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Every time you hear "Blame It On The Edit", remember that Rupaul told Max to sing something for them to catch her breath and then they edited it to make her look like she was singing out of nowhere and being unprofessional.
Of course Rupaul is going to deny these claims. But I feel like it's amazing that they made such a song in the first place. It means that they acknowledge being talked about in this regard and it affects them
It's a double-edged sword though. April Wilkner from ANTM Cycle 2 said it best in regards to people, namely Camille that same cycle, complaining about how they were portrayed on the show. She said something along the lines "They can only edit what you give them". She also noted that Camille's edit was actually better than it could have been. But, to use Phi Phi O'Hara's appearance in Season 4 as an example, she may have been given "Villain Edit", but she gave them the material to do that to her too.
Also consider for production values that since season 3-4 they started making the contestants wear one specific outfit for their confessionals in order to edit them in any order producers wanted to create their storylines
@@derricka.3206 from what I've heard on podcasts they film it while working in the werkroom to keep topics fresh, otherwise they might forget how they felt and the dramatic feel of the moments might get lost
Also I love that Bianca called out them filming the tie between her and Adore because it made Courtney feel like shit. It became obvious she wasn’t going to win
The worst secret is that the contestants are not paid to prepare their outfits in advance, are paid only about $200 per episode, and aren’t paid at all after they’re eliminated despite having to stay sequestered in their hotel the entire time they’re filming. Its gotten to the point where some queens ended up homeless after filming, and then RuPaul screams at queens like Joe Black on the stage when they buy one outfit at H&M. Pay your queens RuPaul!!!
Ummmm no one is forcing the queens to go on the show. If someone can't afford to skip out on their day job for a couple months of filming they *don't have to*. Also, if you are a queen and don't have an arsenal of good looks then don't apply. Many queens also reach out to designers and don't pay for the looks until after they've appeared on the show, and have made the money to pay back the designers. It's not that deep
To be fair it wasn’t that Joe Black wore H&M its more so “if you’re gonna buy something off the rack stone the fuck out of it” to paraphrase Ru’s wording. It was that she did nothing to it to make it her own
The whole Willam situation is such a mess. What she's revealed has shed a lot of light on this show. It seems even the most progressive reality shows, are still reality shows that treat their contestants very harshly.
You sign up for it. Somewhere in that long drawn-out contract in some unique way, it states all things that are then signed *I have read and agreed to the terms above*
SO happy y’all spoke on the jaremi situation. Another big thing is that producers FULLY threaten contestants that speak out on the injustices of the show
the fact utica made that dress out of sleeping bags for the season 13 ball in such a short amount of time still blows my mind. forever salty she didn’t win that challenge especially since gottmiks outfit was thrown away cause the cleaning crew thought it was scraps 😭
I already had that understanding for challenges coz queens usually confess “I’m wasted, couldn’t sleep much trying to finish the gown / rehearsing till the exhaustion for today’s video” etc. So I used to think it was indeed a matter of hours over 2 consequent days, but the short gap between episodes filming is new to me 😮 that’s probably why they’re clearly overwhelmed in the last challenges…
The show Survivor, kicked people every three days and those who were kicked stayed in a hotel not far from where they were filming until the show was over. Reality TV shows are filmed very quickly and edited to look like they took days but was really hours.
RuPaul is over 60 years old so I definitely think it's OK if they forget the name of their contestants because it's differently difficult for me. Just to get my siblings names right and there's only 4ofus.
Many queens have said how the producers will act like they are their very good friends in order to get the queens to reveal more during confessionals or otherwise trust them when they shouldn't. Jaremi, Laganja are just two names I can think of where that has happened. I'm sure it's an old technique that is used by reality show producers, but the contestants are still humans and vulnerable.
Willam and Dida told the story at Roscoes why he was elimated. And Naysha Lopes just said also at Roscoes that she was told 2 weeks beforehand to join AS8 while others queens had a whole month to prepare.
@H. Fritz you do understand they need to cast a certain number of queens because a certain number of episodes has been ordered right? if someone cancels what do you do then? there will inevitably be a queen who has less time to prepare unfortunately
@@laincoubert7236 Oh, sorry..thanks for telling me, I was just thinking about the great Roscoes House of Chicken and Waffles in Hollywood! I used to eat there all the time and it was the best food I have ever had and I been lucky to have been to some wonderful places! I must be just missing it😫🙂
I mean to be fair after over 15 seasons (not even including the spinoffs) thats a lot of queens you have to remember so i don't blane Ru for forgetting some people
For all the super positive that Ru's show has done, and it's a lot - it can't be ignored how they edit things to make contestants saying one thing about a topic, look as if they're talking about another thing, and that they're wearing the same outfit in the confessional, so they can use it whenever they want. Also, the shadiest thing ever was Ru herself asking Max to sing something to catch her breath, then the producers twisting it to look like Max was kooky and a self-centered weirdo. That's soooo inappropriate. Then add in Ru not picking the amazing (yet obese) Ginger Minj when she was the obvious star of Season 6 & All-Stars Season 6. Ru told contestants they need to accept that they'll be made fun of for their weight, but she got mad when queens mocked "Drag U" in a skit, according to the wonderful Mrs Kasha Davis.
