The Unrigging of Drag Race Season 7
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
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Season 7 of RuPaul's Drag Race was a wild ride, and we discussed all of the riggory last week. This week, it's time to get down to what would have happened if it WASN'T rigged. And this season gets very interesting...
As we always do, we'll break down every episode, every challenge winner, lip sync, and elimination and see how the season would have changed if it had been without production rigging. Will Violet Chachki still win the season? Will Tempest DuJour remain the first boot? Will underrated queens like Jaidynn Diore Fierce and Max make it longer than they did?
Let's just say this season ends up looking pretty different by the end of this video...
Let me know in the comments below what you think would have changed and what you agree and disagree with in this video!
0:00 INTRO
1:15 EPISODE 1
7:00 EPISODE 2
9:03 EPISODE 3
10:57 EPISODE 4
13:30 EPISODE 5
17:13 EPISODE 6
20:18 EPISODE 7
21:56 EPISODE 8
24:45 EPISODE 9
25:45 EPISODE 10
27:38 EPISODE 11
28:18 EPISODE 12
29:43 EPISODE 14
30:46 OUTRO - Розваги
FAIR-A-MORRIS GURL💅🏽
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Omg yes
welcome to the stage, the legendary Farrah Morris!!
@@AndreLuizSeco YESSSS!! That’s gna be my drag name.
Farrah Morris. new drag name
"To me, this was Jaidynn's win".
Chad: *YES!* Yes!
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jaidynn is my true mayhem tbh
@@DragDetective💀💀💀
@@DragDetective VALID
@@DragDetective Nah cause Jaidynn winning that challenge isn't really an "unpopular opinion", I see it repeated quite often:)
@@DragDetective i swear I ll never understand your love for Mayhem Filler😅 but you go gurl❤ she s first out on versus the world so i d love to see how you rig that for her😍
The fact that we would miss pearl’s “is there something on my face” is the true tragedy of this season
nah i never particularly cared for that moment or her beef with ru
@@laincoubert7236 not a beef as much as just....one sided pressure and bullying
I'm more upset that we would miss her Big Ang on snatch game
@@lostblueboy not sure if that "iconic" face off and miss paul saying "i don't care about what you say unless the camera is rolling" should qualify as abuse [edit: i meant "bullying"]. do spill if there's some other tea tho.
@@laincoubert7236they didnt say abuse though?
I love Kandy's track record going BTM BTM BTM HIGH BTM ELIM at the end. Feels like drag race simulator levels of crazy
serving Roxxxy/India's AS track records realness
Tbh though she would wash all those people in the lip syncs
@@_.Idk._ its true..if she was a better competetor she would have Kameron Michaelsed her way to the finale
i love how the show wanted a young fashion queen to win for “variety” but then the season was mostly comedy or acting challenges….
I think production was at the intersection of “we want a fashion queen” and “the most memorable and beloved challenges are comedy based” (particularly since they’d had three back to back iconic snatch games/roasts) and that’s how we got this season lol
“But in 2015 this look was Cxnt” was so funny to me
I was Trixie’s designer from Season 7. The nude illusion runway was in the brief and was brought from home. Trixie’s was painted to look like a poseable, nude fashion doll by artist Kyle Krueger.
i remember her saying this on the show. u were her designer tho? thats so cool
I definitely got doll from that😊 idk if it’s coz I spent too much time as a kid stripping my dolls, but…
Holy freak you are one of the oldest UA-cam accounts out there
old ass account
I know this a year old comment but Lynn, you are amazing and I will never stop saying that! 🥰
Thank you for this! Season 7 is iconic, but the level of fairness was smaller than Violet's waist. I said what I said 💅
I think if the season had not relied so heavily on the old-school versus new-school vibe, there would have been less riggory.
And her IQ!
Still can’t get over how robbed Max was, she could’ve been one of the most successful drag race queens if the judges let her shine
Please, max did nothing post show with all the fans and fame she was giving, the judges didn't have anything to do with that. Trixie was torn down by the judges yet she still managed to be one of the most successful queens out there
@@AlfredoV90 You seem to be intentionally ignoring the effect the edit and its resulting fan reception has on a queen’s future. Trixie may have flopped on S7, but she left the show a fan favorite. On the other hand, the show absolutely assassinated Max’s character - even ignoring them editing Max’s singing on the main stage out of context, she was consistently painted as a stuck-up prude who was putting on a fake character, not to mention Trixie was among the queens actively calling her out as the season aired. After S7, Trixie was loved by everyone while Max was fake at best and mentally unstable and attention seeking at worst - good luck trying to argue how they had an even playing field to capitalize on after the show.
