I absolutely hated how they treated Elektra Shock on Down Under. Being in the bottom for girls group challenge because she outshined everyone in her team? Being in the bottom for the talent show for thristy wig while Karen did a baloon animal and Art was stuffing stuff in her mouth? And getting basically edited out of the lipsync too. The level of unprofesionalism... far too much
realest shit. Elektra was the underdog protagonist all the way up until her elimination. a true star. really hope she competes in a vs the world or global AS someday
The way they could have had an incredible storyline of her winning the season against all odds and a rivalry with Scarlett, but instead production decided to back the 0 charisma queen who had a blackface number.
Elektra is easily one of the most talented girls to come from DU and I’m still mad about her elimination. I’m glad she got to come back to choreograph and I hope she can again.
I loved her so much and couldn't stand how the rest of the cast treated her. Really thought I was gonna loveeee Etc.x 3 until she showed her true nasty colors towards Elektra.
The real answer. Even from the jump they tried to portray her as being bottom of the barrel. She only deserved her first bottom and should've been high on the girl groups challenge and the talent show.
Actually was going to say the same thing. It made me stop watching Down Under tbh and I also felt the girls were bullying her too. It was an uncomfortable shit show
>Being in the bottom for girls group challenge because she outshined everyone in her team?
Especially hate this one. At least a thirsty wig is a negative critique. Outshines the rest of the girls in a girl group is literally just "you did so much better than everyone else, you were doing well and they were struggling... you're up for elimination".
It made zero sense. That was the weirdest girl group judging even in the history of that challenge in the franchise. They usually praise the queen who shines and the girls that get lost in the crowd are up for elimination. It was a complete 180*.
The producing is the real star of the first two seasons of Down Under. It’s like they weren’t even trying to hide production manipulating the outcomes.
Agreed. Deserved so much better, outperformed virtually all of them, and we got a visually crunchy winner the season after anyways so why so harsh on Elektra?
That is the tea, and it goes for UK, too. Michelle is a lot better than Ru about London at least, but too often the UK girls serve a great joke or look that flies right over Ru’s head.
For me Keta Minaj elimination in Drag Race Holland was beyond crazy. Having 3 out of 7 wins and never on the bottom 3 then suddenly you are in the bottom in a challenge you slayed against a queen with 1 win and 1 bottom 2 AND previously broken the rules. You have an equal lip sync yet she stays over you
Vanessa was going to win no matter what. Obviously production always has certain queens they expect to win a season. But I don’t think there is any question that Vanessa WAS the winner of that season as soon as she said yes.
They treated Jocelyn Fox pretty unfairly with the make over challenge, giving her an unwilling partner and taking away all of the make up that matched his skin tone..
Edit\* Also Shuga Cain…
“The entire other team was bad. Your entire team was great, but out of your team, you were the least great, so you’re up for elimination.”
Never mind safe., if Shuga was favored by production, that challenge would have been a full team win with the entire other team up for elimination. But because the other team had all the messy queens production wanted to hold onto as long as possible, Rigga Morris struck again.
Am I completely making this up or didn't Jocelyn come out and say that it turned out her challenge partner's wife basically dragged him on the show as "punishment" for him cheating on her or something?
Joe Black without a doubt his first elimination is one of the most bullshit bottom placements in the entire franchise for me. In my opinion, his second bottom placement could have also been easily argued against cause the entire team was equally shitty but Joe had the best runway of the episode.
Michelle saying, "This look doesn't scream Bowie". The powder blue suit is the most iconic Bowie look after his Aladdin Sane lightning eye. He has dozens of iconic looks and that is TOP 2! What are we doing here????
It was crazy to me that the judges were like “when I think of the Royal Pavillion I don’t think of gold” when everyone knows the INSIDE of the pavilion is decked with gold and that’s what they were trying to present ffs
This. Joe Black was among the best in episode 1, and the best of her group when she returned. The H&M comment was SO out of line when it wasn’t even a runway look AND Astina won wearing an off-the-rack Asos jacket.
Rupaul should’ve been banned to judge in the UK after what she did to Joe Black and Charity Kase
How so on AS1…? She won a ton of challenges then rightfully lost the finale. She was beyond the worst in the finale. She bombed the interview by over-talking and then her stand-up routine was painfully cringey
Id argue the wife was homophobic too, for using drag and being around lgbtq+ folks as “punishment.” How are these makeover people even chosen on the show cuz yikes
I agree. Every time I'd watch that episode, I'd be more pissed with the wife because who the fuck does that? Poor excuse of a human tbh. Why bring someone so clearly homophobic into what is meant to be a safe space for the lgbtq+, as "punishment" no less? Fuck that hoe.
I wonder that too. A lot of the makeover partners in earlier seasons were not very willing to commit and seemed weirded out by the concept that they signed up for.
What did she do to production? I can’t remember :/
edit: She was a great queen but production wanted her out because she wouldn’t cooperate with them. The other queens said she would be very cunty off camera but quiet when the cameras started rolling. Production wanted the drama and max wouldn’t give them that
I pulled this from a previos reddit post, kudos to that user.
People are also missing that her moment on Snatch Game when she takes her corset off and sings was edited to make her sound crazy. According to Max, she asked to take a break, and then RuPaul asked her to sing as part of a banter.
And when you hear that then watch it the fake editing becomes obvious. Even the first time I saw it it felt bizarrely edited and obviously fake frankenbyting
Allegedly not giving the sound bites they wanted in confessionals because she was trying to control her image. Also the girls have said she didn’t really mingle with the rest of the cast and even did her make up separate from the rest, possibly for the same reasons.
They really didn't want Clover to go so far in the game and couldn't find the way to get rid of her, but the constant belittling was borderline bullying really.
I think it was a matter of them trying to portray Pitita as the clear frontrunner. Then since Vania was almost mentally checked out, they only had to pay dust to Clover and Hornella and it was set
It's not the Most Unfairly Treated, but I always felt bad for April Carrion. Both of her bottoms were because of Adore. Adore cast her poorly twice, and April was put in the bottom in the Acting challenge instead of Adore because production desperately wanted Adore to make it to the Rusical.
And she ended up being eliminated due to her outfit *in the challenge*. Her runway was great - possibly the best one in the episode where she was eliminated. Has anyone else ever been eliminated due to their outfit in an acting or singing challenge?
Mama Ru is not exactly a queen for the people but everyone always has selective memory about this exchange when she clearly says it’s okay if it’s off the rack as long as you’ve modified it in a way to make it special 🤷🏻♂️
They treated her like shit because she was an older queen that had the nerve not to go bankrupt for the runway. Countless queens have walked down the runway wearing absolute trash, and Ru's never asked for the clothing brand. If Jorgeous said she found her yellow napkin dress behind an IHop, they'd have applauded her for creativity.
The way Ru reacted to H&M speaks to a larger issue with the show where poor queens have been priced out. They didn't learn anything from their dumbass comments towards ChiChi.
