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theWRAP
So this week, we saw in Chicago a former boyfriend of Madison visit Chicago, which of course leads Tony into a state of panic. We then saw Tony go through a meltdown in the house, which led to, as I tweeted in my commentary, the NWS National Hurricane Center issuing the earliest Hurricane warning in some time in Hurricane Raines heading on shore. Plus, we saw Bruno's relationship with Carla go downhill, and saw Jason go at it with Nicole at the end.
And in Panama, we saw the ultimate game-changer in the first-ever Challenge losers bracket competition being revealed to the house. Of course, the last Battle of the Exiled saw Johnny Bananas & Nany win their way back to the house and dramatically change the dynamics in both the house and the game. This leads to a domino effect of players backstabbing one another and leading to a huge argument between a few of the players at the deliberation.
Now, because of the cliffhangers to both of this week's episodes, here's what we'll handle those... For Exes 2, we'll cover the last Exile and the mission this week, and move everything surrounding the deliberations to next week's edition of theWRAP. And for Skeletons and the Jason & Nicole fight, we'll table that to the season finale wrap next week too. So, we'll have an extended edition of our post-diary writeup to cover everything here coming up next weekend. With that out of the way, let's proceed with the Five Things to Know.
FIVE THINGS TO KNOW
- Madison's 2nd Skeleton: When we left last week, we saw that Madison got a flower delivery with a note attached to it and a reminder to meet them alone. When Maddy arrives at a restaurant, it's her ex-boyfriend Skyler, who was the one she fell into a heroin addiction with. Tony is not feeling it at all because he's under the impression that Skyler's her ex. Even with what happened in the past, she's nonetheless still happy to see him as if nothing happened. It's when Skyler is brought to Tony's work space to meet everyone that he becomes mad, and that led to what happened later in the episode.
- Bruno & Carla - Dunzo: Bruno has been dealing with a lot this season, but at the same time he's been in love with Carla. They go out to a good steak house and there, Carla asks Bruno to get a haircut just as a way to do something nice to him as a way to pay it forward. But when he asks her about it, he gets a bit upset because of being raised old school in taking care of women, but Carla tells Bruno to treat her right. When they come home, Carla tells him that he's acting like an idiot, and Bruno kicks her out as she tells him that she will cut off all ties if she leaves.
- Tony and the Bottle: After he and Skyler talk things out before Madi's ex leaves unscaved and on a night on the town, Tony then steals a bottle from the bar and the group must figure out how to pay for the bubbly, and Nicole hooks up with a guy who helps pay for that. On their way back, Sylvia is going off about that stolen bottle and because it made everyone look bad, and she even gives Tony a low blow in calling him "white trash." Nicole's doing her best to stick up for Tony as he comes home intoxicated and still fighting with Syl and Madison voicing her displeasure for their behavior. The rest of the story comes up next week here.
- Bruno & Carla - Dunzo: Bruno has been dealing with a lot this season, but at the same time he's been in love with Carla. They go out to a good steak house and there, Carla asks Bruno to get a haircut just as a way to do something nice to him as a way to pay it forward. But when he asks her about it, he gets a bit upset because of being raised old school in taking care of women, but Carla tells Bruno to treat her right. When they come home, Carla tells him that he's acting like an idiot, and Bruno kicks her out as she tells him that she will cut off all ties if she leaves.
- Tony and the Bottle: After he and Skyler talk things out before Madi's ex leaves unscaved and on a night on the town, Tony then steals a bottle from the bar and the group must figure out how to pay for the bubbly, and Nicole hooks up with a guy who helps pay for that. On their way back, Sylvia is going off about that stolen bottle and because it made everyone look bad, and she even gives Tony a low blow in calling him "white trash." Nicole's doing her best to stick up for Tony as he comes home intoxicated and still fighting with Syl and Madison voicing her displeasure for their behavior. The rest of the story comes up next week here.
