History YMMV / BigBrother

** Before having to be replaced due to testing positive for COVID, 23 had cast a woman named Christie, who was a founding member of [[https://www.baldtourage.com/ Baldtourage]]. After Will Smith's ArmorPiercingSlap directed at the harassment of his wife sparked conversation of body positivity and how people with baldness (Especially [[BaldWoman women]]), this is seen as amazingly ahead of its time.

** The same could be said for seasons 23 and 24 of the American edition, as well as even 13.

** Big Brother 20 (US) is shaping up to be this - no [[StuntCasting veterans, exports from other shows, or relatives of alumni]], a [[SceneryPorn rather active looking house design and some really nice looking sets]], the house was split practically down the middle, multiple blindsides, and no repeating head of households until the final eight with a Jury Battle-Back looming.

** The Brazilian version manages to be one of the most popular reality shows of its country. It's probably the only reality show that actually works in the country. ''No Limite'' (a Series/{{Survivor}} knock-off) hardly managed to get three seasons in 10 years, Though a SeasonalRot started to kick in with season 12, and the show is starting to overstay its welcome. That is, until season 20 got "lucky" that the Usefulnotes/COVID19Pandemic both kept people at home and interrupted many shows\forms of entertainment, bringing viewers back to BBB and making them get attached to its diverse cast of mostly subcelebrities, leading to the best ratings in a decade (after 19 was the lowest overall!).

!!Please note that due to the nature of [[AnyoneCanDie Big]] [[ItWasHisSled Brother]], spoilers will be left unmarked. Proceed at your own peril.

*** Dominique is BlackAndNerdy and TheSmartGirl (she's a government engineer after all!) plus she's sweet, adorable and a NiceGirl to boot. However, even though she does have a very endearing and cute side that makes her likeable, she is very much a SassyBlackWoman who is strong, tough and opinionated and should not be underestimated.

-->'''Lane''': Green apple's not the best flavor.

*** From the same season, Naeha quickly became known as Slaeha. Apparently it was for her gameplay, even though she was only [[WeHardlyKnewYe briefly seen]] [[InformedAttribute before coming in 15th place]].

-->'''Pete Burns''': He'll take his secrets to his grave and beyond, Mr Savile.
-->'''George Galloway''': Nobody's secrets survive the grave.

-->'''Scott''': Can I just say that I love what you're wearing tonight?\\
'''Peter''': I didn't wear it for you, I wore it for Gary.

** Poor [[Characters/BigBrother19 Josh]]. The guy's hometown got hit by a category 4 hurricane, he cries and genuinely feels bad whenever he hurts people, and every time he tries to speak his mind, Christmas and Paul keep bullying him. Fortunately, with him playing with his heart and actually getting people to like him ended up winning him BB19 over Paul in a shocking replay of [[spoiler:Russell Hantz's]] storyline from ''Survivor''. The guy even managed to get Cody's vote. The same guy who basically called him a brainless bratty kid along with Jessica.

* ScrappyLevel:
** A couple challenges had a SpecialEffectFailure or two. From the American and Brazilian version, the hot dog/soda challenge. What they had to do was split the houseguests into two teams and had to climb onto the punching bag shaped like a hot dog or bottle of soda and then ride it to the other side while the teams had to operate a pulley to get it from one side to the next.[[note]]There were pullies on both sides when it was reduced to one[[/note]] The challenge encouraged teamwork, but at the same time was slanted towards taller people because you would slip and fall right on off of the punching bag.
** "Jury Statements", the Final Round of the Final Three [=HOH=] competition, has gotten lots of flak due to the fact that it often turns into a crapshoot to determine the final Head of Household. The competition is multiple-choice and based around guessing how jury members answered questions about their time in the house. The issue stems from the fact that these answers are extremely subjective rather than being based on fact, and even someone who knows a certain juror extremely well could still answer incorrectly. Production seems to have acknowledged this: starting with Season 20, the Final Round is instead based on statistics about each of the jurors, with contestants having to pick which statistic is false.

---> '''Elena:''' "They're not playing Big Brother... ''they're playing Big Paul!''"

