Aubry's Confessionals (Kaoh Rong)

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[@isaacturpin1173]

Aubrey arguably played one of the best strategic games we've seen. And on certain seasons, a cutthroat strategic game can win; like Parvati in FvF. However, Kaoh Rong was not one of those seasons and ultimately that was Aubreys biggest flaw. She did not juggle her powerhouse strategic game with her decent social game. Whereas Michelle did a better job evening out her decent strategic game with her powerhouse social game. In the end I think both Michelle and Aubrey were deserving. Haters come at me.

[@isaacturpin1173]

I think they showed her more than people realize. She was fairly prominent, especially post merge. Not sure what you mean about Survivor "focusing on avoiding a bitter jury"

[@isaacturpin1173]

In the end the point I was trying to make was both played a good game, both were deserving, however you do have to take into account the people you put on the jury and how you do it, especially on a season like Kaoh Rong and Michelle did a better job in that aspect.

[@alextween5539]

They want us to believe that strategic moves deserve to win the game

[@a.jdeets5527]

Isaac Turpin Exactly, Michele winning is the perfect ending for Kaoh Rong because it felt like an old school season where social game mattered the most.

[@a.jdeets5527]

Isaac Turpin Aubry is no doubt the better character, but I feel like her arc works better as the tragic runner up while Michele’s arc only makes sense as the winner.

[@jackdean2537]

9:11 honestly the most iconic and relatable quote in survivor

[@jareddunphy6002]

The only reason I think Aubrey was robbed was she was totally final 3 with Tai and Joe but Joe ate too much meat.. that's why..

[@rima7286]

best narrator the shows ever had

[@kylecolasurdo927]

2 of her best allies medically evacuated and miss queen Aubrey still did great

[@kakw05]

Seeing all of her confessionals back to back - wow she really had it out for Julia.

[@nicolebaum3092]

Cause she’s smart. She thought ahead and that’s what makes a good player

[@Zac-oz9lj]

Because Julia was playing both sides and being a mole for the guys..

[@ramibaghdadi1255]

The Julia crossout and then writing Peter is one of the worst moves in the history of the game. Julia and Scot never liked or trusted her after that (and lost their jury vote at that moment) and by extension now Jason. It showed Aubry as completely wishy washy, indecisive, cagey, fake, and untrustworthy. It put the brains in the minority starting the merge and Aubry would have been the merge boot if Neal wasn't evacuated.

[@natebennett6048]

@@ramibaghdadi1255 nah it was a good move

[@zeaferjones1404]

@@Zac-oz9lj Michele was sort of playing both sides but the difference was the dudes pissed her off when they put out the fire. Although the Jason and Scot still voted for her so Michele must have made them feel somewhat on their side.

[@me_when8845]

She has a way with words specifically in Koah Rong that is just so captivating. She’s probably the best narrator in all of survivor for me. Also she has an amazing speaking voice that is so underrated. The inflection is super important.

[@tristanhowse420]

If someone plays an idol things can koah rong

[@aniketp.8596]

LMAO it did- when tai didnt .

[@Snookered4568]

when i first saw aubry have that panic attack with debby helping her i never EVERRR expected her to be at FTC, but her growth throughout the show was so insane and it’s hella dope to see how she went from that to IMO playing one of the best strategic games

[@tommysainttropez]

How the hell did she managed to make it to the FTC? It amazes me She was an early target in the Brains tribe, became the biggest target at the merge after loosing Neal, had to find a way to flush the super idol, had to deal with the unpredictable Debbie, the untrustworthy Julia and 2 bullies, she lost her other closest ally at the F5 and she never had immunity to save herself She even made fire at the F4, damn she must have had a hard time but in the end she almost won

[@aniketp.8596]

It breaks my heart that atter doing ALLLL that . She didnt win . And I dont think anyone ever in this show had this many ups and downs .

[@brycerichardson3687]

Cydney is how. But no one is going to give her credit for it.

[@cameronholmes5590]

@@aniketp.8596 I have nightmares about watching that final vote cause that's my fear with playing Survivor, you play as good of a game as Aubry played and you get 2nd place and it was all for nothing cause she didn't win.