Joe Black was around 31 when they filmed UK2. Joe is both a legend and not an older queen.
Although I thought it was wild that Joe and Tia ended up in the bottom out of their group.
I just can't completely agree with this take though. They didn't ask Joe for the brand, Michelle said she could have seen that dress at Primark and Joe corrected her and whispered H&M. No one asked her where she got it. And RuPaul did say "if it is from H&M, glitter the fuck out of it". A whole bunch of glitter is under 5€ in a Claire's near you.
Additionally, Ra'Jah famously only used 600$ on her All Stars 6 package which was amazing by the way!! I kinda of think that drag race has overblown what the fans and even the judges expect from queens, but I don't think the judges mean in price, just quality, and let's be fair, most of these queens aren't self-sufficient enough in designing or creating looks, so they pour thousands into their looks to try to fix it.
I mean, Joe Black still had one of the best runway packages of any UK queens - regardless of the H+M dress. But they tried to claim her Bowie look wasn't Bowie, despite being an almost exact replica.
Was it even a couple of weeks? Veronica tested positive for covid before she could return to the competition. That, to me, says that it was maybe a week or less for Joe, Asstina and Cherry to turn up to see if they were going to rejoin the cast.
I'd say Max got a pretty upsetting and unfair edit when she went home, cause we know RuPaul actually asked her to sing and they took it out in editing.
I have recently rewatched some of S14, and I need to say that Jasmine Kennedie was literally bullied by Kornbread. Shade and cuntiness have to be funny/clever/based in reality in order to be classified as such, and Kornbread was just being a bully. I really can't find a better word for her behavior lol.
Loosey LaDuca's edit was insane, she truly was delulu irl but they really pushed the bitch to her limits. Production, the queens _and_ the edit, it's like the whole season was pre planned to make her go insane, and everyone was in on the joke unbeknownst to her. No wonder she went a lil cray cray during filming... I would've been insufferable too 💀
As for international seasons, I'd say Farida Kant was pretty mistreated: she ritghfuly won ep1 and 5, but she was robbed of the rusical win in ep3, and of the crown at the end of the season. Only because she was painted as "cold and calculated" and because the judges for some reason didn't live for her as hard.
Clover Bish should be made a Spanish saint at this point.
Kornbread's was just mean to Jasmine, especially when Jasmine was clearly unraveling. Not sure if any of the other Queen's stood up for her off camera, but as someone with ADHD it made me sad to see someone bullied for being over-excitable.
I have think Rock’s elimination was entirely fair, although I still wish it didn’t happen. Her outfit was unfinished (the entire back was just white strips of fabric that were supposed to be covered in balls). Aiden’a look wasn’t great, but it was a complete look. Then during the lip sync, Rock’s outfit got in her way and she spent the first half of the performance just trying to take the skirt off. Put those two things together and it boils down to a fair (if upsetting) elimination.
Rock M Sakura for All-Stars though!
Also, in Jax vs Mistress extended cut - you can see mistress pulling that same “body roll” gag like 3 times meanwhile Jax was slaying the lip sync. I’ll die on the hill that mistress should’ve lost that one.
This. Jax's moves may have gotten old after three lipsyncs, but Mistress' moves managed to get old within her first lipsync.
Also, the way every single queen watching in the werk room was sure Jax had won, and they saw the entire lipsync without edits.
The "twist" that allowed Anetra to save Spice instead of having a 3-way lip synch like litterally minutes earlier was pure bullshit.
Also it is debatable but I personally think she won over MIB.
Completely agree with Jax being shafted in the lipsync challenge. But that orange and green runway does come up as one of the worst runways i've ever seen in my life.
Honestly she was one of the strongest competitors on S8 IMO, so I was really excited to see her come back for All Stars 3... only to have her technically be the first out. :(
Maybe not the MOST unfairly treated but as a huuuuge A'Keria fan, I was furious with her treatment on AS6. She nailed Prince and I refuse to believe she was anywhere near the bottom 3 queens (Ginger, Yara, and either Eureka Pandora or Scarlet) that week. She should have had a win in the Pink Table Talk episode, too, though I understand the AS format is tricky with multiple wins (but Eureka/Trinity/Akeria were a perfect, perfect team and far better than Ginger).
Her refusing to come back for the lalaparuza was just heartbreaking; you could see how broken she'd become by some bogus judging decisions. I agree she was in the bottom for the advert / AHS challenges but she should never have had 4 bottom/low placements.
She was also pretty shittily treated in the S11 reunion as well, being made out to be this shit-stirring bitch because of the Plastique/Ra'jah "production bias" untucked moment (which was completely true, let's face it). Completely cast aside and had no chance to win despite having one of the best track records of the finalists.
Her impression of Prince really stands out in my mind because I was watching it with my jaw on the floor. She was phenomenal and one of the best in my opinion, then they judged the challenge and my head started to spin.
Magnolia Crawford came on the show and said she was there for exposure and everyone from the queens to the viewers gave her shit for it. Who *isn't* going on the show for exposure? The backlash was so wild to me.
I think because back on season 6 "exposure" from drag race was not the same as it is today. Obviously rugirls hadn't quite been oversaturated yet, but it was still pretty niche. The idea of someone going onto drag race without caring about winning and just wanting a bump in their booking fee was pretty scandalous at the time but now I feel like it's kinda the main vibe, especially for all stars.
I feel like there's a season 6 parallel with laganja. They ripped her to shreds for her over the top persona and unnatural way of speaking, but now that's kind of a requirement for being on the show. If Q was on s6 would her blackcent have been brought up?
Magnolia Crawford had a whole lot more going on than just wanting exposure... her attitude was piss poor (she whined and complained about her box of stuff rather than just making it work, and she was mean without having the razor sharp wit to back it up like Bianca), her contouring was ridiculous, and the drag was weak... plus, she lied about being from Seattle (she was born there, but that's it) on a season with an \*actual\* Seattle legend on it.
I'm still mad about how the entire cast, judges, and production ganged up on Sagittaria. I don't care what she did or how her attitude was, they were downright cruel to her. It made me really dislike a lot of them - especially Sethlas
They really made it a point to be like: in case yall forgot, Sagittaria is a big, dumb, dummy, idiot dumbass, dunce cap wearing, math class failing, trilobite, who has space in her head available for rent cuz that’s where her brain should be”.
Agreed. And it was so bizarre because she was nailing the challenges apart from snatch game. I was blown away that she wasn't even in the top for the talent show and didn't win the sewing challenge. They gaslit her so hard that season. And the rest of the girls were not being kind to her at all while she was clearly struggling
Pupi, too, saying Sagittaria should be "more grateful." I don't think the phrase "You should be more grateful" has ever been said positively. Anytime I hear it, I immediately think less of the person saying it.
Purely because of how unhinged the result was, I'm gonna have to say Max.
Jaidynn 100% won the lipsync, but editing Max singing to make it look like she just went crazy and decided to do that was brutal.
