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Originally Posted by Black Dagger

I can understand people finding Ali’s behaviour questionable but I’m seeing people calling her an evil racist and then I’m also seeing so many harsh comments about Khaled as well and like… I think people are just feeling they need to have a “baddie” on the show and I’m very much a “woke snowflake” but I think any slight behaviour gets picked up on in this era.

Nobody has really been that horrendous for me on ITV.

I’d have loved to see some of these new viewers put up with proper bastards like Helen Wood (who I liked) or some of the horrendous C4 housemates who were just absolutely nasty.

I think over the 3 series we’ve had on ITV they’ve been tame in comparison.

I agree with you here, but I think that always happens. The audience of shows like BB can often forget to step back and observe housemates as complete, complex and flawed individuals, and instead reduce them to a number of traits.

I think both producers and the public have a tendency, and a preference, in fact, to assign ‘roles’ and labels to housemates, and then judge all future behaviour according to that label. The narrative generally then becomes quite a simplistic story of heroes and villains,