@@thenecrosanct4906 i mean it kinda is in a way ? like imagine thinking YOU won but now you have to watch others get the same line said to them and see them win over you. i can't imagine the anxiety and overwhelming emotions that is.
@@theaitokyo The queens know very well why they do this, i.e. to prevent spoilers. It's no secret that they do this and why. I wouldn't really call this a dark truth or a lesser known fact from behind the scenes. It's common knowledge at this point. I can't imagine there being any more anxiety than if they did announce the winner during the filming of it, since they know filming multiple winners doesn't mean anything besides preventing spoilers. They have to wait anyway, from the time they finish filming the season to the time the finale is filmed (which is almost a year later).
Let's keep it real, the sequestering and isolation is to avoid the cast coming together to mob the producers for any of the wide array of bullshit we all know they put the queens through from not knowing names to allowing certain queens favoritism in the form of more time on challenges and so on. The producers are NOT your friend unlike how they try to depict them from time to time.
Drag race became from a show that celebrates drag to a show that gatekeeps what drag and what good drag is. Non DR girls are expected to wear expensive drag otherwise they are seen as less than and even if they do, if they don't go on the show they don't get equal opportunities for gigs and fame
It is basically just age/forgetfulness/short term memory loss. I can remember all kinds of things from decades ago quickly. Ask me what I did last week and I have to think for a second. Ru is not a spring chicken anymore.
Yeah, although the truth is probably in the middle (the show is for entertainment, some segments are produced) Jaremi just wouldn't take any accountability. That's all he needed to do to win people over. And some of the examples he gave to demonstrate how the show was 'fabricated by editing' were proven false by WOW TH-cam posts so it's hard to take him as a credible source.
What I don’t get is why queens get paid $200 per episode. Yet they spend so much money on prizes and RuPaul earns over 100K per episode. Least they can do is pay them $200 per day of filming.
Dark Truth: the show is structured to gaslight the queens, with production/judges saying they fail or fall short in areas they actually excel in. This psychological manipulation makes many talented queens leave the show doubting whether they should be doing drag.
That’s really a LOT for them to do but also the easiness of being able to make anything up the way they want to. And there’s AI on the rise now, so I think things can get way filthier… who knows
Any real drag race fan already knows everything mentioned. It changes nothing, at least for me. All reality competition show is manipulated. I'm sure if you spoke with people from Survivor, Amazing Race, Big Brother, etc. You would hear the exact same complaints. It goes with the territory.
Exactly, especially with the whole Isolation thing. Like I remember watching something about The Challenge and they said a similar thing about how they aren’t allowed to have their cell phones and what not
So I mean even the casual DR fan knows a lot of these. The aspect of the fact that it only takes 4 weeks to film a whole season makes a lot of sense when the queens will constantly talk about how much of a pressure cooker the competition is. Also if you read the article from Jan she gives a lot of other production tea like how they are given a buddy to do things like go to the pool and the gym and how they are given a whole list of songs to know in advance but not every song is used. That being said I still live the show and find it very entertaining
It’s a tv show. Regardless of how you feel about the show or the contestants… it’s a tv show. They are making a tv show. The queens know this, they sign up for it. They know what it is and they know how it will boom their careers. Is it right? No. Is it reality tv? Yes.
Manson didn't own anything, he was allowed to live there rent-free along as labor around the ranch was performed. George Spahn bought the property in the 1950s. The site now is a park.
Imma be real, in the case of the former Phi Phi, they wouldnt have been able to "edit" them to be that mean and rude and stuff if they never were mean and rude and stuff
"the show favors certain queens to win." Some merch TM had ordered for AS3 were shirts that said "filler queen." She went ahead and sold them on her website despite the win, though. Double point: that was a crazy season, and it does seem like some queens are treated like filler queens by WoW.
I feel like the Jerami edit is a reach. Whether or not producers “exaggerate” your edit, they can’t edit what you don’t give them. 🤷🏽♂️ And it wasn’t just Jerami’s actions on the show but his behavior outside as well!
There isn't a "Saint PhiPhi" edit of AS2. The problem with Jaremi is his examples of "producer meddling" in the series were proven false. He said the favorable critiques given to Alyssa Edwards were really to Detox. They weren't. He's almost certainly not some monster IRL but is also not a reliable source of DR info.
@@scottdreyer106 True. And they edited the show a LOT. They edited her out so much that even though Sherry Pie made it to the finals, it certainly wasn't obvious why.
i recently watched that season on netflix, can someone tell me what she did? like i saw that little thingy where they wrote she got disqualified and thrown out but i did not find any information why
@@marvinpilgrim9809 Sherry Pie posed as a casting director under a fake name, catfishing several men by promising to get them auditions for roles (or to actually cast them for roles) on Broadway, and would coerce them into filming videos where they partook in sexual acts (like masturbation) or sexually-suggestive fetish videos to send to her, under the reasoning that these would increase their chances of being noticed/cast.