@@MichelleD2023also i think its just Weird that to justify sending home the only queen with two wins, they make her seem mentally unstable when she was having a panic attack because of her corset
@@Dan-eo1suNot even just bc of her corset, she was having a panic attack and asked to loosen her corset quickly and take a breath which is actually commonly done. But they edited and painted her as a psycho. So disgusting.
"- Kennedy does a good job
- Max does a good job
- Jaidynn Dior Fierce does a good job
- Jasmine Masters
- Violet I also think does a good job!"
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NOT THE VIOLET SLANDER😂
@@Mylittleaddiction2802 u mean jasmine??
That acceptance speech from miss fame Legit never fails to make me laugh
SO camp i loved it
Season 7 is an underrated season but I definitely feel like the queens carried it, even the early outs like Tempest and Jasmine were stars
Don’t forget Sasha Belle, she cracked the code
@@ismayonnaiseaninstrument3911 a whole daddy now 🤤
Right? It was an AWFUL season because of the challenges but it had one of the most successful casts of all.
The whole time all I could think was: Season 7 had the worst promo looks lol Also one of the reasons Ginger didn't win wasn't because she would've been the third consecutive comedy queen to win, but because production knew the fans didn't like her. Violet herself has said she thinks Ginger was supposed to win but when production saw fans didn't like her because of the Bitter Old Lady Brigade thing, they gave the crown to Violet.
Don't get me wrong, Violet deserved to win the real season and she's an equally deserving winner here, she still slays the season. But it's nice to see Ginger finally get a crown, even if it's imaginary!! Good to see Trixie getting her justice this season too!! 👑💅
Jasmine Masters had the best promo look
Tracia maretelle making top 3 is a fever dream
Man, this is a slaughterfest for Kandy, oh my lord.
She would send four people home!
There’s still no way she’d be in the bottom for the dance challenge though
@@highonsugar6273 she probably wouldn’t if the challenge wasn’t judged in pairs
@@highonsugar6273 country robot as the prompt though.... also it's by pairs
@@highonsugar6273she would be with Ginger with the robot prompt, a death sentence for literally anyone
Kandy becomes the lip-sync assassin of the season was a plot twist but not an unpleasant one
For Glamazonian Airways, Ginger revealed that she originally had another outfit that matched the category however when she was putting in on the zipper split just as the PA called 5 minutes to the runway. Kennedy was quick to help her and they knew they wouldn’t be able to fix the gown in time. So Ginger told Kennedy to run and grab something pretty from her rack and she would defend it on the runway. Kennedy grabbed the cocktail dress. As for why Ginger didn't mention this on the main stage or in Untucked, I'm guessing she was trying to be professional and commit to the outfit or it would have been like asking the judges to give her a pass and overlook her runway since it was an emergency or that she was blaming Kennedy since she grabbed the outfit and that wouldn't have been fair to her or the other queens. All the same, I adore Ginger but nice to see Kasha get a win!! Also love this new season!! Ginger wins, Trixie makes the Top 3 and Violet still slays!! Love it all!! 💅👑
She might’ve said it and it just wasn’t shown in the episode cause it wasn’t relevant. We only really see a minor portion of the deliberations, it’s like a two hour dialogue for the queens in the moment (with lunch break in between I believe).
@@handsoaphandsoap exactly and I'm surprised they didn't air the moment like they did with Adore in episode 1 of Season 6. Seeing Ginger panic and Kennedy trying to help her like WTF do we do?! We have like 5 minutes!! It would've been such a great, dramatic TV moment!! I just remember her revealing it in an interview with feastoffun. When people read her for it not matching the category, I just point it out. Point is, she knew it didn't match the category and was going to wear something that did.
