Thread:BarBar/@comment-1734566-20161224183400/@comment-1734566-20161224203226

@Sarah: The winner isn't revealed, just the F3 (like Cambodia) ...and I wanted to AVOID specifics for BarBar's sake, thank you very much. >_>

And yeah, my full, final, post-mortem thoughts on Survivor Oz:

Someone on Survivor Sucks had the best, most basic summary: Some of their early work (interviewing former Survivors, etc.) was pretty cool, but once they got so deep into doing a little bit of everything (articles, season rankings, random lists, Ozcars, etc, etc.), they basically came across as trying to become the poor man's version of RHAP.

My personal problems with it were that I always found it to be THE bastion of the "hipster" Survivor fans; you know, the ones who pride themselves on hating the popular seasons and loving the unpopular seasons JUST to be edgy? Praising Season 29 while publishing an article called "10 Reasons 'Heroes vs. Villains' Sucks"? Jumping on the "Love Shirin" social justice bandwagon? All of that REALLY rubbed me the wrong way.

I also heard that the head guy there, Ben Waterworth, was a total d**che behind the scenes to his staff, and especially anyone who disagreed with him.

From what I observed, the final, ultimate nail in their coffin that they never quite recovered from was the racist joke they made about Will's wife after Worlds Apart. In case you don't remember, Waterworth and two of his other cronies did a recap of the World Apart loved ones' challenge, and Waterworth's "joke" went something like this: "Notice how her name is Monifa? What is it with black people taking a normal name, and changing one letter, and BAM; you have a black name?" And they all yukked it up like that was actually funny. Fortunately, Mike got a hold of that soundbite and proceeded to BLAST it all over social media, exposing them as racists who make fun of contestants' families. They didn't apologize until after Mike publicly took to Twitter to convince Carolyn to cancel an interview with them because of that moment, and even then their apology was really half-a**ed. That really hurt their credibility for the remainder of their existence.

So, overall, I don't want to come across as dancing on their grave...but they were always my least favorite of the Survivor fan sites by a considerable margin, and a part of me is glad that they got some comeuppance for later transgressions.