Jee and Jun speaking in korean the next season as well. But i can see why the rule has never been enforced to my knowledge in big brother since it would come off as insensitive.
@@OmniscientCameo I thought it didn't exist until much later, because I remember one moment during season 18 when Victor and Natalie were the last two standing during an endurance HOH, and they decided to start making deals with each other in Spanish
The one loophole which isn't a loophole but is still utterly game-breaking is Andy using the frequency of times people went to the diary room and the content in the diary room to assess who was a threat and who to take out/target He got Nick evicted because he figured out the moving company through the frequency of diary room visits, and knew to target Judd because of the fact that Andys alliance with Judd was basically never brought up in the diary room Idk if it counts as a loophole because it isn't breaking the rules per say, but if it does count then it's easily the best use of a loophole
This makes me remember Danni's winning strategy in Survivor of "always answer production's questions so vaguely that they can't use my answers to influence their questions to other players" after she figured something out about the game based on a question she was asked in a confessional. It annoyed production to no end because they couldn't get a story out of her, but it worked.
@@sentientsardine9729It reminded me of that too. It makes me wonder how much of Jeff’s questions at tribal council before they vote are influenced by what the players have said in confessionals
@@gengarcrobat1576 : Jeff's questions are definitely influenced by confessionals/what they recorded earlier. Good Survivor hosts will help explain wtf will happen at this tribal. I've seen terrible Survivor hosts in other franchises who seem just as blindsided by the votes as the audience lmao.
@@gengarcrobat1576 In RHAP podcasts, Stephen referred to "The Kiss of Death" which unfortunately he realised all too late in his second season. But basically Jeff asks a question of the player(s) he understands to be most in danger of going home that gives them a good narrative conclusion. Spotting the kiss of death in the moment was a lot harder; but frequent returning players probably can pick it up and use it to their advantage when it comes to idol plays. But first-timers probably don't have a feel for what are questions and what are kisses of death.
If production told me I couldn’t nominate someone because I told them I was going to nominate them I would simply go up to every single person & tell them that I’m nominating them, what are they going to do? Give every single player immunity? Just the fan favourite? I would get my way no matter what, either she’s going on the block or you got yourself one hell of a lawsuit
Clause in the bb contract all contestants agree to and sign says something like “we can change ignore or enforce any rule(s) at any time for any reason with or without informing the houseguest(s)”
@@rileymerritt8898Yeah, but as a list of rules it has to be reasonable. If only certain people get immunity while others don't, then you could make the argument that they're playing favorites. I don't know if it will hold up in a court of law, but the court of public opinion would have a field day with it
Dan in 10 and the fake veto always makes me think of bb 11 with Natalie getting proposed with a bread tie and everyone thought it was fake 😂 I know not game related but it still makes me laugh years later
@@EdibleBible 'final two reversal' was as good of a lie as 'omg guys I'm 19!!!' then proceeds to drink alcohol through her time on the show lmao - then (eta: cause idk if I remember it wrong) didn't she also get engaged at the end? like what
I’ve always wanted BB to remove powers that other people find out about. Like once someone knows you have one it’s nullified. It would be so impressive to see people try and keep those secrets.
That would have been really useful in the Invisible HoH and Deepfake HoH twists. I think they did enforce it for the AI Instigator, though, and I’d like to see it enforced for future secret powers.
Not sure if this is a “loophole” or just plain cheating and you def already know this, but Evel Dick would get letters from home that would give him clues as to who’s targeting him in the game. The first and last characters in the message were always the first letters of another houseguests name. In the following years, they would make the family of the houseguests write their letters from home BEFORE the season started to avoid this very situation.
RE: Splitting the prize money, if I recall correctly, BB24 had Paloma telling people she would invest in people's business endeavours with the prize money.
Never watched an episode of Big Brother, but found your vid about Dan, who I knew of through other streamers, and now I've been catching up on old vids the whole last week haha, super well made, easy to follow as someone who knows nothing about the show, and entertaining👌🏿
Additional loophole sort of related to the last one: Lisa and Danielle using sign language to communicate in front of others during BB3. As you said, everything has to be verbalized in the game and while hand signals might be used by an alliance, they basically spoke another language in front of others to speak about them in plain sight.
