Pinning this because I want to clarify: It is totally okay if your favorite season is BB16 or if your favorite houseguest is Jeff Schroeder. The reason I said those in particular is because oftentimes, recruits have only seen the seasons that production gives them to watch in sequester. BB16 is ALWAYS one of the seasons that are given in sequester, so when 5 people are saying that BB16 is their favorite season and are not showing signs of knowing much else about the show, it's a pretty big indicator that they haven't really watched the show before and are going based off of what production gave them, leading me to believe that they were recruited. Similarly, Jeff Schroeder does the preseason interviews and is one of the more well known people from Big Brother that recruited players may have known of outside of the show, so he's an easy answer for them to pick as their favorites if they don't know too many players. I did not mean to call out a bunch of people by calling them fake fans for liking BB16 or liking Big Jeff lol, your favorite season could be BB19 for all I care, because if that’s what you enjoy I’m happy for it Also I was wrong and Analyse was not recruited
I mean they had a whole year to improve and watch the entire show (not saying they didn't, I'm just speaking in general) so first season? Yeah, excusable, but the second was arguably worse than the first season, in regards to jury management.
@@Mrdonjuliothewickedfrr. Paul is also a lesson for big brother fans who only like "a dominating game" or comp winners. Them losing twice shows how much you have to grasp the concept of big brother. Josh was lucky though, such a garbage winner.
I definitely believe recruits are necessary in many cases. You can’t just cast a bunch of super fans who know the game inside and out. Sometimes, you need a more fresh selection of people who can play from the ground up, and offer something that the veterans can’t.
Absolutely, we've seen it a lot in survivor where they cast a lot of "super fans" who all have a very similar approach to the game, which makes it super stale. Some of the best moments are from recruits, like Courtney from Survivor: China.
Becky was honestly great, she was basically the only person who saw through Vanessa’s bs. I think she would’ve probably gone farther if her alliance wasn’t such a clusterfuck and would’ve just stuck with her plan.
@@allison3852 depends who he was up against. He would’ve beat Victoria, Derrick would’ve beat him, and I’m not sure who would win between him and Cody.
I like recruits because I love it when they realize how serious big brother can get and it’s not some fun summer getaway, it can do some psychological damage to you.
I'm fine with recruits, but a step in the right direction would be to stop presenting them to us as if they were fans; I think that's what produces a lot of the eye-rolls pre-season. They could be open about their status as a recruit and treat them accordingly. Basically, there's no need to have them tell us their favorite season is BB16 and say they're going to play like Donny. You can ask them questions that are more pertinent to what a recruit who doesn't watch the show would be thinking, like "what about BB from what you've heard is most exciting to you?", or "of XYZ skills we tell you are important in the game, which are you most/least confident in for yourself?" or something like that. Advertise more of the exciting aspect of somebody who doesn't know what they're getting into describing their hopes, dreams and expectations, which people in the know will look at in contrast to what they're actually going to get.
good to know, I must have missed that while researching. like I said, there's probably a bunch that I missed and also there's probably a few that I just got wrong
Yeah I saw her audition tape and she told a heartfelt story about how she and her dad watched the show together prior to his passing. Wasn’t Rachel also a fan despite being a recruit?
Derek X didn’t apply for survivor. He had a friend on Instagram who reposted a casting call for BB because they were looking for an Asian male slot to fill (to satisfy CBS’s new diversity quota). He reached out to the producer via Instagram abs the rest is history. Christian originally applied for Love Island, but he was swapped to BB23 after Garrett, the person he replaced, had to drop out. Whitney isn’t a recruit, but Travis indeed was.
@@neotonyy Wait no, Christian said he applied for Big Brother but they told him that incase he didnt make it in, he would be put into Love Island, which he declined cuz he didnt feel like he would fit in with that show.
@@Ethanimale Especially since he clearly saw the advantage the veterans had over him and then he created that four person contingent with Zakiyah Victor and Jozea.
@@iamkonner4813 Yes, he was definitely shown more favoritism in 19 than in 18. The sheer fact that he was the only returning houseguest in 19, they gave him safety for the first 4 evictions in 19, and they put a cutout of his face in the fish tank in 20 completely proves he was production's favorite. In fact if you were looking up the season in the tv guide, Paul's name was listed like he was an actor in the show. No one else's name was listed. I don't even think Julie's name was there.
