He probably immediately recorded that once he saw her tweet, so no. He's not right.
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After Drunk Piece of Shit Challenge 1 Josie gets up at 5am and says something, can anyone make it out?
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"it's my room"? Like, the end of the thought: "where am I? I don't remember lying down, where is this, oh, 'it's my room'"? I remember she had some hangup about sleeping in B1 during DPOS because they were told to sleep downstairs for camping and some of the fish missed the warning that due to the garbage they were allowed to sleep upstairs again.
She learned nothing from the literal hundreds of TTS's directed at her during Fish Tank. All you have to do is not react. Don't give them attention. No archives for the tweets because she deleted them super quick.
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My autistic problem is that I always want things to be like books or stories, Sylvia tells Letty to "listen to TTS" and opens the floodgates to all the pending hate about her weight and appearance, goes upstairs and confronts the TTS and then... like... confronts her sense of self and has a boss battle, then comes downstairs a better, less fragile, more self-assured person. I think she managed that by like... 15 degrees at best.
Trolls don't care about being creative, they just find the working strategy and spam it. Sylvia isn't going to start purging or bragging about spending the 30k on plastic surgery if trolls say her makeup and hat make her look like a mime. And nobody is listening to her music, even to make fun of it.
Even Letty knows, you don't have to try with Sylvia.
IMO, only Letty and Josie experienced "complete" character development during Fishtank. Letty came and started dependent and troubled by the bullying, confronted those problems and weaponized them to her advantage. Josie learned to participate (sometimes) and was forced to come out of her shell in certain ways (probably not the ways she wanted to, but ways she needed to). Vance experienced character regression at times, especially during Dark Vance and the Security characters, where "development" would have been him properly engaging with the other fish as himself, and "regression" is sinking further into characters and wearing sunglasses to hide his eyes (Jet pointed this out to Letty too) whenever he has to act out. That's why the photo Jet took of Vance swinging the bat at Letty through the wall with the sunglasses
off was sort of weighty - with Letty not around to see him and make him ashamed, Vance accidentally stopped pretending to be a dick and became a dick.
Of course I'm just autistic and this is a reality show so symbolism doesn't mean anything. But it sorta does.
OK now here's my thing to post:
I'm posting this cuz we've returned to it in sneedchat a few times and I feel like in order to decide whether Vance is a) an irredeemable sociopath whose entire strategy hinged on maintaining his popularity or b) a soft soyboy who couldn't pull the trigger when Sam was begging him to do it on hand and knee, i wanna have a book club over this moment
first, some arguments in his favor:
vance had a habit of descending on people when they were crying or having a mental breakdown (mbd), like a possessed cat in a retirement home
vance did this with sylvia, damiel, chris, and josie (albeit for like five seconds but josie came in when he was sleeping)
on this basis we could argue that he is really trying to help these people because he wants to be uplifting as he says in the clip
on the flipside:
you could also argue that he just does this because it makes him look good
he never pushed her to the point of crying but he pressed her pretty hard towards the door when she smoked weed, during mauro's fake exit, and when she started packing when they were told the show was cancelled
he said she reminded him of his sister to "make a good moment for the show" and "to stay on letty's good side" even though he said later he was just lying and that he felt bad for assuming that saying dumb bullshit might have a strategic benefit for him
so: is he being sympathetic here, is he just saying dumb bullshit for the show, is letty using her magic to make him act as her sounding board, is he doing a character of himself in order to talk to her, what do you think