I wouldn’t even say Tyler was lying, he was just being very broad. “If you don’t vote for Sam to stay you’re f’d” is kinda true because Sam will likely come back and then know who didn’t vote to keep her, which would then make them all her targets
I wish another 'twist' was someone changing Rachel's pretzel messaging, but well I guess it becomes sketchy then since I'd be scared production punishes me (like if Kathy changed it to like Lane or something)
wish u'd make a vid on vanessa. she pulled off some pretty crazy shit like the escaping the block in f11, the bowlerina comp, her vs the jury comp etc. one of the goats. also the edit at the end of the vanessa segment LMAO
To defend Tyler lying about Sams power being fair game, you could also make the argument that someone could decide to not tell the full extend of their power (which wouldnt be lying since youre not making something up but instead holding some information in secret) so I would say lying about someone elses power and overexaggerating it is totally fine since the only person who can know for sure what a power does is the one who holds it.
Wild idea: how about a villain breakdown of Christine from BB16? I know, it's very off the wall, but I like your full explanations on why the winners won, but I would like to hear you talk about why Christine was booed louder than Aaryn. Or a brief history of all booed houseguests, which wouldn't be long as there's only 4 or 5 iirc.
@@Ethanimale I can't recall, but did Jack from 20 get booed? He certainly got a talking-to from Julie. And part of me thinks Kyle from 24 got a few as well, but I doubt it. But Aaryn, Amanda, and Christine for sure.
@@Ethanimale (while I got you here, I'm a big fan of all your videos and breakdowns. I'm just too broke to be a RUclips member, but I appreciate the effort you put into all that you do.)
Kyle from bb24 would've also been included but you could tell big brother told the fans not to boo anymore, so I don't see it happening again anytime soon. If you look at kyles eviction, you hear the place very quiet with like 3-4 people clapping.
I feel like Eric and April from BB6 should be included in this category in a way since they both got booed by the audience at the live finale reunion. April got booed because they showed a clip of her in the HOH room saying “All of America are pieces of s***!” while Eric got booed for saying that Jennifer’s betrayal of Kaysar was the same thing as Kaysar betraying him.
Great video, as always. I remember the money situation in BB7, where Boogie would, I believe, just call it "banana bread." BB7 was probably the most egregious because many of the players desperately needed money and were easy pickings for either money offers or the possibility of getting jobs at some of Boogie's bars. For some reason I think Dan made the fake POV closer to final 7 as that was closer to his messy HOH week and I remember him doing that in the HOH room. I think people were trying to just look for silver linings with Frankie nominating Zach, as at the time he was extremely cold (putting this kindly) about his plan.
Here is what I will say about the pretzel message. Rachel was in Brenden's HOH room alone when she left that message. If production wanted to, they could have sent someone into the room to get rid of the pretzel message before Brenden saw it.
Which is what should've happened imo, you're not allowed to write in the house. But it was good TV which is how I'd imagine they make a lot of decisions
Here’s a conspiracy theory if you’d like to use it. Production wanted Tucker to stay in the game, so when they knew he was likely to be evicted, they made the Ai arena his specialty, a puzzle with physical aspects to it, right up Tucker’s lane.
Yes! This is such a valid theory, and I think it was cuz production knew America loved him so they threw him a bone that BACKFIRED in amazing fashion. I hate favoritism and the fact that bb producers do it every season makes it unwatchable at times
Honestly, it's probably likely. Julie even said in her video prior to the A.I arena and live eviction showcasing the puzzle that "I know who you're rooting for"... I don't think they even tried to be subtle 😅 But hey, Tucker did it backwards anyway
@@carat_light Tucker did a 10000 IQ move, as he realized doing it backwards if he won would not only save himself, but get the coup de’tat obviously. If only it worked, then he would be hailed as the next Dan Gheesling.
why don't they scrap the not telling about nominees about them being nominees? It seems super common in present day BB for the HOH to just put it out there lol
Suggestion for a video: the top 5 seasons with the best female cast. Given that more often than not the Big Brother game has been historically dominated by the male players, and the female players are outnumbering the men 6 to 2 in the current season, it would be interesting to analyze in which season did the women had the most influence on the gameplay and entertainment value of a season. For example, Big Brother 3, 4, 6, 11, 13, 17, 25... (And then there's BB15 whose female players marked the season, but mostly in a negative way.)
