Well done to Ali, she played a good game!

[vesavius]

Now, this doesn't mean I like HOW she played it, I dislike HMs that play the audience rather than playing the house, but I admire her ability to target a demographic out there and pander to them so hard and and convince them that she is a cause to fight for.

She identified the perfect gameplan and in the end it carried her through... Not in that house, I don't mean that because that was a disaster for her, but in the manipulation of the X/Reddit crowd.

Sadly, I think now it's been seen though this is the end of BB as we know it... From here on in it'll be about WHAT you are not WHO you are to win. The winner won't be who was a great HM, it'll be whoever represents that year's current thing worthy cause, because that's who the XReddit crowd will flock to. I think that's a shame, because I will miss whatever remained of the old BB.

But, yep, no hate to Ali, she might not have played the game I wanted to see played in the show and might have manipulated and misled the audience to 90k but as heists go... It wasn't bad.

:clap1::clap1::clap1:

[eternal]

It was pretty obvious what she was doing throughout. She fooled the housemates but I just can't understand how the public like her. It's a weird cult-like following.

[UserSince2005]

outwit outplay outlast

[GlitterUK]

She did well, wasn't the landslide victory I expected though.

[vesavius]

It was pretty obvious what she was doing throughout. She fooled the housemates but I just can't understand how the public like her. It's a weird cult-like following.

Nah, if she had fooled them she wouldn't have been up every week.

But, yeah... The Ali cultists on FB, X, and Reddit are terrifying... :joker:

She is gonna need to spend 90k on hiring security.

[GoldHeart]

Hi vesavius

You talk alot of sense , Ali knew exactly what she was doing. And the moment Lily got evicted it was inevitable that it would lead to her winning.

I wish a housemate would win for who they are , rather than identity politics. Unfortunately as you say ..this will just continue.

Ali manipulated her way to winning. And she might aswell thank Lily , Khaled & Marcello for helping her get there .

[millyrose]

Well done Ali. She wasn't my fav i wanted Emma to win.

[BBXX]

She did well, wasn't the landslide victory I expected though.

She got more votes than all other finalists combined? 51.9%!

[Zizu]

She did well, wasn't the landslide victory I expected though.


Well it was if she got more votes than all the others together


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[vesavius]

Hi [MENTION=6358]
I wish a housemate would win for who they are , rather than identity politics. Unfortunately as you say ..this will just continue.


Sadly so.

And a part of me is just really sad about that.

[Liam-]

She did well, wasn't the landslide victory I expected though.

Except it was and it was thoroughly deserved

[joeysteele]

She got more votes than all other finalists combined? 51.9%!

Yes and that's with only the app voting not how it used to be where we voted unlimited amounts on our phones.
This was only from app votes of 5 votes each.

[eternal]

Nah, if she had fooled them she wouldn't have been up every week.

But, yeah... The Ali cultists on FB, X, and Reddit are terrifying... :joker:

She is gonna need to spend 90k on hiring security.

I mean tbf it was only a few people voting for her each time.

She was so cold and manipulative throughout, but instead of clocking onto her behaviour or calling it out they all sort of went along with it and made nice, bar a few moments from Khaled and Marcello. Even then, every disagreement had to be concluded on Ali's terms. You can tell she was a nightmare in those situations, pure arrogance.

If I was them I would have shone a light on her behaviour a lot more. That's what I mean when I said they were fooled because they kept trying to stay on her good side, even suggesting that she was a "nice person".

If they rewatch the show I guarantee you most of the house won't be in contact with her again when they see the venom she was spewing.

She painted herself the victim and the public and her cultists fell for it. It's the world we live in I guess.

[vesavius]

Yes and that's with only the app voting not how it used to be where we voted unlimited amounts on our phones.
This was only from app votes of 5 votes each.

If you think people out there were not racking up fake votes on multiple accounts then I am not sure what to say to you.

[GoldHeart]

I mean tbf it was only a few people voting for her each time.

She was so cold and manipulative throughout, but instead of clocking onto her behaviour or calling it out they all sort of went along with it and made nice, bar a few moments from Khaled and Marcello. Even then, every disagreement had to be concluded on Ali's terms. You can tell she was a nightmare in those situations, pure arrogance.

