Netflix's latest docuseries chronicles one of the wildest phenomena of the entertainment world: America's Next Top Model. The series reveals untold behind-the-scenes stories and how the show came to be remembered as it is.
However, what has bothered the most from the docuseries is a comment made bythe creator and hostTyra Banks
In Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model, Banks reflects on the show's most controversial moments. 'I knew I went too far,' she says. 'You guys demanded it, so we kept pushing.'
Within hours, viewers were already pushing back hard.
Launched in 2003, America's Next Top Model ran for 24 cycles and became a defining reality competition of the 2000s. Contestants who were mostly in their late teens or early twenties competed in weekly challenges for a modelling contract, magazine spreads and brand partnerships.
The new three-part Netflix series revisits the show's rise and its cultural footprint, featuring interviews with Banks, former judges and past contestants. It also reexamines moments that, at the time, were packaged as tough love or high-stakes drama but now paint a completely different picture.
Over the years, critics and former participants have pointed to body shaming, extreme makeovers and emotionally charged eliminations as part of a pattern.
The fiercest reaction to Banks' statement centres on the idea that viewers 'demanded' harsher content.
On social media, fans accused Banks of shifting blame onto the audience for the show's more troubling challenges. One user wrote, 'Throwing the blame of your actions on the audience is crazy.' Another was more blunt, 'She's a raging narcissist.'
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Source: International Business Times UK