[@cameronholmes5590]

That's why I will always defend Aubry as a great Survivor player, she was an underdog who became an overdog and everything behind the curtain

[@jonathanlee2099]

@@brycerichardson3687 Yup! Cydney is ultimately the reason why the Nick and the Debbie votes happened, and she's also why Michele didn't go when Tai wanted that to happen. She never gets the credit she deserves

[@plentyofmagoes1143]

People argue about who was the most deserving winner in this season, which is fine. However, I think that it kind of overshadows the powerhouse that was that Michelle, Aubrey, and Cydney alliance. I haven't seen that level of social awareness since Micronesia! Cydney was on the losing tribe consistently and was never on the chopping block there and switched up the game and made sure she had the numbers on the girls alliance on top of that. Aubrey worked her way around multiple times she was the target of the majority alliance and used her social skills to bring the game to convince Thai to flip on his alliance. Michelle was willing to drop every loyalty she had and keep all of her options open to move her game forward as she figured out she had to work with Thai towards the end to work against Aubrey after he actively worked against her; she dropped who she perceived as her strongest ally in Julia to establish herself in the alliance. One of my favorite final fours that I have seen in a season.

[@tjweaverling1697]

what I’ve learned from this video: aubry’s favorite catch phrase “I only trust him as far as I can throw him”

[@itacryan]

I would risk my life to hop in the DeLorean and change the history just so she can win. That’s how much I care for her.

[@jules86482]

"I'm a thinker, I get stuck in my own head" that's why I love Aubry, she's an INTP ;)

[@eagerturtle4791]

I still like her even though I'm an ISFP ☺

[@jules86482]

It's ok :) we're open minded ! Thank you for the video by the way ;)

[@TheTwilightShadow69]

yeah, I think she makes more sense as an INTP than an INTJ

[@waynetrought5825]

Aubry is a very great strategic player and i felt she played a great game

[@jpbproductions3872]

Wow Aubry got so much more confessionals this season than game changers. I am glad she is coming back for season 38

[@nanossquad1706]

not her fault since most people just didnt want to work with here and when she had allies, they would be taken out. She struggled getting a fitting, Had malcolm, but Sandra didnt want to team with her. tried teaming with Jt and then lost andrea

[@cameronholmes5590]

She got a horrible edit in Game Changers and if in reality from a video I saw she had 35 total instead of the 20 we saw in the season

[@MrAitraining]

Loved her. My fav that season.

[@alexisalonso7714]

Aubry would’ve had my vote, she deserved to win

[@tommymcphee3777]

6:30 one of the best confessionals ever

[@doritos7189]

Aubry got screwed twice by med evacs and still got to where she was...she was very strategic but the kind of jury this kaoh rong had is very naive

[@colleenkyle7741]

I'm so mad she didn't win wtf

[@cameronholmes5590]

I still have nightmares about the final vote of this season

[@ramibaghdadi1255]

it's just a reality tv show, no point of getting bitter at the result. The result will never change, Michele Fitzgerald will always be the winner of KR for al of eternity. The way I look at is this, if God wants an individual to win the game then they will, if he doesn't then they won't. If one believes in the metaphysical (like Coach) then God didn't want Aubry to win.

[@cameronholmes5590]

@@ramibaghdadi1255 Alright we get it

[@jess5091]

I love Aubrey - I connected with her so much and even though I think she deserved the win it makes it easier for me when I feel I don’t get the win. Sometimes life isn’t fair. Ps love Michelle too. She kissed a lot of ass to get that win and winning people in real life is key.

[@cameronholmes5590]

Fear based game? That's laughable. Aubry got rid of Scot, Jason, and Julia because they were threats, it's part of the game

[@jonathanlee2099]

I love Aubry's journey, but from a storytelling perspective I do like that she lost the jury vote because as a result we got a more complex look at her journey and the bumps in the road. Same with Tai actually. It make Kaoh Rong a far better season than it would have been if she and Tai were just the heroes with no other complexities to it

[@jonathanlee2099]

The only thing is that I wish her vote cross out was explored by the show more as her game ending mistake because ultimately three of the five jury votes that she didn't get can be boiled down to that moment which ultimately was her downfall. And yet, she almost maneuvered her way to a winning combination anyway until Joe ate too much meat at the reward. It's a tragic downfall and why Aubry's story on paper is one of my favorite ones ever in Survivor

[@sakhilegumede3161]

Survivor Kaoh Rong was a great season but it often gets overlooked because of its bitter jury and its not so great ending. Aubry deserved to win S32 and nothing will ever convince me otherwise. I can’t believe we were denied the opportunity of seeing her in Winners At War, which I think would have had a different outcome with Aubry there. Let us not forget that Tony targeted Aubry early in S34 based on her great gameplay from S32. If Aubry can get a good player like Tony that paranoid and worried, it honestly means her S32 gameplay was one of the best ever!💯

[@goldenapplereviews9135]

If Joe didn’t get evacuated Aubrey would have won.

