History YMMV / BigBrother

*** Taylor’s Karma [[note]]Every time a houseguest became particularly antagonist toward houseguest Taylor Hale, they would by sheer coincidence end up getting evicted shortly after. Paloma is the ringleader of turning the house against Taylor during the first week, and ends up being the first gone due to self-eviction for mental health reasons. Pooch sets up a scheme to get Taylor out the second week, but it backfires in an EpicFail and he goes home instead. Then her three biggest bullies, Ameerah, Taylor, and Daniel, all get sent home back-to-back-to-back due to them being outside of the newly-formed dominant Leftovers alliance. Then, after making remarks about wanting to throw hot soup in Taylor’s face, Indy ends up being the first to go to Jury simply because she had the misfortune of being the most convenient person to target that week. She’s followed by Taylor’s biggest remaining bully, Jasmine, the next week because of Jasmine’s waning popularity. Two weeks later, houseguest Kyle [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain attempts to rally the white houseguests against the black houseguests, which would include Taylor]], only for everyone to get fed up with him and send him home instead. He’s followed by Taylor’s biggest remaining bully Terrance the next week due to Terrance recently proving himself as a mild threat shortly beforehand, and finally houseguest Brittany ends up on the chopping block three weeks later immediately after attempting to turn the vote against Taylor simply because the remaining houseguests liked her the least. With the exceptions of [[TokenGoodTeammate Joseph]], [[TooPowerfulToLive Michael]], and [[TheDitz Alyssa]], Taylor’s Karma can be said to have completely determined the season’s eviction order.[[/note]]

*** Taylor’s Karma [[note]]Every time a houseguest became particularly antagonist toward houseguest Taylor Hale, they would by sheer coincidence end up getting evicted shortly after. Paloma is the ringleader of turning the house against Taylor during the first week, and ends up being the first gone due to self-eviction for mental health reasons. Pooch sets up a scheme to get Taylor out the second week, but it backfires in an EpicFail and he goes home instead. Then her three biggest bullies all get sent home back-to-back-to-back due to being outside of the newly-formed dominant Leftovers alliance. Then, after making remarks about wanting to throw hot soup in Taylor’s face, Indy ends up being the first to go to Jury. She’s followed by Taylor’s biggest remaining bully, Jasmine, the next week. Two weeks later, houseguest Kyle [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain attempts to rally the white houseguests against the black houseguests, which would include Taylor]], only for everyone to get fed up with him and send him home instead. He’s followed by Taylor’s biggest remaining bully Terrance, and finally houseguest Brittany ends up on the chopping block three weeks later immediately after attempting to turn the vote against Taylor. With the exceptions of [[TokenGoodTeammate Joseph]], [[TooPowerfulToLive Michael]], and [[TheDitz Alyssa]], Taylor’s Karma can be said to have completely determined the season’s eviction order.[[/note]]

** Contestants seem very excited for the annual OTEV competition despite their cheesiness and the typical resulting injuries.

** ''Big Brother 24'' has been received better than previous seasons. Primarily due to its older cast featuring much more diversity, multiple shocking eliminations, and people who were very clearly GenreSavvy and thinking about themselves.

** The "Slip and Slide" challenge wherein the contestants have to use small containers to fill up a larger container full of liquid and retreive something inside while traversing a slippery floor. Once it ends, most players are CoveredInGrunge from slipping and falling, and sometimes end up nursing injuries from said falls.

** This happened to some people with ''24'' wherein the issues of racism appeared - wherein the entire house turned on Kyle out of his belief(s) that there may be a non-white alliance in the house.

** Season 15 was seen as a "Terrible" season. While the cast full of mostly unlikable people has not been vindicated, the [[BoringButPractical anticlimactic season 16]] and two other seasons full of predictable evictions resulted in a lot more people appreciating some of the amazing plays during the season, such as Elissa and Andy flipping the vote against ''Nick'' during week two or Andy successfully causing a tied vote and framing Elissa for it during a double eviction. And compared to Season 19 and Season 22, both of which are ''loaded'' with a house full of nasty people, it looks ''tame'' in hindsight.

