Yes, it was less a gimmick and more a mastery of the lip sync…

This season was cast the way it was directly because of the elimination system; they knew what they were doing. But yeah it only works if there are already those existing friendships and tensions.

Ugh, I made the mistake of looking at the comments on YT videos relevant to this episode. Mindblowing to see "fans" of this show get so angry and bent out of shape about whether or not somebody who is not them will win money. Even more amazing to see judgement passed on a queen's behavior by using such hateful and…

Amazing right? People were just so fatigued by the force-fed feud of her vs. Coco…

Because it was so extreme and out of character I immediately thought of Max's weird behavior on the mainstage which was later revealed to be clever editing….

And it's not like Alaska had a full-on change of character since her season: watch any episode of Brolaska or go see her live and you'll see the same old Alaska Thunderfu(n). I think she seems so off partly because she's being super careful not to give the producers anything to hit her with, at least until this…

But her elimination lip sync was shameful. I guess she had no brand yet to tarnish at that point.

Interesting… how do you know this?

Alaska's petulant shitfit was a moment of weakness, not part of a pattern of behavior (unless you count being consistently successful as a pattern of behavior). It's too bad people are jumping on her for being a "villain" when she hasn't really been shady, just sickening. Yeah it wasn't a good look but it was pretty…

Except for when Coco did it to say "Watch. I GOT this super-fast rap part DOWN"

After Alaska's "bribe" I thought of Phi Phi's "can I sell this for $10,000?" moment - both likely jokes that in the context of bad behavior are really easy to interpret as…more bad behavior.

See I disagree. Since last week Social Media People have turned from Alaska in a big way and Katya's following is huge already. And I don't see most people thinking hard enough about past performance when typing out a hashtag, But that only matters if Ru really takes those votes into consideration, which I don't…

I wouldn't say psychopath, just anonymously juvenile and thoughtless. Internet.

She can't help it if people save her. Last week she was practically begging to be sent home.

I read somewhere upthread that it was filmed the same time as S8's…which sounds like a lot of NDAs had to be signed!

I'll take it over Orange Absolut Guy.

I really chalked Alaska's tantrum to some sort of childlike regression from being around her mom…

Yet people still gag over Tammie Brown!

I am always amazed at the pure hate and anger that a show as lighthearted and silly as this one invokes in people. Internet.

She does admit it right off the bat in this episode.