While Tyler from BB20 was a fan of the show, he confirmed on the live feeds that he was a recruit too. CBS originally cast him to be on TKO: Total Knock Out, which he appeared on and the casting producers for Big Brother liked him and recruited him. 98% of these were surprises to me, so I'm shocked that one of the only recruits I was aware of was missing from your list haha
bb15 having two recruits (if true) actually makes a lot of sense considering how stellar the gameplay was that season and the amount of risks that people were willing to take to make a move
Fairly certain Jessica Graf from BB19 was not a recruit, she has her audition tape uploaded to RUclips where she talks about watching the show with her dad which was the reason she wanted to go on in the first place
And she mentions that in the season a few times, this guy got a few things wrong he said in season 14 Shane and Danielle didn’t make it far in the game.. um they were top 4.
@@AlexH274 no but she AUDITIONED, i mean i guess you can audition and be recruited at the same time? but the point is she auditioned like a normal person would.
Idk how well it would work for Big Brother, but for Survivor this would especially be perfect.. I want an ENTIRE season of recruits-only, preferably all people who have never seen the show. I think that's the closest we would ever possibly get to an "old-school season" now. It would just be fun watching people trying to figure it out all over again lol and it would be so unpredictable. When you have nothing but superfan game bots, you basically know what they're going to do. But with people who have no idea what they're doing.. anything could happen lol
I don’t know why I’m so shocked that there is so many recruits. I feel like it can go either way with who is better, but I will always root for a superfan
The problem with recruits is that they can be entertaining on the show but in the end they rarely win because they don’t know how to play the game. Which is frustrating to me because there has to be over 1,000,000 bb fans in the US who would love to play and get passed up for recruits !?!
I think the main issue with them is that there are too many per season. Get a few that would make good tv and leave out the ones that will surely be early boots or players like Holly or Victoria who coast to the end and don’t contribute much to the show.
Well the thing is, the show exists to be watched, get good ratings and make money for CBS, not to cater to the desires of the fans. I'm sure there are tens of thousands of, maybe hundreds of thousands of fans who love BB and apply or would love to be on the show. But it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of those people are concentrated to a few archetypes of cast members. It also wouldn't surprise me if a lot of those people would be bad TV. The show's casting is at its best when its a mixture of both fans and recruits to help fill the gaps and diversify the cast with the type of players who would be harder to get going strictly from applicants.
You can kinda tell based on their gameplay. It’s the last season where basically everyone was playing HARD, except David’s dopey ass. After BB15 we saw a lot more coasting, “i just wanna make it to jury,” etc. It looks like BB23 will be much different though, cross your fingers
It's weird that Kat was a recruit considering she was also a fan of the show, she used the stockpiling strategy in otev and made it way further in the comp than any previous players have with that strat.
Correction: Jessica (BB19) and Haleigh (BB20) were both not recruited. In BB19, Jess talks about how she and her dad used to watch Big Brother since she was a kid. Haleigh made an entire video for her channel on how to get cast on BB, where she goes in-depth on her application process.
It's also worthwhile to say that you can apply and get on the show knowing next to nothing about big brother, or get recruited onto big brother while also being a fan of the show. How you got on the show doesnt necessarily reflect how well you know it.
Something that I found out while going on the Big Brother wiki was that Ashley (BB14) actually previously applied to the show, but wound up being recruited according to Big Brother Network. The wiki says that she missed out on open casting calls but previously sent in audition tapes. She still wound up being a recruit but I thought that was an interesting footnote.
It is crazy to think about like imagine you're at an airport and someone randomly approaches you about this competition show then you actually end up winning $500k lmao
i’m so sorry yall i love BB16. Maybe it’s because it was the first season I actually was watching in real time. Like I had a bootleg site just to watch live feeds every night. But I loved the Zach and Frankie duo. I wanted Nicole and Cody together so bad. Devin was a whole shit show. Kathy Griffin shows up. Victoria was literally so fucking funny. Derrick had one of the best strategies ever and was able to execute it perfectly. Joey’s all girl alliance that failed in a minute. And we got the most like able player ever in Donny. bb16 will forever have my heart.
Sis from BB21 was actually an applicant believe it or not . Dr. Will was recruited from myspace like James S6 and Will was told to play this evil dr Will character during the recruitment process
And honestly recruits mix it up because if the cast was superfans, it would be lay low early, play hard later which is the same strategy everyone knows. Having people who know nothing play more reckless or too safe. Either way, glad there is recruits but it shouldnt be a lot of them tbh because of the recent seasons.