- The Super Twist - Final Exile: Nia coined that phrase there when, at the beginning of this week's Exes 2 episode, TJ brought them to the Dome to witness their biggest twist ever. That would be an elimination loser's bracket and the final battle that determined who would return to the house. Instead of cheap game that we've seen after every episode online, the last Exile between Bananas & Nany and Zach & Jonna was designed as your typical elimination game, and it's something the girls know about from BOTS2: a rope and tying/untying it around a structure. It was neck and neck with Jonna having an edge at one point, and then JB/Nany taking the lead at another, and it was pretty much anyone's game. In the end, it was Banany that came up victorious.
- The Consequences, and the Ball: The consequences of Banany rejoining the house suddenly shifts the power in the house from Wes & Theresa, who have basically controlled the house since Week 6, to now back in the champ. Then at the regular mission, called Wrecking Ball, it was dodge ball and a sledge hammer above water as Sarah & Jordan won, but it was basically a game controlled by the Banany alliance and it saw, of all teams, Wes & Theresa being automatically put into the Dome in being the first team in the water. Leroy is the one who's caught in between in being someone who's long been aligned with Bananas but zapped allegiances to Wes upon JB's departure. Now with him back, now the fate lies with him and Nia. More on that next week.
WINNERS OF THE NIGHT
- Bananas & Nany: When you win the first-ever Challenge version of Survivor's Redemption Island, many would question that if they win, would that have an asterisk next to it? It's up to everyone else to answer that, but what happened here in winning, what Andrew Kirk calls the "Best non physical elimination in challenge history," necessitates a WOTN honor here. It's JB & Nany coming back from their shock loss to Nia & Leroy in week 5 to take out Team AYTO, Javerey and Zach & Jonna that made them earn their way back to the house the hard way. We've already seen the biggest comeback in RTV history in the AYTO2 cast coming back from two matchup blackouts to win the $1 million...I have a sense that Banany coming back to win could make Team 21's feat short-lived.
- Sarah & Jordan: With the Wonder Twins winning both last week's Dome and this week's mission in what was in the minds of many a semi-coordinated game in the aftermath of Banany's return, nonetheless Sarah & Jordan are now gaining steam in their quest for the cash. Last week, I wrote that they are sleeper picks among the top 3 teams to possibly win, and now with everything going on with Bananas & Nany and Wes & Theresa, they have for the most part stayed relatively sane. Now that they made up before last week's mission and Dome win and winning this week, now things are set for them to perhaps sneak into the top spot, especially with Wes/Theresa going into elimination.
- Sarah & Jordan: With the Wonder Twins winning both last week's Dome and this week's mission in what was in the minds of many a semi-coordinated game in the aftermath of Banany's return, nonetheless Sarah & Jordan are now gaining steam in their quest for the cash. Last week, I wrote that they are sleeper picks among the top 3 teams to possibly win, and now with everything going on with Bananas & Nany and Wes & Theresa, they have for the most part stayed relatively sane. Now that they made up before last week's mission and Dome win and winning this week, now things are set for them to perhaps sneak into the top spot, especially with Wes/Theresa going into elimination.
- Madison: After both of her skeletons came & went and during this season, we've all gained great insight to what Madison has been through to where she is now. There's that saying that looks can be deceiving when she is as bubbly and gorgeous as she is, and that's the case for Madi. On the inside, she has dealt with dealing with drugs and addiction, which led to her living the wrong life. We learned more about her as time went on of the consequences of going down that path, and how
But as this season has gone on, our first impressions of her as someone who we might not like have all but dissipated in learning that you can be able to emerge out of that dark period stronger than ever, and Madison should be commended for making this comeback.
But as this season has gone on, our first impressions of her as someone who we might not like have all but dissipated in learning that you can be able to emerge out of that dark period stronger than ever, and Madison should be commended for making this comeback.
- Jonna: Okay, so she was part of a team whose attention was on her male partner for unfortunate circumstances, but what we saw from Jonna in that last Exiled battle warranted her a mention here. It's safe to say that she was definitely the calm one in a team that made news for the wrong reasons. In that battle, J proved that she wanted to be there and let what she does on the field speak for herself, more than on what happens off of it. In all of her 5 starts, she has made deep runs into the season, and thanks to her experience having won Discovery Hub's Endurance, she should be the one that gives Team Cancun their first finals appearance soon enough. But for enduring the weight of competing with a partner who wasn't as sane as she was and still compete well, Jonna is a winner of the night.