With regard to not remembering names? You think she’d have something to help her. An earpiece?? Also I’m convinced the Jinkxs one was supposed to be a joke
This is the stupidest list ever. Half of these "dark truths" apply to all reality shows. Every reality show is filmed in a condensed time, contestants are often sequestered, multiple endings are filmed, DUH THE STORY LINES ARE EDITED AND MANIPULATED!
The Dark Truth I wish you'd have talked about is this: How often a contestant wins when it's also their first time ever trying out for the show. If you do the math with that, you'll definitely see the producer manipulation. Violet Chachki, Jinx, Sharon, Raja, Bianca, Bob TDQ, Aquaria-- the list is probably longer. They all got on the show the very first time they auditioned-- and won. This should tell us that production more or less chooses the winner and then selects the rest of the cast around them. ETA: Alright, so now I see that Violet made an audition tape for season 6, but I need to go watch that whole other video and find out if she really submitted it or not. Because I swear she said Season 7 was her first audition, and that she was too young before. But it's TV, so birthdays and recollections may vary. 😁
@@teehee3657 You're right about Bob. But Violet was only ineligible because of her age. So from what I have gathered so far on Reddit (lol), everyone winner on Drag Race who actually won up to and including season 10-- besides Bob-- only auditioned ONE time, legally. Sasha Velour auditioned twice, yes. But Valentina? First time. Rupaul wanted Valentina FTW. Not saying Sasha isn't a good queen in her way, but the production had set up Valentina. The crown was Valentina's to lose, and... she lost it. Now, I need to research seasons 11-15.
@@JetPackDino "Everyone up to S10 auditioned only once except Bob. Oh and Sasha" and so? Let's be generous and say every winner S1-S7 and S10 only auditioned once. It also could be a coincidence. It's a little fishy, sure, but not evidence.
This is a dumb title. 😂 "Dark truths"? Filming different endings to avoid spoilers and taking the phones away to avoid spoilers is dark?? "Facts you may not have known about RPDR" would have made better sense
Interesting how the secrets of some of the most popular reality shows are similar. The Drag Race secrets sound incredibly like the secrets of America's Next Top Model. The isolation, low-budget food, long filming days and the general disrespect and cruelty of the crew and/or judges to the contestants.
I mean I can’t even remember what I had for breakfast so I don’t get people who give Ru a hard time for getting the names of queens. Ru has judged hundreds of queens on drag race and its international franchises at this point, of course she’s not going to remember all of their names especially at her age. She clearly remember who they are, she just can’t recall their names on the spot.
I do not buy that the show filmed an entire season in four weeks. That sounds insane and cruel. Also Willam is very provocative, so I take whatever she says with a grain of salt.
I don't like the isolation and the way they're being treated. And ru not remembering names is not surprising. I have a hard time with names and I'm a dance teacher is very hard to remember all of my kids names unless I interact with them frequently.
We all are familiar with the fable, "The Empress has no clothes". RPDR was an instant success in my world: it was an affirmation of "Get used to Us", the GLBT+ culture is not going away. Rabid fans would cluster up for viewing parties. I was such a fanatic. And I am proud of it. But I abide a '3 Strikes Rule': and once RuPaul had his third strike after Season 6, I abandoned his persona and him. I have no justification for taking that long, but I was extending the 3 Strikes. Every offshoot of the DragRace franchise has the stench of the original show tainting hem. His Project 2005 was a precursor of Project 2025 and just as shady. I still admire the show: it showcases real consummate entertainers, so I only tune in to the performance portions and skip the RuPaul shenanigans. Win/Win.
Willam prefers to be referred to as he in and out of Drag. I love when people call him she because it’s exactly what he deserves for intentionally messing up the pronouns of fellow queens lol
I met Willam during Baltimore Pride weekend. Super sweet and someone in the audiance asked a the question if Willam ever considered Ru Paul All star's. Willam responded with a decline, but if you listen to the interview snippet on here, some grounds added up. I'm very happy for Willam, who was the star of that season. Also, an amazing performer and even hanged with the crowd at the back padio of the Baltimore Eagle (was a first for a ru paul star).
How in the world do they manage Queens who have medical implants?? I have surgical implants which are so damn old they set off every metal detector in the world. Do they actually make them get naked to confirm it is *in* - and not *on* - the Queens’ bodies, or do they take it so far as to take them for imaging at a hospital? Or, having a medical implant, does that mean i could swallow a phone or at least a very small camera and tie it to my teeth so i could get by on the surgical implant amd then swallow a small enough phone in a bag? For context (because I am well aware of how insane this sounds), i was the head clinician in a prison for a lot of😊 years, and this was a common, if incredibly dangerous and stupid, way of sneaking on contraband. It still😮 morbidly obsessed witn the method ans how they set it up and get it out without throwing up EVERYWHERE.
The glorication of Eating Disorders. Like the going for lunch with rupaul and its a tic-tac. The way vixen was treated . And the encouragement of fake drama just adds to the gay men are bitchy stereotypes
When people say Hollywood is unfair to so many they are right, but somehow Ru Paul conquered the whole industry on his own, AND while dancing backwards in heels and a full face of makeup and hair four feet high. He is incredibly resilient, talented and had a vision!!