[@ThorHC11]

Second best final 3 ever for my money when you consider all 3 finalists. Tai was definitely always a 0 vote finalist against Aubry and Michele but I feel like he had winner equity with the right F3 opponents.

[@bangaliekanu5852]

Massive difference between Game Changers in screen time lol.

[@ElectrikkPaperClipxx]

The way she talks about Julia seems personal.

[@isaacturpin1173]

ElectrikkPaperClipxx That's what I thought as well

[@ElectrikkPaperClipxx]

Isaac Turpin I could be wrong, but they don’t seem to get along. Julia and Michele were close as well. Yet people wonder why Michele got, for example, Julia’s vote.

[@a.jdeets5527]

ElectrikkPaperClipxx I always saw her dislike for Julia foreshadowing to her losing because she didn’t have good relationships with half the jury,

[@clovesevina9763]

Julia was a complete fake player she was playing both sides & not only that she willingly chose to go into the minority w/ shitty ppl like Scot

[@tylercross2323]

@@clovesevina9763 I liked scot

[@LockhartX99]

I think the biggest flaw in Aubry's game that I feel like isn't talked about enough is her failing to realize that Michele was closer to Cydney than she was. Aubry also failed to realize that Cydney was a major threat to win the game until F5, I wholeheartedly believe that Cydney had every intention of turning on Aubry at either F5 or F4 but she was also in a very good spot where everyone most likely wanted to take her to the end (and like she said kept her options open) I don't know, this speaks volumes about Aubry's social gameplay. Even so that Cydney truthfully outperformed her in that aspect too.

[@yourlocalramen1660]

I actually disagree. Michele was going to be cut by Aubry at Final 5, as she had planned. That Final 4 reward challenge that Aubry won was originally intended to be the Final 5 immunity challenge had Joe not been pulled from the game due to eating too much steak (Wow, Heatstroke, Infection and Steak; the 3 killers of Kaoh Rong lol). Regardless, had she won that challenge, Michele likely goes home in 5th place 4-1, as Joe and Tai almost 100% vote for her. From what we saw as well, the Final 4 immunity challenge was neck and neck between Michele and Tai until she bliltzed through it at the end and won narrowly, but in this other time, Tai ends up winning immunity. Recognizing the threat that Cydney is, Aubry 100% votes for Cydney, with Cydney's only real shot being Firemaking against Aubry, which we know how that turned out in our timeline. Juror removal, as garbage of a twist as it was, was always staying in the game, thus meaning that Aubry likely wins that between her, Tai and Joe, as she was shown to be the closest behind Michele in that challenge. Regardless, whether Aubry, Tai or Joe win that challenge, Scot likely gets voted off the jury. My guesses on how the jury votes then go like this (disregarding Scot because he's 100% toast with juror removal) Neal: Aubry Nick: Aubry Debbie: Joe Scot: (REMOVED) Julia: Either Joe or Aubry Jason: Joe Michele: Aubry Cydney: Aubry Aubry wins either 4-3 or 5-2. Joe's medical evacuation totally wrecked her chances.

[@izak2411]

Parvati heroes vs villains please

[@newyyykkll]

she looks so italian

[@aaronhughes6029]

In my top 5 Favorite Contestants of All time

[@niftynugget5395]

8:22 more like a Butterfly Effect.

[@crapolaist]

Can you make a video of Amanda in all 3 of her seasons? There are ZERO Amanda videos...

[@eagerturtle4791]

crapolaist Will do that soon ☺ I was in the middle of doing a Parvati one though!

[@drewveflin2842]

amanda is a lil boring

[@crapolaist]

@@drewveflin2842 no, they gave her 3 solely strategic edits

[@drewveflin2842]

@@crapolaist we talking about the same person?

[@crapolaist]

@@drewveflin2842 you just said she was boring... that's because they showed ZERO character development/personality in all 3 seasons. she was solely portrayed as a strategist. How are you finding something to rebut against?

[@Gametoon05]

Who else came here just to find "robbed" comments.

