Hi hotties it's me [ __ ] and welcome back to my channel and today we'll be looking into the
curious case of Willow Pill’s toaster from her talent show number in the premiere of Drag Race
season 14. Looking at Gia Gunn’s recent tweet which sparked a bit of controversy online from
the Drag Race community and the responses to that tweet, and finally we'll be taking a look at what
Michelle Visage has to say about what some Drag Race fans are calling Drag Race fatigue.
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First up, Willow Pill’s toaster her talent show number has been almost all anyone can
talk about since the season 14 premiere. Ariana Grande included, who commented on
one of Willow Pill's instagram posts with emojis of bread and a bathtub. As a quick refresher,
her talent show number included her lip syncing to Enya’s Only Time while she dumps various
food items into a bathtub that she eventually ended up in. And at the end of this number,
on my first watch, I interpreted the toaster as landing in the bathtub with her, considering you
know the episode had focused on her telling her story about her inner darkness and finding ways
to cope with that through humor, and for those of you still not with me,
if an electric item went into a bathtub that you went in something bad might happen… anyhow
I watched the performance and saw the toaster go into the tub, but I was surprised to find
there was a debate raging online about where it actually ended up. Turns out when you go and look
at the final frame of her performance, you can see the toaster is actually outside the bathtub,
which I think is what left many viewers and then me confused. Was that performance actually
supposed to be dark humor? Poking fun at what would happen if the toaster had gone in? Or was it
all just silly nonsense? And it certainly didn't help the debate when someone tweeted Willow asking
“can you help settle a debate please? Was the toaster in the tub at the end?”
to which she responded “it's up to your artistic interpretation,” so the real tea it seems was
actually at the Roscoe's viewing party uploaded to YouTube. About the performance and the use
of the toaster she said this “I had made a video with some friends in high school like seven years
ago of me throwing [ __ ] in the bathtub to that song, and so I was like I have to bring that to
the stage, and then I was like how can I turn this into a joke because I’m so … and honestly
I pitched the toaster idea to them thinking there was no way they would allow it … I was like oh and
I can just throw a toaster at the end and the lady on the phone was like ‘uh-huh and then?’”
So there you have it. It does seem like she did originally intend for the toaster to go inside
of the tub. I think the easy explanation as to why the toaster did not actually end up inside
the tub – I’m speculating here – was to A) keep the prop safe and B) prevent her from having to
jump into a tub that had a giant toaster in it thus opening her up to getting injured. I would
love to know though when you first watched that performance, where did you see the toaster go?
Now let's move on to Gia Gunn’s latest controversial statements.
The day after the season 14 Drag Race premiere Gia Gunn tweeted this “so happy to see a
trans person on an actual season of Drag Race trans flag emoji the doors that I’ve opened,”
and as a quick reminder, Gia Gunn is a trans woman who originally competed on season six
of Drag Race and later on All Stars four. And we'll break down her statement here in just a
minute but let's go ahead and take a look at the reactions from some of the other queens
in the franchise. Gottmik responded directly to that tweet writing “I love my fake season,”
so which Gia said “let me clarify, trans women.” Kylie Sonique Love responded with a gif of herself
making a sort of like skeptical face, Ariel Versace responded “oof,” and while these next
two tweets from Peppermint and Carmen Carrera were not tweeted directly at Gia in response
to this tweet, these tweets were made that same day just a few hours after Gia’s tweet.
Peppermint wrote “um okay girl hahaha,” and Carmen said there's a trans girl on Drag Race because we
all fought for a trans girl on Drag Race. Some of us were fighting when it wasn't even quote “cool”
yet … but that's not the point,” And then on January 10th, Kornbread from season 14 mentioned
Gia in a tweet response to one of Carrie's tweets celebrating that Carrie and Kornbread
had won the mini and maxie challenges. She wrote “thank you to our lord and savior Gia Christ,”
and then she also tweeted out “waiting for gia to tweet about how she opened the doors for MJ
Rodriguez to win a Golden Globe all because she saw one on the front of a geography book
in middle school,” and for some context there, MJ officially became the first trans woman to
win a Golden Globe for her work on Pose this past weekend, so a super congrats to her.
But point being and jokes aside there have been many trans and non-binary contestants
on the show and Gia’s tweet completely ignored the fact that she wasn't the only queen to help
open doors for carrying corporate's casting, nor was she the first. I mean just from the queens
who we read tweets from in this video so far we have Gottmik who competed on season 13 of Drag
Race as an openly trans man, Peppermint, a trans woman who competed on season 9,
Carmen Carrera, another trans woman who competed on season 3, and Kylie,
a trans woman who originally competed on season 2, came out during the reunion and then later
won All-Star 6 this past year while competing as an openly trans woman, next to Jiggly Caliente,
another openly trans woman from the show. And notably Monica Beverly Hillz came out as a trans
woman on the main stage of Drag Race in season 5. Plus her tweet does completely discount the other
seasons of Drag Race as not being actual seasons of Drag Race I suppose … cause Drag Race Thailand
and Drag Race Holland both have trans women winners: Angele Anang and Vanessa Van Cartier.
And to be clear here the queen's names whose names I’ve mentioned in this section of video
are in no way meant to be interpreted as a full list of queens with transgender identities,
but are simply a jumping off point for this discussion. If you're curious to learn more
about and celebrate the community of queens who have publicly come out as trans, you can
check out the RuPaul's Drag Race fandom wiki which looks like it maintains a pretty up-to-date list.
Anyway after receiving all the backlash from her franchise sisters, Gia Gunn tweeted out
“a friendly reminder why I never talk about that show anymore smiley face,
okay going back to doing trans things dot dot dot,” at the end of the day though I do want to
remind you that most of this is just silly twitter drama and it's not to be taken too seriously. The
better takeaway here I think is to be happy we can celebrate a huge rainbow of representation that
has been showcased across Drag Race both US and international and All Stars alike. Because when
you look into the greater realm of entertainment it is easy to see there are so many steps that
still need to be taken in terms of representation for the trans community. I mean just look at MJ
that we just talked about, being the first trans woman in 2022 to win a Golden Globe.
Next up, Michelle Vissage and Drag Race fatigue. I came across an interesting article published
by Digital Spy containing some interview pieces from Michelle on this topic. Referencing of course
the Drag Race put out like what nine seasons last year across all of its franchises? And
fans were feeling a tad overwhelmed by all of that. On that topic, Visage said “we fought so
long and hard to get queer programming on TV and Drag Race has kind of blazed that trail in
many ways. Not the only ways, I’m not taking all the credit don't get me wrong,” and added “‘it
won't be here forever, nothing's here forever, so we have to enjoy being celebrated right now,
and we should continue. If you don't have time to watch them all, then record them. Watch them
on WOW Presents Plus,’ she said pointing out that all versions of Drag Race are available
on that streaming platform,” and hey isn't it nice to know that using a VPN like SurfShark can
you know take anywhere you want in the world to watch those seasons? Link in description.
And I’ve seen this Drag Race fatigue complained all over the internet in the past year. I mean
I understand it, if you actually were trying to keep up with every single season you often
last year found yourself watching two or three at a time. But I also really love what Michelle
said about there never being enough queer representation, because for so long there was
basically zero. And these international seasons are so important to so many of these countries
outside of the US, because for so long their only mainstream drag representation was
US-based. Now they have their own, and I think that's worth celebrating.
My final thoughts here are that you should enjoy the seasons of Drag Race that you want to enjoy.
No one's holding a loaded lipstick tube to your head making you binge watch every single episode.
And with that I’d love to hear your thoughts on this topic and the two others we discussed
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