** Big Brother 23 had a bit of this at the end as well. After the Cookout succeeded and guaranteed that Big Brother would finally have its first black winner, most fans were rooting for two specific houseguests. Either Tiffany, who went through the most difficult struggles to get the alliance to the end including being forced to personally betray her own best friend, which made most agree that she earned her spot in the final six more than anyone else, or Hannah, who was the most kind and likable person left plus very {{Moe}} in general, which made many want to see her win for her likability. So when the two were instantly put on the block, leading to Tiffany’s eviction and Hannah getting evicted right after her in the double when she got targeted again, the only houseguests left at that point were Xavier (who had been a major {{Jerkass}} to Tiffany and the one personally responsible for getting the alliance to turn on her and discredit her accomplishments to boot), Azah (who had been a major {{Jerkass}} to Hannah along with [[TheLoad using the alliance to coast to the end]]), Kyland (who had been a major {{Jerkass}} to both Tiffany and Hannah along with several other houseguests throughout the season), and Derek F (who had also been a major {{Jerkass}} to both Tiffany and Hannah along with [[TheLoad also using the alliance to coast to the end]]), making it difficult for many fans to have any reason to care anymore or anyone to root for at that point.

** Big Brother Brasil 21 has been unusually dark compared to the previous iterations, with the vast majority of the house being extremely unlikeable and the participant Lucas being ganged up and humiliated by almost everyone, bordering on psychological torture, forcing him to him resign after two weeks of emotional abuse. For many fans, the show became impossible to stomach, and while much of the audience is motivated to eliminate the nastiest participants one by one, many fans lost interest in the edition completely.

*** For the second camp, the season started out incredible, only to ''completely'' lose steam when [[{{Jerkass}} Cody]] won the battleback; people were actually pining for Cameron to go back in (the lovable nerdy guy) because he went out so fast and would have injected kindness back into the game, and it looked like he would... then Mr. "Victim Noises" outpaced him. While his [[StupidEvil extremely poor gameplay]] made for an explosive and memorable first week, his return almost completely sucked the life out of the game. Jessica, who had been slowly improving her standing in the house and was on her way to becoming an EnsembleDarkhorse, completely backslid, made nonstop dumb moves, and gave up her game for Cody. Due to his non-existent social game and all around poor gameplay (as well as Jessica imploding and giving up), Cody had no hope of ever flipping the house or shaking things up. What viewers were left with were '''three weeks''' of the house trying and failing to get Cody out (being protected by various twists), with almost no other game occurring. The first week, Cody was saved by a twist. The second week, he was saved by a twist again, so Jessica got the boot. The third week, he finally left, but at this point it'd been a month-long flatline. Then from there it was a very predictable series of eliminations until the next Double Eviction Week, where things suddenly got heavy when [[ShooOutTheClowns Jason]] went out, followed by the season turning DARK as every eviction to follow got increasingly heart-wrenching, and when the finale hit, things went ''[[ShockingSwerve completely insane]]''.

* ScrappyReplacement: Vyni from [=BBB22=] is considered a poor man's version of Gil from [=BBB21=]. Both of them are CampGay participants from the Northeast Region of Brazil, and while Vyni tried to sell himself as "Gil 2" in his application video, their similarities end there. Gil is a naturally charismatic and flamboyant guy whose endearing personality made him one of the defining participants of his season, whereas Vyni was clearly forcing an inauthentic character (noticeable in how he exaggerated his antics during the live moments of the show compared to his usual behavior), with little presence in the house, and his corny attitude towards his one-sided crush Eliezer did not help.