[@izak2411]

aubry foi muito forte perante tudo que passou aaaaaaaaaaa julia foi a única coisa ruim do seu jogo, manipulou o júri como Courtney em hvsv

[@chrisgatti9626]

Aubry taking joe and Cydney on the reward was her downfall and it wasn’t even a smart move. This has nothing to do with joe eating too much but if she leaves joe with tai or Michelle then nothing happens and the tai Michelle thing never gets started. Aubry should have won this game hands down

[@eagerturtle4791]

I don't really think the Tai and Michele thing was actually going to come to anything, because Tai seemed pretty loyal to Aubry (at least in Kaoh Rong he was until he saw how much Aubry was manipulating him throughout the game). It seemed like Aubry had a solid final three with Joe and Tai and should have been able to go to the end with them if Joe didn't have to leave. On the other hand though, Michele did win the last two challenges (which likely would have been the final five immunity challenge and the final four immunity challenge), so Michele probably gets to the end anyway. At final four with Joe, Tai, and Aubry as potential targets in that scenario, I think it's very likely that Aubry gets voted out in 4th. I guess we'll never know though...

[@tristanhowse1924]

Chris Gatti bitch are you serious? Joe took them he won the damm challenge and that’s not her downfall because she didn’t win it

[@itacryan]

I’m still a little curious about why she was a game changer.

[@superwhofancestlavie3664]

Some says because of her losing the game , FTC format has changed

[@cameronholmes5590]

She got Tai to flip on Scot and Jason that's a huge game changing move

[@yourlocalramen1660]

@@superwhofancestlavie3664 I'm pretty sure this was because of Wentworth, then Aubry, then David all back to back to back.

[@edgardoignacio7232]

7:16

[@karlos_infamous]

damnnn i watched kaoh rong final tribal council 3 times and i don't understand why Debbie, Jason and Scot didn't vote for Aubry and instead voted for Michele as the winner!!! Aubry played a brilliant game strategically eliminating players who were in her way without being an ass towards them, she was never arrogant and she overcame huge odds when her alliances got medevac. i really felt she deserved to win over michele....

[@theluisperez]

Scot and Joe's vote went to Michele I think because: - Aubry failed to connect with them and ended up sinking their games - Tai burned bridges with the two To them it feels like they saw Michele's game as a balanced one and probably since Michele connects better with them whether they ever did or not. Not so sure about Debbie. This season kind of is a like an old school season in new school era where the social aspect can win you the game.

[@karlos_infamous]

@@theluisperez yup, thanks for the info. i have just finished watching winners at war and Michele proved that her social game is indeed her strength. ironically, i just realized that Michele deserved to win Kaoh Rong after watching her performance in Winners at war 😅

[@theluisperez]

@@karlos_infamous Yup and considering she was safe the pre-merge it allowed her to o most likely form those crucial relationships. Realized that when she was on blue tribe tribe switch she was with Jason and Debbie, two of her voters

[@noobnoobington3310]

Just because someone plays well one season doesn’t make their win more impressive what do people not get? Seriously, I know it’s an age old debate but come on. Michele didn’t do anything in Winners at War and Yul was correct when he talked about her being a goat/ 0 vote finalist. I think Stephen Fishbach puts it best: “The only requirement for you winning is you winning. It doesn’t make you the most physical, strategic or socially adept person out there, it just means a set of circumstances happened in a way that gave you a victory.” That’s exactly what Kaôh Rong was: a set of circumstances that made Michele win over Aubry. And it DEFINITELY had NOTHING to do with Scot, Jason and Debbie being bitter, no, not at all. So ridiculous it’s a shame Aubry lost

[@cameronholmes5590]

I give Michelle the respect but Aubry deserved to win as much as her. Aubry gets thrown to the wayside now after winners at war because everyone is obnoxious about Michelle. I heard Jason even say at Ponderosa that he was gonna vote for Aubry

[@coopxrr793]

I LOVE Aubry but tbh I found her strategic play in Game Changers to be quite boring. Could've just been the fault of not giving her enough screen time.

[@edgardoignacio7232]

Neal should play again

[@miosnikzycia2913]

I counted 61 total. How close was I?

[@Matt-uv9lr]

Miłośnik Życia she had 70 confessional, but you were very close!!

