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it's me and welcome back to my channel here we are about a week out from all stars 7
where rupaul crowned queen of all queens Jinkx monsoon and a queen of she's already had herses
raja and we are gathered here today not to mourn the death of rupaul's drag race all stars season
7 but rather to commemorate its life in a data-driven post-mortem exploration of its
reception to do so we'll check the pulse of what the fans thought about all-star seven by digging
through its IMDB reviews and along the way we'll calculate all-star seven's ranked position against
its peers and even dissect the nitty-gritty of how individual episodes rank against the
greater rupaul's drag race episodic library from around the world and you better buckle
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pulling some data from IMDB a media ratings website where users can submit reviews for
content like movies and tv shows out of a possible 10 stars like this and i will acknowledge using
IMDB to measure audience perception of a piece of media is not a perfect way to do that and
we'll talk more about the problems with this data at the end of the video but let's just have fun
with what we do have and that's thousands of user submitted reviews for the show that we all know
and love rupaul's drag race to collect our data today i used a python web scraping script which
works by visiting the pages of IMDB and pulls off those averaged user ratings on an episodic
basis by season and puts them into a cute little spreadsheet and from there i did some gay math to
calculate a number that i'm calling the average episodic rating or AER which is just the average
of the average user ratings for every episode in a given season i calculated this myself for two
reasons IMDB only shows scores in aggregate across a franchise instead of on a per season basis
and their ratings library includes data for things like the meet the queens early seasons clip shows
and reunion episodes which i've removed from this new data set to better standardize the data and
drum roll please ulcer 7's IMDB average episodic rating is currently sitting at a shiny 8.45
legendary legend stars and for context this 8.45 AER is great across the 35 completed seasons of
rupaul's drag race from around the world all star 7 is only beat in this ranking by all stars 2
España 1 and España 2 which have AERs of 8.85 8.57 and 8.53 respectively it's the fourth highest
ranked completed drag race season in the IMDB database and the second highest ranked us-based
season and filling in the rest of our top 10 here we've got us seasons six and five uk seasons two
and one u.s season nine and then all star six which is actually tied for ranking position
number ten with us season four and for further frame of reference because we would not have tops
without bottoms the bottom five of our ranking list includes us season 13 uk versus the world
holland one down under one and holland two in that order with AERs ranging from 6.75 to 5.5 the fact
all star 7 what comprises that 8.45 legendary star rating at the top of the episodic ranking list
in the all-star 7 season we have snatch game with an average user score of 9.8 stars which is not
only a top in this season but an extremely high rating across all 363 episodes in my data set
the 9.8 episodic score is shared only by España 2's talent show and for some more context here
the next highest rated episode in this data set belongs to all stars 2's episode 5 where alyssa
and tatiana lips seem to shut up and drive its user rating by the way is 9.6 stars which i
heavily disagree with it deserves all 10 stars it is my favorite moment in drag race heart story
also 7's best rated episode the snatch game with 9.8 stars was exceptional but the crazy thing
is the legends premiere episode and roast have 9.3 and 9.4 stars respectively and having this
many highly rated episodes in itself is legendary there are only 13 seasons out of our 35 that have
a single episode rated over nine stars and only six other seasons that have more than one episode
rated over nine stars all stars two España two and all stars seven share a three-way tie for
having three episodes rated over nine stars and the crown holder here is España season one with
four episodes rated over nine stars however all three of all star sevens episodes rated over nine
stars crack the top six ranked positions of all episodes and 10 of its 12 episodes appear in the
top one third of our episodic ranking we have the realness of fortune ball at position 38 tied with
the draguation speeches episode then legendary legend looks at position at 50 dance like a drag
queen at position 66 and fairy tale justice at 96. at the bottom of this top third we have total
request live and santa's school for girls sharing a tied position at 116 with a star rating of 8.10
i know what you're thinking what's with all the ties in this episodic ranking list and the actual
reason is because the data scraped from IMDB is rounded to the tenths place which is not a very