Does anyone know if nominating someone at random is against the rules. Like what they did with the skittles in the hat in BB16. I feel like nominating someone based on flipping a coin or spinning a bottle would be a loophole. You could nominate someone without any backlash because you aren’t to blame, that person’s bad luck is.
4:53 it's not the loophole itself, it's who did it. Production will absolutely let some players get away with things while enforcing the rules harder for others
I know you said that you can’t lie about what your power does (if you have one) but can you lie and say that a player told you they had a power even tho they didn’t?
This is about people finding loopholes to "break rules", there was no rules against who how and why you picked players for the veto comp, so they're not bending any rules by making the six finger plan.
That Rachel theory is false . She was still a player even if she wss eliminated. She was a juror that decides a winner so technically she's a player. They should have disqualified them in some regard maybe like not have Matt go up. But maybe production didn't want Matt but didn't know how to get him out sooner, they've done it many times.
I think you could argue Danielle and Lisa secretly communicating in sign language is a loophole around the only SPEAKING in English rule
Jee and Jun speaking in korean the next season as well. But i can see why the rule has never been enforced to my knowledge in big brother since it would come off as insensitive.
@@0pacbig32Pretty sure the "English only" rule didn't exist until AFTER both of these instances
@@OmniscientCameoyou’re correct
No one should’ve been allowed to whisper behind Matt’s back then either, that was rude
@@OmniscientCameo I thought it didn't exist until much later, because I remember one moment during season 18 when Victor and Natalie were the last two standing during an endurance HOH, and they decided to start making deals with each other in Spanish
The one loophole which isn't a loophole but is still utterly game-breaking is Andy using the frequency of times people went to the diary room and the content in the diary room to assess who was a threat and who to take out/target
He got Nick evicted because he figured out the moving company through the frequency of diary room visits, and knew to target Judd because of the fact that Andys alliance with Judd was basically never brought up in the diary room
Idk if it counts as a loophole because it isn't breaking the rules per say, but if it does count then it's easily the best use of a loophole
This makes me remember Danni's winning strategy in Survivor of "always answer production's questions so vaguely that they can't use my answers to influence their questions to other players" after she figured something out about the game based on a question she was asked in a confessional.
It annoyed production to no end because they couldn't get a story out of her, but it worked.
@@sentientsardine9729It reminded me of that too. It makes me wonder how much of Jeff’s questions at tribal council before they vote are influenced by what the players have said in confessionals
@@gengarcrobat1576 : Jeff's questions are definitely influenced by confessionals/what they recorded earlier. Good Survivor hosts will help explain wtf will happen at this tribal. I've seen terrible Survivor hosts in other franchises who seem just as blindsided by the votes as the audience lmao.
@@gengarcrobat1576
In RHAP podcasts, Stephen referred to "The Kiss of Death" which unfortunately he realised all too late in his second season. But basically Jeff asks a question of the player(s) he understands to be most in danger of going home that gives them a good narrative conclusion. Spotting the kiss of death in the moment was a lot harder; but frequent returning players probably can pick it up and use it to their advantage when it comes to idol plays. But first-timers probably don't have a feel for what are questions and what are kisses of death.
It shouldn't count as a loophole. Using say the dairy room questions is a viable strategy to. It's just pattern recognition really
If production told me I couldn’t nominate someone because I told them I was going to nominate them I would simply go up to every single person & tell them that I’m nominating them, what are they going to do? Give every single player immunity? Just the fan favourite? I would get my way no matter what, either she’s going on the block or you got yourself one hell of a lawsuit
wait a fucking minute you're onto something
Clause in the bb contract all contestants agree to and sign says something like “we can change ignore or enforce any rule(s) at any time for any reason with or without informing the houseguest(s)”
Both survivor and big brother have a rule that basically states that produces can ignore any rule. They can do as they please.
