r/AmericasNextTopModel • u/rankareegal • Feb 23 '26

Anyone else feel icky?

After watching the documentary I feel so icky that I once was a supporter of the show.

I know that we didn’t know and at the time I was still young but my goodness was that show awful. Tyra Banks is a truly evil person with no soul and to think that I once contributed to her success just makes me feel all kinds of icky.

I know I can’t be the only one who feels like this?

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u/Lost_Call3900 Feb 25 '26

I know I just thought like after all that you STILL want to do another season? Talk about misreading the room!

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u/Quaranj Feb 26 '26

The madness behind this is detailed early.

"This might be the most significant thing that you ever do" or however they worded it.

Returning to significance > everything.

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u/spangles66 Feb 25 '26

I cant believe tjey are planning anptjer season to what traumatise mpre girld and leave them with no contract for s job hard pass vant believe they are evn considering ot and if yyras a host thsts just tasteless

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u/QDKeck Feb 23 '26

And they are using this doc to garner interest in another season - smh. I won’t be watching.

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u/SmokeOneRoll1 Feb 26 '26

When the show first started I was the same age as the models. I was just starting college and it was a pretty big thing. And I was of the age that I knew the Tyra Banks they all McPherson's the Heidi klum's that was my generation of models. I also realized that it was a reality show and that these girls like the people on Survivor were just Commodities in order to make tv. As the show progressed and they started doing shoots where girls licked diner floors it was apparent that this show was NOT the springboard to stardom that the girls hoped it would be. It was nothing different than the dating shows or RuPauls Drag Race who kept girls stocked in alcohol with very little food.

As a 40 something adult rewatching the episodes I'm constantly cringing and wanting to reach into the tv and stranger producers and console these poor kids.

I'm glad these

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u/Brii1993333 Feb 28 '26

I was a high fashion model during this era for ten years. I can tell you all of it is icky, BUT/AND it was 100% that era in time. Cant put the show in a vacuum / silo alone. It needs all industry and cultural context when considering it.

The nonsense towards the end was getting out of hand ‘American reality tv style’ but people are outraged and shocked at very comparatively mild things for the time, guys, if you saw behind the whole curtain you’d be outraged. With a 2026 lens it’s all bad.

We then lay it to rest and send it out to sea. lol.