If I was them I would have shone a light on her behaviour a lot more. That's what I mean when I said they were fooled because they kept trying to stay on her good side, even suggesting that she was a "nice person".

If they rewatch the show I guarantee you most of the house won't be in contact with her again when they see the venom she was spewing.

She painted herself the victim and the public and her cultists fell for it. It's the world we live in I guess.

Hit the nail on the head :clap1:

Yeah I don't think many housemates are staying in contact with her , and I don't blame them.

The way she treated Khaled was grotesque , especially when he was such a gentleman towards her and
everyone in the house .

[GoldHeart]

Oh plenty would have got several phones and SIM cards I bet .

[vesavius]

Oh plenty would have got several phones and SIM cards I bet .

For us it was just a game and we probably won't even talk about this season ever again after tonight, but for the cultists it was a feckin CRUSADE :joker:

[joeysteele]

If you think people out there were not racking up fake votes on multiple accounts then I am not sure what to say to you.

It of course is different.
You could vote from landlines plus any mobile phones you had too.

The difference being you could vote continuously, as many times as you wanted to or could afford to,not just 5 times, that MUST make a considerable difference.

[GoldHeart]

For us it was just a game and we probably won't even talk about this season ever again after tonight, but for the cultists it was a feckin CRUSADE :joker:

It's actually scary like end of the world mentality or something :joker::umm2: . The result wasn't even a shock ,as I predicted her winning ages ago. I should have put a bet on it , that's how sure & obvious it was.

[joeysteele]

I made a mistake when I saw this thread, I thought it was a congratulatory one to the winner.
I see however it's just yet another vehicle to get at her.
How sad.

[Lostie!]

Damn these grapes are sour

[GoldHeart]

Damn these grapes are sour

I love grapes, lovely fruit :hee:.

[Black Dagger]

God she manipulated me sooooo good.

[vesavius]

Damn these grapes are sour

I said good game to her and game well played... Not sure what you want me to say?


It's like you actually so badly want us to be offended about this gameshow that we will forget about tomorrow so very badly :joker::joker::joker:

Look, it was a fun enough season and I had a good time. It's really not any more emotional to me than that... though I do honestly feel bad about the shift in BB that it really (IMO) means. but, that's a conversation for adults on another night. It's clearly too early for it right now.

[vesavius]

God she manipulated me sooooo good.

Well... yeah? :joker:

[Lostie!]

I said good game to her and game well played... Not sure what you want me to say?


It's like you actually so badly want us to be offended about this gameshow that we will forget about tomorrow so very badly :joker::joker::joker:

Look, it was a fun enough season and I had a good time. It's really not any more emotional to me than that... though I do honestly feel bad about the shift in BB that it really (IMO) means. but, that's a conversation for adults on another night. It's clearly too early for it right now.

You evidently are bothered and the overuse of :joker::joker::joker: only reads as overcompensating. If you were as unbothered as you claim you wouldn't be here referring to her fans as hoodwinked cultists

[eternal]

Hit the nail on the head :clap1:

Yeah I don't think many housemates are staying in contact with her , and I don't blame them.

The way she treated Khaled was grotesque , especially when he was such a gentleman towards her and
everyone in the house .

She painted Khaled as fake for weeks, realised he was popular, back tracked, and then pretended to defend him when others started jumping on the bandwagon to make herself look good. It was so transparent.

Kept banging on about the "patriarchy" in the house and how she was at the bottom, when none of that was true. Enabled awful behaviour from Lily and Dean, fed their heads with bs with her constant b1tching. Lied to Emma. Tried to paint BP as a mean girl. Didn't like Sarah. Consistently played the victim, accusing others of what she was doing, etc..

I don't think she really liked anyone, just made alliances to get by when her closest people were being picked off. But hey, fair play it worked. I just didn't think the public would be fooled by her psychobabble, use of buzzwords, identity politics and t-shirts.

[Black Dagger]

Well... yeah? :joker:

If you can’t detect sarcasm then -shrugs- next you’ll be thinking I’ll be jumping off a cliff for her.

[vesavius]

you’ll be thinking I’ll be jumping off a cliff for her.

well.. yeah? :joker:

[Zizu]

She painted Khaled as fake for weeks, realised he was popular, back tracked, and then pretended to defend him when others started jumping on the bandwagon to make herself look good. It was so transparent.