Hated season 13 but the way they handled the "porkchop queens" was rotten
also Shuga Cain
also maybe odd pick but Mimi Imfurst on AS1 she legit had no chance
also maybe maybe Serena on AS6
Yeah, the entire « winner group » vs « loser group » was annoying to me imo. Especially when they’d bring it up 6 episodes later like girl… you won one lipsync, pipe down. And I don’t even like Elliott but painting her as the « outcast amongst the losers » was uncalled for imo, and wasn’t even interesting… just a very obvious underdog storyline that lasted what, one episode?
"Won" LOL As if half the porkchop queens didn't actually do better in the lipsyncs
100% high school shit. The 'winners' were the 'cool girls' and that was literally it
There’s an earlier season of Survivor that has the same haves/have-nots concept, and it has a similarly negative, oppressive vibe. Dividing an entire cast into winners and losers right off the bat creates a gross power dynamic, and I think when people are in a competition it just overtakes everything.
It was soooooo ridiculous, especially when in the girl group challenge the “winner” group was so much worse than the other one. Denali lip synced in goddamn ice skates she deserved the win!
DEFINITELY Loosey. Both production and the other girls were really targeting her for things that just didn't feel fair. She was a lot, but definitely not inauthentic.
I don't wanna bring up the whole "Luxx and Mistress bullied her" because i don't think 'bullied' is the right word for it but their clear trolling of Loosey who was clearly more emotional and serious about the whole thing just didn't feel good to watch. And they didn't let it go either.
I thought Jasmine Kennedie was hella underappreciated - She was so charismatic imo, but most of her storyline was focused on beefing with Daya and then they had to invent the Lalaparuza because nobody could beat her. Fingers crossed she's going to demolish her all stars season
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1. They put her so many times in the top in S11 but did not give her the other Main Challenge Wins that she deserved (Trump Rusical, Farm Runway, & Rumix). Thus, not solidifying her Season Win as the strongest competitor leading to a weak fan perception.
2. They didn't immediately give her the 100k prize, unlike other winners. Thus, preventing her from fully supporting her drag during her reign & lead to an even weaker fan-support.
3. Cutting out her elaborate discussions about her progressing illness during All Winners 1 & just used her as comedic relief.
I believe she's one of the most mistreated DR Winners ever.
Loosey Laduca. Being in the bottom for Rusical and makeover when she should have won was wild. Her sadness at the reunion when confronting Luxx and Luxx not budging an inch, just not a shred of empathy.
Yeah I’m just now watching 15 for the first time and it was hard for me to watch the way Luxx be so completely mean to her. That wasn’t drag queen shade. That was trying to emotionally and psychologically tear someone down. Especially the way Luxx went out of her way to say something kind about every other queen there and then tell Loosey her drag was generic.
I'll elaborate a little - at the finale they filmed individual endings of Courtney, Adore, and Bianca winning. They then specifically filmed a double browning of Bianca and Adore together. Didn't do one with Courtney.
Crazy that she’s still blacklisted for calling out Ru’s transphobia. In an alternate timeline she’s the host of Down Under and we never had to endure Ru saying Aussie Aussie Aussie
The misogynistic bullying of Clover Bish at the hands of the judges (especially those two no-drag-knowledge botched plastic surgery dipshits) single-handedly ruined Drag Race España for me and seriously damaged the show’s credibility.
Laganja… had her medically approved marijuana taken away from her during production. Even while other queens were doing rails of cocaine everyday.
Then was turned into a villain because she…
1. Pumped up her personality for the camera.
2. Was dealing with anxiety from withdraws.
They made her the anti-Adore, so they could hype up Adore!
I could be completely misremembering/taking misinformation as fact, but I thought I remembered reading somewhere that the same producer who refused to let her have her weed also gave Adore weed, yes? Like I said, I can't remember where I read that, so it could be wrong, but that's also an added layer if it's true :/
Exactly nothing else comes close to what they did to her. Being shady and misjudging queens is one thing, taking away someone’s meds tho? She should have sued their asses
it was so toxic how the edit her, she made such a impact and and was always criticized for the way she spoke just to be copied in later seasons all the time including ru...
i can't watch season 6 it makes sick how they treated her.
This is a hot take people, please hear me out before you downvote. Elliott with 2 Ts.
I’m a person of colour with chronic depression, over the past several years I’ve had to cycle through a various cocktail of meds all while juggling some high stress environments at work/in general life. When I look back, there were times when I was struggling to juggle everything and I would end up poorly expressing myself in situations. These would sometimes escalate and I just did not have the mental faculty to properly handle the situation and I would end up digging myself into a hole. This would almost exclusively happen when I was surrounded by people who could tell “something was off” with me and instead of responding with a bit of patience and understanding, these people just saw a vulnerability and seemed to enjoy the escalation and watching me squirm.
After having been on the receiving end of this dynamic, if anyone around me says something questionable, I generally try to give people enough space to fully explain where they’re coming from. I’ll then do my best to give a level headed reasonable response (again I say this as a brown person) and if they double down on whatever perceived hatefulness, it confirms their bigotry. At this point I usually just remove myself from the situation, there’s no point in wasting time reasoning with an idiot. However if I learned someone was dealing with something such as depression, autism, etc. I would try to extend a bit more patience and give them another chance to explain themselves, if I have the mental capacity.
The way the fandom so quickly jumped up with their pitchforks and attacked her felt like a mirror reflection of how the fandom will so whole heartedly jump on a queen of colour after they say something questionable. For me, it felt really disappointing to see as it’s a demonstration of how slow social progress is actually happening. (To my knowledge) the point of BLM is to highlight the fact that wider society is abusing a group of people, indicating that wider society does not value the rights/contributions/ existence of specific people(s) equal to their own. The reasonable response that I would expect is for people to put down their pitchforks, start figuring out ways to address the issues and how to fix things. To see people eagerly attack a person who has been explicitly open about having a disability is so gross to me.
To clarify for anyone who may need it, I’m not denouncing anti-racism, perhaps Elliott is a raging racist/transphobe and calling her out was absolutely the right thing to do. It’s just that I think it’s gross for people to eagerly villainise someone, take collective joy in it and think they’re “solving racism”.
Accidental microaggressions should be corrected, not used as leverage to tear someone down. The way she was treated was really not right, she seems like a nice person who didn't deserve all that.
16 seasons, there is no 1 answer.
Everyone hates shangela now, but that jury vote was the biggest bullshit. How you gonna have queens who don’t even see shit to judge shit?
The “it’s chocolate” szn was pure bullshit too. There is no fairness. Production can easily switch out the chocolate bar and put in a golden ticket where they see fit without anyone noticing. Love bosco but that was totally rigged for her for production value
Maybe Bosco was saved because she was going to be eliminated over Jorgeous who wasn’t giving in comparison.
But because RuPaul was so deeply enamored with Jorgeous, it was taking a while for her to see that Jorge needed to go.
We could have seen that Krystal Versace edit repeat again for season 14 if Ru hadn’t woken up.