live laugh love thing of the IMDB people to do but i suppose it's fine all star seven's two
ugly step children are the lala perusa lip sync smackdown for the crown rated at 7.8 stars which
sits at ranking position 172 but it still means this episode is ranked in the top 50 of all drag
race episodes ever and the worst rate episode from all star 7 according to IMDB is the variety show
which is not only low for this season but also low in comparison with the entire episodic library
it sits at position number 324 tied with down under snatch game and y'all are wrong for that
that's wrong but it is impressive that this season managed to have one of the best and worst rated
episodes across the entire franchise it truly was the best of times and the worst of times
but generally speaking i think the IMDB ratings do a pretty good job of capturing fan sentiment
despite an inability to capture nuance for example the all-star 7 variety show was i think the best
variety show you've ever seen and evaluating this episode through that lens makes this IMDB
user rating really confusing but i think its low IMDB rating reflects the unhappiness fans had with
the twists introduced this episode and someone who did not like the outcome of the top four i
would propose is likely to rate this episode quite low despite the tv or challenge itself actually
being good IMDB ratings being nothing more than a temperature check of fan sentiment though is also
evident in the actual episodic user ratings the variety show received 270 votes of 10 stars and
265 votes for one star the LalaPaRuza episode received 223 votes for 10 stars and 111 for
one star these ratings were basically just fans going onto this website and clicking thumbs up or
thumbs down while a more serious critical rating of rupaul's drag race seasons would consider
much much more than if someone was happy with an outcome it's also worth noting this data does have
some inherent problems users can submit reviews for episodes at any time even if they've not
watched them and submitting a rating is as simple as a click and while sufficient large number of
respondents should solve for problems like this the truth is the sample size for these episodes is
kind of small when compared to the amount of people that actually watch drag race i mentioned
at the beginning of the video that this data set across every season includes almost 130 000
votes but that number starts to seem small when we take a look at the average votes per season
of drag race all star 7 received 10 841 votes across its 12 episodes and the average number of
votes received per episode comes out to about 903 and generally speaking earlier seasons have less
votes overall for example all-stars 1 received 1 317 votes across its 6 episodes averaging 219
per episode and u.s season 7 received 3164 votes averaging about 243 votes across its 13 episodes
in this data set so whether the data is getting more reliable because more people are voting over
time can't really say but interestingly we do see episodic ratings hit higher highs and lower
lows as time moves forward an amount of votes casts increases in addition to there being less
centricity in the data as time moves forward there is also a discernible negative trend line
in it episodic reviews of drag race from around the world are trending slightly more negative a
similar negative trend line is also present in the season-wide AER ratings data when plotted by their
premiere error dates over time and breaking that data out a bit we see regular us drag race seasons
are trending more negatively reviewed while all stars seasons are trending more positively
reviewed combined though us and us-based all-star seasons are trending more negatively reviewed
and the international seasons are trending in the positive direction albeit not by a lot
but don't look too deeply for meaning in these trends instead let me know what direction you
think drag race as a franchise is headed in the comments below tell me your favorite and least
favorite seasons and why and finally we'll conclude with the thoughts of my patrons who
make my channel possible i asked them over on patreon.com/bussyqueen which is my members only
website where they get exclusive benefits like early access to my videos and access to exclusive
content to vote on which episode of all-star seven they thought was their favorite and to give me a
star rating for each episode in the season in terms of my patrons favorite episode from the
season there's about a two third majority for the snatch game and in terms of average episodic
rating my patrons were a little harsher than the IMDB users or i should perhaps say more critical
they gave all star 7 an average episodic rating of 7.45 stars and comparing across these two groups
we see their top three episodes are all ranked in the same order but notably my patreon group
ranked the variety extravaganza way higher it sits at their rank position number four while if you'll
remember it sits at the very bottom of the IMDB ranking but that's all the data i have for you
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