JC was a dope player. I agree with you saying he grasped the game. He knew everything that was happening in the house all the way up until Tyler got him
I’m not saying this to hate I’m just mentioning this because hayleigh from bb20 actually was an applicant and she posted the video that she applied to the show with on her RUclips channel
I am pretty sure James from bb6 was not a recruit. His girlfriend Sarah was a recruit. James was supposed go on bb6 with his friend but his friend dropped out a couple days before the season started so James begged his girlfriend to come.
I’m not at all surprised about BB15. If you ignore the racism that occurred, there were some excellent strategizers in that season. Unfortunately, you can’t ignore the racism.
Lucky for me BB16 nor Jeff are my favorites, so I guess I’m a true BB fan! 😂 Rachel has grown a bit with me as the years have passed and with the airing of the Traitors
I’m a fan and 16 is my favorite. But that’s because that was my first full season I watched live. Also I started listening to podcasts that year, watched the feeds for the first time.
idk how bb's production works, but on drag race, you can be recruited but still have to make an audition tape. So Jessica could've been recruited even as a superfan
Jillian is apart of a BB fb group I'm in. At one point she said she initially applied for the Amazing Race with her boyfriend, and then applied for Big Brother just for the heck of it. So she isn't a recruit, but may have come off that way since BB wasn't her go to show.
Great video, Jessica did say in a podcast she was on (I can't remember which one at the moment) that she was a recruit, but all recruits - as far as she said - still have to go through the "audition" process. They are invited to come audition and they are interviewed by people who don't know they are recruited. Something I didn't know until recently.
I think we have to remember that even if some players are recruited that dosent meen that they have never seen the show or dont know nothing about it. They just havent applied. Also I dont think Caleb from season 16 were bad recruit. He was good in comps and brought lot fun stuff to live feeds. I also think he had some strategy in his game and pick up on thing but it was harder to see because Derrick dominated the gaame from start to end
Caleb was probably the second best recruit of BB16 gamewise and I just got carried away and generalized his game style, I just think his game was very heavily based on loyalty and a lot of the time he was loyal to a fault to the wrong people and that cost him
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I think the main reason why the make it far is they don't overthink the game, a lot of the big fans that get on the show overthink things cause of past shows
Sis may have applied but there’s no way she had watched the show before. Or if she had, she only applied for fame and not necessarily to play the game.
The flaw in the rumor that Cowboy didn't know who his father was, is that according to the show e realized he was related to Nakomis when she mentioned her fathers name. So apparently he knew his name. Guess BB could have told him hard to know especially as that was before the feeds went live. But it does contradict the rumor.
Recruits can be entertaining and good game players, but are often flops. But fans can be entertaining and great game players. But why pick people who don't care about the show when some people have been applying for years? Get the smarties, and crazies in there from the fans. Frenchie is a great cast decision to jump start this amazing season.
As far as WIllie Hantz I think officially the story has always been he applied. I am skeptical too and even if he did I think we all know why he got on. BUt not sure it has ever been proven he was a recruit. And I am going off memory but I thought Rachel Reiley was an applicant, or maybe she was just a recruit who happened to be a fan. But I was sure she was a fan of the show going in. Incedentally I am shocked according to you that Vanessa Russo wasn't a recruit. I assumed given the world series of poker thing she had to be. But have never tried to find out.
A little late but wouldnt Cody from bb19 technically be a recruit? I heard muktiple times he applied for Survivor, and instead they brought up Big Brither to him, or is it just not confirmed?
Not trying to throw too much shade, BB16 was my first season and I loved it at the time. It's just that recruits that don't know the show prior to being cast typically only watch the seasons production gives them, which ALWAYS consists of BB16, so it can sorta be like red flashing lights when 7 people on a cast all say that BB16 is their favorite season because it's all they've seen as a recruit, and it makes it easier to guess at who is an actual fan and who is a "new" fan as they like to call it. Same thing for liking Jeff, he does all the preseason interviews, he's one of the more known players from Big Brother to people that don't watch the show, so he's an easy answer for recruits to say as their favorite player when they aren't exposed to the show.