PERSPECTIVE ON ZACH
And a brief thought on Zach before we move on. I will be staying true to my position here to remain impartial, stay out of the drama and not join everyone in putting him on blast for the unfortunate behavior we saw from him this season. But this is the same Zach who has emerged to become a staple of these shows in more ways than one.
When he is at his best, he can be a top 5 competitor who has made it to two finals in his first three appearances, and having that great football physique that when we saw him on his original Real World season, we knew he would become Challenge material. Because of his wide receiver experience, I can thank him for helping me become a Challenge fan thanks to his epic elimination with CJ in Turkey after I intended on giving it just a one-season try. But when Zach is at his worst, such as what happened in Panama, in last season's Free Agents final, him treating Sam in the BOTS final and in San Diego, it can be so hard to watch for many. Unfortunately, it's been the case this season and what has happened here has brought many fans to the breaking point with him.
When this season began airing, Zach hasn't spent much time on social media because of him knowing that what he did in Panama when this was taped will ultimately receive the kind of deserved, but at the same time unfortunate treatment from fans on Twitter for the way he treated Jonna and other girls. While I'm again not going to call him out on here, if he can take an opportunity to take a break from doing these shows and sit out the next Challenge, he can opt to go to anger management classes and take some time to think about what he's done in the past few years. I'm sure that when he finally takes those steps to improve himself, he'll emerge out of it a better man and as someone who can treat people with respect and handle his emotions much better. If he does that, he can be someone who can carry this franchise into its next generation.
PERSPECTIVE ON ZACH
And a brief thought on Zach before we move on. I will be staying true to my position here to remain impartial, stay out of the drama and not join everyone in putting him on blast for the unfortunate behavior we saw from him this season. But this is the same Zach who has emerged to become a staple of these shows in more ways than one.
When he is at his best, he can be a top 5 competitor who has made it to two finals in his first three appearances, and having that great football physique that when we saw him on his original Real World season, we knew he would become Challenge material. Because of his wide receiver experience, I can thank him for helping me become a Challenge fan thanks to his epic elimination with CJ in Turkey after I intended on giving it just a one-season try. But when Zach is at his worst, such as what happened in Panama, in last season's Free Agents final, him treating Sam in the BOTS final and in San Diego, it can be so hard to watch for many. Unfortunately, it's been the case this season and what has happened here has brought many fans to the breaking point with him.
When this season began airing, Zach hasn't spent much time on social media because of him knowing that what he did in Panama when this was taped will ultimately receive the kind of deserved, but at the same time unfortunate treatment from fans on Twitter for the way he treated Jonna and other girls. While I'm again not going to call him out on here, if he can take an opportunity to take a break from doing these shows and sit out the next Challenge, he can opt to go to anger management classes and take some time to think about what he's done in the past few years. I'm sure that when he finally takes those steps to improve himself, he'll emerge out of it a better man and as someone who can treat people with respect and handle his emotions much better. If he does that, he can be someone who can carry this franchise into its next generation.
#DCExtraTime
A VIEW ON THE VETERANS
With a handful of the tweets you saw above coming to us by way of one of The Challenge's most notorious names in Beth S. from RW LA all the way back 22 years ago and her joining twitter last week and then meeting Syrus, it inspired me to write this...
If you've been visiting DCBLOG since I put my MTV coverage into full gear with Rivals II in July 2013, then you've become familiar with aspects of my coverage that have made DCB unique in the blogosphere: the SocialPulse diaries, the Fan's View articles, stories and reflection on the franchise and its people... some thoughts on it at the end of Extra Time. One of those posts that's been prevalent in my Challenge coverage has been "Who Are These Newbies?", where I've been able to help introduce Jordan, Zach, Nany, Jemmye and those who I became familiar with starting with when I rejoined this world three years ago and have made a name for themselves.
Now with The Challenge being renewed for a 27th season, there's been an active movement among fans to have veterans on the upcoming season, and have more of them than the newbies that I have followed closely here, including Team AYTO. To bring fans up to date, I did watch some of the earlier Challenge seasons back in the heyday with Beth, Syrus and Mark and when CT and Aneesa were just getting started, but it was only when I binge watched the entire Rivals season before the 2nd one two summers ago that I saw Johnny Bananas, Theresa and other recent vets for the first time.
