ANTM GUYS & GIRLS SPOILERS
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 8:28 pm
To begin with, the show spoiled itself. Of the 16 contestants pictured in the first shoot, only 14 appeared in future photos posted for fans to vote on. That suggests two would-be models (one guy, one girl) fell at the very first hurdle, the modeling equivalent of tripping over as you turn the corner onto the catwalk, basically. Funny, but also sad — especially when it plays out on TV.
But an online forum of Top Model superfans seems to have spoiled the show anyway.
RTV Games is an online community for fans of modeling, reality TV, and online reality games. The site's posters love — and love to hate — Top Model. Either way, they're serious about it.
In their quest for show spoilers, they analyze photos for lighting or set discrepancies (as eliminated contestants are kept separate from those still in the running, and thus shoot their photos at different times — or possibly even different locations). They'll even gauge models' expressions for clues: Is this girl moping because it's right for the shot, or BECAUSE HER DREAMS OF WINNING TOP MODEL HAVE BEEN CRUSHED?
On the very same day voting on the last photo shoot finished, a particularly dedicated poster with by the username "supmod" (nearly 20,000 posts about the show to his/her credit) debuted a blockbuster theory. In the world of spoilers, it represented serious — and sneaky — work.
Supmod had pulled the EXIF data from nearly every photo uploaded on the CW's site for voting purposes. This EXIF data (helpful definition here) included the exact date and time each photo was snapped, down to the second. As the show progressed and shoots continued, an increasing number of models' photos were shot — according to the EXIF timestamps — on a different day than their competitors. In other words, the roster of eliminated contestants shooting at different times grew as the competition rolled along.
Over the full cycle's worth of shoots, his data — all neatly formatted and color-coded here — breaks down by timestamp all the eliminations, in order, and makes a very strong case as to the show's three finalists. They appear to be two guys and one girl — Cory, Jourdan, and Marvin.
Here are their shots from the cycle's final photo shoot, a Guess Jeans campaign:
In theory, any of them could take the title — but won't Tyra pick a guy to make their otherwise weird inclusion in the show worthwhile? I say yes. Taking trends in the public vote into consideration too, and America's. 20th. Next. Top. Model. is very likely to be:
Marvin.
Congrats on (maybe probably) winning Top Model, you! But it still doesn't make this shot with the parrot OK.
Now let's all watch the show anyway and find out how right — or wrong — this all turns out to be. Fun!
But an online forum of Top Model superfans seems to have spoiled the show anyway.
RTV Games is an online community for fans of modeling, reality TV, and online reality games. The site's posters love — and love to hate — Top Model. Either way, they're serious about it.
In their quest for show spoilers, they analyze photos for lighting or set discrepancies (as eliminated contestants are kept separate from those still in the running, and thus shoot their photos at different times — or possibly even different locations). They'll even gauge models' expressions for clues: Is this girl moping because it's right for the shot, or BECAUSE HER DREAMS OF WINNING TOP MODEL HAVE BEEN CRUSHED?
On the very same day voting on the last photo shoot finished, a particularly dedicated poster with by the username "supmod" (nearly 20,000 posts about the show to his/her credit) debuted a blockbuster theory. In the world of spoilers, it represented serious — and sneaky — work.
Supmod had pulled the EXIF data from nearly every photo uploaded on the CW's site for voting purposes. This EXIF data (helpful definition here) included the exact date and time each photo was snapped, down to the second. As the show progressed and shoots continued, an increasing number of models' photos were shot — according to the EXIF timestamps — on a different day than their competitors. In other words, the roster of eliminated contestants shooting at different times grew as the competition rolled along.
Over the full cycle's worth of shoots, his data — all neatly formatted and color-coded here — breaks down by timestamp all the eliminations, in order, and makes a very strong case as to the show's three finalists. They appear to be two guys and one girl — Cory, Jourdan, and Marvin.
Here are their shots from the cycle's final photo shoot, a Guess Jeans campaign:
In theory, any of them could take the title — but won't Tyra pick a guy to make their otherwise weird inclusion in the show worthwhile? I say yes. Taking trends in the public vote into consideration too, and America's. 20th. Next. Top. Model. is very likely to be:
Marvin.
Congrats on (maybe probably) winning Top Model, you! But it still doesn't make this shot with the parrot OK.
Now let's all watch the show anyway and find out how right — or wrong — this all turns out to be. Fun!