Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5598112-20180726182437/@comment-36158916-20180731053817

MegaMan775 wrote: FandumbUs3r wrote: Freshlysqueezed7 wrote: Yah I hated Kayvon. But it is funny that the guest judge was Piers for that episode so Piers could embarass him and call him a brat. Neil or Marlon or Michael probably wouldn't have called him a brat. The arguing and insults between Kayvon and the judges were staged, but that doesn't take away from the fact Kayvon lacked talent. Hans has a better relation with the judges. Kayvon actually wrote an article about what happened when he was on the show: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/kayvon-zand/being-a-freak-on-americas-got-talent_b_7953776.html

I read it and actually felt bad for him until he basically said "THE JUDGES HATED ME BECAUSE I'M QUEER" when that's not the case at all. Even if the show edited what he said to make him look bad, his performance wasn't good. AGT's editors aren't that deceptive, and him asking Mel B if she thinks she's a better singer than him was still way out of line on his part. (That said, I don't agree with AGT putting #ObnoxiousLittleBrat on Twitter and basically causing him to get death threats all over the place).

Anyway, the tl;dr is that Hans is way better lol. Both talent-wise and personality-wise. And him going through completely shatters Kayvon's argument that AGT hates queer people. The judges just want people with talent, which Hans has and Kayvon doesn't (or at the very least, his performance didn't make it look like he did. I've heard some of his music and it's actually not too bad). Yeah I remember reading that and calling it bs but now looking back at how AGT screws people over with their editing isn't too far off from the truth.