A “Big Brother” evictee, the “Bachelorette” herself and a regretful rapper got TV viewers talking passionately on Twitter over the past week.
TheWrap has partnered with Canvs, a language analytics company that measures emotions around content, for a weekly look at the characters and personalities that have TV viewers the most worked up. The data below covers June 27-July 3 and is drawn from the 10 most emotionally reacted-to broadcast and cable television shows and specials.
On the Thursday edition of “Big Brother,” contestant Jozea Flores, a makeup artist from New Jersey who called himself the house “messiah,” got evicted. In a twist, though, ousted contestants can engage in the CBS show’s new “Battle Back” competitions to attempt to redeem themselves and potentially win in the end. Of the 29,560 specific Emotional Reactions (ERs) surrounding the episode detected by Canvs, 20 percent were about Flores — more than double the ERs prompted by the next nearest contestant, Paulie Calafiore (9 percent). Also, 36 percent of the ERs prompted by Flores fell into the “hate”/”dislike” categories — and of course strong negative viewer reactions can be a helpful thing in reality competitions. But a lot of viewers seem to think that that Flores is fooling himself if he thinks he can “Battle Back.”
I hate Jozea so, so very much. I can not stand his very existence. #bb18
— Kurt Wirth, Ph.D. (@Kurt_Wirth) July 1, 2016
https://twitter.com/sgiardull0/status/748684564067971072
Joelle “JoJo” Fletcher also prompts a lot of griping on Twitter. The June 27 episode of ABC’s “The Bachelorette” (the latest fresh episode thanks to the interruption of the Fourth of July holiday) saw 49,893 specific ERs, of which 6,248 (13 percent) were prompted by JoJo. Of those JoJo-inspired emotions, 29 percent fell into the “love” bucket while 24 percent fell into the “dislike” bucket — a rather perfect reality TV mix.
Cringing at how uncomfortable this non-kiss between JoJo and Wells is… Anyone? #Bachelorette #BachelorNation #BacheloretteMonday
— Marilyn Lintel (@marilynlintel) June 28, 2016
Jojo cries too much & it irks me.
I'll still watch tho. #TheBachelorette ?
— Ashley Galindo (@Ashh_KarDashh) June 28, 2016
Finally, of the 27,117 specific ERs prompted by VH1’s “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” from the same evening, 4,110 (15 percent) were prompted by rapper Waka Flocka — who had some explaining to do…
how could Waka cheat on Tammy??? How??? Do you see how intelligent and mature that woman is? How beautiful she is? what else could he want??
— it’s been dana all along (@possiblydana) June 28, 2016
https://twitter.com/lady_shy/status/747623158837018629
So, of course, Waka later took to Twitter to attempt some explaining…
Sorry for leading women on knowing I’m married #ManUpWaka
— Waka Flocka (WakaFlocka.eth) (@WakaFlocka) July 3, 2016
Owning up to all my faults with wifey #GrownManShit
— Waka Flocka (WakaFlocka.eth) (@WakaFlocka) July 3, 2016
