Thank you so much for this. The truth is so many of us were avid watchers, barely able to wait for the next episode/season, eating it all up... that was all of ANTM's fans, young and old. Admittedly, some of the judges critiques were unfair, offensive and cringe worthy, just on a human level, a mean spiritedness that made you want to jump in defend the girls from the hurt of it all, but it never stopped the fans frm tuning in for more. The episodes that have found their way in today's spotlight are just moments that made you talk out loud back to the TV for the shear injury of it all. That said, all of those girls signed on to be contestants, and tacitly agreed, as grown women to the terms of the show, more importantly, Tyra repeatedly said, that the judgings were just a snapshot of what the industry is like. She drilled that point in over and over again, and like so many of the girls who became contestants, they were fans first, so they already knew what to expect... they knew. It's pretty hard to litigate an offense when you, on some level were okay with the rules of the game, as so many of the girls were. In Dani's video addressing what happened to her, she infers as much by indicating that she wasn't going to let her gap be the thing that sent her back to Arkansas, she not understood the game, but was playing it, and though some cruddy things may have transpired on the show at the behest of the EPs and Tyra, specifically, many of the girls have gone to have some pretty remarkable careers, others have parlayed their time on the show into some wonderful relationships and have gone to become celebs in their own right, which never would have happened apart from being on Top Model. It put all the girls on the map, whether they were able to use as a springboard or not. I agree with Adrienne, 15 years is a long time ago and that time has already had its moment in the spotlight, it's time to move on and stop feigning anger over this non-issue. Whatever you think of Tyra, she did make it rain for a lot of the girls, and for that, they should still be saying THANK YOU, INMHO.