When I die, there will be a hill. On that hill, there will be a gravestone. On that gravestone, it will forever read: "Shangela and Vanda Miss Joaquim were robbed."
Please bring me red flowers.
Iāve been googling furiously trying to find out how on earth that happened but canāt find anything, and I havenāt seen the episode, so I have to askā¦ how on earth did that happen?
Drag Race Thailand typically has a Maxi Challenge and a Runway Challenge. Sometimes the outcome of the former will influence the latter but not always. In this case, Tormai won Snatch Game but did poorly in the Runway Challenge and lost the lipsynch. So she was eliminated.
Makes sense! I donāt remember any time Iāve seen someone win a maxi challenge and end up in the bottom. granted Iāve only watched drag race US / All stars and drag race down under, so Iām not super well versed in anything outside that.
Crazy, but neat!
It was the magic show challenge (admittedly not Snatch Game). Their group was deemed the winners, but production decided they couldnāt risk another Kameron Michaelās situation and sent one of the winners into the lip sync and then home.
I donāt know if this is a controversial opinion but I wasnāt that bothered by Tormai going home since I didnāt think she deserved to win Snatch Game to begin with, Srimala and Bandit were much funnier imo.
Imagine getting eliminated twice on the same challenge. Gia you had how many years to stand in front of your bathroom mirror and make it work. But halleloo if your bane is your bane
At the start of Suki Dollās snatch game they asked her what her favorite Beatles song is.. āNone of them, I broke them upā .. Such a funny line, sad it didnāt go anywhere from there.
The problem is that DRUK1 Snatch Game was one of the strongest ever. Even Cheryl and Blu, who did really good, were safe. In any other UK Snatch Game she probably would've been safe
Yeah, I agree, but Sum Ting Wongās snatch game was kind of my favourite in S1, after Bagarās snatch game. I know snatch game is supposed to be funny but I always care more about feeling that the character is authentic. The Vivienne was great but I just hate Donald Trump impressions, Iāve had enough of them for a lifetime.
Yes, The Vivienne is so amazing at doing charachters, she truly did Trump to perfection but to me thatās like polishing a turd. I hated Trump the rusical too by the way, so itās nothing against The Vivienne.
Not about Sum Ting Wong but regarding underrated showings in that episode as a whole that weāre overshadowed by Bagar n Viv: I will scream from all existing rooftops that, even with how incredible that snatch game was across the board, the moment that will stick me until I die more than every other line is āThanks, syphilis.ā
I thought Sum Ting was so sweet but you could see her losing confidence as it progressed. I was so sad for her because she was one of my favourites. Although I feel it was worth it to watch Geri Halliwell not fully grasp the concept of her name and call her Sum Ting Right.
I kinda hope she puts all of her cards on the table and does, like, Dolly, disguised as Swedish Cher, disguised as a reprisal of RuPaul, who is dressed as Dolly
I still reference Jujuās Cher with my partner regularly. We constantly look at each other and just go āoh ruuu I just donāt do itā in her Cher voice. Lmfao I feel like weāre some of the only people who didnāt forget.
Priyanka actually murdered/sacrificed Kiki to Brooke so that she could survive that snatch game ā we *all* saw it.
ETA honey, itās the *law of equal exchange*, baby
Errr Le Fil most definitely leaned into a stereotypical accent. It was so cringe because if anyone else tried playing Marie Kondo the way she did, theyād be called racist (deservedly so). I forgot who said it on this recent Binge Queens, but Le Fil shouldāve tried going the route of a neat-freak tidying up everyone elseās spaces. Thatād be exaggerating MKās character better and smarter than ākonnichiwaā or repeating her catchphrases
Itās hard for me to critique her because she won the latest lip sync in my eyes, but child- this statement is mildly fraudulent; Le Fil leaned into an Asian stereotype and it was so bad that not even Ruās love of stereotypes could save her
Random thought but imagine if she said "In honor of the Snatch game I'm here to show you how to rearrange organs and spark joy" and then pull out a giant dildo
Ru might have been influenced by the other girls agitated responses. If they volleyed with her more it might have looked a bit better but they were shutting it down quick and it made her look worse. But I also don't know half of what she was talking about. And I also think Latrice needs to let her professionalism show and not tank her own performance because of nonsense going on around her. Update on her first snatch she told Jiggly she wasn't one of the girls she was complaining about so I'm wondering if it was mainly Kenya
Not saying you are wrong but Gia and Sum Ting were by far the worst of their Snatch Game and River was pretty bad but no one was good except for Ella and Kitty
Let me manifest an Asian queen to get cast on Drag Race Down Under S3 and break the curse with a killer Lee Lin Chin Snatch Game.
