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The Big Brother show is a game and the goal of every housemate that goes into the house is to win the ultimate prize. But when housemates enter the house, and many of them start repeating the usual line – about how they are trying to live as their authentic selves and not thinking too much about being strategic, they’ve unknowingly revealed their strategy. Right from the nomination process to pursuing relationships with people and even knowing what to say and not to say are all strategies.
This season of BBTitans, as much as we got to see cultural bonds and we genuinely got some really entertaining moments, some housemates appear to have forced bonds, stayed in places they had no place, and encouraged toxicity in an attempt to be the most talked about housemates among the viewers. The truth? The viewers have seen that script play out a hundred times, it’s been overused, rinsed and repeated and they are becoming increasingly boring. It’s time to let it go.
There have been seven seasons of Big Brother Naija, nine seasons of Big Brother Africa, three seasons of BBMzansi’s, and one season of BBTitans, we don’t want a rinse and repeat of those actions that appear like desperate attempts to heighten controversy just to dominate conversation among viewers. We want something new and exciting. To forthcoming Big Brother housemates, here’s a list of ‘strategies’ you should not take into the house in the next season.
Forced Controversy
When Tacha dominated conversations during the Pepper Dem season, it was not because she was trying to be someone else, it was because she was just being Tacha. Unbothered, confident, and not afraid to stand alone among people who necessarily did not give a hoot about her. Her personality appealed to thousands of fans. Despite her excesses, fans stood by her even after she was disqualified.
Cee-C also had that same character. Strong and opinionated to a fault. However, If that’s not your personality, people can easily see it from a mile away. Ka3na tried to force that personality and lost out, Nana and Jenni O in BBTitans also tried to appear as controversial personalities, and it didn’t work for them. It’s very easy for people to see that you are just playing a script.
Most of the time you just become the villain that leads people to crown the winner.
Cooking Strategy
The cooking strategy started with the BBNaija Shine Ya Eye set. Some housemates accused Whitemoney – the eventual winner, of cooking as a strategy maybe because it portrayed him as caring for the other housemates and gave him a bit more screen time than others, but is that why he won the show? Definitely not.
He won because certain housemates started attacking him for using it as a strategy. The people that win the show are not the people that antagonise others, they are people just enjoying their time in the house and soon they become a threat that other housemates start becoming villains over.
Ships
Love is nice. We all love a good reality TV show love story. However, the ‘ship’ script is being overused and it becoming boring to watch when people are forcing connections that are not there just to stay in the game. We have seen situations where shippers had ultimately taken both parties in their ships to the finals, there was Emmarose, Mercy, Ike, and even Kanaga Jnr and Tsatsii, but it does not work like that for everyone.
When Lilo and Eric on BBNaija Lockdown edition got together from the beginning of the show, viewers were praying for one of them to be evicted so the relationship could end. If it happens, let it happen, if it doesn’t, don’t force it. It’s weird.
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