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i need to see how the whole deciding happened in episode 12.

I had to re watch it cause i fr dont remember leah constantly bringing up andrea and wanting her to go home and shit. Liv was doing ALLL OF THE MF TALKING. She said she let them decide and shit but no girly. You were the team captain and thats just how it went. so i dont get how she is dogging leah cause she was legit expressing like all yall girls OR BARELY EVEN TALKED.

so yeah i need to see the unseen bits of the full conversation cause i feel like what i seen live is totally in the wrong and made it seem like leah was legit choosing for the group…

the truth of the matter is rob did twist leah's words. whether it was intentional or not, the way he worded things completely switched the meaning of what leah said.

i think the whole "backseat" thing depends on your definition of backseat. to me, it means not being the leader of the conversation. with that being said, leah was truthful with her statement. if anything, liv was leading the conversation. we dont know the complete story due to the editing, but based off what we were shown, leah said ONE thing.

it was sooooo out of pocket for liv and rob to jump leah and not let her explain her side of things. ppl on twitter are calling leah immature and childish but imo the way she reacted was kindaaa valid. she was being accused of being a manipulative liar. i dont know about all of you but it would be hard for me to keep my composure if i was being jumped for something that i KNOWWW i didnt do.

thoughts?

edit: "jumped" was a bad word to use since leah pulled liv, and im not a leah stan but in this particular instance i think leah was in the right

edit #2: ROB IS THE COMMON DENOMINATOR HE NEEDS TO BE KICKED OFF ASAP!!!! rob calling leah crazy and manipulative like he didn’t gaslight her to hell and back is actually so insane lmaoooo

(Ok apologies for the essay I can't be concise for the life of me but if you read it all thanks hehe) I think a lot of us might've noticed there’s like a super prevalent newer category of men that are visible in the younger/college aged range, that have learned to adopt specific mannerisms that make them look like green flags to women- just for the purpose of getting into their pants. It's a super orchestrated persona that your intuition can clock as being artificial, and my intuition felt that with Rob even during the early episodes pre-pool plunge meltdown. They sprinkle around copy and paste ideas of being socially aware and emotionally intelligent, will act awkward to come across disarming and charming, will have some quirky hobby or fashion style to add depth to themselves- but its all catered to attract women.

Rob epitomizes that new genre of men, and I believe his smear campaign of Leah is partially motivated because he feels Leah jeopardized the image he wanted to present on the show. By painting her to be this malicious, manipulative, vindictive person (btw I don't think she's entirely innocent she's just thoroughly chaotic), he might think he can justify that dramatic gaslighting moment he had in the earlier episodes and play the audience into believe his reaction was justified because Leah "is just that awful".

If he felt as much for Andrea as he claimed, he would've left with her, but he didn't cause he doesn't and he's aware the audience would clock his acting (as if we haven't already) if he jumped back to Leah or someone else. So he's focusing on villainizing Leah as a way to to assert the validity of his feelings of Andrea, who he left Leah for, until he can finish his mourning period and move on to someone else with the percieved backing of the audience. We even see at the end of this episode he starts to entertain the idea of being with the new bombshell.

Now does Leah have the potential to be two-faced, manipulative etc, of course, but its clear that she's just being herself and living in the present moment, she isn't orchestrating an image the way Rob is. Unfortunately for Rob he's performing based on how he thinks things are being perceived by the audience, if he just noticed him and Andrea were in the bottom ranking and Leah wasn't- he'd be able to recognize that she was actually being received much better then he was. However, it's clear everyone in the house (Aaron especially) is convinced he's being for real, and that's whats frustrating to see as a viewer. In a weird way he sorta reminds of a version of Caleb Corprew, its just Caleb knew what the audience wanted and got away with it.

(Note: y'all this isn't a leah stan post 😭😭😭 I just think robs the greater of the two evils yk)

I just wanted to see where everyone's head is at?

I'm more on Livs side because Leah did biscally throw her under the bus. I think we can all agree rob is horrible, and while I don't think Leah is as awfull I feel like she's trying to seem innocent when she wasn't.

Tagging with spoiler since it's from tonight's episode.