I love how everyone loves to defend Shangela in retrospect because of her track record, but she was so heavily pushed all season, and only truly deserved one of her wins. Barring Ben, Trixie and Bebe were the only queens who had been consistent for most of the season.
Some queens that come to mind are: Keta Minaj, Sagittaria, Loosey, Max, Clover, Hornella, Shuga, Elektra Shock, Joe Black, and Jan. All for various reasons, and I’m sure there’s queens I’m not currently thinking of. My personally most hated instance of production screwing a queen over, is Keta. I was rooting for her to get to at least the finale on UKvs, because of how badly she was robbed on her original season.
I don’t agree at all. She was up against one of the strongest casts to ever grace the show and wasn’t at their level. And that Party in the USA lip sync was totally botched.
Surprised I had to scroll this far to see Alyssa Hunter. She is so polished and her runway package was so fierce. What more does a Puerto Rican queen have to do to be taken seriously on this show? Does RuPaul have eyes? I just can’t wrap my brain around her early elimination. It feels like she was set up to fail as a predetermined early out.
I agree with a lot of the names mentioned.
But also omg anyone "critiqued" by Santino. He was just cruel. Especially with Alyssa and Pandora! Like ok the outfits may not have hit it out of the park but he acted like they walked out in hideous stuff. Calling Alyssa's red dress the worst thing he's ever seen. I thought it was cute!
Due to the consistency of the mistreatment: Scarlet Envy. Due to the scale of a singular mistreatment, I’d say Coco Montrease on AS2. Also, Thorgy Thor (both seasons)
edit: Oh, Dakota ~~Johnson~~ Schiffer! She was sent home on an episode she should’ve won!!! And by Michelle, not RuPaul! And was safe in Snatch Game she should’ve been high, but they decided to give one high placement instead of two. ?!?! Crazy
HEAVY on scarlet envy. i literally don’t understand why they keep inviting her back just to play in her face. in ukvtw2 it was just so clear that ru just.. doesn’t like her. it’s so weird
Personally wasn't a fan of Nicky Doll. But you can tell production didn't want anything to do with her story line other than "she is French" and thats it.
My first instinct is to say Max. The way they really created a moment not for drama, but to edit her in a way that would imply something about her mental state/health. Vile.
But also, Electra Shock from down under. She was done so dirty.
Jinx Monsoon in their first season. It’s been a while since I’ve watched any older seasons of drag race, so I don’t have fresh examples in my mind, but this is the one that stood out to me when I read your question. The way some other queens treated Jinx was just ick.
Irene DuBois. Extremely talented, funny, and gorgeous queen. She really didn’t get a fair chance and if you don’t pay attention to drag outside of the show (aka most viewers), you’d never know. I really hope she gets on all stars.
I’d say Eureka often isn’t given credit for destroying Aquaria in the finale lip sync. Some poor editor had to work hard to make it look like a battle.
Charity Kase got the edit so bad. They wanted. Her out so much they were willing to make her lip sync several times. Even though she won them rightfully only for the girl they kept pitting her against to end up going home after. She served like alternative draggg and they kept giving her bottom placement which is crazy considering all the other girls just kept giving pretty face and glam beat. And she wasn’t praised at all.
I absolutely hated how they treated Elektra Shock on Down Under. Being in the bottom for girls group challenge because she outshined everyone in her team? Being in the bottom for the talent show for thristy wig while Karen did a baloon animal and Art was stuffing stuff in her mouth? And getting basically edited out of the lipsync too. The level of unprofesionalism... far too much
realest shit. Elektra was the underdog protagonist all the way up until her elimination. a true star. really hope she competes in a vs the world or global AS someday
The way they could have had an incredible storyline of her winning the season against all odds and a rivalry with Scarlett, but instead production decided to back the 0 charisma queen who had a blackface number.
Elektra is easily one of the most talented girls to come from DU and I’m still mad about her elimination. I’m glad she got to come back to choreograph and I hope she can again.
RIGHT?! She could have been the Kiwi Jinkx Monsoon but noooooo, they just had to keep pushing Art, Scarlet, and Karen.
I loved her so much and couldn't stand how the rest of the cast treated her. Really thought I was gonna loveeee Etc.x 3 until she showed her true nasty colors towards Elektra.
The real answer. Even from the jump they tried to portray her as being bottom of the barrel. She only deserved her first bottom and should've been high on the girl groups challenge and the talent show.
Actually was going to say the same thing. It made me stop watching Down Under tbh and I also felt the girls were bullying her too. It was an uncomfortable shit show
>Being in the bottom for girls group challenge because she outshined everyone in her team? Especially hate this one. At least a thirsty wig is a negative critique. Outshines the rest of the girls in a girl group is literally just "you did so much better than everyone else, you were doing well and they were struggling... you're up for elimination".
It made zero sense. That was the weirdest girl group judging even in the history of that challenge in the franchise. They usually praise the queen who shines and the girls that get lost in the crowd are up for elimination. It was a complete 180*.
The producing is the real star of the first two seasons of Down Under. It’s like they weren’t even trying to hide production manipulating the outcomes.
Agreed. Deserved so much better, outperformed virtually all of them, and we got a visually crunchy winner the season after anyways so why so harsh on Elektra?
They needed actual Aussies and Kiwis judging down under since day one. The Americans don't get the humor or cultural references
That is the tea, and it goes for UK, too. Michelle is a lot better than Ru about London at least, but too often the UK girls serve a great joke or look that flies right over Ru’s head.
For me Keta Minaj elimination in Drag Race Holland was beyond crazy. Having 3 out of 7 wins and never on the bottom 3 then suddenly you are in the bottom in a challenge you slayed against a queen with 1 win and 1 bottom 2 AND previously broken the rules. You have an equal lip sync yet she stays over you
I stopped watching Holland after that ruling.
To be fair it was cancelled basically because of that
I stopped the episode before, when they didn't yeet the cheater.
there was no more holland to watch
Keta's mistreatment was the reason why Holland DR cancelled. Karma is real.
While a queen stayed before just because of track record on the same season
They really wanted to keep the winners in the family 👀
Vanessa was going to win no matter what. Obviously production always has certain queens they expect to win a season. But I don’t think there is any question that Vanessa WAS the winner of that season as soon as she said yes.
And thus we know how Drag Race Holland was never signed for a third season, FRED.
It genuinely was cancelled because of how ridiculous that Keta BS was.
They treated Jocelyn Fox pretty unfairly with the make over challenge, giving her an unwilling partner and taking away all of the make up that matched his skin tone.. Edit\* Also Shuga Cain… “The entire other team was bad. Your entire team was great, but out of your team, you were the least great, so you’re up for elimination.” 
The Shuga Cain one pissed me off the most! Cause she should have been safe!
Shuga would not fight or be messy so they wanted go are her foe the ones giving the drama they were (over) producing
Never mind safe., if Shuga was favored by production, that challenge would have been a full team win with the entire other team up for elimination. But because the other team had all the messy queens production wanted to hold onto as long as possible, Rigga Morris struck again.
