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When The Anonymous Was Only Voting Out Women, Nina Twine Looked to Take Charge
Savvy competition reality player Nina Twine connected the voting dots and looked to make some changes.
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Never take a veteran competition reality player's instincts for controversy lightly.
By the halfway point of the season for USA Network's new competition strategy game The Anonymous, former Australian Survivor: Blood v Water and Australian Survivor: Heroes v Villains contestant Nina Twine was the first player to show the audience that she was seeing a macro view of this high-stakes game.
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A keen observer of her fellow players, Nina was the first to suss out a troubling trend that made her stop, take notice, and then take action: the only people to leave the game thus far were women.
In an exclusive discussion with USA Insider, Nina let us know when she took The Anonymous gameplay control into her own hands.
The Anonymous was only voting women out of the game
As one of the original players from the start of the series, Nina has proved to be a formidable competitor, surviving the social and digital subterfuge that got four of her fellow peers voted out of the game. By the time Robbi Jade Lew, another savvy player, was ousted in Episode 5, "Build. Bluff. Betray," Nina revealed to us that the culling of the players ceased to appear random.
A trend became apparent.
"I do my best, like anyone else, to not pigeonhole myself and not limit myself," Nina said of her gameplay style. "But something that I have personally noticed in a lot of competition games is the first people who go home tend to do things — unaware of them — that sends them home. Whether it's just their personality, like they rub somebody the [wrong] way, or say something strongly, whatever it is. And that's something that I firmly believe, despite exceptions."
However, a negative trend is another thing altogether.
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Nina said from her experience it's really impossible to even notice trends until about the third round of exit votes.
"By maybe the third, you're like, 'OK, I can see this person was a threat. Or, I didn't vibe with this person. So let's be real. I'm okay that they're gone,'" she said of booted players. "But when you get to that third and fourth [vote] here, you're like, 'Hold on, there's a trend going on here.' Once you see that pattern, you need to adapt."
By the time Robbi was out, Nina confirmed there was a woman problem happening with the votes.
Starting with Sydney Dorsey and up through Robbi, Nina realized only women players were leaving their posh house — and that was a problem she knew had to stop. So she brought it into the light.
"I'm thinking, 'I am not a part of something that might be going on here,'" she said of her sobering realization. "There's a lot of women going home. I'm a woman and there's only a few of us left. There's something going on here. I need to figure out what it is. I need to stop it from continuing. I need to bring this to light because it's such an unfortunate thing."
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With the trend out of the bag, Nina and her fellow ladies now wait to see if they made a difference with the next elimination in Episode 6.
"I hope and think nobody is doing it on purpose," she explained. "But it's also one of those conversations that can get a little bit uncomfortable. But if you're a player who's willing to have those uncomfortable conversations, a lot of people are going to be willing to come with you with other uncomfortable things that you can use to your advantage."
Watch all-new episodes of The Anonymous on Mondays at 11 p.m. ET/PT on USA Network.
The Anonymous is available to stream on Peacock.
