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Writer's note: My bottom two write-ups for BB23 were written immediately after that season ended so they may have a slightly different tone than the write-ups written now (aka most of them) and reference more specific incidents than other write-ups from seasons that aired earlier in this list's cycle due to the fact that many of them faded from my memory.

That being said...

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108. Kyland Young (Big Brother 23, 4th place) [16/16]
At the beginning of Big Brother 23, I could never have imagined Kyland becoming my most-hated houseguest of the season. He seemed like such a nice guy! And even for most of the season, he just seemed way too sweet to dislike. But once the game came down to the Cookout, Kylands behavior changed dramatically, and it caused me to look back on his actions over the course of the season and made me realize that maybe he wasnt as nice as he seemed.

First, there was his relationship with Sarah Beth, who he knew was in a relationship going into the house because she announced it to everyone in the opening challenge. Kyland just got way too intimate with her, cuddling with her and sharing sweet little back-and-forths that are hard to consider anything but flirting. And thats partially on Sarah Beth as well, but she genuinely believed that she and Kyland were going to the end together, while Kyland knew all along that the Cookout meant they couldnt. Looking back on it, especially after seeing SBs reaction in the jury house (I find it telling that in the jury deliberation segment of the finale, Kyland and SB were seated as far away from each other as possible), it was very scummy and in a way, potentially messing with SBs personal life outside of the house for something that he knew was much less than she believed it was.

But Kylands shadiness didnt end there. Kyland told a lot of lies that he didnt need to tell. This was especially evident with Britini, who he promised wouldnt see the block on what was ultimately her eviction week, despite knowing full well that she was going up. At this point he already knew that Britini was an extremely emotional and fragile person and that making this kind of promise and then blatantly going back on it for seemingly no reason would utterly destroy her. Did something similar to Hannah and Tiffany later in the game, which almost made it seem like he was specifically targeting young and/or emotional women with these lies, which is icky. Furthermore, while lies and manipulation are a huge part of the game, these grandiose lies with people that he had formed such intimate bonds with felt very much like emotional manipulation, which definitely calls his nice guy status into question.

And we still havent gotten to the fact that Kyland helped pave the way for Xaviers already fairly easy win, because his ego wouldnt let him go to the end with anybody else since he felt that the jury would respect the fact that he went to the end with someone better than him despite having several opportunities to take them out (because that has worked for so many people before, right?). And then when this backfired on him spectacularly, in a season where almost everyone, even those who had been duped/hurt/blindsided, left the house with grace, he again got extremely personal with Xavier over a blindside that he had coming to him, even bringing his nephew, who had nothing to do with the game, into the discussion. It was a REALLY disgusting ending to the arc of a guy who I really admired at the beginning of the season.

But even then, after all that, right up until the end of the finale, I was STILL considering not putting him in dead last for BB23, until Julie offered Kyland the opportunity to apologize to Xavier, and his response made Wills apology to Shirin look like someone groveling at her feet begging for forgiveness. Fuck your objective statement, you were bitter and took it way too far to a disgusting degree, and if youre not going to apologize for that over getting blindsided at the end of a game, then Im not going to factor in any meager redeeming qualities you brought to the season.

107. The first female to grace this list