Kept banging on about the "patriarchy" in the house and how she was at the bottom, when none of that was true. Enabled awful behaviour from Lily and Dean, fed their heads with bs with her constant b1tching. Lied to Emma. Tried to paint BP as a mean girl. Didn't like Sarah. Consistently played the victim, accusing others of what she was doing, etc..

I don't think she really liked anyone, just made alliances to get by when her closest people were being picked off. But hey, fair play it worked. I just didn't think the public would be fooled by her psychobabble, use of buzzwords, identity politics and t-shirts.


Sounds like you stopped watching the series when I did .. did you read all that in the forum ?

If that LIE ( that wasn’t really a lie ) is all your really have on her then she really ain’t that bad ..


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[Black Dagger]

well.. yeah? :joker:

I see. I’m glad you’ve taken the result well anyway x

[joeysteele]

I said multiple times that she played a good game, and she did. It wasn't misleading lol

Really, not misleading.
Not a hint of negativity in.the thread title to draw members in.
However then nothing but much negativity afterwards.
Good grief.

[vesavius]

I see. I’m glad you’ve taken the result well anyway x

How haven't I?

Boy, you ali stans really need others to be angry about this. If she hadn't won you would have all slinked away in seething silence :joker:

The fact I came here to say well done on her game and good job winning the money should be the clue that I am not angry or mad about it at all.

I think she played a good game.

[vesavius]

Really, not misleading.
Not a hint of negativity in.the thread title to draw members in.
However then nothing but much negativity afterwards.
Good grief.

oh, dude, it's not that deep :joker:

[joeysteele]

oh, dude, it's not that deep :joker:

I don't like to be misled.

However it's my own fault for coming into one of your threads, thinking it more a positive.
I'll not make that mistake again.

[vesavius]

I don't like to be misled.


And yet you still support Ali?

Weird.

[Zizu]

And yet you still support Ali?

Weird.


You saw her interview , right ?


It was abundantly clear how genuine she was throughout .. she even admitted to her mistakes/misjudgements ..

She also confessed to feeling scared, anxious , isolated and was aware that the others wanted her to leave !!


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[vesavius]

You saw her interview , right ?



Nah, I am done with BB the minute I know who the winner is... No matter who it is.

I don't care about the show past that in all honesty. It's just a game that I like to play as a viewer :)

Well, it used to be different, but that was in the BB5-7 or so golden years when I actually loved it.

[GoldHeart]

You saw her interview , right ?


It was abundantly clear how genuine she was throughout .. she even admitted to her mistakes/misjudgements ..

She also confessed to feeling scared, anxious , isolated and was aware that the others wanted her to leave !!


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Nah
She just came across more fake am afraid.

[Zizu]

Nah
She just came across more fake am afraid.


Again thats just you it seems

We all saw how nervous/ anxious she was but still managed to answer some tricky questions honestly even though she wasn’t entirely happy about doing so ..

You have painted her as an awful person .. baffling given its just a game show


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[GoldHeart]

Again thats just you it seems

We all saw how nervous/ anxious she was but still managed to answer some tricky questions honestly even though she wasn’t entirely happy about doing so ..

You have painted her as an awful person .. baffling given its just a game show


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:joker::joker: She got Khaled's character completely wrong,and she still doesn't regret it nor care that she was mistaken . She planted seeds about him,and eventually got him evicted.

How on earth can she be so judgemental and question his whole being ,when she didn't even know him. There's something very unhealthy about that .

[Zizu]

The general consensus is that Ali came across beautifully .. you have been wearing those blinkers for 6 weeks ..

Check the vote count - your judgment has been completely wrong throughout

Virtually nobody actually agrees with the minority if Ali haters


I’m wondering if you guys are just bored and decided to wind us all up for the duration to pass the time


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[Zizu]

:joker::joker: She got Khaled's character completely wrong,and she still doesn't regret it nor care that she was mistaken . She planted seeds about him,and eventually got him evicted.

How on earth can she be so judgemental and question his whole being ,when she didn't even know him. There's something very unhealthy about that .


She was in a state of severe anxiety for six weeks … in a pressure situation and you can’t overlook a few misjudgements ?