@@rileymerritt8898Yeah, but as a list of rules it has to be reasonable. If only certain people get immunity while others don't, then you could make the argument that they're playing favorites. I don't know if it will hold up in a court of law, but the court of public opinion would have a field day with it
yawn... someone's a casual fan of the show...
not Barfbag catching the nomination stray 😭
justice for barfbag
It’s been a year since a video it’s slightly warranted
Zach Rance and his family don’t deserve the death threats and harassing messages Zach got from having a romance with Frankie Grande
People are terrible.
He tried to hide it like they were just friends; that’s why
@@alexischarest378 Because Zach wasn't ready to come out yet at the time, and people needed to respect that
I love how supportive you are of other creators… the BarfBag shoutout was nice.
I love the Joseph clips to represent lawyers😆
Dan in 10 and the fake veto always makes me think of bb 11 with Natalie getting proposed with a bread tie and everyone thought it was fake 😂 I know not game related but it still makes me laugh years later
It makes me think of Natalie's lie about a power, which Kevin instantly clocked would mean she would always lose a final 2 💀
@@EdibleBible 'final two reversal' was as good of a lie as 'omg guys I'm 19!!!' then proceeds to drink alcohol through her time on the show lmao - then (eta: cause idk if I remember it wrong) didn't she also get engaged at the end? like what
I’ve always wanted BB to remove powers that other people find out about. Like once someone knows you have one it’s nullified. It would be so impressive to see people try and keep those secrets.
That would have been really useful in the Invisible HoH and Deepfake HoH twists. I think they did enforce it for the AI Instigator, though, and I’d like to see it enforced for future secret powers.
This is actually the case for the original Coup De Tat, according to what Mike said on the feeds his power was nullified because he told someone.
@@bencalebrodYeah, but that was during the Arnold Shapiro era, aka the good executive producer.
Yeah, everyone tells right away.. like why…. Same in survivor
Not sure if this is a “loophole” or just plain cheating and you def already know this, but Evel Dick would get letters from home that would give him clues as to who’s targeting him in the game. The first and last characters in the message were always the first letters of another houseguests name. In the following years, they would make the family of the houseguests write their letters from home BEFORE the season started to avoid this very situation.
RE: Splitting the prize money, if I recall correctly, BB24 had Paloma telling people she would invest in people's business endeavours with the prize money.
@@NicolasWithNoH you know what you’re totally right 😂
Never watched an episode of Big Brother, but found your vid about Dan, who I knew of through other streamers, and now I've been catching up on old vids the whole last week haha, super well made, easy to follow as someone who knows nothing about the show, and entertaining👌🏿
Additional loophole sort of related to the last one: Lisa and Danielle using sign language to communicate in front of others during BB3. As you said, everything has to be verbalized in the game and while hand signals might be used by an alliance, they basically spoke another language in front of others to speak about them in plain sight.
I would say that Nakomis' 6 Finger Plan was the OG loophole.
Technically Mike & Marvin's 6 Finger Plan, because they thought of the idea before Nakomis executed it
I wouldn’t even say Tyler was lying, he was just being very broad. “If you don’t vote for Sam to stay you’re f’d” is kinda true because Sam will likely come back and then know who didn’t vote to keep her, which would then make them all her targets
Wouldn't the Rachel pretzel loophole technically fall under Comnunicating with people outside the house?
Well technically, she was “inside” the house 😏
@@martinmazzie2542 I guess. In a Breaking and Entering kind of way
@@BigMattXXLIt’s not breaking and entering since production let her in voluntarily
Well, she was specifically in the house when she made the message.
It shouldn't have been allowed bc writing in the house isn't allowed, whether with pretzels or makeup or whatever
I wish another 'twist' was someone changing Rachel's pretzel messaging, but well I guess it becomes sketchy then since I'd be scared production punishes me (like if Kathy changed it to like Lane or something)
can you imagine how insane that would be if kathy just changed the name - that would have been incredble
throwback to when Paloma tried to hack the money splitting loop hole by claiming she was "investing" in people
wish u'd make a vid on vanessa. she pulled off some pretty crazy shit like the escaping the block in f11, the bowlerina comp, her vs the jury comp etc. one of the goats. also the edit at the end of the vanessa segment LMAO
To defend Tyler lying about Sams power being fair game, you could also make the argument that someone could decide to not tell the full extend of their power (which wouldnt be lying since youre not making something up but instead holding some information in secret) so I would say lying about someone elses power and overexaggerating it is totally fine since the only person who can know for sure what a power does is the one who holds it.
