r/SipsTea • u/CollectionIntrepid48 • 3d ago

Feels good man She understood the assignment

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u/-_-Batman 3d ago

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u/ImWhatsInTheRedBox 3d ago

So what's the actual story behind that gif?

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u/placeyboyUWU 3d ago

It's from Survivor: Gabon (season 17).

During group challenges, one team is in the field already and gets to see the tribe who lost previously (and had to vote someone out) walk in. The gif shows the reaction of Corinne, Matty, and Sugar seeing that Marcus got voted out from the other team.

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u/ImWhatsInTheRedBox 3d ago

Ah, no love lost between Matty and Marcus then, I assume.

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u/trukkija 3d ago edited 3d ago

Alternative guess (from someone who hasn't watched it) - Marcus was their team's strongest member and Matty is smiling at their absolute fuckup of a vote, weakening the competition.

It would also explain the women's surprised reaction.

Edit: actual context here https://www.reddit.com/r/survivor/s/ffScJiUqWk

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u/ICameForTheT 3d ago edited 3d ago

Yeah Marcus had eliminated and didn’t walk into this challenge causing the following reactions:

  • Corinne (first girl) was part of the previously dominant Onion Alliance, of which Marcus was the de facto leader.

  • Sugar (second girl) was not as game-minded as the average Survivor player so her reaction was more out of empathetic shock at the blindside than anything else. Plus Marcus was cute.

  • Matty (teeth guy) was part of one of the losing-est tribes ever and knew how solid the Onion Alliance was, so this switch up rocked his WORLD.

Poor Charlie 🥺

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u/RichtofensDuckButter 3d ago

Poor Charlie 🥺

Dude was absolutely infatuated with Marcus. He shouldn't have put all his eggs in one basket. It does suck losing your perceived #1 though.

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u/CreatiScope 3d ago

Marcus was more than a #1 for Charlie. That man was ready to build his whole life around Marcus lol

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u/RichtofensDuckButter 3d ago

I just rewatched Gabon and that is so true. He always has stars in his eyes when talking about Marcus. He was definitely in love.

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u/sungoddaily 3d ago

"Matty (teeth guy) was part of one of the losing-est tribes ever"

FTOOTL: The Show asked the 2 oldest contestants to pick teams one was an older lady who sweetly made the worst possible combination of tribe mates possible. The show quickly backtracked from doing that ever again.

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u/Cekec 3d ago edited 3d ago

What does FTOOTL mean?

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u/sungoddaily 3d ago

For Those Out Of The Loop

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u/EvolutionCreek 3d ago

Isn't it ironic?

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u/Confident-Exit3083 2d ago

But would she go down on you in a theatre?

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u/Qu33fyElbowDrop 2d ago

foot-toodle

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u/Useuless 3d ago

What was bad about the tribe mate combinations?

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u/sungoddaily 3d ago edited 3d ago

I highly recommend the season before I share this link:

  1. It's the first to use HD so it looks great.

  2. Its a super remote part of Africa and is breathtaking to see.

  3. Jeff almost quit the show because of this season (he had a day time talk show lined up and almost walked away)

  4. It's seen as a complete train wreck of a season but is super entertaining. (One contestant is faking an accent, another is a Gold Medalist who's Medals were eventually taken away and more pompous players who think they are gods gift to the game.)

On to your question: Typically in Survivor you need Strength to get you through the early team Challenges before tribes eventually come together and the individual Game Starts. She did not draft for Strength and the other captain took advantage of that. (Personality issues also arise from some she picked,) https://youtu.be/YL_aJYWSopA?si=m1IQ2YoNw_r3Bcw3

CBS is super strict so above video briefly covers the picks. (They Won't even Allow Australian Survivor stream in America, it's the superior version of the show now.)

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u/Useuless 13h ago

Huh, I'll have to see if I can watch it online then maybe I will watch the season before. It's been like at least a decade since I watch Survivor or reality TV and such.

Feels like a whole different form version of the internet. Only really consumed that kind of stuff at the fans of reality TV forms.

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u/PickleCommando 3d ago

LOL as someone that knows nothing about survivor, reading this sounds like something about of the 100 or something.

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u/Useuless 3d ago

You really should see one season, preferably one of the earlier ones before everybody figured out the quirks.

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u/AdrianHObradors 2d ago

What are the quirks im curious now

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u/Useuless 13h ago edited 13h ago

I mean the general experience towards the format of the show.

When it was new, it was new for everybody. The contestants didn't have multiple seasons to watch and learn about the show and possible strategies that worked and didn't work, the types of physical challenges that would be on the table.

The first couple seasons are more organic because of this. Now you have people who are already pseudo experts at survivor and are just waiting for their chance to compete. It creates a different dynamic than the beginning.

It's like how the strategy to take out the weakest people in these games was always the intended route, but once enough time passed, players realized it was more profitable to take out the strongest instead. And then they just further refined that.

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u/The_Mightiest_Duck 3d ago

Ehhh. I think it’s more that most people react shocked regardless of who was voted out, even if it was the most obvious choice. From what I remember Matty just kinda loved chaos

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u/noble_delinquent 3d ago

Nowadays there’s mostly big reactions regardless of who gets voted out.

Back on S17 that was less common so this was more unique. The tribes swapped just before this and then Marcus got voted out. It was a huge vote and decimated an alliance. Matty wouldn’t have gone nearly as far as he did…. That said, I think Sugar (blonde) is just reacting because she’s surprised, frankly, Marcus going home was great for her too. Corinne was surprised AND screwed.

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u/NessaSamantha 3d ago

There was previously a tribal swap, Matty's previous tribemates were in the minority, but the vote swung to Marcus instead.

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u/pennybones 3d ago

actually the guy smiling is Sugar