* EightDeadlyWords: Big Brother Brasil 22 has been considered the most boring installment of the show, with a dry selection of participants who appear to be uninterested in playing the game. Many fans have noticed that most of them are only worried about getting more social media followers, so they try to force themselves into becoming memes and avoid being "canceled" at all costs, so they refrain from saying or doing anything that could cause any sort of controversy or backlash, making the show very bland. None of the participants is particularly charismatic or entertaining, so the audience is not as excited to root for any of them as it was in the previous editions.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:
** In Big Brother 1 in the US, Brittany has a job as a pharmaceutical representative who tests different drugs in the lab. William cracks a funny joke that this is a cover for being a drug pusher. Fast forward to Season 9 and that actually happened with Adam Jasinki using his winnings to finance a drug ring that was later busted by cops and having to go into rehab. Worse, houseguest David Gest of Celebrity Big Brother got very sick and later died due to misuse of drugs.
** The competition in BB 2 where it was said to be constitutional to fire people based on their sexuality from workplaces and fellow closeted homosexual now out in the open Bunky joked, "[[SelfDeprecation YEAH! Fire all the gays!]]" This is before the gay rights movements erupted in the next decade and an ''intensely'' controversial and highly publicized legal case [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colorado_Civil_Rights_Commission over a gay wedding cake]] galvanized the public.
** During Will Kirby's interviews of the houseguests at the afterparty of Big Brother 19 on September 20, 2017, the night of the finale, Will nicknamed Alex "Music/TomPetty", because she wore a "[[EvilIsPetty PETTY]]" hat throughout the season. Just twelve days later, on October 2, 2017, Tom Petty died of a heart attack.
** The David Gest incident on Celebrity Big Brother becomes this after it became clear Gest really ''was'' sick to the point he had to walk off the game and later ''did'' die from poor health brought on by drug abuse and some of his houseguest friends came to attend his funeral.
** A few weeks into Big Brother 20, rumours started spreading that Bayleigh had gotten pregnant by Swaggy C while in the house. This prompted a storm of memes and jokes on social media about the alleged Big Brother baby, including multiple "Swayleigh Fetus" joke accounts. These jokes stopped almost immediately after the end of the season, when Bayleigh revealed that she and Swaggy did conceive a child in the house, but she had a miscarriage in the jury house.
** Chilltown's antics became a lot harder to watch after Mike Boogie was arrested for threatening and stalking Dr. Will.
** Once Maki was evicted in Big Brother Canada 7, he summons (figurative) plague on his house as he was leaving. Unfortunately, the following year, a [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic real plague]] forced production to end on Big Brother Canada 8 early.
** On Big Brother Canada 4, Nikki is finally chosen as a have-not and has a meltdown at the thought of having to go on slop. The show plays it for laughs, but Nikki has disclosed her lifelong struggle with anorexia multiple times outside the house, which provides a darker context for her reluctance to go on an unappetizing meal plan for a week. In 2021, Nikki passed away from complications related to anorexia, taking the incident from mildly funny to borderline unwatchable.
** Creator/JimmySavile's appearance on ''Celebrity Big Brother'' UK in 2006 naturally falls under this. [[https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/jimmy-saviles-chilling-comments-big-26648447 Not only did he engage in his typical creepy behaviour]], but this exchange eerily predicted the fall-out following his death.
-->'''Pete Burns''': He'll take his secrets to his grave and beyond, Mr Savile.
-->'''George Galloway''': Nobody's secrets survive the grave.

** On Tuesday, September 20, 2017, a small earthquake hit the Big Brother house and the final three houseguests fled outside for their own safety (though a ton of people viewing the feeds claimed this was overly dramatic for California standards as an earthquake of that magnitude was not much concern for them). This turned out to be an aftershock caused by a much bigger '''7.1''' earthquake that struck Puebla, Mexico, and killed hundreds of people; it was the strongest one Mexico experienced in over a century, and one of the deadliest on record for their country. And the houseguests had no way of knowing that until they departed the house the following Wednesday, which means they were subjected to this trope, as were the viewers. Paul, Christmas, and Josh kept wondering when the aftershock would hit, but it never did. [[FridgeHorror Because that WAS an aftershock rippling out from a disaster that just hit another country.]]

*** The samd thing happened to 10 after 9's turbulent and groundbreaking game.

*** Kyland is often referred to as “Kyren” by fans due to the discovery that his Website/{{Twitter}} account was full of tweets where he acted like a “Karen”, often crying for customer service over small issues and showing entitled behavior toward corporate accounts. To his credit, he was a good sport about it when he found out and has accepted the reputation.
*** Kyland also has “Kryen” (“cryin’”) for similar reasons, along with “Kyle”. “Kyle” came about because fellow houseguest Sarah Beth said that she would deliberately misname him as “Kyle” if he ever betrayed her, and because he did, she has insisted on calling him this during interviews. Naturally fans joined in too.
*** Derek F’s actual nickname in the house was “Big D”, to differentiate him from the skinnier and younger Derek X, who was “Baby D”. Fans however took to calling Derek F “Big Delusional”, due to him genuinely believing that he carried his alliance through the season despite him winning zero competitions to help them or even having to betray anyone for them like all five other alliance members had to do.
* FanonDiscontinuity: Some certain fans of the American version of Big Brother tend to ignore the first season due it being a completely different game than the games in the other seasons and the developers of that series treating it like OldShame themselves, with new producers later coming on to revamp the show into its current format. Because of that, you usually don't find that season in some season/houseguest/winner rankings. There's also people who basically treat Season 15 like a RedHeadedStepchild because it started out okay but quickly descended into the rectal cavity and into the bowels of infamy from which it will never return.