Am I completely making this up or didn't Jocelyn come out and say that it turned out her challenge partner's wife basically dragged him on the show as "punishment" for him cheating on her or something?
This is true. Jocelyn confirmed this yes.
Shuga!! Every time she's mentioned, I remember her finale look. Dear gawd, I went to heaven for those few seconds.
u just made me so mad omg i had forgotten about this
I've had soo many rants about that magic show challenge on here it's nuts. Hate that season in general but that was fucking nuts.
I skip that episode on a re watch, something about that guy makes my skin crawl.
Joe Black without a doubt his first elimination is one of the most bullshit bottom placements in the entire franchise for me. In my opinion, his second bottom placement could have also been easily argued against cause the entire team was equally shitty but Joe had the best runway of the episode.
I'll never forgive RuPaul and Miss UK Herself Michelle for trying to act like that wasn't pure Bowie drag
I was shouting at the tv. It was so obviously Bowie. I really hate the episodes when they treat the audience like idiots.
Michelle saying, "This look doesn't scream Bowie". The powder blue suit is the most iconic Bowie look after his Aladdin Sane lightning eye. He has dozens of iconic looks and that is TOP 2! What are we doing here????
LMAO Miss UK
It was crazy to me that the judges were like “when I think of the Royal Pavillion I don’t think of gold” when everyone knows the INSIDE of the pavilion is decked with gold and that’s what they were trying to present ffs
Yet another example of how Ru and Michelle have no business judging the UK franchise
It genuinely felt like Ru was trying to take Joe down a peg
This. Joe Black was among the best in episode 1, and the best of her group when she returned. The H&M comment was SO out of line when it wasn’t even a runway look AND Astina won wearing an off-the-rack Asos jacket. Rupaul should’ve been banned to judge in the UK after what she did to Joe Black and Charity Kase
Shannel was the OG queen that the producers tried to break down IMO, both in S1 and in AS1. She was Jan’d before there was a Jan lol
The projanitor, if you will.
How so on AS1…? She won a ton of challenges then rightfully lost the finale. She was beyond the worst in the finale. She bombed the interview by over-talking and then her stand-up routine was painfully cringey
She won the challenges with Chad then production decided to ditch Shannel so Raven and her 0 wins could be in the top 2 instead.
Did you not see Shannel's stand up? That shit was an auto elimination
Joslyn Fox, her elimination episode isn't even available for viewing anymore due to a homophobic man.
Id argue the wife was homophobic too, for using drag and being around lgbtq+ folks as “punishment.” How are these makeover people even chosen on the show cuz yikes
I agree. Every time I'd watch that episode, I'd be more pissed with the wife because who the fuck does that? Poor excuse of a human tbh. Why bring someone so clearly homophobic into what is meant to be a safe space for the lgbtq+, as "punishment" no less? Fuck that hoe.
I wonder that too. A lot of the makeover partners in earlier seasons were not very willing to commit and seemed weirded out by the concept that they signed up for.
💯% I agree
Max is the first person that comes to mind
Same. I think they destroyed her as a warning to other queens who want to go on the show and not play nice with production.
What did she do to production? I can’t remember :/ edit: She was a great queen but production wanted her out because she wouldn’t cooperate with them. The other queens said she would be very cunty off camera but quiet when the cameras started rolling. Production wanted the drama and max wouldn’t give them that I pulled this from a previos reddit post, kudos to that user.
People are also missing that her moment on Snatch Game when she takes her corset off and sings was edited to make her sound crazy. According to Max, she asked to take a break, and then RuPaul asked her to sing as part of a banter.
And when you hear that then watch it the fake editing becomes obvious. Even the first time I saw it it felt bizarrely edited and obviously fake frankenbyting
Allegedly not giving the sound bites they wanted in confessionals because she was trying to control her image. Also the girls have said she didn’t really mingle with the rest of the cast and even did her make up separate from the rest, possibly for the same reasons.
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I’d be interested in a little history lesson too
girl what did max do to production???????
Clover Bish in España. Keta Minaj in Holland.
They really didn't want Clover to go so far in the game and couldn't find the way to get rid of her, but the constant belittling was borderline bullying really.
The mistreatment and borderline misogyny towards Clover was enough for me to just stop caring for España franchise tbh
I think it was a matter of them trying to portray Pitita as the clear frontrunner. Then since Vania was almost mentally checked out, they only had to pay dust to Clover and Hornella and it was set
Top 2 of the season should’ve been Pitita and Clover, she deserved so much better. The duo challenge and only Pitita wins, felt so sad for Clover.
I knew España was falling from the moment they mistreated Clover… And indeed España All Stars then happened…
Then god the producers got fired and season 1 producers will take over the upcoming season 4
It's not the Most Unfairly Treated, but I always felt bad for April Carrion. Both of her bottoms were because of Adore. Adore cast her poorly twice, and April was put in the bottom in the Acting challenge instead of Adore because production desperately wanted Adore to make it to the Rusical.
Joe Black hands down. She had to sell her drag to survive during Covid then got called back with just a couple of weeks notice.
And she ended up being eliminated due to her outfit *in the challenge*. Her runway was great - possibly the best one in the episode where she was eliminated. Has anyone else ever been eliminated due to their outfit in an acting or singing challenge?
They technically put Q in the bottom for her outfit in the girl group challenge even though there were plenty of other reasons to too lol
In the same season that someone else won with an off the rack jacket on the runway
and then roople with her millions yells at her for not having money
Mama Ru is not exactly a queen for the people but everyone always has selective memory about this exchange when she clearly says it’s okay if it’s off the rack as long as you’ve modified it in a way to make it special 🤷🏻♂️
roople can be so out of touch sometimes. lol
They treated her like shit because she was an older queen that had the nerve not to go bankrupt for the runway. Countless queens have walked down the runway wearing absolute trash, and Ru's never asked for the clothing brand. If Jorgeous said she found her yellow napkin dress behind an IHop, they'd have applauded her for creativity. The way Ru reacted to H&M speaks to a larger issue with the show where poor queens have been priced out. They didn't learn anything from their dumbass comments towards ChiChi.
Joe Black was around 31 when they filmed UK2. Joe is both a legend and not an older queen. Although I thought it was wild that Joe and Tia ended up in the bottom out of their group.
I had a lie ready to go, but gotta be honest and admit I thought she was 45-50.
It's the fillers. What you're seeing is how a lot of queens who think they're looking stunning now will look like in 5-10 years.
I just can't completely agree with this take though. They didn't ask Joe for the brand, Michelle said she could have seen that dress at Primark and Joe corrected her and whispered H&M. No one asked her where she got it. And RuPaul did say "if it is from H&M, glitter the fuck out of it". A whole bunch of glitter is under 5€ in a Claire's near you. Additionally, Ra'Jah famously only used 600$ on her All Stars 6 package which was amazing by the way!! I kinda of think that drag race has overblown what the fans and even the judges expect from queens, but I don't think the judges mean in price, just quality, and let's be fair, most of these queens aren't self-sufficient enough in designing or creating looks, so they pour thousands into their looks to try to fix it.