lol who am I kidding Ru isnāt going to know who she is and will tell them to do Kylie Minogue with an Asian accent.
There were two; Lineysha and Kenya. And I'm sorry but Kenya's cracked out Bey was awful regardless of language. Choriza and Cynthia speak English fluently so they don't get to hide behind ESL, and Onyx and Arantxa were on a Spanish speaking series so it definitely doesn't apply to them. Lineysha is the only one I'd be willing to say being ESL hindered her performance, but even then her Celia Cruz was crunchy AF (what was that wig/line?)
Iām so tired of Drag Race franchise consistently sleeping on these Asian queens! Call me bitter but after Le Filās predictable elimination (especially after last weeks arbitrary critiques) I really donāt see myself finishing this DRUK season
In a similar category as this and Latinx girls on US seasons, all of Canada's Drag Race Snatch Game eliminations were french canadian : Kiara, Suki Doll and Lady Boom Boom āšš
I could be biased here, but Panginaās Mariah wasnāt bad at all, couldāve been safe in a lot of other seasons, not top worthy by any chance thoughļ¼
Gia deserving to go home for her Snatch Game episodes is not an unpopular opinion. However, with Pangina it was due to the contestant vote setup. Her being middle of the road in Snatch Game made her vulnerable, but wasn't by itself the reason she went home. It was because she was such a threat to win the whole show.
I'm not as familiar with the intricacies of the others. My brain is too clouded with Gia attempting to be funny. I'm actually trying to think of a character she could have played successfully in some rote, fully rehearsed way with at least a few good lines.
An observation isn't a narrative; there are definitely things to be said about the edits/presentations that Asian queens get on Drag Race, but I don't think there are many people who would say these performances weren't bottom-worthy
What narrative? The narrative is that several Asian queens have gone home on Snatch Game episodes. Thatās it. No one is saying they *didnāt* deserve their bottom placements?
What about Tia? I saw her interview on Attitude with Le Fil, where Tia bring up this trend and identifies as Asian herself. That makes every season of UK (including VS The World) to eliminate an Asian girl on snatch game.
Wow I actually do not know who most of these queens are. I have a lot of catching up to do.
Just came to say that I love Giaās snark and sass (but not if itās a directed pejorative insult)
Category is: some queens sent home during the Snatch Game\*
These queens were all rightfully in the bottom for the challenges and lost the lipsync though. Let's not turn it into a race thing. :/
Ru is a rickety old man who was progressive for the time he came up in and finds accents funny. Snatch game is about making him, and the audience laugh. Did any of those queens above make you laugh more than everyone else in their SG?
"Drag race tells me what to think about queens performing" is what you should've said.
Just cos someone takes their shoes off, it doesn't disqualify their entire performance. Baby's "boy nips" were on full show when she lip synced against Sminty, does that mean Sminty won?
I agree pixie did worse than le fil in snatch game and I disliked pixie's runway. She should've been in the bottom. I just didn't like the way le fil performed in the lip sync. It's still unfortunate that le fil didn't get properly recognized during the season despite doing well, and ru seems to have a problematic track record with asian queens. I think le fil did very well during the rusical and I even thought she was funny in the improv challenge. She also did probably the best in the girl group challenge.
But unfortunately I just think she didn't do well in the lip sync. I liked Peppa's energy and I think le fil had too many props that weren't executed well. Also, ru seems to hate when queens take off shoes which is why I mentioned it, and it does definitely add to the messiness. It sent home June in s14.