No hate was meant to be given lol I tried explaining it earlier, but recruits who are unfamiliar with the show typically only watch what’s given to them in sequester by production, which ALWAYS consists of BB16, so it can be a dead giveaway when a bunch of houseguests say BB16 is their favorite season and then know next to nothing about the show
Pinning this because I want to clarify: It is totally okay if your favorite season is BB16 or if your favorite houseguest is Jeff Schroeder. The reason I said those in particular is because oftentimes, recruits have only seen the seasons that production gives them to watch in sequester. BB16 is ALWAYS one of the seasons that are given in sequester, so when 5 people are saying that BB16 is their favorite season and are not showing signs of knowing much else about the show, it's a pretty big indicator that they haven't really watched the show before and are going based off of what production gave them, leading me to believe that they were recruited. Similarly, Jeff Schroeder does the preseason interviews and is one of the more well known people from Big Brother that recruited players may have known of outside of the show, so he's an easy answer for them to pick as their favorites if they don't know too many players. I did not mean to call out a bunch of people by calling them fake fans for liking BB16 or liking Big Jeff lol, your favorite season could be BB19 for all I care, because if that’s what you enjoy I’m happy for it
Also I was wrong and Analyse was not recruited
Danielle’s face when Shane gets evicted literally gets me every time 😂
It’s so iconic bc you can genuinely tell she didn’t think for one second Dan would evict Shane lmao 🤣 it’s such a raw reaction
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Now Paul’s lack of Jury management makes so much sense
I mean they had a whole year to improve and watch the entire show (not saying they didn't, I'm just speaking in general) so first season? Yeah, excusable, but the second was arguably worse than the first season, in regards to jury management.
@@Mrdonjuliothewickedfrr. Paul is also a lesson for big brother fans who only like "a dominating game" or comp winners. Them losing twice shows how much you have to grasp the concept of big brother. Josh was lucky though, such a garbage winner.
I definitely believe recruits are necessary in many cases. You can’t just cast a bunch of super fans who know the game inside and out. Sometimes, you need a more fresh selection of people who can play from the ground up, and offer something that the veterans can’t.
Absolutely, we've seen it a lot in survivor where they cast a lot of "super fans" who all have a very similar approach to the game, which makes it super stale. Some of the best moments are from recruits, like Courtney from Survivor: China.
Becky was honestly great, she was basically the only person who saw through Vanessa’s bs. I think she would’ve probably gone farther if her alliance wasn’t such a clusterfuck and would’ve just stuck with her plan.
“vanessa you’re going home!”
vanessa stays unanimously and becky is evicted the next week unanimously
Say what you want about Caleb’s gameplay, him screaming “AND SHE’S A REVEREND?” as Jocasta tears up the house will forever be etched into my memory.
Would Caleb have won if he was in the final 2
@@allison3852 depends who he was up against. He would’ve beat Victoria, Derrick would’ve beat him, and I’m not sure who would win between him and Cody.
@@baileylynn5562 what if frankie and caleb was the final 2 /caleb can beat zach and christine
@@allison3852 I think Caleb beats Zach and Christine, but I’m leaning towards Frankie beating Caleb
@@baileylynn5562 victoria and donny will vote for frankie over caleb they hated him / and plus frankie was in team america was donny
It is even worse Jodi was out first even with Danielle and Kara being recruited and she was a fan :(.
agreed, I think she applied multiple times and when she finally gets her chance, she's just immediately evicted
That makes it even worse omg
@@Ethanimale omg production really screwed her over.................
I like recruits because I love it when they realize how serious big brother can get and it’s not some fun summer getaway, it can do some psychological damage to you.
I'm fine with recruits, but a step in the right direction would be to stop presenting them to us as if they were fans; I think that's what produces a lot of the eye-rolls pre-season. They could be open about their status as a recruit and treat them accordingly.
Basically, there's no need to have them tell us their favorite season is BB16 and say they're going to play like Donny. You can ask them questions that are more pertinent to what a recruit who doesn't watch the show would be thinking, like "what about BB from what you've heard is most exciting to you?", or "of XYZ skills we tell you are important in the game, which are you most/least confident in for yourself?" or something like that.
Advertise more of the exciting aspect of somebody who doesn't know what they're getting into describing their hopes, dreams and expectations, which people in the know will look at in contrast to what they're actually going to get.
They should do a special season with the twist being Superfans VS Recruits
@@bubbajoshproductions3990so, bb9, just without the unnecessary "love" pairings.