There's been a retro movement that's been prevalent on social media across all aspects of pop culture, in no small part due to Throwback Thursdays and Flashback Fridays. It's with this in mind that the vets movement has been prevalent. While during my time away from watching Challenges (Real World always takes priority for me), there competitors helped pave the way for the show as we all take for granted, and shall be thanked for making this show the so-called 5th major pro sport. But being able to see a lot of these people always brings back memories for myself in when they were on previous shows and it always feels like a high school reunion watching this.
For me, as someone who has been an MTV fan for a long time, I actually carry a much different mindset than those with short attention spans have. Like I do with following the NBA, the Olympics and the sports world as passionately as I do the MTV world, I always take everything as they come. For where fans have been clamoring for vets on a season, for their favorites or for new ones, for me it doesn't matter who I would want on a season. I've established a very strong rapport with the MTV family, both in and outside the Trifecta, that it won't make any difference who I want to see on a season. Social media has made it easy for me to make friends with a lot of these newbies and veterans, and because I've interacted with so many of them I would be happy with any mixture of castmates. And also, I am aware of the broader world where if anything related to family, career or education are present and where possible, my advice to is give priority to them.
The drawback here is that if the next Challenge has a good number of veterans who haven't done a season in a while, then I would have to ask some experts to help brief me on their Challenge history in addition to offering relatively new viewers some biographical background on those vets too, the same way I've been using those techniques to introduce the newbies. In all, I'm not gonna join everyone and say "I miss the vets" because I do have love for everyone in this community, But if I do see some more of them, I'll be looking forward to having their company at the next Challenge; the same is true for the newbies as well. Imagine what this will be like if there's a two- or three-team Challenge...that will make things more interesting to say the least.
With a handful of the tweets you saw above coming to us by way of one of The Challenge's most notorious names in Beth S. from RW LA all the way back 22 years ago and her joining twitter last week and then meeting Syrus, it inspired me to write this...
If you've been visiting DCBLOG since I put my MTV coverage into full gear with Rivals II in July 2013, then you've become familiar with aspects of my coverage that have made DCB unique in the blogosphere: the SocialPulse diaries, the Fan's View articles, stories and reflection on the franchise and its people... some thoughts on it at the end of Extra Time. One of those posts that's been prevalent in my Challenge coverage has been "Who Are These Newbies?", where I've been able to help introduce Jordan, Zach, Nany, Jemmye and those who I became familiar with starting with when I rejoined this world three years ago and have made a name for themselves.
Now with The Challenge being renewed for a 27th season, there's been an active movement among fans to have veterans on the upcoming season, and have more of them than the newbies that I have followed closely here, including Team AYTO. To bring fans up to date, I did watch some of the earlier Challenge seasons back in the heyday with Beth, Syrus and Mark and when CT and Aneesa were just getting started, but it was only when I binge watched the entire Rivals season before the 2nd one two summers ago that I saw Johnny Bananas, Theresa and other recent vets for the first time.
There's been a retro movement that's been prevalent on social media across all aspects of pop culture, in no small part due to Throwback Thursdays and Flashback Fridays. It's with this in mind that the vets movement has been prevalent. While during my time away from watching Challenges (Real World always takes priority for me), there competitors helped pave the way for the show as we all take for granted, and shall be thanked for making this show the so-called 5th major pro sport. But being able to see a lot of these people always brings back memories for myself in when they were on previous shows and it always feels like a high school reunion watching this.
For me, as someone who has been an MTV fan for a long time, I actually carry a much different mindset than those with short attention spans have. Like I do with following the NBA, the Olympics and the sports world as passionately as I do the MTV world, I always take everything as they come. For where fans have been clamoring for vets on a season, for their favorites or for new ones, for me it doesn't matter who I would want on a season. I've established a very strong rapport with the MTV family, both in and outside the Trifecta, that it won't make any difference who I want to see on a season. Social media has made it easy for me to make friends with a lot of these newbies and veterans, and because I've interacted with so many of them I would be happy with any mixture of castmates. And also, I am aware of the broader world where if anything related to family, career or education are present and where possible, my advice to is give priority to them.