** Season 15 was seen as a "Terrible" season. While the cast full of mostly unlikable people has not been vindicated, the [[BoringButPractical anticlimactic season 16]] and two other seasons full of predictable evictions resulted in a lot more people appreciating some of the amazing plays during the season, such as Elissa and Andy flipping the vote against ''Nick'' during week two or Andy successfully causing a tied vote and framing Elissa for it during a double eviction. And compared to Season 19, which is ''loaded'' with a house full of nasty people, it looks ''tame'' in hindsight.

* FourthWallMyopia: Because this show in particular makes heavy use of the ConfessionCam, as well as the fact viewers are able to see in multiple rooms at once (or swap at will in impossible ways), it's not uncommon to hear people dismiss the players as "Stupid" or "Idiots" because they can't see what we can. The confessionals are ''private'' after all.

** ''Big Brother 24'' US for having a more diverse cast and not having a day-one alliance of 6 that never wavered.

** Lane in Season 12, especially around Britney. Lane's behaviour around Britney suggested that he may have had a crush on her even though Britney was taken at the time and had a boyfriend back home. There was so much ShipTease between Lane and Britney that many fans wanted the two of them to get together.

** The show can be followed by watching only the broadcast TV feed (called "Casuals"), reading social media updates, or watching the permanent feeds, leading to fans having very different interpretations of Houseguests depending on how they get their information.

* EightDeadlyWords: A good portion of the time (especially in later seasons), the houseguests' behavior soon become so hateful and the more likable houseguests end up being evicted, that people stop caring about what the outcome will be.

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* VindicatedByHistory: A few, but some are a little too personal:
** During Season 11, Chima was lambasted by fans following her expulsion. How could she be so selfish and throw away a cherished spot on ''Big Brother'', all because the game wasn't going her way? In recent years, fans have become more sympathetic towards her, recognizing that she was screwed ''hard'' by the [[ExecutiveMeddling coup d'état]]. It helps that general fan opinion of Jeff has also turned sour in recent years.

** Season 17. As mentioned under SeasonalRot, some hated the season and thought the contestants were too much of a shoe-horn or controversial, and only a ShockingElimination at the final three made it anything less than a blow-out. Yet after Season 19 proceeded to [[BeyondTheImpossible have a group of people more dislikable than 15 and somehow even dumber than 16]], it's not unheard of for some people wishing for Season 17 to return due to more than two or three people in that season ''actually playing'' the game.
** Marissa Jaret Winokur in the first US version of ''Celebrity Big Brother''. Many felt that Ross Mathews was robbed and that most of the jury was voting for her on principle. However, as time went on, people started to point out she got WhatMeasureIsANonBadass treatment by the fandom, and that she deserved it. (The fact that she was more interested in the game than her career also helped.) She later returned to co-host a post-eviction special with Ross Mathews for ''Big Brother 20'', which helped soften some hatred towards her.

*** Kyle got the unflattering nickname “KKKyle” once he started repeatedly encouraging the white houseguests to team up and vote out all of the black houseguests, seemingly out of a paranoia that another black alliance would form and dominate like it did on the previous season... ignoring the fact that seven out of the first eight houseguests already put up for eviction on his season had all been black.

** Big Brother 24: After Joseph had a surprising TookALevelInBadass moment on his 25th birthday by showing lucidity about the game that he had entirely lacked in the weeks before, fans started referring to him as “Joseph (25)” to indicate how he seemed like an entirely different person after this point.

* [[EnsembleDarkhorse/BigBrother Ensemble Dark Horse]]

* BileFascination: No matter what season you watch, no matter what region, the show is full of sickening houseguests who would put a grin on the Devil's face, but that's what draws some of the viewers in. Yes, there are good-natured contestants, too, but so many more are borderline sociopaths.

** 24's casting was praised for having a lot of [[AscendedFanboy ascended fans]], older players, but also for casting more than one hispanic player, something Big Brother 23 was criticised for.

** Big Brother 9 and 10 of the Canadian edition and 23&24 of the american edition were praised for actually including more than a token minority, as well as actually casting indigenous people.

*** In particular, before she ahd to be replaced due to testing positive for COVID, a woman named Christie who was naturally bald due to Alopecia was cast.

*** In particular, before she ahd to be replaced due to testing positive for COVID, a woman named Christie who was [[BaldWoman naturally bald]] due to Alopecia was cast.