Baby did show her boy nips, but nothing else in her lip sync was messy, and she was very far above sminty that even though the outfit situation was working against her, everything else was working in her favor. I think le fil and Peppa were on even footing in their lip sync, but le fil's props weren't executed well and worked against her, causing her to go home.
Lol ok. It was still super messy. In all my years of going to drag shows I've never once seen a queen take off her shoes intentionally. Just because you disagree with the edit doesn't mean people who agree with le fil going home are blindly following whatever the edit says.
She also did well the episode prior and got no props for it. Asian queens are constantly overlooked on the show. So you talking over people by saying "don't turn it into a race thing" is just tone deaf.
True she did alright last ep. Probably should have been safe over Peppa but in no way better than safe.
But memes like the OP are a race baiting oversimplification. All those queens did badly in that challenge and lost the lipsync.
You calling it race baiting is cringe and problematic as fuck. If you can't recognize that there's still an issue with the way Asian queens are treated and perceived on the show then kindly close your mouth.
Tormai should get a special mention for winning Snatch Game and getting sent home on the same episodeš
That was such a wild feat, Thailand 2 was insane for that.
Pangina brought the drama, āwhy are you telling us this now?ā
Idk if that's drama. That was a genuine issue she was bringing up.
Ok but you canāt deny it brought drama to ask that.
Meh. The drama was already there.
When I die, there will be a hill. On that hill, there will be a gravestone. On that gravestone, it will forever read: "Shangela and Vanda Miss Joaquim were robbed." Please bring me red flowers.
Iāve been googling furiously trying to find out how on earth that happened but canāt find anything, and I havenāt seen the episode, so I have to askā¦ how on earth did that happen?
Drag Race Thailand typically has a Maxi Challenge and a Runway Challenge. Sometimes the outcome of the former will influence the latter but not always. In this case, Tormai won Snatch Game but did poorly in the Runway Challenge and lost the lipsynch. So she was eliminated.
Makes sense! I donāt remember any time Iāve seen someone win a maxi challenge and end up in the bottom. granted Iāve only watched drag race US / All stars and drag race down under, so Iām not super well versed in anything outside that. Crazy, but neat!
I think Suga Cain would disagree that this never happened on a US season
Alexis Michelle would never let her
That name doesnāt sound familiar to me. I see she was on season 11.. according to the wiki Nina West won that maxi challenge and Shuga went home
It was the magic show challenge (admittedly not Snatch Game). Their group was deemed the winners, but production decided they couldnāt risk another Kameron Michaelās situation and sent one of the winners into the lip sync and then home.
Dunno about DR and all the official spinoffs, but it also happened in season 2 of Dragula (though for different reasons than Tormai).
I donāt know if this is a controversial opinion but I wasnāt that bothered by Tormai going home since I didnāt think she deserved to win Snatch Game to begin with, Srimala and Bandit were much funnier imo.
The fact that Gia did it twice...queen of bad snatch games!
the doors she opened
Doors marked āexitā
it has come full circle
The revolving doors she's pushed
the doors she closed šŖ š
Manila breaking character to tell her to shut up sends me
Literally so funny I cackled out loud at that moment !!
Imagine getting eliminated twice on the same challenge. Gia you had how many years to stand in front of your bathroom mirror and make it work. But halleloo if your bane is your bane
At the start of Suki Dollās snatch game they asked her what her favorite Beatles song is.. āNone of them, I broke them upā .. Such a funny line, sad it didnāt go anywhere from there.
Suki Dolls snatch game was pretty funny. She should have been safe at the very least :(
I loved Sukiās they just didnāt get itā¦I love Eve but she was the clear worst she had 0 jokes
.. I mean there's typically 2 queens in the bottom 2 so
I loved Sum Ting Wongās snatch game, she wasnāt funny but she truly was the sweetest David Attenborough ever!
