starrynight
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@NinjaTurtles Oh god some of the replies to that post coming up with some conspiracy theory about Scott being abusive to Tessa and Tessa thinking he's going to slap her. Further solidifying my own confusion about what the heck ice dance fans are thinking (or not thinking) half the time.
I don't have a citation for Tessa and Scott saying that, but I can say there were plenty of V/M fans complaining about V/M's losses. Everything from USFSA rigging the judging panel to some sort of collusion between the USA and Russia's judges to ensure D/W and a Russian lady would win (thus dragging Yuna fans into this whole mess). This was the time when I came to hate crazy V/M fans so much.
But, by far, the biggest conspiracy theory the craziest V/M fans spread like wildfire in 2014 was that Marina intentionally sabotaged V/M. The theory was that Marina hated V/M, loved D/W, and had been conspiring against V/M. According to them, this made Marina give V/M worse music than D/W every season between 2010-2014, give them less difficult choreography, and butter up the judges in favor of D/W.
So, I never heard Tessa or Scott ever complain about their programs, but rather I saw their fans go nutsos spreading this conspiracy theory via social media. It wasn't paid much heed by the skaters or skating fans I knew, but to the casual viewers on social media (at least the Canadian ones) it made sense.
A lot of it is how it is interpreted. I remember fans saying that Seasons having 30+ music cut changes by October 2013 meant that Marina was sabotaging them and was incompetent. However, when it was written that Moulin Rouge had roughly the same number of edits, it is interpreted as an immense amount of loving care was taken by the coaches in cutting the music/program.
So it's all a matter of interpretation. I'm sure we'd be hearing very different things if the results at the 2018 Olympics were different.
I'm actually honestly deeply surprised that the North Korean cheer squad is the only P/C conspiracy I've read. Maybe it is written in French somewhere I can't read. I would have thought the costume coming undone would have been perfect conspiracy material.