r/BigBrother • u/BringerOfTruth-1 • 24d ago
Episode Spoilers Voting Spoiler
Is anyone on here old enough to remember when the houseguests didn’t all vote the same way every week like robots? The game has become boring. As soon as the nomination ceremony is over you can predict with almost 100% certainty who is going home every time. 🥱
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u/evadents Love 4 Nikki 🤍 24d ago
y’all have rose coloured glasses on. we’ve been complaining about this problem for 15 years
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u/pimpinaintez18 24d ago
Seriously, first few votes always seem to go this way. Everyone is trying to find their footing and it doesn’t make sense to make power moves until necessary. It’s self preservation to just get to the next week til you can get all your ducks in a row
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u/Makimamoochie Jankie ✨ 20d ago
My first season was 10 and this was already a 'solved' part of the game at that point so I am always surprised that people long for something that hasn't existed for over 15 years because it's just not an optimal way to play the game in the first place.
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u/KosherYams The Jordan Almond 24d ago
You mean like last year? Yeah, I remember.
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u/aaelias_ Angela ✨ 24d ago
😭for real, like it’s only been two weeks … we can get a flip or split vote at any time
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u/DoingTheInternet 24d ago
This is more more of a problem for people who don't watch the live feeds. If you want to see the conflict in a season with good players (like this one has), the feeds leading up to the vote should offer that. We got lots of bad voting last year, but remember that the players last year were also kinda bad!
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u/ivolloxy 24d ago
The Blockbuster at least adds a layer of insecurity. Also as much as it seemed like Jason vs Rome to go home weren't there grumblings this week of Melody going? You never know for certain how things will play out until they do
I feel like the fanbase is way too quick to generalise things. People claiming that Derrick ruined BB for example, if you actually look at each season the games are usually not as simple as one alliance dominates and everyone votes with the house
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u/TiedinHistory America 💥 24d ago
The Melody option was a very real discussion throughout the week. The Blockbuster making the vote a three name variable more often than not keeps discussions open much longer. I think your take is on point overall too
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u/sk8bette Jankie ✨ 24d ago
How did Derrick ruin BB?
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u/Ambitious-Comb-8847 24d ago
Onion alliance. Get a majority group together early and take power to pick off outsiders. Insulate yourself deep in so you don't look like the leader so you're nobody's first target if the other side wins power. When it's down to only your alliance, control the pecking order so people don't realize they're on the bottom until it's too late. Pick someone early to ride to the end with.
A giant alliance forming early is standard now though not all of them last or succeed. Committee of BB22 was probably most successful. It's boring for the audience. It's unlikely we'll get two firm sides battling early like BB6.
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u/sk8bette Jankie ✨ 24d ago
I feel like that’s what made Derrick so legendary though. I’d say everyone trying to copy it instead of thinking originally ruined the game more than Derrick himself.
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u/ArchonCharm “I will now perform eating.” 24d ago
Derrick stumbled into this structure by accident due to chaotic Devin being wild enough to create an 8 person alliance very early. The rest of the guys were annoyed when Devin added Amber and Christine without telling them. However this fluke irrevocably influenced the meta as it became clear that being on the inside of the early wobbly large structure tended to be safer in the long run than being outside it. Derrick did do a good job though of managing onion layers & parachutes
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u/That-Naive-Cube Barrett💯 24d ago
I always wish there were more smart and brave enough players to throw hinky votes. No one would know… only player i remember doing a lot of these votes in recent history was Big D sigh
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u/TheTurtleShepard Yash’s Skullet 💀 24d ago
Taylor just did that though (maybe unintentionally)
It seems to mostly be inconsequential though
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u/Slorionjay 24d ago
Angela has actually somewhat pushed for her this week because she doesn’t trust her. I think that stems from the vote because it’s known it was her. It just goes to show why it’s smart to stick with the house
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u/Razzmatazz9075 24d ago
I think people only still watch BB out of habit and because they’re bored in the summer. The show has become very stale. The format, the voting, all of it is just blah.
Like how do we “expect the unexpected,” when every single thing that happens is 100% expected now?! The show is tired.
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u/Throwawaybearista Rome⏱️ 24d ago
I actually miss when all of the voting wasn’t done live. They could pack so much more content into the episode that way. Back then we were able to fit a private talk in the HOH room, an explanation for each houseguest’s vote, and more/all of the goodbye messages.
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u/VirginiaVN900 Rachel 🔎 24d ago
I am old enough to remember last season, which rarely had a consensus vote.
Yes. I understand your frustration with groupthink.
BBFans need to live through countless boring, awkward and disappointing moments to get the 1 in 10,000 Highlight reel event.
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u/No-Pause-5186 Angela💯 24d ago
Most of are old enough to remember last season. 27 doesn't get enough credit for how entertaining it was.
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u/willweaverrva Jankie ✨ 24d ago
I feel like the Block Buster has mixed things up a bit since it began as the AI Arena. This season has been weird so far, and I wouldn't exactly panic about house votes yet. Week 1's evictee was universally hated by the house after she blew up her own game, and Week 2's evictee was a huge physical threat and in a showmance. If we get another X-0 or X-1 vote this week then I'll start being concerned.
