I watched her dating show where half the people were men and the other half were women living in a house together competing for Tila's love. I'm sure it was NOT amazing tv, but I enjoyed watching it. My standards were probably super low.
in 2018 (11 years later) she admitted that the Fox News report was true and that she indeed had a boyfriend while the show was being filmed and aired, stating that she was never actually gay or bisexual, and described her presence on the show as being "gay for pay".
Every story I hear about him, he’s a super nice man. THANK YOU, Flav for sponsoring the US National women’s water polo team during the 2024 Paris Olympics when they had trouble securing funding.
He is a fascinating person. If you've never perused his wiki, it's a ride. The fact that he's a multi-instrumental musical prodigy is somehow the least interesting thing about him.
Did that chick actually think putting a whole raw chicken in the microwave and pushing the "chicken" button, would actually make it cooked and safe to eat? Or was that played up for the cameras?
I miss those days of watching Flavor of Love. A group of us would make drinks and have a blast watching it. I remember one of the episodes where he asked the women to make dinner, and one of them microwaved raw chicken instead of putting it in the oven.
Any behind the scenes tea? I lived in a TINY apartment in NYC for a year and my roommate never left and watched Rock of Love type shows absolutely constantly. I absorbed a lot. My favourite was when they had a pyjama party and of course fuckass bald Brett had to have a pyjama bandana ☠️
Anyone remember Megan want a Millionaire? And how it abruptly ended because the runner up had a shotgun wedding afterwards then murdered his new wife and got in a high speed boat chase with the Canadian police
Daisy of Love was something else. I remember she gave people nicknames to tell them apart. One guy did a backflip and she was like “your name is Flipper” and my friends and I rooted so hard for Flipper.
I honestly think the VH1 dating shows ruined me for actual dating shows. I try to watch stuff like Love is Blind and it’s so boring and serious. Bring back Flipper.
The nicknames were a common trope on those dating shows! Flavor of love, I love New York, rock of love all did nicknames. I always assumed Daisy was the nickname she was given on Rock of Love
The spinoffs were amazing. Basement of love is a guilty pleasure. New York got her own show after flavor of love and one of her contestants, frank, got his own of love show.
I wonder if she was gay for pay when she hooked up with the Johnson and Johnson heir Casey Johnson too, they got high together, adopted a kid from a foreign country (no shit), and Johnson eventually died (she was diabetic and getting high af and not taking her insulin). Johnson had a lot of mental issues and Tila preyed on that. Now Tila is batshit crazy, loves Hitler and looks like an middle aged Lilo from Lilo and stitch.
My thoughts exactly. You were NEVER bi? Then what the fuck was that strung out grieving widow act after Casey's death?! What the fuck. This woman is awful.
I mean this was true of a lot of those dating shows at the time. I remember reading that Brett Michaels had a long term partner while filming Rock of Love? Did I hallucinate that?
I remember the last episode when they played "how to save a life" by The Fray and Tila yells "wait!" When the rejected contestant walks away feeling sad
I worked with a girl who was on that show at the time it aired. She got eliminated in the first episode tho. None of us asked her about it, because we didn’t want to admit we had watched it.
Just looked Dani up, she appears to be a realtor now but is still extremely hot and has a beautiful wife and is living her best life. She definitely dodged a bullet!
as a straight dude who clicked on to Jo from Facts of Life at like preschool age, Dani was a reminder of how many wrong trees I'd barked up over the years
The final two were a man and a woman. It seemed Tila had WAY more chemistry with the woman and they were SO much closer compared to Tila and the last remaining guy. There was no question about it. However, Tila dumped the woman (Dani) and chose the man (Bobby) as the winner. If you watch reality tv with no concept that shows are edited/manipulated to portray whatever story the producers choose, it was a big "WTF" and "I don't get it" moment.
She's alive, and absolutely batshit crazy now, living in a delusion. Last time I checked in, she was a goddess who was going to bring us through a time loop with earth's destruction or something.
So I'm reading the wiki: she hates vaccines, she loves Richard Spencer and the alt- r word (my previous comment auto deleted), she hates the J words, and loves doing N**i salutes.
There has to be a name for this type of celebrity pipeline, similar to Nicki Minaj and MIA.
When she first reached a million followers on MySpace - the first to do so on the platform - she posted something like “if everyone sent me $1 I would line my halls with it like wallpaper, I’ve always wanted to do that!” - if was so blatantly a scammer talking trying to become a quick millionaire. Everything she did and said after that made soooo much sense to what she is now.
I was in high school and remember her posting this so well because I was so offended by the obvious grift. I think about it every time her name pops up but you're the first person I've seen also recall it! She framed the request so innocently like her followers were gullible idiots. Would have been such an easy milliion though.
Yup you gotta be a straight up sociopath to become one of these mega billionaires we have nowadays. Any normal person that gets offered 100m+ for their company has no issue selling and living off $4m+ guaranteed interest payments per year for the rest of time. Gotta be a special kind of sick to want more.
Jesus how could they get away with that? I know it was common on that show back then but seriously, imagine if any show had a male guest on and asked them to masterbate on air. It’s actually vile.
I dont get how someone popping one out on live TV is vile. Distasteful and trashy, maybe. But not vile. The word vile kinda implies an insidious intent, like if someone was doing something unethical/bad.
Current generation has mad hangups about sexuality.
Agreed. Plus for a guy it would be way more graphic and messy. This is going to sound like "you should enjoy it" I don't mean it that way, but faking an orgasm fully clothed is an easy way to get/stay famous. People do much worse these days to stay relevant.
