Natalie Robomed

Obviously, this is a joke, satirical headline.

It says,

That really says it all.

I mean, at the same time as Dani from Cycle 6 was forced to close her gap and told she would never make it as a fashion model, Tyra would go on and increase the gap in a model's tooth in a later season.

So it just seems all for entertainment or at least random or for nothing or something.

Let's talk about the We Were Rooting For You, the Tiffany Richardson iconic scene, which had really become a meme.

But the truth is, like, much darker, at least, it appears.

Yeah, that moment really speaks to the complicated role that Tyra played on the show, where she was sometimes the ally to these girls, or this kind of big sister character.

She would go talk to the girls and be pally-pally with them.

And then sometimes she would scold them and tell them off and be like a, I don't know, like a really, really harsh mother.

But she would play both sides, at least this is how it seemed to me watching the show now,

for the benefit of making good television.

And I'm thinking specifically of the instance with Shandi.

Shandi talks about an experience that she had that appears to be an apparent filmed sexual assault, where she was intoxicated and had an interaction with a guy.

But the way that it was framed on the show was that Shandi had cheated on her boyfriend.

And after this happens, I mean, Tyra comes and talks to the girls and just starts obliquely talking about cheating.

Yeah.

But I think what's really most heartbreaking about Shandi's situation is that she had no say in how she was depicted and in what was filmed.

And that was really because of the release that she signed and the contract that she signed.

There was nothing she could do about it.