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Big D: Fucking FINALLY. I'm not kidding when I say that it was a tough call for me between Todrick and Derek F. in terms of determining the worst Big Brother character on this list. Ultimately, I went with Todrick because he played a more active role in creating a toxic house and the season sucked as a result, while Derek was just an asshole, and BB23 still turned out pretty okay. But Big D managed to hit SO many awful buttons with me, and his presence in the BB23 endgame was one of the most infuriating aspects of that season. Early on, he was a big ol' whatever, since the Jokers Team was a chaotic group and he was the bitchy gay guy among them. But he was still part of the Cookout, so he was safe and secure.

Now, I'm not going to badmouth a player JUST for sucking at comps, especially because modern Big Brother has become SO slanted in favor of athletic dudebros, but Derek sucking at comps actually played into his character in a negative way. From a point VERY early in the season, he got the BIGGEST head imaginable about how awesome of a player he was. And because he was perhaps the most misogynistic person in the cast, he got a big head about how awesome he was in comparison to the "useless" women he was aligned with. He shit on Tiffany especially, when she was doing much of the strategic heavy lifting for the Cookout (specifically cutting off her options when she was best positioned within the house, for the betterment of the alliance as a whole), and had the nerve to act like the Cookout was HIS idea. Derek did NOTHING by lay around, nap, and then pop up to talk about how he was some kind of mastermind. He shit on the women of the house SO much that, despite being the biggest slam dunk imaginable, he managed to convince Azah (who had, at that point, won an HoH and beaten Derek in part 2 of the FHOH) that he didn't deserve second place, and she would take Xavier if she won. How fucking awful do you have to be in the final week of the game to convince your allegedly closest ally (who he had to be convinced by Xavier to keep around over Kyland) that you don't deserve to make the final two? But of course, despite being absolutely terrible and useless, Derek was dragged to the end as a goat, and was rewarded with 75k for being a mean, nasty, worthless waste of space all season. It was such a frustrating ending to his story, because there was no real comeuppance. Even he wasn't so delusional to think he deserved to beat Xavier (because Xavier was a man and therefore had value in Derek's eyes), so him getting second is basically like him winning the best reward he possibly could, and that sucked. 140/142