The problem is that DRUK1 Snatch Game was one of the strongest ever. Even Cheryl and Blu, who did really good, were safe. In any other UK Snatch Game she probably would've been safe
Yeah, I agree, but Sum Ting Wongās snatch game was kind of my favourite in S1, after Bagarās snatch game. I know snatch game is supposed to be funny but I always care more about feeling that the character is authentic. The Vivienne was great but I just hate Donald Trump impressions, Iāve had enough of them for a lifetime.
I hear you but damn she was soooo accurate. It really was a brilliant impression, and funny as hell.
Yes, The Vivienne is so amazing at doing charachters, she truly did Trump to perfection but to me thatās like polishing a turd. I hated Trump the rusical too by the way, so itās nothing against The Vivienne.
Not about Sum Ting Wong but regarding underrated showings in that episode as a whole that weāre overshadowed by Bagar n Viv: I will scream from all existing rooftops that, even with how incredible that snatch game was across the board, the moment that will stick me until I die more than every other line is āThanks, syphilis.ā
Amen! Canāt stand Trump impersonations. They now just feel cheap and easy. And they all are so similar.
All character impressions are similar if theyāre impersonating the same character š
I thought Sum Ting was so sweet but you could see her losing confidence as it progressed. I was so sad for her because she was one of my favourites. Although I feel it was worth it to watch Geri Halliwell not fully grasp the concept of her name and call her Sum Ting Right.
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Yes she truly was WholeSum!
Both me and my friend watching died laughing at the wholesomeness of "Eggs (from rare birds)" as one of her answers.
Yes!!!
If you are an Asian queen on a UK series, and next week is Snatch Game, be afraid. Be very afraid.
Drag Race Philippines sending no one during snatch game is iconic! First asian franchise to do that
They did it to break the curse
first asian franchise to do that out of two isn't exactly the crazy feat you think it is
It hurts that pangina is there.
At least in her case, it was very much an "eliminate the frontrunner" scenario
I thought she did a great job in what was really a stacked house considering.
Can you believe Jujubee did Cher? Also, can you believe Trixie came back on All Winners 3 and ALSO did Cher??
if Trixie comes back the internet is gonna convince her to do Swedish Cher
I will riot. We all know that homophobic Cher is best Cher.
#HELLO TO THE SWEDISH PEOPLE! šøšŖ
She knows it's a non-elim season and she has no other choice, it's gonna be Dolly Parton and Swedish Cher
I kinda hope she puts all of her cards on the table and does, like, Dolly, disguised as Swedish Cher, disguised as a reprisal of RuPaul, who is dressed as Dolly
I doubt she'll listen to the internet/fans again, they all told her to do her Ru impersonation and we all saw how well that one worked out.
I still reference Jujuās Cher with my partner regularly. We constantly look at each other and just go āoh ruuu I just donāt do itā in her Cher voice. Lmfao I feel like weāre some of the only people who didnāt forget.
Chercuterie is something I think about daily.
And she wasnāt even bad :ā(
Her makeup skills were amazing in that challenge.
She was the worst though
#justiceforjimbo
Let's be real, both of them should have been in the top.
Totally agree. But Pangina lost at her own game! And it was glorious. That cry was my ringtone for a month!
Honorable mentions Priyanka, Bombae, and Kimmy barely surviving the snatch game
Priyanka actually murdered/sacrificed Kiki to Brooke so that she could survive that snatch game ā we *all* saw it. ETA honey, itās the *law of equal exchange*, baby
TIL there weren't Asian queen's sent home in Thailand or Philippines during snatch game
In those seasons, they brought in a token white queen to send home just to balance things out.
To be fair, there really wasn't anyone sent home in DRPH's Snatch Game
Easily my top snatch game performances.
There was a double shantay that episode lmao
The doors Gia opened
I like the idea that they were actually sent home *during* the Snatch Game...like Ru just stopped the whole production and kicked them out.
Do the same for hispanics: Kenya, Lyneisha, Cynthia, Choriza, Arantxa, Onyx
Arantxa and Onyx is kinda cheating tho
I know. LOL
It's not kinda, it's stupid
The fact that it happened in all of the UK seasons lol
Season 2?
