【ANTM】-- The Ladder of Model Success

Link: http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/09/10/americas-next-top-model-the-ladder-of-model-%20success/

Title: America's Next Top Model: The Ladder of Model Success

Dates: Sep 10th 2008

Summary: This article comments on the models’ performance in a week. Also, it holds a voting activity to gather readers’ statistics of who readers’ favorite contestant is.


The blogger comments on the contestants with subjective point of view. He is brave to express his own opinion. He writes down his favorite and least favorite contestant. Sometimes he writes down with very agitating and subjective words such as “she is a ridiculous individual. A ridiculous, horrifying, ugly individual.” Besides, I found out that the blogger uses many transition words, such as “however, but, on the other hand…” in his writing, which provides dramatic feeling in reading. In his writing, he also uses some colloquial language, such as “Come on”, trying to shorten the distance with readers.


In the writing, the blogger also gives some information about the order in which the models received their pictures. In the end of the writing, the blogger holds a voting activity, not only gathering readers’ statistics of who readers’ favorite contestant is but also giving reader the chances to interact with the blogger and the content of the blog.


There are 46 comments responded to this article. In their comments, the readers 2, 3, and 4 express their opinion that they want the controversial contestant, a transgendered person, out off the show. These readers even use ironic title to emphasize their point of view, such as “it's titled "America's Next Top Model", not "America's Next Top Female Model".” The interesting part I found out is that some of the readers read the above comments and then retort fiercely as if there were a war of words happened here. Some readers recognize the other’s point of view. They will use “I acknowledge your point…(Comment 10)” as the beginning of the sentence, and then further point out their own different or unique aspects they want to elaborate more. I also found out that some readers will use abbreviation in their comment, such as “BS (comment 13).”