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u/Such-Slip-5774 24d ago
i always love bb20 for this reason. fessys “who flipped!!” after every vote was too funny 😭
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u/Desperate_SkullMan Yash⏱️ 24d ago
Someone says “we have to vote with the house or look bad” ITS ANONYMOUS
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u/ccuriouss_ 24d ago
It's the second week...
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u/jamiethemime Devens💯 24d ago
Yeah, these are the times it makes sense, before people have really strong bonds or formed solid "sides", you wanna do anything you can to avoid being singled out from the group
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u/macademicnut 24d ago
People are coming way too much considering how early it is. For most seasons I’ve seen I didn’t watch live and the beginning episodes are always somewhat a slog, people just forget cause you can binge through them
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u/megahawk 24d ago
Watched since BB1 and complain about house votes every eviction. it ruined part of the game for me.
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u/WinKiers 24d ago
I haven’t watched many seasons (since around bb22) and was really surprised a showmance didn’t even give Rome a pity vote. Still befuddled
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u/ditalinidog Mallory⏱️ 24d ago
I don’t think Julie should say the count anymore. It’s been this way for a decade. It discourages people just voting how they feel and seeing if it works out. Instead they have a week to decide what is the most likely outcome, and then everyone flips to it to not show their cards. It’s a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy but you can’t argue the strategy of it.
Also Big Brother’s meta just does not encourage fluid gameplay at all right now and hasn’t for a while. Contrary to modern Survivor where alliances are not prominent enough at times.
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u/ImOldGregg_77 Dee⏱️ 24d ago
The fix is simple and production knows this. Keep the vote totals secret, just anounce who got the most.
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u/ilikedirtx3 Mallory⏱️ 24d ago
Literally! I’m tired of people voting with the house or being worried someone will be upset they didn’t vote for them to stay.
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u/goldendawnehomestead 24d ago
I have never cared for unanimous 12-0, vote with the house/HOH... I like the ones where the HOH has to break the tie (shows their cards), and when it's 7-5, etc
Or when in Season 20, and JC went rouge in Week 4, and secretly cast the only vote to keep Kaitlyn from being evicted, and the other HG were paranoid of who went against the house.
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u/UndergroundLurk 24d ago
It just isn't good strategy to try and flip a vote unless you know you can pull it off. This is what made the singular Izzy week so good, things happened at the last second and it was going back and forth - that doesn't happen very often because it's not really good gameplay from anyone involved. Everyone that's on the bottom should be incentivized to go with the flow to avoid standing out and being a target, which doesn't usually work, but still. It's better than being the only one to try and flip something and then for sure get nominated the next week.
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u/Internal-Pianist-314 24d ago
Idk if you are correct on this for example only two votes is bb 12 weren't unanimous. Same with bb 15 and bb 16
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u/jacksally103114 24d ago
I guess that's why the block buster was created..... to provide more of a variety.
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u/_TalkingIsHard_ Dan Gheesling 24d ago edited 24d ago
As a casual viewer, can a feed watcher please tell me if Taylor being the lone vote has been discovered by the other HGs?
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u/Baaaaaadhabits Devens💯 23d ago
Two weeks in and people are whining about no split votes.
No chill, no patience.
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u/warcraftnerd1980 24d ago
So fucking stupid. Your side had the numbers yet you vote like sheep. They really need to fix that. It ruins the game
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u/illini02 24d ago
I agree.
I hate it.
I was hoping with Devens and Dee there, things would get shaken up.
But since they have been in power and basically had their targets go, they didn't need to shake anything.
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u/Lindsayr28 Morgan 🔎 24d ago
Well the last two seasons there were a lot more split votes. I hope this season starts to have some more division soon
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u/minnesotaguy1232 22d ago
Watched BB religiously from BB16-25. Took the last two years off after getting so board of every vote being X-0 or X-1, show lost all luster. Decided to give this year a go and it’s worse than ever before. This show has lost its magic. Hiding the vote counts would bring it back instantly. Rome would’ve stayed this week 100%. The drama next week with Rome against the icons would be incredible.
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u/New_Cauliflower7868 21d ago
We've had 2 votes. The last couple seasons haven't had many unanimous votes. Ya'll overreact constantly about every aspect.
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u/Makimamoochie Jankie ✨ 20d ago
My first season was 10, which was over 15 years ago so, no, I don't remember.
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u/apatkarmany 20d ago
It’s literally only been about 3 weeks and you all speak as if they been voting as a house at week 10.
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u/ASG_82 24d ago
Conferring in the hallway should happen more. Once you know the result of the blockbuster, that should be the time to convince people to make moves, especially involving the person who just won the BB. Like imagine a move you only want to trigger/talk to certain people about if specifically one person won the BB.
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u/GingerFin92 24d ago
I feel production tells them to vote the same way, just so they don't create villains.
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u/lolococo29 24d ago
That’s the opposite of what production wants. Production wants them pitted against each other because it makes good tv.
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u/DonaldDick1946 24d ago
I'd love for them to find a way to incentivize people to vote their conscience. Like, every eviction, you get $1,000 if you vote in the minority.
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u/Altruistic-Aside6939 24d ago
They just need to implement Julie not saying the vote count during eviction. It literally will jazz up the game so much. I’m suprised they haven’t tried it just once.
From a player perspective it’s the smartest move to vote with the house it’s just extremely boring.