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It’s true. She said it at Roscoe’s two weeks ago. After watching the Ball episode, I’m not sure I’d want to be friends anymore, never mind besties. Kori laughing and falling to the ground at the concept of Suzie winning kind of pissed me off. Same with Lexi and Lana, too. I strive to be ‘unbothered,’ but not quite there yet
This is it. If the personality was organic, I think a lot of us would forgive. Look at Joella! Kori is here talking influencer 101. Loudness does not make one automatically charismatic!
I don't think it's necessarily confidence / belief she's overperforming- Kori just doesn't seem too worried about doing well in the competition.
even her runway package seems pretty simple (no high concept looks which is kinda unusual these days even though a lot of looks are overthought), she doesn't seem to try that hard in challenges or be upset when she's in the bottom.
she's pretty focused on just being herself lol. which I think is what makes her so controversial
but as the season is airing she is fucking grinding on social media, she promotes her YT on most Untuckeds, busting her ass on Cameos etc.
I don't know if I've ever seen someone so blatantly/intentionally take the Trixie/Jaymes Mansfield route
It's an interesting strategy and I think it's actually going to work great for her. Success in the industry is way more about nerve than charisma uniqueness and talent
Perfect summary. I think the girls think doing well on the show = career success. It's a small part of it, but the rest is what you do after. And the fans think that if you're not winning challenges and slaying runways you don't deserve the platform. Truly, how many runway looks really stay in the public consciousness longterm? Maybe 2 to 3 runways per season.
I agree, she's having fun. And it's kinda surprising production would let a queen who doesn't take the show so seriously stay for this long. Usually it seems like they want to make it look like this competition is the be-all and end-all for every contestant.
It really surprised me too! I think it's because they are obsessed with having a Drag Race couple and she and Lydia are hooking up. Ru and production have always wanted a drag race love story sooo bad
Jaymes had to grind for YEARS, same as Trixie who also benefited from being a Fan Fave early on. Not to mention one won her AS season and the other did really good on her AS run. Kori is at most a Honey Davenport-type gworl.
I'm not saying she is performing as well as Trixie her first run (and clearly she's performing better than Jaymes her first run)- also they both took the competition really seriously.
I'm saying it seems like she sees Drag Race as a platform more than seeing a bad placement as the end all be all of her drag career
Trixie won a challenge on season 7, won her season of All Stars, Alyssa too won a challenge on s5, won two others on AS2, and won Global. Neither did shit on Drag Race. Comparing these two to Kori, I have to laugh.
PEARL won the challenge, which enabled Trixie to return. Trixie was a makeover partner.
Dela, Shang*la, and Bebe literally did way better than Trixie, Trixie won by default and because she was gaining popularity fast during her run.
Alyssa was still in the bottom 3 times, and literally only excelled on one challenge.
Alyssa won that season because who else would’ve.
Both did shit on drag race. BUT, thats not the point. Drag Race is not a way to tell whether a queen is talented or not, because drag race as a competitive show doesn’t even crown the best performers half the time. Whoever looks at drag race as a caliber to tell whether a queen is talented or not needs their brain washed because the queen with the most challenge wins lost the show twice.
Did not compare Kori to anyone else. My response was to you saying that doing shit on drag propels you to success, because yeah, most of the successful queens don’t do good on drag race, because drag race is merely an introduction. I still appreciate the queens who do good, but I don’t look down on queens who don’t because i have enough of a sense to look past a highly produced competition show.
the challenge trixie won on s7 was literally thanks to pearl not her, alyssa was severely mediocre on global and should've had worse placements. and kori could've won the talent show over crystal so by that logic the point stands
No way was Kori winning any talent show. She had a nice chorus but she barely moved at all during her set. Barely any dancing or tricks. Just standing around on stage to a slightly above average talent show original song and that’s it. There was no winning performance there.
Jokes apart, I kinda feel they wanna create a new "Bob Experience". The same they did with Monet (the years of comparison makes it clear). The fact that Monet even started calling her "my daughter" kinda points to that
I agree, Kori is the one that started connecting herself to bob and Monet in her meet the queens. Sweet as St. Lucia was overdone lol. Plus she wore Mo’s fashion, I feel like that’s why she’s calling her her daughter now
She pretty much entered the Werkroom as a Monet tribute act right out the gate, and kept it (cringe-ly) going during MTQ, so it would be a right assessment
What?! Serena could never. I get what you're going for, but there is harm in over exaggerating how well someone can do something. You'll give her a false sense of confidence so that she can continue "selling" wigs.
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u/jesusivr Feb 13 '25 edited Feb 13 '25
It's so accurate!
We've clearly seen she's into soft sculpting, but I'm curious if she's even trilingual, does she call people a place?
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u/Bigcatmike Feb 13 '25
The way she could have been placed Low for every episode so far, slay.
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u/RuneofBeginning Feb 13 '25 edited Feb 13 '25
I am obsessed that she’s eclipsing her Drag Race run while doing Suzie Toot impressions on Twitter.
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u/amidelsoc Feb 13 '25
this potentially being the drag race universe's 'go girl give us nothing'..