Using Willam as a source💀she's the same girl who openly wants to go back on All Stars, and speaks against the show because it gives her podcast good ratings lol. Not to mention, she spreads numerous lies - such as saying how Drag Race UK Season 3 was filmed in 10 days - which people genuinely believed and the queens themselves had to debunk. There def is some shadiness from production; but there's a reason why 90% of queens end up enjoying their time on drag race and being willing to go back. There's obviously stressful elements (both financially and competition-wise) but it's TV.
In truth, "you've got shemail!" was meant to be a play on "you've got Email!" (just different enough from America Online's iconic "You've got MAIL" soundbite so they couldn't sue) but yes when said out loud, shemail is a homonym for the trans slur and it cost nothing to leave it behind. She Already Done Had Her's is much better anyway.
I stopped watching Drag Race when I understood that it's just another reality show, and that RuPaul doesn't really care about drag beyond how much he can make from it
Did YOU have any shady “Drag Race” secrets? Let us know below, and check out our video of the Top 10 Most Unforgivable RuPaul's Drag Race Moments - th-cam.com/video/o30iVr_i4ZA/w-d-xo.html
Would you please do a video on the Boulet Brothers' Dragula ,I'm curious if there's any behind the scene secrets ??? Thanks
Every time you hear "Blame It On The Edit", remember that Rupaul told Max to sing something for them to catch her breath and then they edited it to make her look like she was singing out of nowhere and being unprofessional.
That was so so so so weird like what the hell
@@clemermoacir so fucked.
Of course Rupaul is going to deny these claims. But I feel like it's amazing that they made such a song in the first place. It means that they acknowledge being talked about in this regard and it affects them
Worse, they made her look unhinged
It's a double-edged sword though. April Wilkner from ANTM Cycle 2 said it best in regards to people, namely Camille that same cycle, complaining about how they were portrayed on the show. She said something along the lines "They can only edit what you give them". She also noted that Camille's edit was actually better than it could have been. But, to use Phi Phi O'Hara's appearance in Season 4 as an example, she may have been given "Villain Edit", but she gave them the material to do that to her too.
Also consider for production values that since season 3-4 they started making the contestants wear one specific outfit for their confessionals in order to edit them in any order producers wanted to create their storylines
I think it's more prominent since Season 6
They did this after season 2 iirc
they started doing this in season 6
I thought that those confessionals are filmed after they’re eliminated, or at the end for the finale queens.
@@derricka.3206 from what I've heard on podcasts they film it while working in the werkroom to keep topics fresh, otherwise they might forget how they felt and the dramatic feel of the moments might get lost
Also I love that Bianca called out them filming the tie between her and Adore because it made Courtney feel like shit. It became obvious she wasn’t going to win
Whoever thought she could win must be very delusional...
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The worst secret is that the contestants are not paid to prepare their outfits in advance, are paid only about $200 per episode, and aren’t paid at all after they’re eliminated despite having to stay sequestered in their hotel the entire time they’re filming. Its gotten to the point where some queens ended up homeless after filming, and then RuPaul screams at queens like Joe Black on the stage when they buy one outfit at H&M. Pay your queens RuPaul!!!
Ummmm no one is forcing the queens to go on the show. If someone can't afford to skip out on their day job for a couple months of filming they *don't have to*. Also, if you are a queen and don't have an arsenal of good looks then don't apply. Many queens also reach out to designers and don't pay for the looks until after they've appeared on the show, and have made the money to pay back the designers. It's not that deep
@@scottdreyer106 you sound privileged
Why would they pay them for outfits that can wear outside of RPDR? That's just silly. You act like once the show is over that can no longer wear them
To be fair it wasn’t that Joe Black wore H&M its more so “if you’re gonna buy something off the rack stone the fuck out of it” to paraphrase Ru’s wording. It was that she did nothing to it to make it her own
Idk where u got 200 from. It was 500 up until season 10, then I believe 1200 since.
The whole Willam situation is such a mess. What she's revealed has shed a lot of light on this show. It seems even the most progressive reality shows, are still reality shows that treat their contestants very harshly.
Willam is a hot bitter mess of a sore loser
You sign up for it. Somewhere in that long drawn-out contract in some unique way, it states all things that are then signed *I have read and agreed to the terms above*
being queer doesn't inherently mean progressive
@@erictim9052 in what world is drag race NOT progressive? why are so many gays so f*cking pessimistic about everything lmfao.
@@erictim9052 that’s true, but rpdr is very progressive, even if it has its faults
Katya reaction to the post it notes is always hilarious to me
Willam becoming the therapist of Drag Race alumni is something I didn’t see coming 10 years ago😂
SO happy y’all spoke on the jaremi situation.
Another big thing is that producers FULLY threaten contestants that speak out on the injustices of the show
Fifi went back to All Stars because she wanted. Nobody obligated her and she was the same shady queen. She did that to herself.
Roxxxy Andrews came back and vindicated herself.