Def tricky waters, i’d just flat out lie and woulda said Tyler has it if i was Sam ahahah
BarfBag be catching strays 💀
Now how the hell is this comment from 3 weeks ago
Love Barf bag though
@@angel204bby channel membership
@@angel204bbyI would imagine paid members get these videos early
not barfbag hitting the block this week 😭😭 another great video Ethanimale 🙌
Wild idea: how about a villain breakdown of Christine from BB16? I know, it's very off the wall, but I like your full explanations on why the winners won, but I would like to hear you talk about why Christine was booed louder than Aaryn. Or a brief history of all booed houseguests, which wouldn't be long as there's only 4 or 5 iirc.
I kinda like the brief history of booed houseguests, although I think it's just Aaryn, Amanda, and Christine unless I'm mistaken
@@Ethanimale I can't recall, but did Jack from 20 get booed? He certainly got a talking-to from Julie. And part of me thinks Kyle from 24 got a few as well, but I doubt it. But Aaryn, Amanda, and Christine for sure.
@@Ethanimale (while I got you here, I'm a big fan of all your videos and breakdowns. I'm just too broke to be a RUclips member, but I appreciate the effort you put into all that you do.)
Kyle from bb24 would've also been included but you could tell big brother told the fans not to boo anymore, so I don't see it happening again anytime soon. If you look at kyles eviction, you hear the place very quiet with like 3-4 people clapping.
I feel like Eric and April from BB6 should be included in this category in a way since they both got booed by the audience at the live finale reunion. April got booed because they showed a clip of her in the HOH room saying “All of America are pieces of s***!” while Eric got booed for saying that Jennifer’s betrayal of Kaysar was the same thing as Kaysar betraying him.
Great video, as always. I remember the money situation in BB7, where Boogie would, I believe, just call it "banana bread." BB7 was probably the most egregious because many of the players desperately needed money and were easy pickings for either money offers or the possibility of getting jobs at some of Boogie's bars.
For some reason I think Dan made the fake POV closer to final 7 as that was closer to his messy HOH week and I remember him doing that in the HOH room.
I think people were trying to just look for silver linings with Frankie nominating Zach, as at the time he was extremely cold (putting this kindly) about his plan.
I was already converted into a Rachel stan bc of the winner video, but using a loophole and GETTING AWAY WITH IT just increases her icon status to me
Here is what I will say about the pretzel message. Rachel was in Brenden's HOH room alone when she left that message.
If production wanted to, they could have sent someone into the room to get rid of the pretzel message before Brenden saw it.
Which is what should've happened imo, you're not allowed to write in the house. But it was good TV which is how I'd imagine they make a lot of decisions
Here’s a conspiracy theory if you’d like to use it. Production wanted Tucker to stay in the game, so when they knew he was likely to be evicted, they made the Ai arena his specialty, a puzzle with physical aspects to it, right up Tucker’s lane.
Yes! This is such a valid theory, and I think it was cuz production knew America loved him so they threw him a bone that BACKFIRED in amazing fashion. I hate favoritism and the fact that bb producers do it every season makes it unwatchable at times
Honestly, it's probably likely. Julie even said in her video prior to the A.I arena and live eviction showcasing the puzzle that "I know who you're rooting for"... I don't think they even tried to be subtle 😅 But hey, Tucker did it backwards anyway
@@carat_light Tucker did a 10000 IQ move, as he realized doing it backwards if he won would not only save himself, but get the coup de’tat obviously. If only it worked, then he would be hailed as the next Dan Gheesling.