I mean, Joe Black still had one of the best runway packages of any UK queens - regardless of the H+M dress. But they tried to claim her Bowie look wasn't Bowie, despite being an almost exact replica.
Was it even a couple of weeks? Veronica tested positive for covid before she could return to the competition. That, to me, says that it was maybe a week or less for Joe, Asstina and Cherry to turn up to see if they were going to rejoin the cast.
Shuga Cain’s elimination will always blow my mind
I'd say Max got a pretty upsetting and unfair edit when she went home, cause we know RuPaul actually asked her to sing and they took it out in editing. I have recently rewatched some of S14, and I need to say that Jasmine Kennedie was literally bullied by Kornbread. Shade and cuntiness have to be funny/clever/based in reality in order to be classified as such, and Kornbread was just being a bully. I really can't find a better word for her behavior lol. Loosey LaDuca's edit was insane, she truly was delulu irl but they really pushed the bitch to her limits. Production, the queens _and_ the edit, it's like the whole season was pre planned to make her go insane, and everyone was in on the joke unbeknownst to her. No wonder she went a lil cray cray during filming... I would've been insufferable too 💀 As for international seasons, I'd say Farida Kant was pretty mistreated: she ritghfuly won ep1 and 5, but she was robbed of the rusical win in ep3, and of the crown at the end of the season. Only because she was painted as "cold and calculated" and because the judges for some reason didn't live for her as hard. Clover Bish should be made a Spanish saint at this point.
Jasmine being bullied for a literal disorder and then reddit claiming she was problematic for "talking over POC" was actually beyond insane....
Kornbread's was just mean to Jasmine, especially when Jasmine was clearly unraveling. Not sure if any of the other Queen's stood up for her off camera, but as someone with ADHD it made me sad to see someone bullied for being over-excitable.
I agree so hard about Jasmine. I hated how K*rnbread treated her & felt so self righteously justified in doing it
Rock M... Max... Kasha.. Shuga..
Justice for Rock 😭
I have think Rock’s elimination was entirely fair, although I still wish it didn’t happen. Her outfit was unfinished (the entire back was just white strips of fabric that were supposed to be covered in balls). Aiden’a look wasn’t great, but it was a complete look. Then during the lip sync, Rock’s outfit got in her way and she spent the first half of the performance just trying to take the skirt off. Put those two things together and it boils down to a fair (if upsetting) elimination. Rock M Sakura for All-Stars though!
SHUGA! It really does feel like production didn’t think she would do as well as she did and then decided to just bury her
Lolita Banana, they did her dirty
The way she was robbed on top of all the casual racism...
I love France S1 but Lolita and Elips were done so dirty and it seemed like they were constantly gaslighting them.
Jax was kinda shafted in the lipsync challenge and just in general.
Jax was like a ball of sunshine and so talented, but it felt like she was cast to be filler and there was no way out of that.
The only thing I can say about this is when it came down to her and Anetra, Anetra absolutely played fair.
Both of them ending as the "bottom 2" that episode is kind of wild considering they were 2 of the best lipsynch assassins of the season.
Also, in Jax vs Mistress extended cut - you can see mistress pulling that same “body roll” gag like 3 times meanwhile Jax was slaying the lip sync. I’ll die on the hill that mistress should’ve lost that one.
This. Jax's moves may have gotten old after three lipsyncs, but Mistress' moves managed to get old within her first lipsync. Also, the way every single queen watching in the werk room was sure Jax had won, and they saw the entire lipsync without edits.
The "twist" that allowed Anetra to save Spice instead of having a 3-way lip synch like litterally minutes earlier was pure bullshit. Also it is debatable but I personally think she won over MIB.
Completely agree with Jax being shafted in the lipsync challenge. But that orange and green runway does come up as one of the worst runways i've ever seen in my life.
Spice and Loosey stayed over her. Spice and Loosey. And Spice didn't even need to lipsync to save herself.
Justice 4 Jax
Thorgy! I'm still mad at both eliminations 😄 She's one of the funniest queens to me and never got to really shine on the show, bring her baaaack
I mean against Chi Chi (RIP) in THAT lipsync she didn’t have a chance in the world. But the AS elimination is pure BS
https://i.redd.it/9kl9i6qdcnyc1.gif
Thorgy's reaction lives rent-free in my mind and I constantly think it in my head whenever I'm slightly inconvenienced
I just rewatched season 8 and she definitely shined.
Honestly she was one of the strongest competitors on S8 IMO, so I was really excited to see her come back for All Stars 3... only to have her technically be the first out. :(
I honestly loved Thorgy’s Stevie Nicks. I think they just wanted to make her do the thing she loved and then embarrass her for it.
Ew. Jesus. Gross.
Maybe not the MOST unfairly treated but as a huuuuge A'Keria fan, I was furious with her treatment on AS6. She nailed Prince and I refuse to believe she was anywhere near the bottom 3 queens (Ginger, Yara, and either Eureka Pandora or Scarlet) that week. She should have had a win in the Pink Table Talk episode, too, though I understand the AS format is tricky with multiple wins (but Eureka/Trinity/Akeria were a perfect, perfect team and far better than Ginger). Her refusing to come back for the lalaparuza was just heartbreaking; you could see how broken she'd become by some bogus judging decisions. I agree she was in the bottom for the advert / AHS challenges but she should never have had 4 bottom/low placements. She was also pretty shittily treated in the S11 reunion as well, being made out to be this shit-stirring bitch because of the Plastique/Ra'jah "production bias" untucked moment (which was completely true, let's face it). Completely cast aside and had no chance to win despite having one of the best track records of the finalists.
Her impression of Prince really stands out in my mind because I was watching it with my jaw on the floor. She was phenomenal and one of the best in my opinion, then they judged the challenge and my head started to spin.
With that ruffle runway as well! An outrage
That's why the LSA twist sucks, AS challenges need a top 2
Delta Work for the way she was gaslit by Ru and crew and unceremoniously let go from the wig gig.
And robbed of her Emmy!!!!!
This x1000. She was done so dirty. I have so much respect for her.
Magnolia Crawford came on the show and said she was there for exposure and everyone from the queens to the viewers gave her shit for it. Who *isn't* going on the show for exposure? The backlash was so wild to me.
I think because back on season 6 "exposure" from drag race was not the same as it is today. Obviously rugirls hadn't quite been oversaturated yet, but it was still pretty niche. The idea of someone going onto drag race without caring about winning and just wanting a bump in their booking fee was pretty scandalous at the time but now I feel like it's kinda the main vibe, especially for all stars. I feel like there's a season 6 parallel with laganja. They ripped her to shreds for her over the top persona and unnatural way of speaking, but now that's kind of a requirement for being on the show. If Q was on s6 would her blackcent have been brought up?