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[GoldHeart]

She was in a state of severe anxiety for six weeks … in a pressure situation and you can’t overlook a few misjudgements ?


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Poor little lamb Ali

She causes a rift with Khaled for no reason, the guy was just a decent nice person. How do you think it made him feel...to be scrutinised & slated for being himself. He did nothing wrong
towards her .

Anyway I'm glad BB 2024 is all over now .

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

It was pretty obvious what she was doing throughout. She fooled the housemates but I just can't understand how the public like her. It's a weird cult-like following.

It's because she looks like a pussycat doll. If she wasn't attractive her behaviour wouldn't fly

[Mystic Mock]

Now, this doesn't mean I like HOW she played it, I dislike HMs that play the audience rather than playing the house, but I admire her ability to target a demographic out there and pander to them so hard and and convince them that she is a cause to fight for.

She identified the perfect gameplan and in the end it carried her through... Not in that house, I don't mean that because that was a disaster for her, but in the manipulation of the X/Reddit crowd.

Sadly, I think now it's been seen though this is the end of BB as we know it... From here on in it'll be about WHAT you are not WHO you are to win. The winner won't be who was a great HM, it'll be whoever represents that year's current thing worthy cause, because that's who the XReddit crowd will flock to. I think that's a shame, because I will miss whatever remained of the old BB.

But, yep, no hate to Ali, she might not have played the game I wanted to see played in the show and might have manipulated and misled the audience to 90k but as heists go... It wasn't bad.

:clap1::clap1::clap1:

Tbf it is just the way society is nowadays unfortunately.

You've got certain parts of the left pushing for everything having to be diverse, even if sometimes it does come across as a bit forceful.

And obviously you have certain parts of the right that aren't happy unless it's a white, straight, macho guy as 95% of a TV Show's cast.

There's large swaths of people nowadays that bring Politics into everything in a really extreme manner.

Now speaking for myself, I like to think that I just like who I like, even if hardly anyone else agrees with me on that person.

[Mystic Mock]

It's because she looks like a pussycat doll. If she wasn't attractive her behaviour wouldn't fly

Tbf there have been plenty of attractive women that have been voted off BB over the years.

Imo, some that are more attractive than Ali (with all due respect, as I get that it's subjective) in fairness Marcello and Segun should've been the ones benefiting the most from the looks argument, considering they're attractive guys with an audience that's mostly watched by women followed by gay guys.

And I say that as someone that wanted Marcello to win last night.

[BBXX]

Tbf it is just the way society is nowadays unfortunately.

You've got certain parts of the left pushing for everything having to be diverse, even if sometimes it does come across as a bit forceful.

And obviously you have certain parts of the right that aren't happy unless it's a white, straight, macho guy as 95% of a TV Show's cast.

There's large swaths of people nowadays that bring Politics into everything in a really extreme manner.

Now speaking for myself, I like to think that I just like who I like, even if hardly anyone else agrees with me on that person.

I don’t think Ali won because of a hive mind and purely because she’s lesbian but I do think representation matters.

I think if you are of a subsection of society (straight and white) you have grown up seeing yourself as the default on every TV drama, every reality TV programme, every advert and you do not understand how it feels to hardly see anyone that represents an important aspect of your identity in the public eye and historically even when you have it’s still through the lens of someone straight and white. Luckily this is changing.

BB has always had a friendly and positive relationship with contestants from all walks of life - many of the winners have been gay - and maybe that’s why it’s one of the only reality TV shows I gravitate towards and always have. But Ali is still the first lesbian winner, only just now, 24 years into the shows run. So maybe some people did gravitate towards her because of that, and because she was unafraid to make a statement on issues she found important, but I don’t see that as problematic. People see themselves represented by someone who is LGBT and who shares in their values, why is that a bad thing?

When straight white people (not saying you are straight and white as I don’t know I am just speaking generally here) say things shouldn’t be politicised and ask why people have to make it all about identity they should understand that comes from a place of privilege.

They are everywhere at all times and always have been. Identity is important and feeling seen is important and without making it political society wouldn’t have made the strides it has done over history. As that is such a vital part of society, it is only natural that bleeds over to shows like Big Brother.

Having said all that, I think Ali mostly won because she was a complex individual that diverted from what we know a BB HM often to be and people resonated with that.