Jessica in BB19 was 100% a recruit, she said it in a podcast with the casting recruit.
good to know, I must have missed that while researching. like I said, there's probably a bunch that I missed and also there's probably a few that I just got wrong
I’m pretty sure she was recruited but she was also a fan of the show unlike most recruits
Yeah I saw her audition tape and she told a heartfelt story about how she and her dad watched the show together prior to his passing. Wasn’t Rachel also a fan despite being a recruit?
jessica wasn’t a recruit. she literally uploaded her audition video
@@rapidcounty are u sure? ruclips.net/video/iucL4qFHZ8c/видео.html
from what I've seen on the feeds, Derek X applied for survivor, but was transferred as a recruit to Big Brother without ever watching the show.
why was he transferred?
Derek X didn’t apply for survivor. He had a friend on Instagram who reposted a casting call for BB because they were looking for an Asian male slot to fill (to satisfy CBS’s new diversity quota). He reached out to the producer via Instagram abs the rest is history. Christian originally applied for Love Island, but he was swapped to BB23 after Garrett, the person he replaced, had to drop out. Whitney isn’t a recruit, but Travis indeed was.
@@neotonyy Wait no, Christian said he applied for Big Brother but they told him that incase he didnt make it in, he would be put into Love Island, which he declined cuz he didnt feel like he would fit in with that show.
Tony Gee I’m pretty sure Azah and Xavier were recruited too
@@zachrizzo6525 Azah and Xavier are both fans. Azah herself is always complaining on the feeds about missing the old school BB6 style of the game lol.
the most recent season seems to have good diverse casting with minimal annoying players
other than britini...
@@hot-sy2yd At least they gave us compensation with Big D.
Great video, for the level of gameplay I’m shocked Paul was a recruit.
Paul was one of the recruits who I feel was able to really pick up on a lot of the smaller intricacies of Big Brother and use that to their advantage
@@Ethanimale Especially since he clearly saw the advantage the veterans had over him and then he created that four person contingent with Zakiyah Victor and Jozea.
With the amount of favoritism CBS showed Paul, I'm not one bit surprised he was a recruit haha.
@@Flareboxx Favoritism in 19
@@iamkonner4813 Yes, he was definitely shown more favoritism in 19 than in 18. The sheer fact that he was the only returning houseguest in 19, they gave him safety for the first 4 evictions in 19, and they put a cutout of his face in the fish tank in 20 completely proves he was production's favorite. In fact if you were looking up the season in the tv guide, Paul's name was listed like he was an actor in the show. No one else's name was listed. I don't even think Julie's name was there.
For BB25 recruits were Kirsten,Red,Blue and Reilly. Reilly watched the show but didn’t apply
Taylor being a recruit makes this video full circle
While Tyler from BB20 was a fan of the show, he confirmed on the live feeds that he was a recruit too. CBS originally cast him to be on TKO: Total Knock Out, which he appeared on and the casting producers for Big Brother liked him and recruited him. 98% of these were surprises to me, so I'm shocked that one of the only recruits I was aware of was missing from your list haha
omg yeah now that u say that i remember at the time people saw him on that show and realized something was up
tyler had also made it far along in the casting process of big brother over the top, he didn't make the final cast but i know he got pretty close
I pretty sure Tyler originally applied for BBOTT though and made it pretty far into the casting process so I wouldn't consider him a recruit.
he applied and he was a superfan i don't think he was a recruit
He wasn’t a recruit. He was an alternate for BBOTT
bb15 having two recruits (if true) actually makes a lot of sense considering how stellar the gameplay was that season and the amount of risks that people were willing to take to make a move
Gameplay wise, that season was very entertaining and interesting. It was just severely overshadowed by all the racism that occurred.
Fairly certain Jessica Graf from BB19 was not a recruit, she has her audition tape uploaded to RUclips where she talks about watching the show with her dad which was the reason she wanted to go on in the first place
And she mentions that in the season a few times, this guy got a few things wrong he said in season 14 Shane and Danielle didn’t make it far in the game.. um they were top 4.
You can be recruited and be a fan.
@@AlexH274 no but she AUDITIONED, i mean i guess you can audition and be recruited at the same time? but the point is she auditioned like a normal person would.