* FridgeBrilliance:
** The [=HOH=] competitions in the US Big Brother. Strategically, you ''don't'' want to win [=HOH=] because it puts a target on your back as you reveal your targets and sometimes your alliance to the house; and you're often seen as "getting them out" even when all you did as [=HOH=] was nominate them for eviction, very easily someone can flip the votes around with you having nothing to do with it. [=HOH=] only votes in the event of a tie. So naturally, people try to avoid this until much later in the game, but the competitions are designed so that somebody ''has'' to win, and it's not uncommon to have someone win by default. A common strategy is to throw it to your own alliance members.
** The final veto challenge in 12. It was actually set up like most multiple choice tests where you can eventually narrow it down to two possible choices. This was what allowed Hayden to win it, since he still had that skill of removing the blatantly-incorrect choices due to being a college student, whereas the other people in the challenge were a hotel sales manager, oil company worker, and insurance agent who had ''long'' finished school, or hadn't even gone to college.
** Josh's master plan in 19, which seems cowardly at first glance, but is actually an innovative and incredible idea. He used the goodbye videos to tell evicted houseguests the truth about himself being in an alliance with Paul, and to rat out Paul as the mastermind behind their eviction. The thing is, these videos are completely confidential, recorded in the Diary Room and only played outside of the house after someone gets evicted. Which meant as long as Josh kept his mouth shut, there was no possible way Paul could ever know Josh's strategy, and Josh was able to completely destroy Paul's game without him ever knowing about it. And anyone bound for Jury who sees them will go off to Jury with the knowledge Paul is a backstabber. Rinse and repeat several times, and you have multiple people in Jury who respect you for being honest and like the fact you are not totally on board with the guy who backstabbed them. Josh laid the foundation for his victory well in advance of Paul, and Paul was unable to secure the jury votes he needed to win.
* FridgeHorror: A few houseguests spoke in their sleep (notably Michele in US season 11). Sometimes, these sleep-talks unnerved everyone, because one can only imagine what on ''earth'' was going on in their dreams. The answer? Probably something you do ''NOT'' want to know...
** At least once a season, a houseguest with children has [[AdultFear a nightmare about their children being hurt while they were on the show.]]
** In BB 20, Brett takes a moment during the third live eviction night to turn Rockstar into his scapegoat. That is sure to make anyone mad, but for Rockstar, this is especially below the belt and enough to make it personal and send her into hysterics as the following week progresses and she drops out of an HOH competition first, breaking down in tears. Rockstar getting extremely angry at Brett and her subsequent meltdown seems a little unjustified at first. However, one fact changes this- when Rockstar reveals that Brett did this on ''her daughter's birthday.'' This means her daughter likely just watched her mom get insulted and trashed on LIVE TV that night and spoiled her special night. Rockstar has every right to want to get back at Brett, and she does.

** A few weeks into Big Brother 20, rumours started spreading that Bayleigh had gotten pregnant by Swaggy C while in the house. This prompted a storm of memes and jokes on social media about the alleged Big Brother baby, including multiple “Swayleigh Fetus” joke accounts. These jokes stopped almost immediately after the end of the season, when Bayleigh revealed that she and Swaggy did conceive a child in the house, but she had a miscarriage in the jury house.

*** The Gr8ful alliance as a whole was nicknamed H8ful as a result of their constant bullying and belittling of the other side of the house.

* EndingAversion: For the subset of Big Brother 23 viewers who did support what the Cookout mission was achieving, but hated the way that the final six played out after that (mostly due to two out of the three final players being considered TheLoad, and the only player who wasn’t The Load being an extremely predictable winner because of this), many prefer to imagine that the game simply ended at Final 6 and the whole Cookout won instead. Helping this interpretation is that [[EnsembleDarkhorse Hannah]] was the one to win the final HOH needed for their success, and as the most universally liked member of the group, it gives that ending a very positive spin for these viewers.