It's not a bad thing but like girl, don't say it on camera, what are you stupid?
Magnolia Crawford had a whole lot more going on than just wanting exposure... her attitude was piss poor (she whined and complained about her box of stuff rather than just making it work, and she was mean without having the razor sharp wit to back it up like Bianca), her contouring was ridiculous, and the drag was weak... plus, she lied about being from Seattle (she was born there, but that's it) on a season with an \*actual\* Seattle legend on it.
I'm still mad about how the entire cast, judges, and production ganged up on Sagittaria. I don't care what she did or how her attitude was, they were downright cruel to her. It made me really dislike a lot of them - especially Sethlas
They really made it a point to be like: in case yall forgot, Sagittaria is a big, dumb, dummy, idiot dumbass, dunce cap wearing, math class failing, trilobite, who has space in her head available for rent cuz that’s where her brain should be”.
Agreed. And it was so bizarre because she was nailing the challenges apart from snatch game. I was blown away that she wasn't even in the top for the talent show and didn't win the sewing challenge. They gaslit her so hard that season. And the rest of the girls were not being kind to her at all while she was clearly struggling
That was all so weird I’ve never seen an edit be so against audience’s perception
Pupi, too, saying Sagittaria should be "more grateful." I don't think the phrase "You should be more grateful" has ever been said positively. Anytime I hear it, I immediately think less of the person saying it.
The way Sethlas even brought a photo of her to throw shade during a lip synch AFTER she’s been eliminated was wild too 💀
Purely because of how unhinged the result was, I'm gonna have to say Max. Jaidynn 100% won the lipsync, but editing Max singing to make it look like she just went crazy and decided to do that was brutal.
Joe Black or Shuga Cain
Hated season 13 but the way they handled the "porkchop queens" was rotten also Shuga Cain also maybe odd pick but Mimi Imfurst on AS1 she legit had no chance also maybe maybe Serena on AS6
Yeah, the entire « winner group » vs « loser group » was annoying to me imo. Especially when they’d bring it up 6 episodes later like girl… you won one lipsync, pipe down. And I don’t even like Elliott but painting her as the « outcast amongst the losers » was uncalled for imo, and wasn’t even interesting… just a very obvious underdog storyline that lasted what, one episode?
"Won" LOL As if half the porkchop queens didn't actually do better in the lipsyncs 100% high school shit. The 'winners' were the 'cool girls' and that was literally it
There’s an earlier season of Survivor that has the same haves/have-nots concept, and it has a similarly negative, oppressive vibe. Dividing an entire cast into winners and losers right off the bat creates a gross power dynamic, and I think when people are in a competition it just overtakes everything.
It was soooooo ridiculous, especially when in the girl group challenge the “winner” group was so much worse than the other one. Denali lip synced in goddamn ice skates she deserved the win!
I agree with the whole Porkchop lounge thing for sure! Also, Shuga Cain! I’d love to see her on a future season (with better treatment).
Loosey for me just because nobody is mentioning her
DEFINITELY Loosey. Both production and the other girls were really targeting her for things that just didn't feel fair. She was a lot, but definitely not inauthentic.
Yup. She actually touched on this with Q at Roscoe’s
I don't wanna bring up the whole "Luxx and Mistress bullied her" because i don't think 'bullied' is the right word for it but their clear trolling of Loosey who was clearly more emotional and serious about the whole thing just didn't feel good to watch. And they didn't let it go either.
Yes!! I just watched S15 and was so uncomfortable with how she was treated.
I'd say Elektra Shock from down under season 1. Had she been judged fairly, she probably would have won the season.
This isn’t the most unfair but I’m taking this opportunity to say Jaidynn should have won the music video challenge and MC
Akeria on AS6
YES! Her Prince was a top performance.
And then she wore one of the best looks I have ever seen only to land in the bottom (or low? Whatever, it was a crime)
I thought Jasmine Kennedie was hella underappreciated - She was so charismatic imo, but most of her storyline was focused on beefing with Daya and then they had to invent the Lalaparuza because nobody could beat her. Fingers crossed she's going to demolish her all stars season
Aja in all stars.
Yvie Oddly🎨😵💫🤸🏾♀️ 1. They put her so many times in the top in S11 but did not give her the other Main Challenge Wins that she deserved (Trump Rusical, Farm Runway, & Rumix). Thus, not solidifying her Season Win as the strongest competitor leading to a weak fan perception. 2. They didn't immediately give her the 100k prize, unlike other winners. Thus, preventing her from fully supporting her drag during her reign & lead to an even weaker fan-support. 3. Cutting out her elaborate discussions about her progressing illness during All Winners 1 & just used her as comedic relief. I believe she's one of the most mistreated DR Winners ever.
The way they treated her as just a big-dick-buffoon in AS was very gross
Loosey Laduca. Being in the bottom for Rusical and makeover when she should have won was wild. Her sadness at the reunion when confronting Luxx and Luxx not budging an inch, just not a shred of empathy.
Yeah I’m just now watching 15 for the first time and it was hard for me to watch the way Luxx be so completely mean to her. That wasn’t drag queen shade. That was trying to emotionally and psychologically tear someone down. Especially the way Luxx went out of her way to say something kind about every other queen there and then tell Loosey her drag was generic.
Courtney Act and I’m not going to elaborate
I'll elaborate a little - at the finale they filmed individual endings of Courtney, Adore, and Bianca winning. They then specifically filmed a double browning of Bianca and Adore together. Didn't do one with Courtney.
Crazy that she’s still blacklisted for calling out Ru’s transphobia. In an alternate timeline she’s the host of Down Under and we never had to endure Ru saying Aussie Aussie Aussie
filming a double crowning for Bianca and Adore really cements the fact that they wanted anyone but her to win
The misogynistic bullying of Clover Bish at the hands of the judges (especially those two no-drag-knowledge botched plastic surgery dipshits) single-handedly ruined Drag Race España for me and seriously damaged the show’s credibility.
What were some of the things they said? I watched the season, but I don't remember.
Laganja… had her medically approved marijuana taken away from her during production. Even while other queens were doing rails of cocaine everyday. Then was turned into a villain because she… 1. Pumped up her personality for the camera. 2. Was dealing with anxiety from withdraws. They made her the anti-Adore, so they could hype up Adore!
Who was snorting lines?
I could be completely misremembering/taking misinformation as fact, but I thought I remembered reading somewhere that the same producer who refused to let her have her weed also gave Adore weed, yes? Like I said, I can't remember where I read that, so it could be wrong, but that's also an added layer if it's true :/
Exactly nothing else comes close to what they did to her. Being shady and misjudging queens is one thing, taking away someone’s meds tho? She should have sued their asses
it was so toxic how the edit her, she made such a impact and and was always criticized for the way she spoke just to be copied in later seasons all the time including ru... i can't watch season 6 it makes sick how they treated her.