I thought the queens had DAYS to make garments for challenges, you’re telling me they have HOURS? I would lose my mind.
Some challenges. Other challenges they know about far in advance, and professional designers make those gowns.
the fact utica made that dress out of sleeping bags for the season 13 ball in such a short amount of time still blows my mind. forever salty she didn’t win that challenge especially since gottmiks outfit was thrown away cause the cleaning crew thought it was scraps 😭
I already had that understanding for challenges coz queens usually confess “I’m wasted, couldn’t sleep much trying to finish the gown / rehearsing till the exhaustion for today’s video” etc. So I used to think it was indeed a matter of hours over 2 consequent days, but the short gap between episodes filming is new to me 😮 that’s probably why they’re clearly overwhelmed in the last challenges…
You can see the time they get in the first ses. I always missed that they didnt have that anymore
The show Survivor, kicked people every three days and those who were kicked stayed in a hotel not far from where they were filming until the show was over. Reality TV shows are filmed very quickly and edited to look like they took days but was really hours.
10 dark generally known and acknowledged truths about rupauls drag race 😳
right like this isnt news
We been knew
This is a content farm. Nothing original comes from this channel.
Right? "Dark truths," lmao. Way to be dramatic. Some of this stuff is pretty effed up, but a lot of it is standard, and ALL of it we already knew.
@@Jackie-rs6ycYes and no. It falls under “content farm” broadly, but it’s not a farm like the people behind So Yummy and all those.
RuPaul is over 60 years old so I definitely think it's OK if they forget the name of their contestants because it's differently difficult for me. Just to get my siblings names right and there's only 4ofus.
That's my view. Some people have a hard time with names.
😂
exactly. plus knowing other queens name from future casting tapes too. past queens, current ones, etc etc thats alot of names.
Definitely. I barely remember my co workers names and see almost them everyday day. And Drag queen names are rarely common everyday names.
RuPaul’s pronouns are not they/them.
The Manson thing feels like a reach 😅
Many queens have said how the producers will act like they are their very good friends in order to get the queens to reveal more during confessionals or otherwise trust them when they shouldn't. Jaremi, Laganja are just two names I can think of where that has happened. I'm sure it's an old technique that is used by reality show producers, but the contestants are still humans and vulnerable.
Willam and Dida told the story at Roscoes why he was elimated. And Naysha Lopes just said also at Roscoes that she was told 2 weeks beforehand to join AS8 while others queens had a whole month to prepare.
That tells me Naysha was shortlisted and was a replacement
Are you talking about Roscoes on Gower and Hollywood???
@H. Fritz you do understand they need to cast a certain number of queens because a certain number of episodes has been ordered right? if someone cancels what do you do then? there will inevitably be a queen who has less time to prepare unfortunately
@@christineparis5607 no, it's roscoe's tavern in chicago, naysha is a permanent host there and they do drag race watch parties a lot
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Oh, sorry..thanks for telling me, I was just thinking about the great Roscoes House of Chicken and Waffles in Hollywood! I used to eat there all the time and it was the best food I have ever had and I been lucky to have been to some wonderful places! I must be just missing it😫🙂
I mean to be fair after over 15 seasons (not even including the spinoffs) thats a lot of queens you have to remember so i don't blane Ru for forgetting some people
For all the super positive that Ru's show has done, and it's a lot - it can't be ignored how they edit things to make contestants saying one thing about a topic, look as if they're talking about another thing, and that they're wearing the same outfit in the confessional, so they can use it whenever they want. Also, the shadiest thing ever was Ru herself asking Max to sing something to catch her breath, then the producers twisting it to look like Max was kooky and a self-centered weirdo. That's soooo inappropriate. Then add in Ru not picking the amazing (yet obese) Ginger Minj when she was the obvious star of Season 6 & All-Stars Season 6. Ru told contestants they need to accept that they'll be made fun of for their weight, but she got mad when queens mocked "Drag U" in a skit, according to the wonderful Mrs Kasha Davis.
it's reality tv... views sadly are what get people talking.
Ginger was in season 7, not 6.
Minj was on 7, and DEFINITELY should have won
I love how one of the Dark Truths About RuPaul's Drag Race is that multiple crownings are filmed, so damn disturbing😣😔
Disturbing?
@@scottdreyer106 It's sarcasm (at least, I hope it is).
@@thenecrosanct4906 i mean it kinda is in a way ? like imagine thinking YOU won but now you have to watch others get the same line said to them and see them win over you. i can't imagine the anxiety and overwhelming emotions that is.
@@theaitokyo The queens know very well why they do this, i.e. to prevent spoilers. It's no secret that they do this and why. I wouldn't really call this a dark truth or a lesser known fact from behind the scenes. It's common knowledge at this point. I can't imagine there being any more anxiety than if they did announce the winner during the filming of it, since they know filming multiple winners doesn't mean anything besides preventing spoilers. They have to wait anyway, from the time they finish filming the season to the time the finale is filmed (which is almost a year later).
Or that they switched Merle with Michelle
I think Ru "forgot" Jinkx's name on purpose since she called him multiple different names during Snatch Game.
