America's Next Top Model Rankings

This is where I rank the models and photos from Cycles 1-23 of ANTM. Feel free to send me messages! I hope you enjoy! (P.S. My blog is best viewed on a computer or mobile browser for navigational purposes, not the mobile app.) var sc_project=10941356; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_security="ae9823a2"; var scJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://secure." : "http://www.");

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do you think anya would have won if she was in a different cycle?

I think she would deserve to win in nearly any cycle based on her Cycle 10 performance, but realistically I don’t think she’d win in any cycle. ANTM, especially early ANTM, was so focused on crowning unconventional models so I don’t think they’d ever pick someone like Anya since she was the obvious model from the start.

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What got you into ranking in the first place? and were there people who did it before you?

I followed a ranking blog for a different show and loved the idea of it, and I happened to be watching ANTM at the time so I decided to create my own ranking blog for it since there was no one on tumblr doing that.

RTVGames had rankings before me, but I was not aware of the website at the time.

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Claire from season 10 is Juliet Delos on Westworld! Just a fun fact haha.

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I feel like the reason why they didn't want Toccara to win is because they didn't want their first black winner and their plus size winner to be the same person.

I don’t think it was that deep. Tyra was definitely pushing for Toccara to win, but I think the other judges just genuinely weren’t fans (especially Janice).

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I've finally started watching c24 and I'm curious to know what your predictions were while watching! (Though I'm not yet finished and have miraculously avoided spoilers so far!) Here are my guesses for elimination as of ep 3 (no order)...early casualties: Shanice, Rhiyan, LIZ (omfg Liz), Sandra. Middle: Brendi K, Kyla, Christina, Erin (6th/5th?), Coura (I think the judges will get bored). Top: Rio (1st-3rd), Kystyana (1st-3rd), Jeana (2nd-4th), Liberty (4th or 5th).

I don’t remember what they were, but they were horribly off except for the final four lol. I was wrong about the winner until the week before the finale (though I think I made note in the beginning that the person I originally thought was the winner was way too obvious and that there was a chance she was getting a runner-up edit).

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Omg Joanie is on a show called Trading spaces. It's a show where neighbors trade houses and for 2 days with $2000 to make over a room with designers. Anyway Joanie is a carpenter

Lol, yeah, Joanie’s life took a big turn.

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I was thinking about it, and Shannon did pretty decent in the All-Stars cycle when taking into the fact that she is from a completely different era of ANTM when compared to everyone else.

Yeah, she actually didn’t do too bad. She just felt kind of bland compared to the other girls that cycle.

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Do you happen to know any details on why Molly and Brittani have their hair cut prior to the final panel in c16? Just curious if you happen to know what provoked the change at all. (Sorry if you've already mentioned this somewhere!)

From what I can gather, it was mostly because IMG wanted the model they signed to have that look at the time. It may have also been a bit about shock factor for the reality tv aspect.

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Apparantly in the 1st elimination of Cycle 6 Tyra was outvoted and wanted to send Queen Furounda home but got overrules by all the other judges. I can't imagine Cycle 6 without Furounda. She's probably my favorite ANTM of all time.

Really? Lol, well thank goodness that happened.

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I think you seem like a kind person, don't listen to the haters. I think often your responses are either super chill, almost uninterested, or very passionate and almost one-sided at times (which is fine, this is your blog after all) and I think people may take that the wrong way. There's a lot of biases for contestants and I think people who disagree with your opinion take it wrongly because when you disagree you do seem a bit combative, I'll admit, but you're fine. We all love your blog anyway.

You bring up a lot of legitimate points. Most of my responses are fairly indifferent, so my more passionate responses may seem combative or angry purely because of the contrast.

I would have to disagree about the combative thing (generally, though there were a couple of exceptions), but I can see why people might think that way. When I disagree with something said to me, I tend to give a lengthy response detailing why, which might come across combative. But really I’m just doing that because I know if I just say “I disagree” and move on, someone’s just going to wind up asking me why and I’m going to have to say all of that anyway. It just shortens the process for me. There’s nothing more to it than that.

But thank you for the love, and the (accurate) analysis! 

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I've noticed that a lot of the girls are very narcissistic this cycle (like Erin mentioned in her elimination interview), they always talked about themselves and how they felt about a situation. It's okay for them to talk about their opinions and experiences but when they don't ask someone else any questions about themselves - it just makes me question society. The only girls who didn't seem narcissistic were Khrys,Shanice, and Erin.

