It's me Bussy and welcome back to my channel today we're going to be sipping and spilling
a little bit of tea so get ready to slap it up first we'll be going over the entire timeline
of the kerfuffle between Carmen Carerra and Venus D. Lite concerning how she addressed the Ukraine
situation just a couple days ago and then we'll be diving into the details of this article that
I saw floating around titled Bianca Del Rio many new drag queens are delusional and lack
talent and finally we'll be checking in with one of this channel's favorites Tamisha Iman
who seems to be making a bit of a comeback let's go ahead and jump right into it first up Carmen
Carerra the backstory here between her and the fight she's currently in with Venus I guess if
you could call it that starts on February 26 when Carmen posted these photos to her
facebook profile and wrote this message hey guys I'm sorry for what's happening in the world you
don't have to like this post but I do want to say that I believe in the power of prayer
this fit just happens to be the same colors of the flag felt like I needed to say that I'm in
support of the people please keep the people of Ukraine in your mind and hearts which if you go
through some of the comments wasn't received particularly well and on the side of criticism
we found Venus D. Lite who actually reposted Carmen's original facebook post on her own
personal instagram and wrote the caption do you even know where the Ukraine is laughing emoji
and in the comments Carmen responded to Venus there writing why are you so obsessed with me
lol and Venus replied to Carmen's reply writing why are you so obsessed with yourself the children
want to know crying laughing emoji that same day one twitter user wrote it's disgusting to see
celebrities like madonna and Carmen Carerra making posts on instagram of themselves dressed half
in in leotard dancing and posing suggestively with captions they are in solidarity or praying
for Ukraine not about you right now and Carmen actually quote tweeted this fans criticism of her
writing hey I just so happened to be half at the same time this is going on with Ukraine and I felt
like I should say something sorry you're hurting hashtag pray for Ukraine and the very next day
Carmen took to facebook once again to seemingly address the situation with a couple of photos of
herself writing this poem from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks love a heart that is pure
does not speak evil a heart that is evil does not speak love a good deed is never lost they
who sow courtesy roops friendship and they who plant kindness gathers love a vibe called blessed
not to be confused with the rap group a tribe called quest and that same day Venus addressed
the garment situation once more in a video posted to instagram and this video is pretty
long so I'm just going to include a few excerpts here which can give you a general idea of how
Venus is feeling about the situation children who have no place to sleep tonight is no way
an opportunity for you to go on a whim and use a photo shoot that you did for a lingerie company
and be like oh well you know this totally matches the theme of the colors of a country
that's being invaded I think you showed your house and you really made a house to yourself
and there are a couple comments on this video but it doesn't seem that Carmen addressed her here
instead Carmen herself made a video which she posted instagram saying this I make my content
for people who love me who follow me and I do it for me I don't do it for you and for your approval
I can empathize and I'm big enough to apologize if I have heard anyone's feelings but all those
nasty rude comments like who raised you let's try practicing having more integrity about the things
that we say when other people make mistakes or do things that we don't like Venus D. Lite did chime
in here though writing girl who raised you twitch as of the time I'm recording this Carmen hasn't
responded and that very same day Carmen also did reiterate the sentiments expressed in that video
on twitter writing asking someone to take accountability does not look like insults
shaming vile comments and or content about the person ever which officially closes the book on
the Carmen Carerra vs Venus D. Lite saga next up Bianca Del Rio I saw this headline floating around
titled Bianca Del Rio many new drag queens are delusional and lack talent as reported by Queerty
on February 28th as it turns out the article as published by Queerty with the spicy headline
is essentially a republishing of pieces of an interview that Bianca Del Rio did on the 25th with
a website called pink news but in the article we also see the interview asked her some interesting
questions like you are one of america's most well-known drag queens would you be a judge
on Drag Race or a host on an international version of the show to which she replies
I would never say no but I have no idea drag is kind of everywhere right now so if I couldn't
contribute to it in a new and exciting way I have no desire to do it I'm happy doing what I'm doing
and then she's asked the follow-up question drag is constantly changing what is the biggest shift
you've seen recently in drag to which Bianca replies I think one of the biggest changes is
the level of delusion there's just such a large amount of delusion and there's no substance you
know I think the lack of talent is something that's quite relevant and kind of annoying
now I think everybody wants to go on Drag Race and assumes that they're going to have fame and