Let's keep it real, the sequestering and isolation is to avoid the cast coming together to mob the producers for any of the wide array of bullshit we all know they put the queens through from not knowing names to allowing certain queens favoritism in the form of more time on challenges and so on. The producers are NOT your friend unlike how they try to depict them from time to time.
No, it’s to keep their drama in front of cameras so they can use it for the show
Stretch. They just sleep separate but the rest they are together.
Raja DEFINITELY got special treatment on her season. Yara Sofia deserved the Crown. That's why she gave up at the end.
@@olubukonla7352 nah it was definitely between raja and manila i love yara though.
They tape their rooms due to Willam and other queens on season 4 sneaking out.
I miss the days when they used to have the eliminated Queens pose with the check while wearing a crown.
Drag race became from a show that celebrates drag to a show that gatekeeps what drag and what good drag is. Non DR girls are expected to wear expensive drag otherwise they are seen as less than and even if they do, if they don't go on the show they don't get equal opportunities for gigs and fame
I love the "she already done has herses" story
It is basically just age/forgetfulness/short term memory loss. I can remember all kinds of things from decades ago quickly. Ask me what I did last week and I have to think for a second. Ru is not a spring chicken anymore.
Lol, it’s decades of drug use. Don’t give excuses, to a man that refuses to give raises, and health insurance to employees.
I don’t think it was an unfavorable edit of Jeremy, he showed his true colors TWICE. They can only show what you give them.
Exactly. Look at Roxxxy - totally redeemed herself.
Terrible rap, but a much more entertaining queen.
Yeah, although the truth is probably in the middle (the show is for entertainment, some segments are produced) Jaremi just wouldn't take any accountability. That's all he needed to do to win people over. And some of the examples he gave to demonstrate how the show was 'fabricated by editing' were proven false by WOW TH-cam posts so it's hard to take him as a credible source.
What I don’t get is why queens get paid $200 per episode. Yet they spend so much money on prizes and RuPaul earns over 100K per episode. Least they can do is pay them $200 per day of filming.
It's more now, that was back in a day
lol no one is forced to go on the show and after they can book more jobs and get paid better so they win in the end 🤷♂️
"films in simi valley" being a dark truth
mama ru really is getting old LMAOO "this- this one right here, what's your name?" I CAN'T
1:32 I love how Katya is just like "no way :D"
Nothing was said was new information 😂
Dark Truth: the show is structured to gaslight the queens, with production/judges saying they fail or fall short in areas they actually excel in. This psychological manipulation makes many talented queens leave the show doubting whether they should be doing drag.
I thought #1 would be the toxic, especially racist fandom.
When William vomited all on the stage that was as Iconic as his disqualification
Miss mojo stopped watching the show I’m 2016 😂😂😂
I love the dedication that the producers put in order to secure the integrity of the show
That’s really a LOT for them to do but also the easiness of being able to make anything up the way they want to. And there’s AI on the rise now, so I think things can get way filthier… who knows
i feel there's been a rendition of the same exact "10 truths" made like at least 10 times on youtube probably all by MsMojo lmao 😭
😂😂😂
Any real drag race fan already knows everything mentioned. It changes nothing, at least for me. All reality competition show is manipulated. I'm sure if you spoke with people from Survivor, Amazing Race, Big Brother, etc. You would hear the exact same complaints. It goes with the territory.
exactly
Exactly, especially with the whole Isolation thing. Like I remember watching something about The Challenge and they said a similar thing about how they aren’t allowed to have their cell phones and what not
Oh no! Me and probably millions were born in the valley. Does that mean we have a Charles Manson connection too? 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ dumb. 😂
I dont think ru forgetting queens names is shady, i think her brain is fried from the fun she had in the 80s
The fans treatment of Tyra and WOW’s deliberate acceptance and subsequent feeding into it was dark and shady
okok. now i understand why many dont know the lyrics to the lip sync. They have 2 days to memorize it
Unless they put you next to another queen in a conjoining room
omg is this really gingers account. pop off queen. idk why theres 0 comments under yours
@@theaitokyo probably cause it's buried in the comments. It took me a good few minutes to come across Ginger's comment
So I mean even the casual DR fan knows a lot of these. The aspect of the fact that it only takes 4 weeks to film a whole season makes a lot of sense when the queens will constantly talk about how much of a pressure cooker the competition is. Also if you read the article from Jan she gives a lot of other production tea like how they are given a buddy to do things like go to the pool and the gym and how they are given a whole list of songs to know in advance but not every song is used. That being said I still live the show and find it very entertaining
It’s a tv show. Regardless of how you feel about the show or the contestants… it’s a tv show. They are making a tv show. The queens know this, they sign up for it. They know what it is and they know how it will boom their careers. Is it right? No. Is it reality tv? Yes.
I never understood keeping them separated. Put them all in a house and keep cameras a small crew with them. Hell, there’s a new project for her.
It really freaked me out knowing how the RPDR studio is located in a land once owned by Charles Manson and his crimes 😰
Manson didn't own anything, he was allowed to live there rent-free along as labor around the ranch was performed. George Spahn bought the property in the 1950s. The site now is a park.