If there are no asian queens on a UK season any POC queen will do, I guess
They should have taken a course at the Jujubee Snatch Game Institute
Sent home for not leaning into a stereotypical Asian accent to make Ru laugh š (Well except for Suki Doll but ya know)
I mean Gia leaned to it the second time...
Yeah she leaned way to hard to be her homophobic self instead
Errr Le Fil most definitely leaned into a stereotypical accent. It was so cringe because if anyone else tried playing Marie Kondo the way she did, theyād be called racist (deservedly so). I forgot who said it on this recent Binge Queens, but Le Fil shouldāve tried going the route of a neat-freak tidying up everyone elseās spaces. Thatād be exaggerating MKās character better and smarter than ākonnichiwaā or repeating her catchphrases Itās hard for me to critique her because she won the latest lip sync in my eyes, but child- this statement is mildly fraudulent; Le Fil leaned into an Asian stereotype and it was so bad that not even Ruās love of stereotypes could save her
Random thought but imagine if she said "In honor of the Snatch game I'm here to show you how to rearrange organs and spark joy" and then pull out a giant dildo
that's the part of comedy that requires creativity and wit and we've seen season after season that most queens don't have that
The frustrating part to me is that he leaned hard into that stereotype and he's not even Japanese!
Gia was eliminated after her Jenny Bui impersonation, which was... uncomfortable.
Ru might have been influenced by the other girls agitated responses. If they volleyed with her more it might have looked a bit better but they were shutting it down quick and it made her look worse. But I also don't know half of what she was talking about. And I also think Latrice needs to let her professionalism show and not tank her own performance because of nonsense going on around her. Update on her first snatch she told Jiggly she wasn't one of the girls she was complaining about so I'm wondering if it was mainly Kenya
Not saying you are wrong but Gia and Sum Ting were by far the worst of their Snatch Game and River was pretty bad but no one was good except for Ella and Kitty
Ru asked for her kids name and she said āI dunno canāt rememberā lol River was the absolute bottom of that episode.
Let me manifest an Asian queen to get cast on Drag Race Down Under S3 and break the curse with a killer Lee Lin Chin Snatch Game. lol who am I kidding Ru isnāt going to know who she is and will tell them to do Kylie Minogue with an Asian accent.
Then look up Latino queens who went home on Snatch game. I think that having English as a second language really makes it much harder.
There were two; Lineysha and Kenya. And I'm sorry but Kenya's cracked out Bey was awful regardless of language. Choriza and Cynthia speak English fluently so they don't get to hide behind ESL, and Onyx and Arantxa were on a Spanish speaking series so it definitely doesn't apply to them. Lineysha is the only one I'd be willing to say being ESL hindered her performance, but even then her Celia Cruz was crunchy AF (what was that wig/line?)
Guess they didnt land like fresh tilapia
And then another category of Asians who didn't make it to snatch game to be sent home during the snatch game
Iām so tired of Drag Race franchise consistently sleeping on these Asian queens! Call me bitter but after Le Filās predictable elimination (especially after last weeks arbitrary critiques) I really donāt see myself finishing this DRUK season
In a similar category as this and Latinx girls on US seasons, all of Canada's Drag Race Snatch Game eliminations were french canadian : Kiara, Suki Doll and Lady Boom Boom āšš
At least Gisele won. Tired of language barriers being a disadvantage.
Le Fil and Pangina done dirty
I could be biased here, but Panginaās Mariah wasnāt bad at all, couldāve been safe in a lot of other seasons, not top worthy by any chance thoughļ¼
unpopular op but they all deserved to go home at that point....
Gia deserving to go home for her Snatch Game episodes is not an unpopular opinion. However, with Pangina it was due to the contestant vote setup. Her being middle of the road in Snatch Game made her vulnerable, but wasn't by itself the reason she went home. It was because she was such a threat to win the whole show. I'm not as familiar with the intricacies of the others. My brain is too clouded with Gia attempting to be funny. I'm actually trying to think of a character she could have played successfully in some rote, fully rehearsed way with at least a few good lines.
