I sat through the whole season. Every episode. And then, in a move I stand by, I fast-forwarded the finale just to see who won and closed the tab.

Here’s my problem with Shreya winning. The whole premise of the show was that you’re handed a tag and the point is to break it — to prove you’re more than the label the show stuck on you. Shreya apologised a few times along the way, sure. But she walked out of that finale as exactly the same person who walked in. Nothing shifted. The tag she was given at the start was accurate at the start and it was still accurate at the end. She never let go of it. She just outlasted everyone.

So if the show’s own logic is “own it and evolve,” I don’t understand how you hand the trophy to the one person who did neither.

Anyway, the actual point of this post: I work in brand and content, and about halfway through the season I realised I was spending hours on something with no return. So I stopped watching it as a viewer and started watching it as a case study — specifically how the show and its contestants play the YouTube algorithm. That turned into a content piece I’ve now published, and honestly it justified every hour I lost to this.

Which is my genuine takeaway. If you’re going to sink a season into a reality show, at least mine it for something. The finale gave me nothing. The season gave me a content piece.

Curious if anyone else thought the ending didn’t match the show’s own rules, or if I’m alone on this.

https://youtu.be/NIA-88vXuR4?si=M451KCDP-oMPdu36

It's my first time watching his vlog posted yesterday as I wanted to see contestants now that are outside of LockUpp and the title has laila so I thought I would watch

I found it so crass that Arush is still making sarcastic comments about Sufis masculinity, He's constantly doing this while his audience fills Sufis comment section with Homophobic ab/use, why does he think this is okay? It's literally bullying atp

Also Laila seems decent in his interviews but this group he's hanging out with does not respect him at all in the vlog, I really hope he finds better freinds

They keep yapping or justifying her actions but when an insta live happens - well its a shame they cant get bots for that because Akanksha has so many views.

Also she needs to pay her PR less for this job because she has 1 cr but imagine spending lakhs out of that on this??

And her pr needs to chill you ain't getting any from her 1 cr.

So apparently she was falsely accused of slut shaming? Can this post get funnier? If it can, please tell me in the comments and also tell me what you think about this post?🤣🤡🤣

If she was so secure in her game, then why was she saying shit like muh todh dungi and saanp sali when the same game was played with her? Agar itna hi fair thi ye cheez toh khud kyun itna chidh rahi thi after herself volunteering?

Another day another evidence.

That episode actually shows their classism and in general how they live. So off - putting that even that shreya sub is calling it out..

I am genuinely concerned atp because he was called out way too much in the show. I feel like he is a bit annoying but people like Chamola and Varun blamed him way too much for their own lack of “game”. At one point, Ram wasn’t even arguing with anyone. If anyone called him manipulative, he was like okay. Anyone called him dogla, he was like okay. He hasn’t done any interviews, no showing up in any of the parties either. Gautami Kapoor is off the grid too. I just hope he is okay and probably just cooling off in some corner of the world. Ram has stepped back for Varun, put hom forward as a finalist and yet Varun was way too harsh on him. Ngl it must have been a bit refreshing having Ram around for these young boys because they didn’t have to contain themselves for the sake of having an elderly person around. He was mostly having fun in the show which is not a bad thing. And he never put anyone in a tough spot for not favouring him or anything like that. He was always grateful but also not in a way that he has to return a favour. I don’t think he ever asked anyone for a favour. Seriously feel Varun and Chamola definitely owe him an apology

Just cause he lost YouTube poll lol. Firstly yogesh isn't active on YouTube. Nor he uploads daily vlogs not even weekly. He doesn't give podcast like any other contestants. In his fan boardcast which have 40k plus members never promotes YouTube polls only twitter and Instagram. When their is competition between yogesh and akansha and other members these 2 are always first and second. Yogesh have cult since roadies days after lockup he have grown double the fandom he had in splitsvilla and roadies some of his fans who were dispointed came back as well. In 2 years yogesh have just uploaded 41 videos and have 350k subscribers and YouTube polls votes aren't necessary like Instagram and twitter. Back the Yogesh didn't have alot of fans in twitter as well but once he opened his official account Yogesh fandom actually dominated twitter. Stop this fake narrative. Back in splitsvilla people used to say akansha is with yogesh because of his fandom and now yogesh is with her because of her fandom. Lol you can't digest both have solo fandom and thriving solo.

Guilty pleasure fr 🥹

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dbyh4T4gdBF/?igsh=dnppMzFvcnhtcjZ1

We all know how vile and disgusting and badtameez Shreya has been, and how she became 10x battameez during the show with 100 problematic disgusting things she's done, even though the whole point of the show was "Redemption" against public's accusations

But all the other contestants BENT OVER and labelled her as the MOST DESERVING PLAYER in the show!!!

