Tyra Banks’ America’s Next Top Model Was Her Personal Squid Games? -

People are discussing how Black contestants were treated on America’s Next Top Model after old clips of feedback from the show’s executive producer and judge Tyra Banks resurfaced.

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Many suggest that Tyra Banks’ America’s Next Top Model was her very own ‘Squid Games.’

Hell is waiting for Tyra https://t.co/jHphOtDvPd
— roland (@s0nic_fly) January 3, 2022

wtf. antm really was tyra's personal squid game. https://t.co/pc4LDcqvhU
— violet (@virgo_XVII) January 3, 2022

No cuz Tyra is a villain fr https://t.co/TRLR07qvGX
— Muted. Argue with yourself. (@___inCANdescent) January 3, 2022

tyra’s never seeing heaven and she k owns this 😭 https://t.co/lCylCjWz6p
— ʟᴏᴛɪᴏɴ (@lotionpt2) January 3, 2022

https://twitter.com/lkstojadinovic/status/1477892272494571520?s=21

ANTM was tyra’s squid games https://t.co/jgaOOvbgUM
— ♕ (@TheDgtalEmpress) January 3, 2022

Banks has been receiving major backlash the last few years everytime someone brings up an old clip from the show. One of America’s Next Top Model contestants revealed that the contestants didn’t make any money from show while Tyra Banks brought in $30 million during a 12-month period as creator and host of the CW competition reality series.

After a tweet about the contestants’ pay went viral, ANTM alum Sarah Hartshorne weighed in, saying, “$40 a day, no residuals, and we had to pay for food.”

“We were not paid a penny for being on the show,” Hartshorne elaborated in an interview with the New York Post. “We were given a $38 daily cash stipend that we had to use to pay for our own food, and they didn’t even give us a microwave to heat the food up.”

Fans of the show were quick to express their outrage over the low pay for contestants, along with comments Banks and other judges made on the show. It’s safe to say this show will most likely not be getting a reboot.