* FoeYay:

* {{Moe}}: Hannah Chaddha of Big Brother 23 is absolutely adorable. She’s the youngest of the cast, very short in stature with a baby face, often styles herself with cute hairdos and outfits along with makeup blush that emphasizes her youthfulness, and is about as kind as one can be on a show like Big Brother while still doing what is required to make it far in the game. For example, having UndyingLoyalty to fellow houseguest Tiffany even when it became unpopular to associate with her, because she thought the house wasn’t being fair to her, and going out of her way to be sweet to houseguests Derek X and Claire even knowing she couldn’t take them far because of her alliance. She won the adoration of many other houseguests with her cute personality and cute quirks such as accurate imitations of how the houseguests walk and goofy dance moves. Her status as this was sealed with her elimination episode, when she got blindsided by a double eviction at the worst possible time and then spent the entire episode alternating between looking completely terrified or on the verge of tears as she failed to win either the HOH competition or veto while every other member of the house ganged up on her to ensure her eviction, making her come across as a major {{Woobie}}. Most comments about the episode on websites like Website/{{Twitter}} were along the lines of “my poor baby!” with crying emojis and outrage at the other contestants. The extent of the outrage even got so bad that the episode’s HOH who targeted Hannah ''had to have her Twitter account set to private for a week'' as a result of the intense fan backlash, confirming many see her like this.

* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Lisa in the ninth UK series entered with her boyfriend Mario, and was initially in his shadow and a background character, but after he was evicted she grew in popularity, because of her humour and the way she managed to be a bit of a CloudCuckooLander while being very down-to-earth at the same time, and was one of the few housemates to actually stand up to house villain Rex. When she was evicted it was a very close vote between her and [[TheWoobie Sara, who had been bullied badly by some of the other housemates]]. Lisa left with the crowd giving her the biggest cheers of the series even more so than any of the finalists that year.
** Marcus in the tenth UK series said he was going to rebel and intentionally tried to invoke this trope, calling himself "The Irrepressible Dark Horse". Although he didn't win, to an extent it worked, as he had one of the biggest fanbases of any housemate that series. This is added to the fact that currently he has the record for the most nominations for eviction of any housemate ever in the UK series.
** Season 9 of the Australian Big Brother has Surly, who isn't a housemate but the pet fish of the house who can talk and can give challenges to whoever he wants. His first reveal had everyone love him because of how unexpected it was and all his actions after that have made everyone love him more..
** Judd from US Big Brother 15 was well liked by fans but was voted off as the second person on the jury. He got closer when he came back, but was voted out in 5th. He did [[TookALevelInJerkass take a level in jerkass]] when he returned though. But wouldn't you if your closest ally betrayed you and the house came down to the very ''worst'' of the bunch left in power?
** Also from BB 15, Nick. He was a favorite to win from pre-season interviews, but his SpearCounterpart Helen outsmarted him and Nick was out ''second''. Yet he has his own Website/YouTube channel and used it to set up a tour of the afterparty for that season and go on a sort of date with [=GinaMarie=].
** Kevin, Naeha and Johnny from Canada Season 3. All of them were very well-liked by fans for different reasons. Johnny for being entertaining, [[FanNickname Slaeha]] being the strongest female strategist at that time, and Kevin was entertaining due to his personality and strategies.
** For Season 16, Pao-Pao's snarky nature got her more fans than she short stay in the house. Christine's husband, despite not even being in the house, also saw a rise in popularity.
** Season 17, we have Jason, despite being that close of reaching jury, he was considered humorous and is a superfan. His return to ''Over the Top'' saw him jump to second place, though his behavior was a lot more unchained and brutally honest.
*** After Jason left, the popularity polls have spoken and Johnny Mac is the new most popular player by quite a large margin for his quirky offbeat behaviour, his hilariously loud voice, and his underdog story. He definitely counts as this trope as he only placed fourth and was the second to last jury member.
*** We also have James (who ended up winning America's Favorite). He's also this to an extent in [=BB18=] but lesser since some argue he's not playing the game as hard and/or has trash talked Victor and Paul.
** After returning from the Battle Back, Victor from US Big Brother 18 has become very popular for his underdog story, his friendship with Paul who has also become popular, and for being one of the nicer houseguests of the season.
** US BB 19 gave us Cameron, who was one of the unluckiest houseguests ever who went out in under 24 hours without even making it to day one and didn't get through the Battle Back Showdown, but found himself getting attention from both women ''and'' men afterwards. He got even more popular when he spoke his mind at the finale and grilled an ''entire'' GenreBlind house, revealing that had he gone the distance, Cameron would have probably kept the show in balance and interesting instead of Paul just creaming everybody and running the whole shebang.
** Steve Arienta from BB 20 became an early favorite because he strongly resembled Derrick, only with a really lively personality and naturally cool charm, not wanting to take crap from anybody. Fans felt disappointed to see him become the first eviction and blindside of the season when he was clearly on the path to running the game if given time, but are happy that he received a lot of screentime to make up for his early departure.
** From Canada Season 4 we have Joel who was very close to being in the finale, but was (aside from Tim) the most liked houseguest of the final 6. (Or the least divisive one) Even the jury was shocked to see Joel go.
** Angela from BBAU season 12, for her outspoken personality, her winning two endurance challenges, and for being one of the few people in the house who was actually playing the game she was so popular that when a twist kept her in the game after being voted out almost no one complained.
** Frenchie from Big Brother 23 was the second houseguest evicted and yet ended up being one of the most memorable for how entertainingly over-the-top he was. The common fan sentiment is that he ''made'' the first two weeks but probably would have been [[LargeHam too]] [[DramaQueen much]] if he stayed any longer.
** Derek X and Claire of Big Brother 23 became fan favorites of their season despite being outside of the season’s main draw, the Cookout alliance. This is due to them being very likable individuals and supportive friends to the other houseguests, making it all the more tragic that they had to be evicted for the sake of the alliance’s success. Derek X gets some additional love for being an unexpectedly effective comp beast as well, with many pleasantly surprised to see how well he did on the challenges despite his wiry physique, ultimately being seen as enough of a threat for the Cookout to prioritize targeting him.
** Out of all the Cookout members from Big Brother 23, Hannah was the most liked despite being the second evicted out of the six and the TV edits giving her the least amount of screen time by a significant margin. This is due to her being really endearing while also being more grounded and moral than her fellow alliance members, along with the feeds showing that she was a genuinely great strategist for the Cookout while still maintaining her kind personality. Many fans loved her even more after her heartbreaking eviction episode, due to how kind she continued to be by repeatedly insisting that no one should feel bad about evicting her despite her having just spent the whole episode looking terrified and being on the verge of tears, confirming that she truly is as sweet of a person as she appeared to be.
** Lamar from Celebrity Big Brother 3 became an instant hit with fans despite, or perhaps even because of, not even understanding the fundamentals of how the game works, leading to a bunch of hilarious moments. For example, when finding out how the final two works, his response was “There’s no way losers can decide if I win!” His popularity rose even further when he unexpectedly showed genuine CharacterDevelopment throughout the season and became more savvy about how the game works, even becoming the OnlySaneMan out of all of the remaining non-villainous houseguests by the time of the final six. In particular, he was the only one to question the house’s incredibly idiotic decision to vote out [[HeelFaceTurn Shanna]] over [[BigBad Miesha]], leaving fans thankful that there was still at least one houseguest who wasn’t a {{Jerkass}} and/or an idiot.
** Despite being the second houseguest evicted, Mirai from Celebrity Big Brother 3 was a fan favorite as well due to her being TheCutie and fans sympathizing with her for several reasons. Between her earnest wish to be good representation for Asian Americans on the show, gracefully handling the other houseguests targeting her repeatedly despite how inoffensive and easy to get along with she seemed to be, and coming across as TheWoobie for how poorly the cast treated her in general, most fans felt she deserved much better and wished that she could have made it further into the game than she did.
** Creator/ChrisKattan became a fan favorite on Celebrity Big Brother 3 as well despite how little he strategized or even engaged with the game, and not lasting very long in the game either due to being the third to leave. This is mostly due to him [[NiceGuy being the only one who went out of his way to make sure that Mirai didn’t feel excluded]], which [[TheWoobie Mirai definitely needed]], leading to what viewers considered an extremely wholesome friendship dynamic. Viewers also found some of his antics really funny, such as his habit of getting up in the middle of the night to eat cake, which got to a point that he basically claimed the whole cake for himself.
** Due to being much more genuinely passionate about Big Brother gameplay than most of their fellow houseguests, along with the relatively cruel way they were ousted, both Shanna and [[Music/NSync Chris Kirkpatrick]] from Celebrity Big Brother 3 are also very popular among fans. Kirkpatrick was told he was a bad role model for his son for the heinous crime of...not trusting [[TheScrappy Todrick]], while Shanna's popularity skyrocketed after her eviction because of literally everyone left minus Lamar deciding she should go home because she played both sides [[HeelFaceDoorSlam despite having just saved the "heroic" side of the house]]. Let's just say fans were ''furious'' when she didn't win [=AFP=] over Carson, one of the people who turned on her and took a level in Jerkass.