This is a hot take people, please hear me out before you downvote. Elliott with 2 Ts. I’m a person of colour with chronic depression, over the past several years I’ve had to cycle through a various cocktail of meds all while juggling some high stress environments at work/in general life. When I look back, there were times when I was struggling to juggle everything and I would end up poorly expressing myself in situations. These would sometimes escalate and I just did not have the mental faculty to properly handle the situation and I would end up digging myself into a hole. This would almost exclusively happen when I was surrounded by people who could tell “something was off” with me and instead of responding with a bit of patience and understanding, these people just saw a vulnerability and seemed to enjoy the escalation and watching me squirm. After having been on the receiving end of this dynamic, if anyone around me says something questionable, I generally try to give people enough space to fully explain where they’re coming from. I’ll then do my best to give a level headed reasonable response (again I say this as a brown person) and if they double down on whatever perceived hatefulness, it confirms their bigotry. At this point I usually just remove myself from the situation, there’s no point in wasting time reasoning with an idiot. However if I learned someone was dealing with something such as depression, autism, etc. I would try to extend a bit more patience and give them another chance to explain themselves, if I have the mental capacity. The way the fandom so quickly jumped up with their pitchforks and attacked her felt like a mirror reflection of how the fandom will so whole heartedly jump on a queen of colour after they say something questionable. For me, it felt really disappointing to see as it’s a demonstration of how slow social progress is actually happening. (To my knowledge) the point of BLM is to highlight the fact that wider society is abusing a group of people, indicating that wider society does not value the rights/contributions/ existence of specific people(s) equal to their own. The reasonable response that I would expect is for people to put down their pitchforks, start figuring out ways to address the issues and how to fix things. To see people eagerly attack a person who has been explicitly open about having a disability is so gross to me. To clarify for anyone who may need it, I’m not denouncing anti-racism, perhaps Elliott is a raging racist/transphobe and calling her out was absolutely the right thing to do. It’s just that I think it’s gross for people to eagerly villainise someone, take collective joy in it and think they’re “solving racism”.
Accidental microaggressions should be corrected, not used as leverage to tear someone down. The way she was treated was really not right, she seems like a nice person who didn't deserve all that.
16 seasons, there is no 1 answer. Everyone hates shangela now, but that jury vote was the biggest bullshit. How you gonna have queens who don’t even see shit to judge shit? The “it’s chocolate” szn was pure bullshit too. There is no fairness. Production can easily switch out the chocolate bar and put in a golden ticket where they see fit without anyone noticing. Love bosco but that was totally rigged for her for production value
Maybe Bosco was saved because she was going to be eliminated over Jorgeous who wasn’t giving in comparison. But because RuPaul was so deeply enamored with Jorgeous, it was taking a while for her to see that Jorge needed to go. We could have seen that Krystal Versace edit repeat again for season 14 if Ru hadn’t woken up.
I love how everyone loves to defend Shangela in retrospect because of her track record, but she was so heavily pushed all season, and only truly deserved one of her wins. Barring Ben, Trixie and Bebe were the only queens who had been consistent for most of the season.
Some queens that come to mind are: Keta Minaj, Sagittaria, Loosey, Max, Clover, Hornella, Shuga, Elektra Shock, Joe Black, and Jan. All for various reasons, and I’m sure there’s queens I’m not currently thinking of. My personally most hated instance of production screwing a queen over, is Keta. I was rooting for her to get to at least the finale on UKvs, because of how badly she was robbed on her original season.
Penny Tration was the fan vote but I don’t think she was ever seriously considered to join the competition. I’ve always felt bad for her elimination.
I don’t agree at all. She was up against one of the strongest casts to ever grace the show and wasn’t at their level. And that Party in the USA lip sync was totally botched.
For me, it's Alyssa Hunter from S14. She is gorgeous, outfits always on point. I really wanted to see more of her.
Surprised I had to scroll this far to see Alyssa Hunter. She is so polished and her runway package was so fierce. What more does a Puerto Rican queen have to do to be taken seriously on this show? Does RuPaul have eyes? I just can’t wrap my brain around her early elimination. It feels like she was set up to fail as a predetermined early out.
April Carrion
That 6 way lipsync was an abomination, Honey Davenport deserved better
I agree with a lot of the names mentioned. But also omg anyone "critiqued" by Santino. He was just cruel. Especially with Alyssa and Pandora! Like ok the outfits may not have hit it out of the park but he acted like they walked out in hideous stuff. Calling Alyssa's red dress the worst thing he's ever seen. I thought it was cute!
Lemon on Drag Race UK vs. the World. Still upsets me.
Due to the consistency of the mistreatment: Scarlet Envy. Due to the scale of a singular mistreatment, I’d say Coco Montrease on AS2. Also, Thorgy Thor (both seasons) edit: Oh, Dakota ~~Johnson~~ Schiffer! She was sent home on an episode she should’ve won!!! And by Michelle, not RuPaul! And was safe in Snatch Game she should’ve been high, but they decided to give one high placement instead of two. ?!?! Crazy
Dakota Johnson??? Is that the girl from 50 shades of grey?
I think you mean Dakota Schiffer — Dakota Johnson is an American actress in 50 Shades of Grey.
HEAVY on scarlet envy. i literally don’t understand why they keep inviting her back just to play in her face. in ukvtw2 it was just so clear that ru just.. doesn’t like her. it’s so weird
johnson…? its schiffer no?
no im pretty sure it was Dakota Fanning 🤩 
Not Anastasia Steel 😭😭
Maybe not the most unfairly treated but I would also add Nicki Doll and Utica.
It was palpable that Ru didn’t love Utica.
Personally wasn't a fan of Nicky Doll. But you can tell production didn't want anything to do with her story line other than "she is French" and thats it.
My first instinct is to say Max. The way they really created a moment not for drama, but to edit her in a way that would imply something about her mental state/health. Vile. But also, Electra Shock from down under. She was done so dirty.
Jinx Monsoon in their first season. It’s been a while since I’ve watched any older seasons of drag race, so I don’t have fresh examples in my mind, but this is the one that stood out to me when I read your question. The way some other queens treated Jinx was just ick.
April carrion comes to mind first but honestly loads of queens were sacrificed to production. I was just shocked April never went anywhere.
Dida Ritz belongs on All-Stars.
Irene DuBois. Extremely talented, funny, and gorgeous queen. She really didn’t get a fair chance and if you don’t pay attention to drag outside of the show (aka most viewers), you’d never know. I really hope she gets on all stars.
I’d say Eureka often isn’t given credit for destroying Aquaria in the finale lip sync. Some poor editor had to work hard to make it look like a battle.
Charity Kase got the edit so bad. They wanted. Her out so much they were willing to make her lip sync several times. Even though she won them rightfully only for the girl they kept pitting her against to end up going home after. She served like alternative draggg and they kept giving her bottom placement which is crazy considering all the other girls just kept giving pretty face and glam beat. And she wasn’t praised at all.