "The Bear Show" because the other housemates allowed it to and production was desperate for some sort of storyline. In other series, Bear would merely be an extra or vilified for being a bully.

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