I think it’s important to remember she got 52% of the vote across 6 people. There was something there. And it’s okay for people not to see it but it’s crass to assume it’s just because of a gullible hookwinked group of lemmings obsessed with identity politics.

[Mystic Mock]

I don’t think Ali won because of a hive mind and purely because she’s lesbian but I do think representation matters.

I think if you are of a subsection of society (straight and white) you have grown up seeing yourself as the default on every TV drama, every reality TV programme, every advert and you do not understand how it feels to hardly see anyone that represents an important aspect of your identity in the public eye and historically even when you have it’s still through the lens of someone straight and white. Luckily this is changing.

BB has always had a friendly and positive relationship with contestants from all walks of life - many of the winners have been gay - and maybe that’s why it’s one of the only reality TV shows I gravitate towards and always have. But Ali is still the first lesbian winner, only just now, 24 years into the shows run. So maybe some people did gravitate towards her because of that, and because she was unafraid to make a statement on issues she found important, but I don’t see that as problematic. People see themselves represented by someone who is LGBT and who shares in their values, why is that a bad thing?

When straight white people (not saying you are straight and white as I don’t know I am just speaking generally here) say things shouldn’t be politicised and ask why people have to make it all about identity they should understand that comes from a place of privilege.

They are everywhere at all times and always have been. Identity is important and feeling seen is important and without making it political society wouldn’t have made the strides it has done over history. As that is such a vital part of society, it is only natural that bleeds over to shows like Big Brother.

Having said all that, I think Ali mostly won because she was a complex individual that diverted from what we know a BB HM often to be and people resonated with that.

I think it’s important to remember she got 52% of the vote across 6 people. There was something there. And it’s okay for people not to see it but it’s crass to assume it’s just because of a gullible hookwinked group of lemmings obsessed with identity politics.

I see some of the points that you make, and I do agree with you that BB (until Ch5 came along) were always big into representation in terms of their casting because it does work for BB (and The Traitors tbf) because both Shows are about the social aspect, so representation of all different groups of people is a great strength for BB imo.

And I know that Ali didn't win purely off of an LGBT themed vote because I know that Zizu for example is straight going off his discussion around women's looks in Sports.:laugh:

I don't mean that in a bad way btw Zizu as I know that you don't mean harm by it.

And I did see on Facebook that a lot of straight guys were into her, because I remember mainly the Khaled fans at the time getting really angry at them for liking her for what they perceived to be "because of her looks."

And for me I honestly don't care about representation (I am a straight white male tbf) but I just like who I like.

For example Sarah was my favourite in this series and she was a Bisexual woman, the only things that we have in common are being white people from the Midlands.:laugh:

As I've already said though, I know that Ali's vote is more wide reaching than her detractors want to believe.

[Adamw92]

Damn these grapes are sour

It feels like the thread equivalent of Marcello’s face in the L&L audience last night. :laugh:

[Zizu]

I see some of the points that you make, and I do agree with you that BB (until Ch5 came along) were always big into representation in terms of their casting because it does work for BB (and The Traitors tbf) because both Shows are about the social aspect, so representation of all different groups of people is a great strength for BB imo.

And I know that Ali didn't win purely off of an LGBT themed vote because I know that Zizu for example is straight going off his discussion around women's looks in Sports.:laugh:

I don't mean that in a bad way btw Zizu as I know that you don't mean harm by it.

And I did see on Facebook that a lot of straight guys were into her, because I remember mainly the Khaled fans at the time getting really angry at them for liking her for what they perceived to be "because of her looks."

And for me I honestly don't care about representation (I am a straight white male tbf) but I just like who I like.

For example Sarah was my favourite in this series and she was a Bisexual woman, the only things that we have in common are being white people from the Midlands.:laugh:

As I've already said though, I know that Ali's vote is more wide reaching than her detractors want to believe.


You make some excellent points !


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[Zizu]

Damn these grapes are sour


I am wondering if the gang of Ali haters in here were just on the wind up … all along

One or two DEFINITELY were so it is hardly inconceivable given the way some of the weaker minded individuals are happy to follow blindly .

It’s the only way I can rationalise the thousands upon thousands of quite ridiculous comments and posts aimed specifically at her .


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