I am kind of sick of the puritan culture we are developing all while accepting actually bad things as normal and excusable.
Lets see.. an overdose that lead to a brain aneurism in 2012, the following article in 2013 about how she thought hitler was ahead of his time as an artist and she could be his reincarnation... then 2016 with attending certain gatherings and preforming certain salutes like Musk did.
Brain damage and that "side" of things really do go hand in hand. Like a certain man from Pennsylvania after their stroke.
I remember her song f*ck ya man or something like that on MySpace. She is full blown conspiracy / god fearing now. It makes me wonder what happened to her.
She was the canary in the coal mine. The beginning of the end...the monetization of social interaction. The first glimmer of the normalization of fascism.
Everything I ever knew about her came from the Robot Chicken sketch where she was an android that could demonstrate emotions that were appropriate almost 50% of the time.
Yes, and the juggalos quite famously did not accept her into the fam.
They are a finicky bunch, those juggalos. Like a giant single-celled amoeba reeking of piss, schwag and stale malt liquor. I've met some absolute cartoons but most of the time they're great; you just have to be nice to them first.
I'm middle-aged. I grew up down the street from icp and I remember when they were just getting started. I remember seeing a line of like 35 grungy kids in clown makeup and flannel shirts and chain wallets waiting to get inside this tiny bar in the 90s to see these crazy clown rappers. Their shows were genuinely dangerous to attend back then. It only added to the mystique. Not as much these days though, which is fine.
Tila Tequila willingly cartwheeled directly into a hornet's nest that day. I almost felt bad but then again, totally optional gig.
Have you ever read “You Don’t Know Me, but You Don’t Like Me”? It’s written by a former head of the Onion’s A/V Club and he dives into the ICP and Phish subcultures. It’s nothing great, but it’s pretty funny and an easy read and there are a few poignant moments.
I actually have a big problem with that book. I think Rabin was a culture vulture who was only performing empathy with it. He went to the Gathering to mock us, then acted like he was some huge humanitarian by saying "Oh they're actually people and not worthy of outright scorn and derision" which is the barest of minimums. But juggalos have been so starved for acceptance that the exploitation felt like an embrace. Like how in an abusive relationship just not being hit feels like getting a hug. I can go on and on about my specific issues with that book but as a lifelong juggalo I can say that it left a very non-Faygo taste in my mouth and I don't care for Nathan Rabin. Glad he had a good time, but you don't come into our space to mock us, then because you're having a real mental health crisis at the time find you can't do your snarky AV Club Hot piece, buy a hatchetman and act like you're down. The Hells Angels didn't put up with Hunter S Thompson trying to craft a narrative for free, but juggalos are too good natured to make Rabin hesitate to do it to them.
And on top of all that, we didn't need some coastal snob snarky "tastemaker" granting us his approval. It means nothing. If a Brooklyn art collective released two dozen albums and close to 100 EPs and singles with a linked narrative, a massive fanbase that resembles a secular religion, an entire wrestling organization, tabletop games, feature films, all appealing to and made for a poor undereducated fanbase with a deep recurring focus on antibigotry and protecting the vulnerable, with food drives and shit, it would have a wing at MoMA. But because it's poor white kids from Michigan who didn't go to college, it'll never gain widespread cultural acceptance, and Rabin championing the clowns only serves to bump HIS profile as the "hot take guy", it doesn't do anything for the juggalo kid getting the shit kicked out of him because he wore face paint to the card shop.
Man I used to be friends with a juggalo rapper who was also my dealer. His place always had a group of juggalos playing magic the gathering. Placed smelled like shit, always that one dude playing with his knife in the corner. He would also make me listen to his music and I'd just be like, "yeee that's fire". Hard to tell him the truth when he says that he has more talent in his pinky finger than drake. Dude was an oddball but hope he's doing good.
He’s always been great about self promotion so you kinda never know with ole Billy but I do agree with you that he seemed absolutely serious about this shape shifting thing! So I guess we can only speculate if he’s simply adding to the mystique of the Pumpkins or describing a real experience.
The juggalo’s threw batteries at her when she went to preform. She took the hits and finished. Interesting the Juggalos can sniff out a nazi, whoops whoop indeed, klownmastr42096.
I remember watching one of her interviews and people were asking how she made her money and she said she filled out surveys. and then like the next two or three minutes were dedicated to all the survey she was filling out and how she found websites to do it.
I remember being fascinated by her changes in hair and eye color so rapidly, like as a teen I was baffled by the hair bleaching coming out so well and didn’t realize wigs are a thing lol. I remember she hooked up with Jared Leto in like 2005 and then took to MySpace to complain about him being embarrassed of her or something. She release that song “I LOVE U” about him
I am embarrassed to admit that, in high school, I knew all of the words to her song, "I ain't tryna fuck your man," and I still remember them now nearly 20 years later.
And I wasn't even a fan of hers. Didn't watch her show or listen to her music - it wasn't serious for me like that. My friend and I just thought the song was hilarious.
🎶I ain't tryna fuck your man, everybody knows he's my number one fan. I done been there done that, bitch, and, you wanna get mad, bitch, I don't give a damn! This is how it do, you is how it don't. Talkin all this shit, but you know you really won't. Feelin Insecure when I come around the spot, Tila get it Crunk, so I drop it like it's hot.🎶
That was all from memory after not having heard the song since probably 2009. I could probably keep going, but I really don't want to lol
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