they're going to travel the world and that might happen but there's a huge amount of oversaturation
and their sentiment about oversaturation and drag being overexposed was very topical but the
question of is over exposure or over saturation of drag queens from the Drag Race franchise happening
is a harder question to actually answer but I did find some data on instagram followers for queens
of this season and previous seasons that give us some clues on if this could be happening so
starting with season 14 this chart was posted to reddit right after episode five and we can see the
cornbread here at this point in time have the most instagram followers totaling over 233 000 and deja
sky at the least just over 41 000 and the other metric I think worth noting in this chart is that
at this point in time there were actually eight queens with less than a hundred thousand followers
this chart was posted by a deleted reddit user which tracked the number of instagram followers
for each queen of season 13 as of February 6th which would have been right after episode 6 of
season 13 aired and we can see here immediately that the numbers of followers these queens had is
drastically different there were six queens who at this point in time had more followers
than the highest followed queen from season 14 by episode 5 cornbread and only one queen had
less than 100 000 followers at this point and I also found a follower tracking spreadsheet
posted by reddit user r-a-a-w-x going all the way back to season 10 which shows that after
episode 5 the queen with the highest number of followers aquaria had 443 000 and the queen with
the lowest Kalorie Karbdashian had about 94 000. and at this point in time of season 10 there were
five queens with about as many or more followers than the single most followed queen of season 14
and only two queens from this season had below 100 000 followers at this time and it's pretty easy to
see when you put these three charts side by side that there's a huge difference in the number of
instagram followers these queens of season 14 are getting when compared to previous seasons
but it's also important to note that these couple of charts certainly don't tell the whole story and
the number of instagram followers cannot truly measure oversaturation of the Drag Race queens
in the franchises and as a personal anecdote I'll just say it used to be really easy to follow and
keep up with every queen from the Drag Race franchise because we would only get like 12
13 maybe 14 new queens a year but since season 13 the Drag Race fanbase has been exposed to
so many new queens there's been Canada season 2 Drag Race uk 2 Drag Race uk 3 Drag Race España
Drag Race holland season 2 Drag Race Italia Drag Race Down under and now Drag Race 14. but is it
too much I don't know I'm watching most of them but then again of course it kind of is my job
let me know what you're thinking do you feel like the field of drag is too oversaturated do you
feel like you have too many options when you're picking out drag shows to see and if you do use
instagram to follow the queens from the franchise I would love to hear about your following habits
lots to think about and I'll also ask you one more question here this was a very cursory
and brief overview of the type of data deep dive that I could do on this particular topic but
I didn't want to dive all the way in without fielding your interests so let me know if maybe
you would want to see me do more of this sort of data-driven research about follower numbers trends
and more concerning the queens and finally let's check in with miss Tamisha Iman CEO of the Tamisha
Iman network so you undoubtedly are aware she has sustained a pretty controversial presence online
over the past year since being on Drag Race 13 and in october of 2021 she wrote this on twitter
on a brighter note I will not be attending dragcon but I personally want to thank the amazingly
beautiful people I've met on this journey but it's time for me to get off this ride and move forward
with life the damage has been done both ways and I digress and offered no further explanation to the
fans at that time however her relationship with world of wonder seems to be improving
based on her most recent social media activity on February 23rd she posted a photo of herself with
Elliott with two t's and herself in front of what appears to be some sort of studio gate of world of
wonder on twitter writing thanks and on that same photo posted to instagram she wrote the caption
can't come to la without stopping by headquarters possibly suggesting that her and Elliott could be
working on something with the production company who knows and then at the end of February she
posted a drag con promotional poster to her instagram profile with the caption writing
let me be the first to say originally I was not attending dragcon this year due to the lack of
communication between the franchise and myself after a recent conversation with headquarters
assuring me of my unshakeable position within the organization and the massive support of their
true fans and sisterhood I have decided to be in attendance tam fam see you there which ultimately
is all good news and I think I can speak for many when I say that really we all just want
her to find the success that she deserves and hopefully she'll get continued opportunities
to continue to work with world of wonder and be able to share her story anyways that's all I've
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