@@SatoshiMochidaTheKing how do you think recruits make it on the show? They still have to apply silly
@@AlexH274no they don’t. that’s why they’re called recruits. cause they were recruited to play, not audition
Idk how well it would work for Big Brother, but for Survivor this would especially be perfect.. I want an ENTIRE season of recruits-only, preferably all people who have never seen the show. I think that's the closest we would ever possibly get to an "old-school season" now. It would just be fun watching people trying to figure it out all over again lol and it would be so unpredictable. When you have nothing but superfan game bots, you basically know what they're going to do. But with people who have no idea what they're doing.. anything could happen lol
I don’t know why I’m so shocked that there is so many recruits. I feel like it can go either way with who is better, but I will always root for a superfan
I always laugh when Ragan laughs during the Rachel and Brendan vs. Kristen and Hayden fight lmao
The problem with recruits is that they can be entertaining on the show but in the end they rarely win because they don’t know how to play the game. Which is frustrating to me because there has to be over 1,000,000 bb fans in the US who would love to play and get passed up for recruits !?!
I think the main issue with them is that there are too many per season. Get a few that would make good tv and leave out the ones that will surely be early boots or players like Holly or Victoria who coast to the end and don’t contribute much to the show.
Well the thing is, the show exists to be watched, get good ratings and make money for CBS, not to cater to the desires of the fans. I'm sure there are tens of thousands of, maybe hundreds of thousands of fans who love BB and apply or would love to be on the show. But it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of those people are concentrated to a few archetypes of cast members. It also wouldn't surprise me if a lot of those people would be bad TV. The show's casting is at its best when its a mixture of both fans and recruits to help fill the gaps and diversify the cast with the type of players who would be harder to get going strictly from applicants.
The problem is the fans watching videos and knowing comp loop holes. That’s why they need players that don’t know
I think of it from the perspective of a player. If I were to make it on big brother one day I would 100% want to play along side recruits.
The noise you made on Christmas 💀 I’m dying. Great video and thank you for making it. I’m with you that I prefer casting fans though.
The way my jaw dropped when you said there were only 2 recruits on BB15
I felt the same way when I found out
You can kinda tell based on their gameplay. It’s the last season where basically everyone was playing HARD, except David’s dopey ass. After BB15 we saw a lot more coasting, “i just wanna make it to jury,” etc. It looks like BB23 will be much different though, cross your fingers
@@TheMurrmursonbottle think there is only 3 or so this season on bb 23
It's weird that Kat was a recruit considering she was also a fan of the show, she used the stockpiling strategy in otev and made it way further in the comp than any previous players have with that strat.
Correction: Jessica (BB19) and Haleigh (BB20) were both not recruited. In BB19, Jess talks about how she and her dad used to watch Big Brother since she was a kid. Haleigh made an entire video for her channel on how to get cast on BB, where she goes in-depth on her application process.
Travis was a recruit and was evicted first, still carrying the torch
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This is a very intriguing topic for a video. I’m so happy I found your channel
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bb23’s derek x is definitely a recruit but he’s showing a lot of potential
This aged well.. although I will say he’s only gone bc he was a great game player
@@AndyDuphresne definitely. i can see him being invited back for another season.
It's also worthwhile to say that you can apply and get on the show knowing next to nothing about big brother, or get recruited onto big brother while also being a fan of the show. How you got on the show doesnt necessarily reflect how well you know it.
Something that I found out while going on the Big Brother wiki was that Ashley (BB14) actually previously applied to the show, but wound up being recruited according to Big Brother Network. The wiki says that she missed out on open casting calls but previously sent in audition tapes. She still wound up being a recruit but I thought that was an interesting footnote.
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It is crazy to think about like imagine you're at an airport and someone randomly approaches you about this competition show then you actually end up winning $500k lmao
i’m so sorry yall i love BB16. Maybe it’s because it was the first season I actually was watching in real time. Like I had a bootleg site just to watch live feeds every night.
But I loved the Zach and Frankie duo. I wanted Nicole and Cody together so bad. Devin was a whole shit show. Kathy Griffin shows up. Victoria was literally so fucking funny. Derrick had one of the best strategies ever and was able to execute it perfectly. Joey’s all girl alliance that failed in a minute. And we got the most like able player ever in Donny. bb16 will forever have my heart.
The fact that Paul was a recruit is insane to me considering how far he got both times he played. I hate how people talk shit on Paul.
Sis from BB21 was actually an applicant believe it or not . Dr. Will was recruited from myspace like James S6 and Will was told to play this evil dr Will character during the recruitment process
MySpace wasn’t even founded until 2003. Wouldn’t be shocked if Will was a recruit but it wasn’t from a MySpace profile.