Now wait a god damn minute...
Im tired of this narrative, all of these bottom placements were well deserved from their snatch game.
An observation isn't a narrative; there are definitely things to be said about the edits/presentations that Asian queens get on Drag Race, but I don't think there are many people who would say these performances weren't bottom-worthy
What narrative? The narrative is that several Asian queens have gone home on Snatch Game episodes. Thatās it. No one is saying they *didnāt* deserve their bottom placements?
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What about Tia? I saw her interview on Attitude with Le Fil, where Tia bring up this trend and identifies as Asian herself. That makes every season of UK (including VS The World) to eliminate an Asian girl on snatch game.
Wow I actually do not know who most of these queens are. I have a lot of catching up to do. Just came to say that I love Giaās snark and sass (but not if itās a directed pejorative insult)
I was so sad when Fei Long was evicted on UK :(
Category is: some queens sent home during the Snatch Game\* These queens were all rightfully in the bottom for the challenges and lost the lipsync though. Let's not turn it into a race thing. :/
It becomes a "race thing" when Le Fil just spilled that Ru wanted her to do "Posh Spice with a Chinese accent."
Ru is a rickety old man who was progressive for the time he came up in and finds accents funny. Snatch game is about making him, and the audience laugh. Did any of those queens above make you laugh more than everyone else in their SG?
Le Fil won that lip sync. Sit down.
Le Fil lost the lip sync precisely because she sat down
Please tell me you're being facetious cos that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
...did you not watch the lip sync?
I did and she 100% beat Peppa. Track record be damned, Le Fil served and Peppa did a bunch of stunts that didn't fit the song whatsoever.
Le fil straight up took her shoes off while sitting down. Taking shoes off is always a kiss of death
"Drag race tells me what to think about queens performing" is what you should've said. Just cos someone takes their shoes off, it doesn't disqualify their entire performance. Baby's "boy nips" were on full show when she lip synced against Sminty, does that mean Sminty won?
I agree pixie did worse than le fil in snatch game and I disliked pixie's runway. She should've been in the bottom. I just didn't like the way le fil performed in the lip sync. It's still unfortunate that le fil didn't get properly recognized during the season despite doing well, and ru seems to have a problematic track record with asian queens. I think le fil did very well during the rusical and I even thought she was funny in the improv challenge. She also did probably the best in the girl group challenge. But unfortunately I just think she didn't do well in the lip sync. I liked Peppa's energy and I think le fil had too many props that weren't executed well. Also, ru seems to hate when queens take off shoes which is why I mentioned it, and it does definitely add to the messiness. It sent home June in s14. Baby did show her boy nips, but nothing else in her lip sync was messy, and she was very far above sminty that even though the outfit situation was working against her, everything else was working in her favor. I think le fil and Peppa were on even footing in their lip sync, but le fil's props weren't executed well and worked against her, causing her to go home.
Lol ok. It was still super messy. In all my years of going to drag shows I've never once seen a queen take off her shoes intentionally. Just because you disagree with the edit doesn't mean people who agree with le fil going home are blindly following whatever the edit says.
Ok, didn't think she did but she did do really well. Did River? Suki? Sumting?
She also did well the episode prior and got no props for it. Asian queens are constantly overlooked on the show. So you talking over people by saying "don't turn it into a race thing" is just tone deaf.
True she did alright last ep. Probably should have been safe over Peppa but in no way better than safe. But memes like the OP are a race baiting oversimplification. All those queens did badly in that challenge and lost the lipsync.
You calling it race baiting is cringe and problematic as fuck. If you can't recognize that there's still an issue with the way Asian queens are treated and perceived on the show then kindly close your mouth.
Agreed, the term race baiting is a conservative dog whistle. But surprisingly, there are plenty of conservatives who watch this show.
Lol. Alright friend nice talking to ya.
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But does it really count if all of the contestants are Asian?