Imma be real, in the case of the former Phi Phi, they wouldnt have been able to "edit" them to be that mean and rude and stuff if they never were mean and rude and stuff
it wasn't Phi Phi's edit-she's is really mean. i was willing to believe no one is as bad as that then i did my own research. just a terror of a human.
Maybe Rupaul is just having a senior moment?
"the show favors certain queens to win." Some merch TM had ordered for AS3 were shirts that said "filler queen." She went ahead and sold them on her website despite the win, though. Double point: that was a crazy season, and it does seem like some queens are treated like filler queens by WoW.
She Definitely didn't deserve that Crown. That was Shangie s time right fully.
I feel like the Jerami edit is a reach. Whether or not producers “exaggerate” your edit, they can’t edit what you don’t give them. 🤷🏽♂️ And it wasn’t just Jerami’s actions on the show but his behavior outside as well!
There isn't a "Saint PhiPhi" edit of AS2. The problem with Jaremi is his examples of "producer meddling" in the series were proven false. He said the favorable critiques given to Alyssa Edwards were really to Detox. They weren't. He's almost certainly not some monster IRL but is also not a reliable source of DR info.
Sherry Pie? I mean, I know it's been discussed to death, but if you're doing a top ten dark moments, I don't think you should avoid it.
Obvi that's a blemish on the franchise but that wasn't a secret. It was highly publicized and the show distanced themselves from her right away.
@@scottdreyer106 True. And they edited the show a LOT. They edited her out so much that even though Sherry Pie made it to the finals, it certainly wasn't obvious why.
i recently watched that season on netflix, can someone tell me what she did? like i saw that little thingy where they wrote she got disqualified and thrown out but i did not find any information why
@@marvinpilgrim9809 Sherry Pie posed as a casting director under a fake name, catfishing several men by promising to get them auditions for roles (or to actually cast them for roles) on Broadway, and would coerce them into filming videos where they partook in sexual acts (like masturbation) or sexually-suggestive fetish videos to send to her, under the reasoning that these would increase their chances of being noticed/cast.
Willam since has said she was sleeping with a member of production lol
Rue Paul is SO GORGEOUS IN DRAG… That smile OMG
01:24 god damn, Sasha Belle looks fine out of drag…
With regard to not remembering names? You think she’d have something to help her. An earpiece?? Also I’m convinced the Jinkxs one was supposed to be a joke
filmed in 4 weeks....so what? I'ts not the Amistad
This is the stupidest list ever. Half of these "dark truths" apply to all reality shows. Every reality show is filmed in a condensed time, contestants are often sequestered, multiple endings are filmed, DUH THE STORY LINES ARE EDITED AND MANIPULATED!
The Dark Truth I wish you'd have talked about is this: How often a contestant wins when it's also their first time ever trying out for the show. If you do the math with that, you'll definitely see the producer manipulation. Violet Chachki, Jinx, Sharon, Raja, Bianca, Bob TDQ, Aquaria-- the list is probably longer. They all got on the show the very first time they auditioned-- and won. This should tell us that production more or less chooses the winner and then selects the rest of the cast around them.
ETA: Alright, so now I see that Violet made an audition tape for season 6, but I need to go watch that whole other video and find out if she really submitted it or not. Because I swear she said Season 7 was her first audition, and that she was too young before. But it's TV, so birthdays and recollections may vary. 😁
Bob and Violet had already auditioned before. Bob auditioned several times.
@@teehee3657 You're right about Bob. But Violet was only ineligible because of her age. So from what I have gathered so far on Reddit (lol), everyone winner on Drag Race who actually won up to and including season 10-- besides Bob-- only auditioned ONE time, legally.
Sasha Velour auditioned twice, yes. But Valentina? First time. Rupaul wanted Valentina FTW. Not saying Sasha isn't a good queen in her way, but the production had set up Valentina. The crown was Valentina's to lose, and... she lost it.
Now, I need to research seasons 11-15.
@@JetPackDino "Everyone up to S10 auditioned only once except Bob. Oh and Sasha" and so? Let's be generous and say every winner S1-S7 and S10 only auditioned once. It also could be a coincidence. It's a little fishy, sure, but not evidence.
This is a dumb title. 😂 "Dark truths"? Filming different endings to avoid spoilers and taking the phones away to avoid spoilers is dark?? "Facts you may not have known about RPDR" would have made better sense
And TBH these things are hardly new, shocking, unknown truths about a lot of reality TV shows/competitions in general.
Jaremi Carey was portrayed exactly as he was.
La something is crazy work😮
Of course mother forgot she was jinxed 😂
Interesting how the secrets of some of the most popular reality shows are similar. The Drag Race secrets sound incredibly like the secrets of America's Next Top Model. The isolation, low-budget food, long filming days and the general disrespect and cruelty of the crew and/or judges to the contestants.
That's just awful, practically being forced to be in drag for 12 hours and then not getting enough food and sleep. That's bad, that's very bad
How is changing the judges panel a dark truth?
ru’s just getting old, sounds like my gram, calling me every name but my own 😂
who is this queen at 3:57?