The drawback here is that if the next Challenge has a good number of veterans who haven't done a season in a while, then I would have to ask some experts to help brief me on their Challenge history in addition to offering relatively new viewers some biographical background on those vets too, the same way I've been using those techniques to introduce the newbies. In all, I'm not gonna join everyone and say "I miss the vets" because I do have love for everyone in this community, But if I do see some more of them, I'll be looking forward to having their company at the next Challenge; the same is true for the newbies as well. Imagine what this will be like if there's a two- or three-team Challenge...that will make things more interesting to say the least.
DOUBLE LIFE-CHANGERS
Shifting our attention now to the present... Last weekend, there were two pieces of life-changing news that came to two members of Team MTV coming in the aftermath of Jason from Skeletons becoming a father during the season.
First up, in a house in San Francisco full of former couples, we all became mesmerized by the saga of the triangle of Jenny, Brian & Cory during Real World Ex-Plosion last year. This came complete with high kicks, Buddha quips, knives and bropocalypse aplenty, and now two of those three are now cemented for the rest of their lives, and not just because that they made up in the year since we saw that season that changed everything for the reality pioneer.
Last Sunday on both Twitter and Instagram, Jenny shared the news via a pic of her and Brian in the snow that they are about to become mom & dad and are now expecting a new baby to come in July-August of this summer. You saw the words of Jenny's SFO roommates getting the news at the beginning of the diary, and this couldn't happen to a more nicer and great group of people than Jenny and Brian. What happened last year with they went through here in my Bay Area backyard in driving each other towards the point of insanity is now but a distant memory and they now a fantastic future ahead in not only having figured their situation out, but also now raising their new baby.
And second, at this time last year the Season 1 Originals on Are You The One? went through the game-changing 2nd match that broke up Shanley & Chris T. and paved the way for their $1 million moment. Now the series' first couple and new parents, Amber & Ethan, have company in the wedded bliss department, as this past weekend on a trip down to Key West, Jessica got engaged to her boyfriend Tyler. Jess didn't find true love in Hawaii though she had a very nice perfect match in Ryan, but Jess did find her own perfect match in her boyfriend who she met after the season ended.
It wasn't posted on Jessica's Twitter account but on her IG at @Jess_Daniellee, and here's how the AYTO community greeted the news...
> @Jess_Danielle - ON IG: I get to spend the rest of my life with this guy. I am the luckiest woman alive!!!! Yes yes yes! @tprongay
- @kklusby: Congratulations !!! call/ text me I lost my numbers !!! @jess_danielle I'm freaking out ! I want to be the flower girl !
- @ctolleson: @jess_daniellee CONGRATS!!!!
- @paigebrendel: Holy cow!!!!!!! Georgeous!
- @illbejacy: Felicidades Jessica!!! Love you and I'm going to your wedding no matter what lol
- @tabron27: Congratsssssssssssssssss
- @amberleemtv: (5 emojis with love)
#OnTheRise BEYOND THE HEIGHTS
Now, we turn to something from outside of the Trifecta but something that I want to mention here. With Real World Skeletons wrapping up on Tuesday, if you're someone like me who's a RW fan and appreciates the great storytelling it brings us every season, and want something fresh to sample alongside binge watching past seasons during the coming offseason after Exes 2 wraps up, then you'll want to check out the show I'm about to cover last here. It's something I profiled in the MTV Sampler edition of The Look last fall and have been watching a good amount of its DVD lately.
Before Real World Portland in the spring of 2013, I got a good warm-up for it with Washington Heights. The show documented a group of 9 best friends who live in that neighborhood in uptown New York City. Like any old-school Real World season, Wash. Hts. documented the group's interpersonal lives, their struggles, the togetherness that makes them more like family than friends, and most importantly their career aspirations of music, fashion, poetry and baseball. Think of it as a mix of Real World with Laguna Beach, but also more grittier but at the same inspiring too.