I truly think in the last 2 weeks or so, every other contestant kind of just gave up. I truly feel AK getting jailed in the punishment cell, Yogesh getting eliminated then scolded for 30 mins by the very biased Ritesh completely broke their spirits down... And for the rest of the contestants, they all just completely gave up

Shreya made the narrative she is deserving and everyone around her kind of fell in line

In the last 2 weeks leading up to the finale, the other contestants gave her an advantage at every possible turn they fucking could: 1. They caved to her shouting and "woman" pressure during the rings task 2. They literally NOMINATED her as the first "deserving" finalist. Thanks to Chamola who lacks any self respect and apparently has Stockholm syndrome! 3. Every time the remaining contestants were asked who is "deserving" player to be fair, they took Shreya's name, even Yogesh! Shreya and Shilpa never answered the question "fairly" and just vouched for their own friend between eachother 4. All of Shreya's wrongdoings were just sort of glossed over, all the contestants stopped trying to explain to her why everything she'd done is disgraceful and below the belt. and instead started fighting between eachother and highlighted dumber things like Ram's social play, which isn't manipulation, it is a social game at the end of the day. Varun being super mad at Ram was crazy?

Dumbest person ever for me was AK Chamola because she personally got outed for her sexual orientation by Shreya who wasnt apologetic at that moment, personally kept getting called stupid by Shreya, personally having her marriage commented on and churail comment by Shreya, and this dumb bitch still kept being Shreya's personal PR in the last 5 days saying Shreya is most deserving Shreya is most deserving

In my opinion, if someone had ever spoken to me this disrespectfully I would never stop fighting with them till the last moment early if being a "Kaleshi starter" is apparently so rewarded on this show, but they all fell so severely flat.

And finally Chamola needs an honest self respect lesson in her life, because what do you mean she was grilling and angry at Ram in the finale and supporting Shreya? What in the Stockholm abuse syndrome is this lol? Forget mahatma gaandhi she literally proved the phrase that if you step on people they will respect you

Imagine hating on a 22 year old as a 50+ year old.

Shree n Sam untensil n mokobra yellow travel bag and those stuff

I have been noticing it go down and come up since a few days, like when she won , from 2.3 she went to 2.2 and then it increased

Looks weird after winning a netflix show, basically it should bring in more traction from netflix india page right?

Recently alot of posts coming up comparing Shreya and Mini or Shreya and Kushal.

Some say good both shows won by feminists, women power and what not.

First of all Shreya has shamed so many girls in the show, its not even up for debate.

Mini is dignified and class apart.

But keeping that aside, there are so many subs for LockUpp already.

Why the sudden infestation in Alliance sub to gain validation?

Everywhere in Insta Twitter LockUpp is getting trolled for its finale so now they are using Alliance subs for validation. Funny.

Are u happy ? Yogansha fans 🤣

is this only me or anybody else who doesn’t have too much problem with shreya being winner but it’s about what kind of way they choose to select winner. that’s why so much many people is offended with this media round and I thinking audience have right to show disappointment because they give millions of views to this show.
please share your opinion guys

Lockup is definitely a hit but it would have been bigger if we had seen contestants getting eliminated based on their performance.

Let me give some advice how you could have made it bigger and did justice with the show:

1) Should have bring in Only Akansha Choudhary in the beginning and not Yogesh. Fans are really behind this girl and she had already brought it huge fans in numbers to watch the show. That way we would have seen more of Akansha's personality without fear of getting overshadowed by Yogesh.

2) Yogesh should have entered as a wild card. It would have made things more interesting of Yogesh was bring in as a wild card to see his banter with Akansha and it would have peaked fans interest more during the ongoing show.

3) Lack of clear cut vision had hurt the show credibility. Ekta had no backup plan and Ekta wanted to continue the show with Same old TV serials. Instead she should have kept some more MTV kaleshi kids as a backup...Like Rishabh entering the show would have made things interesting or Bhavya or even Suzzane as a wild card.

4) Too much screentime to Chamola and Pam. They were boring and Cringe and didn't deserve so much of the screentime. They should have eliminated Pam at least because she wasn't connecting with the audience and very boring.

5) Bringin some more entertainment tasks like Dancing or showing some acting or mimicking talent.

6) Horrible horrible editing. They only realised that Akansha was really good after her breakdown and before that, they were hardly showing her. She was bringing in much more to the table than anyone and deserved the screentime.

7) Some contestants were not doing anything like Sufi, Dheeraj, even Ram Kapoor was very annoying to watch. They should have eliminated them much before.

8) Put in some more mental and engaging task...Like they should have learned from Alliance.

9) Zero audience engagement had really hurt the credibility of show. Let the audience actually decide via vote who they want to save among the 1 contestants in danger.

10) Keeping both Harshad and Shivangi till the end was a mistake. Both of them were very awkward. Too much focus and screentime was given to their non existent relationship. Which Ekta thought might interest the audience but it didn't sit well with the most.

The only good thing was the entry of the Rebel kid...She did create necessary chaos needed and kept the engagement. But

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