My favorite bb player ever will always be Jen Johnson. What an icon
if you ever do a part 2, Red admitted to being a recruit on one of tiktok lives. he said they reached out to him, he didn’t apply
Also cirie and Jared are recruits
the korean subtitles for the bret vs. rockstar fight make it that much better lmao
And honestly recruits mix it up because if the cast was superfans, it would be lay low early, play hard later which is the same strategy everyone knows. Having people who know nothing play more reckless or too safe. Either way, glad there is recruits but it shouldnt be a lot of them tbh because of the recent seasons.
Paul's insanity in his second go is what got me hooked on the show. So, I guess I owe my fandom to a recruit.
JC was a dope player. I agree with you saying he grasped the game. He knew everything that was happening in the house all the way up until Tyler got him
I’m not saying this to hate I’m just mentioning this because hayleigh from bb20 actually was an applicant and she posted the video that she applied to the show with on her RUclips channel
Diane has gone on record to say she was recruited for BB5
18:50 wow I’ve seen the show and this gif but up until now i thought that was danielle murphree!!
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I am pretty sure James from bb6 was not a recruit. His girlfriend Sarah was a recruit. James was supposed go on bb6 with his friend but his friend dropped out a couple days before the season started so James begged his girlfriend to come.
Yes
James himself said that he was a recruit. A lot of people from BB4 and BB6 were recruits due to the casting twist.
There's a live feed on RUclips of James talking to I think Danielle in BB7 that he was approached on MySpace.
I will never forget Russell mocking Jeff for spelling Tectonics as "Technotronics" and saying he's going to look it up and see if it's a word. 😂
I hate recruits taking away spots from fans
I’m not at all surprised about BB15. If you ignore the racism that occurred, there were some excellent strategizers in that season. Unfortunately, you can’t ignore the racism.
Lucky for me BB16 nor Jeff are my favorites, so I guess I’m a true BB fan! 😂 Rachel has grown a bit with me as the years have passed and with the airing of the Traitors
Also… “Christmas, bleh” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I’m crying!!! Totally agree!
Woah you really are going through the whole backlog! 😂 love it
I’m a fan and 16 is my favorite. But that’s because that was my first full season I watched live. Also I started listening to podcasts that year, watched the feeds for the first time.
I really enjoyed that season too and watched every single season so I’m definitely a fan dk why this guy said that
They should do s special season with the twist being RECRUITS VS SUPERFANS
We’re gonna need an update to this after BB 26
“You really hurt my feelings” 😂
Jessica from 19 was not a recruit, she was a superfan. Her audition video is available on youtube.
idk how bb's production works, but on drag race, you can be recruited but still have to make an audition tape. So Jessica could've been recruited even as a superfan
and the most recent example of success for recruits: the marvelous taylor hale
Jillian is apart of a BB fb group I'm in. At one point she said she initially applied for the Amazing Race with her boyfriend, and then applied for Big Brother just for the heck of it.
So she isn't a recruit, but may have come off that way since BB wasn't her go to show.
Thanks for the info!
Thank you for acknowledging JC’s game play! He was a mastermind!
Great video, Jessica did say in a podcast she was on (I can't remember which one at the moment) that she was a recruit, but all recruits - as far as she said - still have to go through the "audition" process. They are invited to come audition and they are interviewed by people who don't know they are recruited. Something I didn't know until recently.
This video has me thinking that an all-recruit season would be really interesting
Derek X was a recruit but He was a damn good recruit.
Derek X. was also confirmed to have been a BB23 recruit as far as I'm aware, he just picked up the game INCREDIBLY quickly.
Not really, he just seems to be good socially. We can clearly see Tiffany and Hannah leading him in a lot of strategy and showing him how to campaign
I think we have to remember that even if some players are recruited that dosent meen that they have never seen the show or dont know nothing about it. They just havent applied. Also I dont think Caleb from season 16 were bad recruit. He was good in comps and brought lot fun stuff to live feeds. I also think he had some strategy in his game and pick up on thing but it was harder to see because Derrick dominated the gaame from start to end
Caleb was probably the second best recruit of BB16 gamewise and I just got carried away and generalized his game style, I just think his game was very heavily based on loyalty and a lot of the time he was loyal to a fault to the wrong people and that cost him
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I hate how they don’t just pick people who actually audition
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I was absolutely shocked when I heard Paul was a recruit, he was a brilliant player
love your channel man really good stuff you’re putting out
appreciate it!