* MemeticLoser: Frenchie from Big Brother 23 has reached such a point of infamy with how badly he played that any time a contestant has a chaotic or otherwise [[DidntThinkThisThrough terribly thought-out HOH]], they will inevitably be compared to Frenchie. For example, Kyle from BBCAN10 was quickly called the Frenchie of his season once he won HOH and made such bad decisions with it that he alienated his entire house. It even became a sort of AscendedMeme during the interviews with the new houseguests for Celebrity Big Brother 3, when incoming houseguest Mirai cited him as an example of how NOT to play Big Brother and used him as an anti-role model for good gameplay.

*** Azah lost most of her remaining fans when she targeted Hannah during the double eviction, despite Hannah just losing her only ally Tiffany, Hannah making it clear beforehand that she wanted to work with Azah but Azah refusing to even consider it ([[EvilIsPetty even going so far as to state in a ConfessionCam that she was fine with getting fourth place as long as she could guarantee that Hannah would lose]]) in spite of Hannah being nothing but nice to her the whole season and Kyland and Xavier clearly being bigger threats to Azah’s game, making it clear that Azah’s move was spite-based rather than strategy-based, and resulting in making Hannah spend the entire episode looking like she really needed to cry. Her following this up in the live feeds by mocking Hannah for looking scared, among other mean-spirited catty comments about her, certainly didn’t help.

* MemeticLoser: Frenchie from Big Brother 23 has reached such a point of infamy with how badly he played, that during the interviews with the new houseguests for Celebrity Big Brother 3, one of the incoming houseguests cited him as an example of how NOT to play Big Brother and used him as an anti-role model for good gameplay.

*** Azah lost many of her remaining fans when she targeted Hannah during the double eviction, despite Hannah just losing her only ally Tiffany along with Kyland and Xavier clearly being bigger threats than her, and as a result making Hannah spend the entire episode looking like she really needed to cry. Her following this up in the live feeds by mocking Hannah for looking scared, among other catty comments about her, certainly didn’t help.

** Derek X and Claire of Big Brother 23 became fan favorites of their season despite being outside of the season’s main draw, the Cookout alliance. This is due to them being very likeable individuals and supportive friends to the other houseguests, making it all the more tragic that they had to be evicted for the sake of the alliance’s success. Derek X gets some additional love for being an unexpectedly effective comp beast as well, with many pleasantly surprised to see how well he did on the challenges despite his wiry physique, ultimately being seen as enough of a threat for the Cookout to prioritize targeting him.
** Out of all the Cookout members, Hannah from Big Brother 23 was the most liked despite being the second evicted out of the six and the TV edits giving her the least amount of screen time of the alliance by a significant margin. This is due to her being really endearing while also being more grounded and moral than her fellow alliance members, along with her being seen as a genuinely great strategist for the Cookout while still maintaining her kind personality. Many fans loved her even more after her heartbreaking eviction episode, due to how kind she continued to be by repeatedly insisting that no one should feel bad about evicting her despite her having just spent the whole episode on the verge of tears, confirming that she truly is as sweet of a person as she appeared to be.

*** Due to the relatively cruel way they were ousted, both Shanna and [[Music/NSync Chris Kirkpatrick]] are very popular among fans with one being told he was a bad role model for his son for the heinous crime of...not trusting and due to his nature being unable to lie to [[TheScrappy Todrick]] and for his Superfan status without any of Todrick's negative qualities. Shanna's popularity skyrocketed after her eviction because of literally everyone left minus Lamar deciding she should go home because she played both sides despite saving the "heroic" side of the house. Let's just say fans were ''furious'' when she didn't win [=AFP=] over Carson one of the people who turned on her and took a level in Jerkass.

** Celebrity Big Brother 3 has a handful of Adorkable houseguests as well. Mirai came across as socially awkward in the house and had trouble making friends, and yet most fans found her very adorable and endearing. Lamar and Chris Kattan also came across as this for being totally clueless about how the game works, making them come across as dorky in their attempts to understand what was going on, and yet were so sweet to the other houseguests that most fans loved them anyway.