@@carat_light yup and now production has been caught with their pants down, they’re def not beating the favoritism allegations with this one
To be fair this was before we knew he “loved puzzles !!!” No???? The AI arena he lost was also a puzzle …. that he put on backwards 😭😭😭😭😭
Vanessa was wild fasho 😂😂😂😂😂
Paying for juror votes basically is a L imo, Rachels was for sure riggin, flat out cheated lols
Lol, Dan's 'emergency break glass' Veto 😂😂
why don't they scrap the not telling about nominees about them being nominees? It seems super common in present day BB for the HOH to just put it out there lol
Suggestion for a video: the top 5 seasons with the best female cast. Given that more often than not the Big Brother game has been historically dominated by the male players, and the female players are outnumbering the men 6 to 2 in the current season, it would be interesting to analyze in which season did the women had the most influence on the gameplay and entertainment value of a season. For example, Big Brother 3, 4, 6, 11, 13, 17, 25... (And then there's BB15 whose female players marked the season, but mostly in a negative way.)
He should fasho do a vid on that with BB26 going like this 🔥🔥
"A little birdie" while also showing 2 unrelated clips of Britney
Does anyone know if nominating someone at random is against the rules. Like what they did with the skittles in the hat in BB16. I feel like nominating someone based on flipping a coin or spinning a bottle would be a loophole. You could nominate someone without any backlash because you aren’t to blame, that person’s bad luck is.
Your content is fire, you should do the MTVs the challenge content. You’d absolutely kill it and it’d love every minute
Frankie didn’t have to drop a bar while nominating his mans😭😭😭 senile
Leave barfbag alone ethan😢
I don't mind s12 Rachel's Pretzel loophole, being likeable is apart of the game (whether it is an audience vote OR PRODUCTION)
Josh Martinez using goodbye messages
Could Dick with his HOH letter in BB8 be considered a loophole?
This manz called Google the OED 💀
Started watching with bb26 bc of this channel. Week 1 and I’m already heartbroken.
4:53 it's not the loophole itself, it's who did it. Production will absolutely let some players get away with things while enforcing the rules harder for others
Nakomis' five finger plan, though not a loophole in the rules, but traditional gameplay to that point.
Is there any chance you would make a video rating this seasons HOH reigns?
I'd love to know what you think about Quinn's in comparison to MJ's
I know you said that you can’t lie about what your power does (if you have one) but can you lie and say that a player told you they had a power even tho they didn’t?
3:08 IM DEAD 💀
Dan fake veto is just another reason. He is the greatest player of all time.
Uh where's Nakomis and the 6 finger plan?
There wasn't a rule against the backdoor.
This is about people finding loopholes to "break rules", there was no rules against who how and why you picked players for the veto comp, so they're not bending any rules by making the six finger plan.
Imagine putting barfbag on the block smh
Rachel was still a player bc even though she went to jury she’s still was being paid a stipend as an inactive player.
Because Rachel is a fan favorite no one cares that she cheated
Ugh I’m so upset Vanessa or the twins weren’t on all stars
They need another twin season asap
It’s “anyway,” not “anyways.”
There, I finally said it
Vanessa, ROBBED
Ohh that is hilarious, reminds me of Will-Boogie talking spliting .. banana bread was it? 😂
I feel like s26 would use s12 Brendon loophole when Tkor gets Nominated haha
That Rachel theory is false . She was still a player even if she wss eliminated. She was a juror that decides a winner so technically she's a player. They should have disqualified them in some regard maybe like not have Matt go up. But maybe production didn't want Matt but didn't know how to get him out sooner, they've done it many times.
12:48 A red head and a twink..the clip of them fighting will NEVER disappoint
I heard the 🌈when you said "chance", well done.
yooo barfbag ment
joseph abdin tax evader confirmed
Who got something againat barfbag 😢
Sam was too innocent for the Big Brother game 😂😂
Literally 😭 she’s so pure I just wanted to take her out of thr house the whole season
Matt s12 was soo mad with that lol
OHH SHIT, Dan called himself the Magic Man .. great title than
s16 is SUCH an underrated season lol
Looove any s20 Tyler video.
Finally a video without recency bias
Ughh, Tyler s20 is absolutely the modern day GOAT. I wish he went into s22 single, or any future season single
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Frankie is underrated asfuckkk
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