I think it’s a bit unfair as a viewer to deem any of the girls narcissistic. They literally have to talk about themselves and how they feel about a situation…that’s what the producers tell them to do (especially in confessionals). And as for them not asking anyone else how they feel, we can’t know that for sure. We only see about 40 minutes of roughly 60+ hours of filmed content each week.

My guess on why Erin said that is because of the age gap. Most of the competitors were either Millennials or iGen, which have a lot in common, so they probably felt unable to genuinely connect with Erin. Erin probably felt left out, which could have led her to believe that this is because the girls were too caught up in themselves to get to know her, when really it was probably just that they didn’t have much in common.

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I really wish Liberty had made it to top 6, I don't care about her (stupid) beliefs in Donald Trump's presidency because her photoshoot with the Drag Race alumni was definitely not elimination worthy. I also loved how eager she was to learn about drag queens and homosexuals when it was pride week.

I mean, if it wasn’t for them planning on eliminating her during pride week (which should have been so much more obvious to me, in retrospect), she probably would have actually been eliminated much earlier. Her call-outs show that the judges (aside from her makeover week) never really liked her. I actually think that their planned edit for her wound up making her stay longer than she would have otherwise, so though I think her elimination was kind of bullshit, I’ll take it.

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I actually agree with that other anon, Christina is a lot like Camille. They even have the same last name (fun fact).. I think Courtney was perhaps lacking self awareness but she has a major victim complex whereas Christina is just rigid and pertinacious. I thought of Camille going "everyone has a problem with my character..." whenever Christina blindly defended herself. Even Khrystyana mentioned that she tried to befriend her but was met with much resistance to which she gave up I suppose.

Oh, I wasn’t disagreeing with that bit. I was just adding that I believe there’s also a bit of Courtney’s edit in there.

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I'm very indifferent to Yaya so take this as you will. You do write in a way where I could see a lot of similarity to Yaya. I do not know how but when you mentioned it, I just realized how true that is. I could almost hear the Yaya tone in some of your responses. Anyway, like I said, I'm indifferent to her so you do you.

I’m really not that similar (other than the whole higher education thing and being a dancer), and you’d probably see that if you actually saw me in person. I was joking with the Yaya comparison. My sense of humor doesn’t really translate over text.

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I have read your blog for a long time, and I never really think, you sound condescending or snobbish. It can be so hard to convey tone and mood in text, so unless somebody is straight up rude (which you are not, lol), I never assume that they are anything but well-meaning.

Thank you for that. It’s interesting to see that people interpret my responses so differently. And yes, tone is very difficult over text (especially since I don’t proofread my posts).

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This cycle had so many polarizing characters, I wanted to ask how you felt about a few. How do you feel about Liberty, Jeana, Rio, and Christina? Just personality of course. Some thoughts here. Liberty is ignorant but harmless, Jeana is not as big of a bitch as made out to be, she got the Courtney edit (but Courtney just blindly stares while Jeana backs her words and actions), Rio seems likable to me (unpopular, I know) and Christina is like Camille, snotty but denies it. What do you think?

Hmm, I have mixed feelings about Liberty. She seems like such a nice person, but the fact that she was so ready to brush past Trump’s almost purely racist platform because she believed he could help the economy sets of some red flags for me. I’ve met a lot of people who are really nice on the surface, but believe their personal financial gain matters more than minorities getting basic human rights, so I’m a bit sensitive on that subject. I’m not accusing her of being the same as those people I’ve met because I don’t know her, but the few conversations we did hear from her sounded a bit similar to the conversations I’ve had with those people.

I agree Jeana’s not actually that big of a bitch. She seems really introverted and hyper-competitive, which probably makes her come off the way she does.

I’m gonna have to disagree about Rio. Her general attitude really puts me off, especially the way she was with Kyla.

Christina cracks me up. She really lacks self-awareness. I actually think Christina’s edit was more like Courtney’s than Jeana. They both started so much shit without even realizing what they were doing, and it was hilarious.

Sorry for the super long post.

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Which cycles do you think had the strongest walkers overall?

Hmm, off the top of my head I remember (with obvious exceptions) Cycles 6, 16, and 20 having a lot of contestants that were good on the runway.