The man at the heart of the Heights clique is JP, aka Audubon, who is its peacemaker, motivator and glue. During that season, we saw him balance his budding hip-hop career, and performing at various places across the Tri-State Area, with family hardships and being that mama's boy living with his mom. Audubon has continued to pursue his music career after the series wrapped up having released a couple albums, and is on the verge of bigger and better things ahead, having just spent time escaping the cold of NYC for time in SoCal recording and mixing.
On my DC ExtraTime session on late Tuesday/early Wednesday on DCNOW (which on DST features cast tweets from the Exes 2 cast that weren't tweeted during the episodes), I led off with a video premiere where I shared the link, which you can check it out here on YouTube. Audubon's newest track is called "She Hates Me," and it's a good one off of his latest album, Le Trap Affair. JP if you're reading this, great job on that video. Miss the show but you've got a great future ahead of you, much respect.
Shifting our attention now to the present... Last weekend, there were two pieces of life-changing news that came to two members of Team MTV coming in the aftermath of Jason from Skeletons becoming a father during the season.
First up, in a house in San Francisco full of former couples, we all became mesmerized by the saga of the triangle of Jenny, Brian & Cory during Real World Ex-Plosion last year. This came complete with high kicks, Buddha quips, knives and bropocalypse aplenty, and now two of those three are now cemented for the rest of their lives, and not just because that they made up in the year since we saw that season that changed everything for the reality pioneer.
Last Sunday on both Twitter and Instagram, Jenny shared the news via a pic of her and Brian in the snow that they are about to become mom & dad and are now expecting a new baby to come in July-August of this summer. You saw the words of Jenny's SFO roommates getting the news at the beginning of the diary, and this couldn't happen to a more nicer and great group of people than Jenny and Brian. What happened last year with they went through here in my Bay Area backyard in driving each other towards the point of insanity is now but a distant memory and they now a fantastic future ahead in not only having figured their situation out, but also now raising their new baby.
And second, at this time last year the Season 1 Originals on Are You The One? went through the game-changing 2nd match that broke up Shanley & Chris T. and paved the way for their $1 million moment. Now the series' first couple and new parents, Amber & Ethan, have company in the wedded bliss department, as this past weekend on a trip down to Key West, Jessica got engaged to her boyfriend Tyler. Jess didn't find true love in Hawaii though she had a very nice perfect match in Ryan, but Jess did find her own perfect match in her boyfriend who she met after the season ended.
It wasn't posted on Jessica's Twitter account but on her IG at @Jess_Daniellee, and here's how the AYTO community greeted the news...
> @Jess_Danielle - ON IG: I get to spend the rest of my life with this guy. I am the luckiest woman alive!!!! Yes yes yes! @tprongay
- @kklusby: Congratulations !!! call/ text me I lost my numbers !!! @jess_danielle I'm freaking out ! I want to be the flower girl !
- @ctolleson: @jess_daniellee CONGRATS!!!!
- @paigebrendel: Holy cow!!!!!!! Georgeous!
- @illbejacy: Felicidades Jessica!!! Love you and I'm going to your wedding no matter what lol
- @tabron27: Congratsssssssssssssssss
- @amberleemtv: (5 emojis with love)
If you remember last year, it was Jessica liking my MTV pictures on my IG that actually got me through the door of Are You The One?. Of course, the rest is history with her cast and Season 2 winning the jackpot, a 3rd season having just been ordered to air later this year, and international versions of the show now airing on MTV Brazil and Europe.
To Jenny & Brian, good luck with your new baby, I know you'll be great parents to your new bundle of joy. And to Jessica, congrats to you and Tyler...all the best in your new journey together.
#OnTheRise BEYOND THE HEIGHTS
Now, we turn to something from outside of the Trifecta but something that I want to mention here. With Real World Skeletons wrapping up on Tuesday, if you're someone like me who's a RW fan and appreciates the great storytelling it brings us every season, and want something fresh to sample alongside binge watching past seasons during the coming offseason after Exes 2 wraps up, then you'll want to check out the show I'm about to cover last here. It's something I profiled in the MTV Sampler edition of The Look last fall and have been watching a good amount of its DVD lately.
