[Macie Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by The Human Santapede

I don't think Austin was a bully at all. That word is fitting for housemates like Helen, Conor, Sezer, Alexandra, Pauline, etc. I understand why people dislike him, but I personally don't think he bullied anyone. At worst he was just an aggressive/emotional...dare I say it twat with an overly bad temper. His worst crime was that night where he just went full throttle OTT on Janice (which I thought was uncalled for). But outside of that, I don't think he was as nasty as say Farrah who said some pretty hurtful and disgusting things in her early weeks (although she did grow on me in the end)

My main issue with Austin is that any ostensibly good deed he performed (shaving his head for Gail, holding a toast for his brother) just spiraled into a gigantic meltdown. Like, yes, you can find some good in some of the stuff that he does, but it's all coated with sentiments like "I'm getting so much attention because of this" and "people surely won't nominate me now" and "the public is going to love me," and then things like "she didn't applaud for me, what a disgusting bitch" and "she didn't attend my brother's toast, let me harass her for the next three days." Any good intentions he had were negated by how self-serving it all was.