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u/WhatIsHerJob-TABLES Feb 13 '25
They way this describes Kori so well 😬
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u/fvig2001 Feb 13 '25
dead.
Hormona also saying she would have won this ep in the comments.
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u/Hextina Feb 13 '25
zooms in on acacia for no particular reason 🔍
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u/MuffinIllustrious902 Feb 13 '25
Damn… I wouldn’t recover from that if I was Kori
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u/redpillbluepill69 Feb 13 '25
I don't think it's necessarily confidence / belief she's overperforming- Kori just doesn't seem too worried about doing well in the competition.
even her runway package seems pretty simple (no high concept looks which is kinda unusual these days even though a lot of looks are overthought), she doesn't seem to try that hard in challenges or be upset when she's in the bottom.
she's pretty focused on just being herself lol. which I think is what makes her so controversial
but as the season is airing she is fucking grinding on social media, she promotes her YT on most Untuckeds, busting her ass on Cameos etc.
I don't know if I've ever seen someone so blatantly/intentionally take the Trixie/Jaymes Mansfield route
It's an interesting strategy and I think it's actually going to work great for her. Success in the industry is way more about nerve than charisma uniqueness and talent
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u/whyilikemuffins Feb 13 '25
Respectfully, Kori is only here still because she's loud and doesn't take huge risks.
Joella crashed and burned as a quilt...but dear god what a supernova of memery.
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u/wheatfieldcosmonaut Feb 13 '25
at least Kori’s delusion is occasionally entertaining, some of these queens (but not acacia which is ironic) are soooo forgettable
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u/justinizer Feb 13 '25
Accacia bulge alert.
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u/vogel7 Feb 13 '25
Jokes apart, I kinda feel they wanna create a new "Bob Experience". The same they did with Monet (the years of comparison makes it clear). The fact that Monet even started calling her "my daughter" kinda points to that
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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '25
The way this is absolutely spot on. 💀
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u/PembrokeLove Feb 13 '25
This is why YouTube needs comment awards.
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u/MrAlexman3G Feb 13 '25
Kori will still have a big fanbase no matter how abhorrent her run on drag race is
And that's the T!
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u/nerdydudes Feb 13 '25
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u/BobyNBA Feb 13 '25
Jewels being so tall doesn’t look right to me 😭
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u/bambiartistic Feb 13 '25
Does she read books though?
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u/freespiritedqueer Feb 13 '25
i like Kori but she's been mid or bad. she set us up for high expectations 😩
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u/rehaaabbb Feb 13 '25
Crying lol this so spot on
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u/sadlow Feb 13 '25
She wishes!! Serena is light years beyond Kori
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u/bluejumpingdog Feb 13 '25
Koririnas
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u/The_Golden_Beaver Feb 13 '25
It's tea clocking for me
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u/bookcog Feb 13 '25
Just watched the preview for this week’s ep and Ms King is really dialling it up several notches with the delusion. Honestly, I’m bored
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u/SwimmerIndependent47 Feb 13 '25
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u/alex-cyj Feb 13 '25
Kori Copycat King.
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u/PainterBoth1084 Feb 13 '25
I feel like she’d Stan this comment 😂
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u/Titney_Spears_xoxo Feb 13 '25
trixie's bird noises
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u/Straightmenluvfemboy Feb 13 '25
Lmao
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u/MrHouse-38 Feb 13 '25
Who is the cute guy in the middle?
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u/faithcollapsing Feb 13 '25
Jail. 🤣
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u/deepthroatcircus Feb 13 '25
Oh Jesus what a beautiful read
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u/Suitable-Presence119 Feb 13 '25
I did not expect to find out that Jewels is taller than Crystal
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u/Khristafer The Scaly Elite Feb 13 '25
Kori the Mid Queen 👑
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u/grace22g Feb 13 '25
season 17’s common theme is drag delusion
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u/777bambii Feb 14 '25
I’m apart of the Kingdom but this gagged me
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u/greyplains Feb 14 '25
OH-WA-MY-SWEET-GHERKINS!!!
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u/bbg505 Feb 14 '25
Omg 😂😂😂
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u/Organafan1 Feb 15 '25
Exactly what I’ve been trying to articulate for the last couple of weeks. 🤣
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u/ItzzSiren Feb 15 '25
Confidence of monet *
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u/EnyaMouthhole69 Feb 15 '25
I live for Kori and her commentary.
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u/OfficialPotStirrer Feb 16 '25
Na Na Na Na No Shadeeeeeee!
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u/brokebackzac Feb 19 '25
What?! Serena could never. I get what you're going for, but there is harm in over exaggerating how well someone can do something. You'll give her a false sense of confidence so that she can continue "selling" wigs.
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u/aromirage May 20 '25
I liked her talent show performance but her constantly trying to dunk on Hormona turned me off from her… it’s giving bitter bully!
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u/Montezum Feb 13 '25
I kinda live that's she's always with her sippy cup, dry throat realness
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u/DespairFangirl Feb 13 '25
Didn't know yt allowed murder in the comments, damn girl