Survivor Twitter Lit Ablaze After That Game Changers Episode 7 Tribal Council

On a topic as sensitive as the one explore in the biggest moment from Survivor Game Changers Episode 7, Survivor Twitter had a field day.

Warning: This post will discuss the events surrounding Survivor Game Changers episode 7, “What Happened on Exile, Stays on Exile.”

Well, it happened. The moment that Jeff Varner was preparing for in advance came to light in Survivor Game Changers episode 7. In a desperate attempt to cling onto any sort of life raft, he threw Zeke Smith off the boat. He outed him as a transgender man in a moment that will go down in Survivor infamy.

Of course, it wasn’t just Jeff Varner, Zeke Smith and the cast of the show that were aware of what happened, as it seemed like many within the Survivor Twitter community were walking on eggshells leading up to the event.

Of course, once tribal council started, Jeff Varner was whipping up the vote, trying to put the pressure off of him and onto Ozzy Lusth. Since he was the biggest threat on Nuku, it only made sense to publicly plead for them to band together and vote him off before the merge occurs.

He didn’t get to make that too convincing an argument, however, before Jeff Varner outed Zeke Smith in front of the unsuspecting tribe, claiming that he was capable of deception because of it. From there on, Survivor Twitter just exploded.

With millions of people watching at home, Survivor Twitter needed to break down the moment in ways that jumped between nuanced, emotional, angry for and supportive against various parties. Most important was solidarity for Zeke Smith.

There was a million ways the “Survivor Game Changers player outs another person on television in front of millions watching at home” story could have gone, but it was portrayed in a way that showed Jeff Varner’s immediate remorse for his unforgettable transgression. Survivor Twitter knew that he messed up bad, but didn’t go in as aggressively as they could have had things gone worse.

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Posted by Coby Archa on Wednesday, April 12, 2017

The most prevalent emotion; utter sadness overall.

The man himself, Zeke Smith, showed brilliance in the face of overwhelming adversity in this episode and continued to show his exemplary character on Twitter, too.

Game Changers returns next week as 13 players make the merge. We’ll see if the fallout boils over in future episodes.