The more I think about it, the more Trixie would’ve BODIED the Hello Kitty Ball. I still think Violet wins, but Trixie would’ve slayed
It was Pink, toy themed design challenge. There is no universe where she would place lower than high lol
We need to bring despy awards back! It’s SUCH a good challenge idea
Trixie making it too top 3 with a higher D&B score than Violet kinda slayed me
max’s looks aged VERY well imo
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Your assumption that Max and Trixie would hypothetically win the Despy awards rests on the assumption that Trixie would allow Max to write material for both of them or even let her get a word in edgewise. If only we had several years of examples of Trixie co-hosting a show with a queen with a specific oddball sensibility to show us if that would actually happen. (I'm kidding I love Trixie, please don't come for me, it's just a JOKE.)
a VERY good point lmao
Even then id still say they’d win, none of the performances were really that good, even if they kept half of max’s script, it would still be better than everyone else’s 💀
Well, while I do agree, when Trixie was working with Milk in AS3, she was the funniest and yet was getting steamrolled. So who knows, Trixie is professional on Drag Race, while on UNHhhh it's a free for all. I don't think her winning Despy with Max is that far out of the box.
Trixie making it this far actually shakes me to my core and I'm biased in favour of her. I'm flabbergasted!
For Sashas nude illusion, apparently the queens were told that they would be judged solely for the Resort Wear tearaway look and the nude illusion would be blurred out for tv/ the audience, thats why Sasha didn't put much effort into it because production literally said it wouldn't be seen by the audience. She explained this on a podcast i believe.
She was Confused by the assignment indeed
giving the wins to jaidynn and kasha were so deserved. i’ve felt this way for 8 years so it’s so nice that y’all agree!!
In this universe, Trixie 100% would have won. She was an absolute fan favorite especially among the younger demographic, and she would win every social media poll. Wild to think about
Then **insert french vanilla fantasy** Shangie would have been free to win AS3 🥹
Just kidding, they'd probably still have robbed her 😭
@@TheLadyCrankypants If the jury thing happened, yeah. Her peers did not seem to like her. Shangela doesn't need a crown anyway I think she is the most successful RuGirl. Maybe Trixie makes more money/has more fans but Shangela has actually gone mainstream.
Love this "un-rigging"! Thank you for giving Jaidynn her flowers 😂 I'm so glad that S7 is getting more love these days. It brought many iconic moments and queens who are still popular today. I would really love to see some of the less popular girls (Sasha, Kandy, Tempest) come back and do more stuff with WOW+ and the show!
Miss fame's acceptance speech is golden! I die every time. It's a forgotten moment in the fandom, thank you for highlighting it!
in my opinion, Mayhem Miller was unfairly eliminated in that lip sync against Serena cha cha and should have won this season and won every challenge on all winners season so she could become queen of all queens
In my opinion Ongina was eliminating herself was very bendelacreme of her
One note during the snatch game ep though was Violet would have definitely played Donatella Versace like she intended to since Fame wasn't there. I think we would have seen a very different snatch game.
THANK YOU! I love Pearl, I truly do but I remember watching season 7 for the first time and how flabbergasted I was that she won that lipsync against Trixie. Well deserved justice for Tracie for sure.
I also love how your unrigging would still work with the storyline. I think Trixie instead of Pearl in the finale would be better because that would be more competitive and it would make Trixie even bigger fan fave
"I was not expecting Trixie to be in the finale". Rest of the world: "we all were".
I'd have loved to see Trixie stay longer because if Trixie had told her story on Drag Race we'd all be crying.
Going through the absolute worst period of life atm so thank you so much for a great distraction, I always binge your content when I'm sad
You got this! It always gets better with time ❤
omg me too i'm with you 😭 i had horrible cramps at work allllll day
edit: you know what i realize now you might have meant period like "time" lol
Things will get better. Take care of yourself ❤
Don’t remember where I heard it… but rumor was that Trixie was cut at the first opportunity because she was going to do Anne Frank for Snatch Game. Then she comes back the episode after it. Season was definitely highly rigged. Thanks for let’s us know how it really should have been.
It’s on UA-cam 💀
I dont think so, if production didnt want her to do anne frank they probably would just say that she cant do it. Like they already did multiple times with other queens, it might be possible cause we dont know how the riggory brains of the producers worked at the time but i dont think its a plausible explanation.
I can’t recall where but Tricia actually said that production told her to not even think about bringing an Anne costume with her. Pretty much the precursor to Loosey as Jonbenet.
Miss Fame’s solo speech was enough for a win to me. I laugh at that EVERY time …
I wanna see Max again. She was cut too soon, both from the OG season and this one!
Thank you for always having subtitles on your videos.
Not only is inclusive content for the hearing impaired always wonderful, but also I'm a new mom and have to watch with the sound off (baby is a very light sleeper) and I wouldn't be able to watch your videos without them!
It always seemed weird to me that it was such a comedy heavy season but then they seemed to do a complete 180 and chose the fashion queens with Violet taking the crown. They could have leaned far more into design and fashion challenges and it would have felt more organic.