Before Real World Portland in the spring of 2013, I got a good warm-up for it with Washington Heights. The show documented a group of 9 best friends who live in that neighborhood in uptown New York City. Like any old-school Real World season, Wash. Hts. documented the group's interpersonal lives, their struggles, the togetherness that makes them more like family than friends, and most importantly their career aspirations of music, fashion, poetry and baseball. Think of it as a mix of Real World with Laguna Beach, but also more grittier but at the same inspiring too.
The man at the heart of the Heights clique is JP, aka Audubon, who is its peacemaker, motivator and glue. During that season, we saw him balance his budding hip-hop career, and performing at various places across the Tri-State Area, with family hardships and being that mama's boy living with his mom. Audubon has continued to pursue his music career after the series wrapped up having released a couple albums, and is on the verge of bigger and better things ahead, having just spent time escaping the cold of NYC for time in SoCal recording and mixing.
On my DC ExtraTime session on late Tuesday/early Wednesday on DCNOW (which on DST features cast tweets from the Exes 2 cast that weren't tweeted during the episodes), I led off with a video premiere where I shared the link, which you can check it out here on YouTube. Audubon's newest track is called "She Hates Me," and it's a good one off of his latest album, Le Trap Affair. JP if you're reading this, great job on that video. Miss the show but you've got a great future ahead of you, much respect.
THOUGHTS FROM YOURS TRULY...
Finally before we wrap up this week, some time to get something off my chest and going back to the blog aspect from earlier. No, there's not any radical change on this site, but I want to address the reason why I let you all wait until the weekend, 3 to 4 days after Double Shot Tuesday to read these wraps. Last weekend, I had a DM talk with one of my followers who also runs one of the fan twitter accounts. As I was seeking to ask them to help plug this Blog by tweeting my diary links on their hub whenever I post them on Twitter, in the end I learned about what makes this site unique.
DCBLOG is my contribution to the wide-ranging coverage of the MTV Trifecta that grabs my attention like no other. When I launched this site two years ago, while I do a great job covering everything at large and showcase what I do best in writing, I never knew that this site would become one of those sites that fans of The Real World, The Challenge and Are You The One? now go to. It's become a must-read Blog for MTV fans who've been brought to here by what I've been offering in covering the shows I love and is a fan of them just like everyone else.
I always strive to make this site different from others in covering this world from a unique point of view here. We cover it from a social media aspect with these 'Pulse diaries, providing a fresh look at the people of these shows, and offering perspective and analysis. No programming on television is best suited to be given this kind of coverage than MTV reality shows, which can also apply to not just the Trifecta, but also to the Teen Mom and 16 & Pregnant franchise and a few others as well.
The conversation I had brought up the premise that makes my site unique: it's about putting the best effort to it and taking all the time I need to make it the best. While all others are covering these shows with wraps, great podcasts, insightful interviews, power rankings and, in Ace Nichols' case, her hilarious video recaps, mine puts emphasis on quality and thoroughness. I do maintain some really high standards in all aspects of what I do everyday in & outside the social world, and it's no exception here in making sure that the best possible posts and quality standards are maintained here.
There's a reason why I don't post my SocialPulse posts until a few days after the episodes first air on MTV...yes, this to allow those who didn't watch it live to catch up, but most importantly to make sure that I have the best posts that I have by the time I click the Publish button. I always make sure that all the tweets from Team MTV and those I choose from fans are accounted for and that every section in my post-diary write-up are both complete and accurate. In these diaries, as well as other related posts that also take time to conjure up, I pay a great attention to detail with an emphasis to be as perfect as possible. And that's also mostly the reason why that now, I don't tweet as much now as in the past because I'm putting great effort into this site, along with things out of this world as well.
I've been following the MTV world for 16 years now and for a great fan like myself, there's no better thing to follow socially and cover here than the Trifecta. It's my devotion to a show I've grown up with since high school, its spin-off which in three years has joined it as a favorite of mine, and 3rd one that I fell in love with last year. And we also cover other shows as well too because it's my curiosity of the world around me and the interactivity of its people on social media that has driven me there too. Sure of course, I'll be continuing to aggressively promote this site on Twitter and do my best to help drive fans of the shows to here in asking friends and cast to help tweet my links to here.