Alyssa Hunters finale look
Ok I take that back… those last few are pretty alarming
Tape on the doors?? I havent heard of that since grad night😂
The manson link is a stretch!
I mean I can’t even remember what I had for breakfast so I don’t get people who give Ru a hard time for getting the names of queens. Ru has judged hundreds of queens on drag race and its international franchises at this point, of course she’s not going to remember all of their names especially at her age. She clearly remember who they are, she just can’t recall their names on the spot.
I do not buy that the show filmed an entire season in four weeks. That sounds insane and cruel. Also Willam is very provocative, so I take whatever she says with a grain of salt.
I don't like the isolation and the way they're being treated. And ru not remembering names is not surprising. I have a hard time with names and I'm a dance teacher is very hard to remember all of my kids names unless I interact with them frequently.
We all are familiar with the fable, "The Empress has no clothes".
RPDR was an instant success in my world: it was an affirmation of "Get used to Us", the GLBT+ culture is not going away.
Rabid fans would cluster up for viewing parties. I was such a fanatic. And I am proud of it.
But I abide a '3 Strikes Rule': and once RuPaul had his third strike after Season 6, I abandoned his persona and him. I have no justification for taking that long, but I was extending the 3 Strikes. Every offshoot of the DragRace franchise has the stench of the original show tainting hem.
His Project 2005 was a precursor of Project 2025 and just as shady.
I still admire the show: it showcases real consummate entertainers, so I only tune in to the performance portions and skip the RuPaul shenanigans. Win/Win.
The industry is brutal cause Ru dont care about them queens she just care that they make him money
Willam prefers to be referred to as he in and out of Drag. I love when people call him she because it’s exactly what he deserves for intentionally messing up the pronouns of fellow queens lol
If only Nelson could see RuPaul now. Or see what happened with the original club kids and poor Angel.
"It took a while to show people im professional"
(1 week later)
Kicked kut club and imprisoned
I met Willam during Baltimore Pride weekend. Super sweet and someone in the audiance asked a the question if Willam ever considered Ru Paul All star's. Willam responded with a decline, but if you listen to the interview snippet on here, some grounds added up. I'm very happy for Willam, who was the star of that season. Also, an amazing performer and even hanged with the crowd at the back padio of the Baltimore Eagle (was a first for a ru paul star).
Do the challenge dark secrets.
OH please.. I can't remember what colour panties I put on in the morning! Never mind name's 😂
If they don’t say it, it can’t be edited…
Imagine making a whole video of things everybody knows already.
willam's impact 💅
When I read the title I knew that none of these were going to be dark.
How in the world do they manage Queens who have medical implants?? I have surgical implants which are so damn old they set off every metal detector in the world. Do they actually make them get naked to confirm it is *in* - and not *on* - the Queens’ bodies, or do they take it so far as to take them for imaging at a hospital? Or, having a medical implant, does that mean i could swallow a phone or at least a very small camera and tie it to my teeth so i could get by on the surgical implant amd then swallow a small enough phone in a bag?
For context (because I am well aware of how insane this sounds), i was the head clinician in a prison for a lot of😊 years, and this was a common, if incredibly dangerous and stupid, way of sneaking on contraband. It still😮 morbidly obsessed witn the method ans how they set it up and get it out without throwing up EVERYWHERE.
I never understood the whole no phones thing i can understand on a trivia show ect but it literally makes no sense in a drag competition
The world's most famous chifferobe ❤😂😅
The glorication of Eating Disorders. Like the going for lunch with rupaul and its a tic-tac. The way vixen was treated . And the encouragement of fake drama just adds to the gay men are bitchy stereotypes
When people say Hollywood is unfair to so many they are right, but somehow Ru Paul conquered the whole industry on his own, AND while dancing backwards in heels and a full face of makeup and hair four feet high. He is incredibly resilient, talented and had a vision!!
Using Willam as a source💀she's the same girl who openly wants to go back on All Stars, and speaks against the show because it gives her podcast good ratings lol. Not to mention, she spreads numerous lies - such as saying how Drag Race UK Season 3 was filmed in 10 days - which people genuinely believed and the queens themselves had to debunk.
There def is some shadiness from production; but there's a reason why 90% of queens end up enjoying their time on drag race and being willing to go back. There's obviously stressful elements (both financially and competition-wise) but it's TV.
In truth, "you've got shemail!" was meant to be a play on "you've got Email!" (just different enough from America Online's iconic "You've got MAIL" soundbite so they couldn't sue) but yes when said out loud, shemail is a homonym for the trans slur and it cost nothing to leave it behind. She Already Done Had Her's is much better anyway.
#7 It's another reason I'm sure Michelle hates Perez Hilton.
I mean… none of this is really surprising. I mean it is reality tv …
Did a.... Did a 14 year old super fan write the script?
3:20 "JiNkx"🐔🐔🐔
I'd like to know what happened to Santino..
Me too
I stopped watching Drag Race when I understood that it's just another reality show, and that RuPaul doesn't really care about drag beyond how much he can make from it
Lol mama everyone knows this tea