History YMMV / TheXFactor

* AndThereWasMassRejoicing: When it was revealed Steve and Nicole would not be returning

** 2011 provided Misha B - This isn't to say that she was a bad singer, but her mentor Kelly Rowland clearly favored her over her other acts. It got worse after she lost public support following accusations of bullying

** On the American version, Marcus Canty has survived the final showdown three times in a row.

* HateDumb / MisplacedNationalism: The American version has gotten hate simply because "It's not the British version."

** The American version has Steve Jones, Nicole Scherzinger and for contestants Marcus Canty and possibly Astro

*** In the classic British tabloid tradition of "Scenes that are too obscene and immoral to be shown - full pictures with close-ups inside!"

** On the American version, [[spoiler: Marcus Canty]] has survived the final showdown three times in a row.

* HateDumb / MisplacedNationalism: The American version has gotten hate simply because "It's not the British version." Making this more ridiculous is that the US version hasn't even aired yet.

* TheWoobie: Wagner has been getting this, despite being tone deaf and missing notes he has proven to be quite popular, even he is aware of his problems as he apologises to the judges for it. However several scathing comments from fellow contestants and judges have made him more sympathetic to the audience. YourMileageMayVary as some of his actions and comments have struck a sour note.

* TheWesley: Katie Waissel - She wound up in the bottom two for ''four consecutive weeks'', amid accusations that the judges voting was rigged (i.e. [[WildMassGuessing When she had the fewest votes from the public, they voted to keep her in despite a poor performance in the sing-off; the next week, they voted to go to deadlock despite her clearly having the worst performance in the sing-off, because she didn't have the fewest public votes]]). This wasn't helped when the voting figures were released & matched up to these theories.
** Although if that was the case, you'd have to wonder why they were releasing voting figures that proved themselves to be cheats. If the show was rigged in that way, it'd be easy enough for them to release forged voting numbers, but they don't seem to have done that.
*** In 2007, there was a scandal about various phone-in competitions & polls run by ITV (The channel that broadcasts ''TheXFactor'') were discovered to have had various issues with the phonelines. Because of this, if ITV were found to be tampering with the results of the polls, they would face heavy fines.

* BrokenBase: Applies to all of the current judges bar Simon. Louis is either an entertaining counterpoint to Simon, or an idiot with a penchant for choosing gimmicky acts. Dannii is either cute with a sharp Australian wit, or a weird frozen-faced lump of mediocrity who's only there because the producers couldn't afford to hire her [[KylieMinogue more famous sister]]. And Cheryl is either a goddess of pure wonderfulness, or an annoying bitch who wouldn't know talent if it [[NeverLiveItDown beat her up in a bathroom]], and is a filthy [[OopNorth northerner]] to boot.

** Subverted with Goldie from the 2011 auditions. She had no ability to sing and largely depended on her stage antics and was surprisingly passed through to Judge's Houses. Louis became her mentor and put her through to the live shows but in a rare case of GenreSavvy, she withdrew from the competition as she suspected she was the token "novelty" act if she continued and was then replaced by a more competent contestant.

* RefugeInAudacity: the "Ablisa" duo and their own [[{{DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck}} Dethroning Moment Of Suck]] are either an EpicFail at attempting this trope or a cleverly-conceived [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction of the trope.]]

** The show got in trouble again for Christina Aguilera and Rihanna's performances on the 2010 final, both of whom appeared in what appeared to be their underwear and giving performances that were perhaps a tad overly-sexualised for a family audience, at least according to the tabloids.

** And considering some of the outfits that Girls Aloud have worn or posed in, I wish I had been there just to call Cheryl Cole out on it.
*** To be fair, she wasn't criticising them for wearing skimpy outfits in of itself; she was criticising them for saying they wanted to be known as singers not strippers, and then wearing those outfits and doing a stage routine that somewhat contradicted the claim.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: In HIGH DOSES of it, certainly puts ''DoctorWho'' to shame for it in more recent times. Proof that TruthInTelevision applies to this trope.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: In HIGH DOSES of it, certainly puts ''DoctorWho'' to shame for it in more recent times. Proof that TruthInTelevision applies to this trope.

* {{Hypocrite}}: What's that? The online campaign to get ''Killing In The Name'' by RageAgainstTheMachine to Christmas No. 1 is unfair? Compared to what? ''The several month long advertising campaign to get the latest winner of a singing contest to Christmas No. 1''?