Season 7 was the first season where I remember thinking, "Holy shit, what are the judges / RuPaul thinking?" It's fun to see someone else agree with what I think should have happened.
Highlights for me are Jaidynn finally getting her flowers instead of getting ignored, Pearl leaving early (sorry), and Fame getting recognized.
I don’t want to live in a world without my queen Violet winning.
Just thought i’d add that in the untucked for Episode 1, Sasha was panicking as she didn’t know the words for Geronimo, so I could see Tempest beating her, but that’s just a minor quibble.
With that top 3, I really could see it going any which way. At this stage, fan support had started to matter, so I actually think either Violet or Trixie probably would have won over Ginger (considering Ginger's edit).
It does make me wonder though, had Trixie not got the robbed queen edit, would she have bounced back so strongly and become basically the most popular drag queen in the world next to Rupaul herself?
Not so sure about miss Tracy Martel being top three, but I have felt for eight years that Jaidynn deserved the win for her Bianca impression so thank you so much for validating that.
WILD to think about how Kandy Ho would be an iconic lip sync assassin that way. But it definitely is realistic
You had me at “Pube Salad, if you will”
Let's go!! Can't wait to see how much this season changes
Great video!! I would also love the riggory of season 8 as there was rigging for like kim chi which is interesting
Max's story about "resort wear"= FDR polio resort had me gagging 😂💀🤩. She's so great. Also "in 2015 this was cxnt" is sooo real lmaoooo. I also think that about Katya's Miss Congeniality lewk.
I wanted Ginger to win 8 yrs ago on S7. She did the best that season and in the finale. She's also surprisingly difficult to outperform in a lip sync. Plus I will also say RPDR USA is wasn't then & still isn't about letting a big girl win. I felt that's why she didn't win. Because all of the top 3 had unfavorable edits. Hell the top 4.
Watching the thumbnail reminded of when the season 7 promo looks dropped and it was a good time in my life so much !
I'm dipping my toes back into drag race and your videos are so good. Like many I hate reality TV but eat that shit up at the same time. Your videos are so entertaining and informative and like FREQUENT?? I was shocked at how often you upload man. Take a rest PLEASE 😭
Just found your channel and you uploaded this while I was watching your last video! Subscribed
Max did well on the Spoof challenge. There’s not much to imitate about Courtney. She did well with little to work with
I was waiting so much for this!!! Never watched a video as soon as it gets out!
Trixie top 3?! This totally goes with my fantasy
Regarding Episode 5, I have this faint memory of an interview with Pearl where she talked about the challenge. Max barely got anything together and Pearl wrote a lot of it quite last minute when she came back (that's why she's the one saying most of it).
I could remember it wrong but it would make more sense to me. Pearl showed time and time again that she's funnier than people give her credit for, while Max hasn't been standing out for her comedy ever since.
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I love these types of videos, can't wait to see what Season you unrig next!
The top 3 is wild t see. Cause those are some of our biggest queens today. Just interesting.
I aggred with mostly everything but "Toilet in a frat house" destoryed me I needed a moment cus of that. Love ya
that season 15 video is about to go crazy cuz the gag is Alyssa Hunter should’ve made the final 5 off fashion alone
This is why they sniped Trixie out of the competition during the dance challenge, because they knew she would do good at the Hello Kitty ball. Like, it's a design challenge for a toy. Of course that's going to be good for her. I don't think she would have beat Violet, but it would have been great content.
Thanks for this content, you are amazing!
What I love most about those unrigged videos is the surprise of who shockingly does well when it’s not rigged. Like with Mayhem on the season 10 unrigged (the actual winner of every season of drag race) and Scarlet on the season 11 unrigged. You and I are both not crazy Trixie stans, but I can totally see how Trixie makes the finale. And the fact that she does that with a better track record than Violet just f*cking eats😂
Trixie replacing Pearl is exactly what I predicted.
Not gonna lie I feel like since Pearl isn't getting the favouritism I don't think her and Trixie would win the conjoined twins. I mean they literally said that one (Trixie) looked way better than the other. So just for that, based on the looks and who was in the top I think the win would go to Violet and Max. So in that scenario Max would come back into the competition, more likely than not be in the top for the John Waters challenge and then get eliminated by Ginger in the dance challenge. I think Kandy and Violet would land in the bottom in that scenario and Violet is surprisingly not a bad lip syncer so I think Kandy would go home in that episode and Violet would still make top3.