How about Big Brother Canada recruits or Survivor ones
definitely a possibility, probably couldn’t go as in depth with Survivor since there were SOOO MANY in the early days but I’d be down to touch upon it
Devon making every houseguest a bomb squad member is so classic
Dominique had potential ^w^
"Not a single person has achieved such significant success, who at one time or another did not find himself, at least on one leg, hanging on the verge of failure." - Napoleon Hill
Nakomis changed the game regarding POV rules.
And marvin
If I got into Big Brother I would be the crazy superfan that makes an alliance with other superfans.
I think the main reason why the make it far is they don't overthink the game, a lot of the big fans that get on the show overthink things cause of past shows
What a great thumbnail, had to click 😂 new sub!
I'm glad you liked it, and thank you!
Pre season 8. Exes from 4 had to be recruits because of the chances of 2 exes applied together would be weird
good video keep it up!!! hope you get on bb someday
You know who else was a recruit? Mike Boogie.
Marquesas trope unfortunely needs to be thankful for him.
the only thing that is is confusing is how elissa slater was not a recruit and her sister won two season prior and is a living legend.
your videos are awesome, just subscribed (:
congrats on 1k!
Thank you so much I really appreciate it!
Haleigh and Sis were both applicants
I love both of them
Sis may have applied but there’s no way she had watched the show before. Or if she had, she only applied for fame and not necessarily to play the game.
Cody C's dad was a superfan of big brother and Cody watched a bit of the show whether he was recruited or not
this is true. i think cody had said on 6teen that he started watching during bb11
To be fair Johnny Fairplay on survivor ended up being a super fan after the show.
Jessica was recruited Bc Elena posted on her insta story that her Jessica and a few others were recruited
honestly shocked s19 Kevin wasn't a recruit
Tbh JC played very well for a recruit. Like he won the only competition he absolutely needed to to secure his position.
The flaw in the rumor that Cowboy didn't know who his father was, is that according to the show e realized he was related to Nakomis when she mentioned her fathers name. So apparently he knew his name. Guess BB could have told him hard to know especially as that was before the feeds went live. But it does contradict the rumor.
you can know someone's name without knowing them personally or seeing them ever
Recruits can be entertaining and good game players, but are often flops. But fans can be entertaining and great game players. But why pick people who don't care about the show when some people have been applying for years? Get the smarties, and crazies in there from the fans. Frenchie is a great cast decision to jump start this amazing season.
I’m surprised Hayden was a recruit, he looks and seemed so into the game.
The BB legend Janelle was a recruit
As far as WIllie Hantz I think officially the story has always been he applied. I am skeptical too and even if he did I think we all know why he got on. BUt not sure it has ever been proven he was a recruit. And I am going off memory but I thought Rachel Reiley was an applicant, or maybe she was just a recruit who happened to be a fan. But I was sure she was a fan of the show going in.
Incedentally I am shocked according to you that Vanessa Russo wasn't a recruit. I assumed given the world series of poker thing she had to be. But have never tried to find out.
A little late but wouldnt Cody from bb19 technically be a recruit? I heard muktiple times he applied for Survivor, and instead they brought up Big Brither to him, or is it just not confirmed?
“Your fave season is 16? Your favorite player is Derrick? You’re not a real fan”
Suuuper gate keepy…..
(My fave player is Dan and fave season is 10)
Not trying to throw too much shade, BB16 was my first season and I loved it at the time. It's just that recruits that don't know the show prior to being cast typically only watch the seasons production gives them, which ALWAYS consists of BB16, so it can sorta be like red flashing lights when 7 people on a cast all say that BB16 is their favorite season because it's all they've seen as a recruit, and it makes it easier to guess at who is an actual fan and who is a "new" fan as they like to call it. Same thing for liking Jeff, he does all the preseason interviews, he's one of the more known players from Big Brother to people that don't watch the show, so he's an easy answer for recruits to say as their favorite player when they aren't exposed to the show.
“girlfriend wasn’t enough, honestly” “shut up” “💍”
great vid! i'd love to see one about first hoh stats/whether or not to win it
I do have a video coming up about first hohs and maybe I'll throw in some stats in there
I've seen all the feeds and every episode since season 1, but my favorite season is season 16 haha.
No hate was meant to be given lol I tried explaining it earlier, but recruits who are unfamiliar with the show typically only watch what’s given to them in sequester by production, which ALWAYS consists of BB16, so it can be a dead giveaway when a bunch of houseguests say BB16 is their favorite season and then know next to nothing about the show
I think it's great to have recruits. If everyone is a super fan, everyone is going to be playing super hard.
Awesome video!
Thank you!