But when you get to the heart of it, it's the words from that DM talk I had which echoed what drives DCBLOG, and also undermines the philosophy award voters have on their minds when they cast those ballots of the Oscars, the Grammys and the Emmys: "It's not about numbers, it's about the quality. Your work will speak for itself." It's something that, as a regular TV viewer myself, I admire in several networks including HBO, PBS and NBC Sports who place great emphasis on quality and both the amount of acclaim and awards they receive can simply speak for themselves. It's something I have in mind when I take the time to put these posts together and bring them to you all on here.
So, in a belated word of appreciation to all of you more than a month after I crossed 20,000 overall views on here, thanks once again to everyone who visits DCBLOG and continues to support this site. It's the kind words you give me for the great job I do, and providing the freshest and best possible coverage of All Things MTV and beyond, that make me keep on doing what I love to do. That helps be drive harder to showcase my great talent of writing and speaking with the written word, and cover the shows and things you and I love.
DCBLOG is my contribution to the wide-ranging coverage of the MTV Trifecta that grabs my attention like no other. When I launched this site two years ago, while I do a great job covering everything at large and showcase what I do best in writing, I never knew that this site would become one of those sites that fans of The Real World, The Challenge and Are You The One? now go to. It's become a must-read Blog for MTV fans who've been brought to here by what I've been offering in covering the shows I love and is a fan of them just like everyone else.
I always strive to make this site different from others in covering this world from a unique point of view here. We cover it from a social media aspect with these 'Pulse diaries, providing a fresh look at the people of these shows, and offering perspective and analysis. No programming on television is best suited to be given this kind of coverage than MTV reality shows, which can also apply to not just the Trifecta, but also to the Teen Mom and 16 & Pregnant franchise and a few others as well.
The conversation I had brought up the premise that makes my site unique: it's about putting the best effort to it and taking all the time I need to make it the best. While all others are covering these shows with wraps, great podcasts, insightful interviews, power rankings and, in Ace Nichols' case, her hilarious video recaps, mine puts emphasis on quality and thoroughness. I do maintain some really high standards in all aspects of what I do everyday in & outside the social world, and it's no exception here in making sure that the best possible posts and quality standards are maintained here.
There's a reason why I don't post my SocialPulse posts until a few days after the episodes first air on MTV...yes, this to allow those who didn't watch it live to catch up, but most importantly to make sure that I have the best posts that I have by the time I click the Publish button. I always make sure that all the tweets from Team MTV and those I choose from fans are accounted for and that every section in my post-diary write-up are both complete and accurate. In these diaries, as well as other related posts that also take time to conjure up, I pay a great attention to detail with an emphasis to be as perfect as possible. And that's also mostly the reason why that now, I don't tweet as much now as in the past because I'm putting great effort into this site, along with things out of this world as well.
I've been following the MTV world for 16 years now and for a great fan like myself, there's no better thing to follow socially and cover here than the Trifecta. It's my devotion to a show I've grown up with since high school, its spin-off which in three years has joined it as a favorite of mine, and 3rd one that I fell in love with last year. And we also cover other shows as well too because it's my curiosity of the world around me and the interactivity of its people on social media that has driven me there too. Sure of course, I'll be continuing to aggressively promote this site on Twitter and do my best to help drive fans of the shows to here in asking friends and cast to help tweet my links to here.
But when you get to the heart of it, it's the words from that DM talk I had which echoed what drives DCBLOG, and also undermines the philosophy award voters have on their minds when they cast those ballots of the Oscars, the Grammys and the Emmys: "It's not about numbers, it's about the quality. Your work will speak for itself." It's something that, as a regular TV viewer myself, I admire in several networks including HBO, PBS and NBC Sports who place great emphasis on quality and both the amount of acclaim and awards they receive can simply speak for themselves. It's something I have in mind when I take the time to put these posts together and bring them to you all on here.
So, in a belated word of appreciation to all of you more than a month after I crossed 20,000 overall views on here, thanks once again to everyone who visits DCBLOG and continues to support this site. It's the kind words you give me for the great job I do, and providing the freshest and best possible coverage of All Things MTV and beyond, that make me keep on doing what I love to do. That helps be drive harder to showcase my great talent of writing and speaking with the written word, and cover the shows and things you and I love.
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