Idk about Trixie doing bad on s7 Snatch Game. Her as3 snatch game was so bad cuz she was coasting on "well people online think my Rupaul is funny" which S7 Trixie wouldn't have.
Pushing Kandy Ho is definitely a choice.
Honestly I think Trixie does well in this snatch game because I think she does Dolly Parton. Her RuPaul impression really started on UNHhh when Katya kept gassing it up which obviously doesnt happen yet.
So happy to see Trixie in the top 3
Love your content!
Hey! Katyas runway was fun and! breathtaking! Concept counts btw. It doesn't have to be high fashion if its clever and references something well. Don't try to take from my girl katya.
You know what, I ain’t mad that this at all. It would honestly make a better narrative going with this reality. Congrats Ginger ! 😂
Regarding Trixie in Snatch Game, I've heard she would've done Dolly Parton, which she ended up doing on AS3 for the Divas challenge. I think here, it definitely would've been better than her RuPaul, which I heard was a last second back-up after she already did Dolly. So she may have more jokes prepared, but who knows how she would've done overall.
And I don't think I've heard anywhere who Kandy would've done for it, so I agree that she would've been in the bottom with MAX.
her s7 snatch is actually anne frank
If she did Cher, she would've placed high or safe.
This is literally the best day of my life, Ive never came this early for a video lol
The only part about this I rigged season that I don’t like is that we wouldn’t get Pearl’s Big Ang for Snatch Game
Max's track record still makes me sad.
I'm gagged that Kandy is the lip sync assassin of the season lmfao
The more I see about the conjoined episode, the more I see how stacked against Jaidynn it was. Every other pairing looked somewhat similar in one way or another, but herself and Tempest are visually polar opposite.
Jaidynn, Max, and Katya were the top 3 we deserved.
I’ve been bugging you for months for this one Derek! Thank you SO much. This season was hella rigged for Pearl and I believe that is why it got so much hate. She wasn’t the most charismatic contestant the show has offered and she outstayed her welcome. Looking forward to your upcoming videos 💕
yesssss been waiting for thisssss
Violet truly did well only 3 times in the season. She could have been low or bottom 2 easily in RuHollywood stories, Shakesqueer, Parodies, Despy Awards and John Waters. She’s a very underwhelming winner in my opinion who spends most of the season doing badly. Ginger did great for the whole season, only faltering at the makeover - even her dancing could have been safe but everyone did great that week so she was in the bottom.
So true.
I agree. I love Violet, she slayed and was a deserving winner but whenever Ginger didn’t lip-sync, she was almost always in the top or won the challenge. She slayed this season too and I’ve always saw her as an equally deserving winner!! 🐸👑
"A pube salad, if you will" XD
That Tempest clip got me🤣🤣🤣
I still hate the Born Naked runway.
Pube salad is now going to be a part of my vocabulary from now on 😂
Let's be honest here Trixie would've gone hard for that Rupaul part in the Ru-Hollywood Stories episode
YAYYYYYYY thanks for giving me something to watch while i do my taxes king
also if we're going by best track record wins except that they want a young, modern drag winner, trixie wins over violet by 1 point lmfao
“A pubes salad if you will”
I’m dying 😂😂😂
How do you make the charts for the videos? BTW I love your content!
I honestly think if Pearl would have gone home at that point, feeling disappointed by Ru and picked on by the judges, the contestants and the production, she wouldnt have returned for the twin challenge, right? So that changes because she wouldnt be there in the following episodes
Going based off of what you concluded at the end of the video, what if you did a video about each person who should have one based off of track record. I'd be willing to bet that only a small portion of the actual winners would still be the winners.
We all know it was always between Violet and ginger from the start
I’ve been waiting for this for so long, I can’t wait to see Max go further!
if only her snatch game was better, she could’ve killed many of the challenges that came after it
Unfortunately she gets screwed over by circumstances and just how the LSFYL structure works. She'll always have the one really bad flop week and she'll always end up getting demolished by a LS assassin, regardless of how universally better her track record may be compared to the other. Yeah, it probably is unfair but perahps this is an indication that the format should be changed a bit...
@@khntou4178 fr however in this scenario, I don't think they'd really keep Kandy over Max, despite her murdering Max, like let's not lie there, with her getting the invisible edit and flopping, idk how they'd keep a mediocre competitor over a better one.
I have NEVER heard the word "Coyer" before. I love it.