[@ElectrikkPaperClipxx]

Here comes the hatred towards innocent Michele :(

[@eagerturtle4791]

The fact that Aubry recognized in confessionals that Michele is the biggest jury threat, and yet somehow Michele got to the end, shows that both Aubry and Michele were good players. Maybe I should make a Michele video too (although Aubry gave better confessionals than Michele).

[@ElectrikkPaperClipxx]

Eager Turtle that would be great :D she might get hate there too tho :(

[@Sam-uj1ri]

Eager Turtle True, but Michelle would really be nice as well.

[@a.jdeets5527]

Eager Turtle She also had the chance to get rid of Michele in the final 6, but got rid of an obvious goat in Jason. That’s where she lost the game, keeping Michele did not benefit her in anyway.

[@aniketp.8596]

@@a.jdeets5527 jason had a super Amazing story .

[@timolee]

8:42 aubry in every season she has played she constantly makes the bad decision and she has no backbone when she wants someone out she doesn't get them out instead she lets other people decide what is going to happen many times she let tai make a choice for her and she wanted to keep liz but get rid of peter but debbie wanted liz so aubry did what debbie wanted and then she wanted to keep peter but instead of using peter's friendship with julia she let julia get in with tai and jason and then had to flip and vote peter out. she just kept messing up and michele kept doing the right thing.

[@MrCarl760]

This comment is so incorrect lol Aubry was probably the most adaptable player in Kaoh Rong. The people that ruled with an iron fist, like how you said Aubry should play, all got taken out for that. Debbie never folded for anyone and thats the reason she went home, Nick, Jason, and Scot were very abrasive in their game demanding people side with them which is why they went home, Julia made it very obvious she rode the middle because she wanted to be in charge of the game and so she went home. Aubry and Cydney were the only people able to ride the waves of the game and stay in charge the entire time by convincing other people they were in charge when really, Aubry and Cydney were in charge the entire time. In Survivor you have to adapt to the people around you and this cast had multiple big personalities that were not going to step down to anyone: Nick, Jason, Scot, Debbie, Peter, Liz, Julia. Aubry and Cydney were able to convince people to do what they wanted without coming off too domineering, they made the big personalities believe they were in control when they werent. If Aubry and Cydney ever stepped out in front and revealed they were in control, if they ever tried to force people to do anything like you say they shouldve, they would have been voted out. Cydney was one vote away from going home the night Debbie went, Aubry was one vote away from being idoled out the night Scot went, they both survived this because they knew how to get on peoples good side and win them over without commanding them to submit to their will. Thats how Survivor works. If you think Survivor is about giving orders and taking orders then you havent been watching the show for that long. If anyone thinks youre in control, they take you out, Aubry and Cydney werent taken out until final 4.

[@timolee]

@@MrCarl760 I'm not reading your entire essay just from the start i can tell youre an emotional stan. I'll only address the first few lines I bothered to sit through. I never said aubry wasnt adaptable I said she was a pushover. adapting to things is one thing. allowing things that are bad for your game to happen whle knowing they are bad for your game is another. you can get your way without being a dictator. making the wrong moves and the wrong time doesn't make her adaptable. constantly scrambling because you make a bad move the cycle before isn't good game stan.

[@yourlocalramen1660]

Okay let’s break this down 💀 “Aubry has no backbone” This is absolutely incorrect, as Aubry spearheaded all votes post-merge. On top of this, your claims regarding Liz is ridiculous because Aubry had no choice due to being the target l, thus meaning that she had to go along with the majority. Also this argument is so hypocritical when Michele literally had to do the same thing multiple times throughout the post-merge (Nick’s vote of, Scot’s Blindside and most glaringly Julia) All of those votes were as a result of AUBRY executing them. Aubry, let me remind you, had a 100% voting record throughout the ENTIRETY of Kaoh Rong, so this is just an incorrect statement in its entirety. “Michele did everything right.” Michele did one thing right, and this is why she deserved to win; she played off of a bitter jury. You cannot argue with that, it’s clear, it’s present and it’s a reality of the game. I’m not disputing Michele’s win here, I’m just saying that that’s the one major thing she did right to win. Other than that, I’m not even going to address the strategic game on her part, as she had the 2nd worst voting record of any winner (Bob is #1) only voting the correct person out 2/3 times. Her “social game” consisted of her being nice to the jury and them simply liking her more, not a bad idea. However, again this was just enough to win, so I applaud her for that. I love Michele but you “emotional stans” are ridiculous now because you think that her WAW game proved that she deserved to win KR. It didn’t prove anything about her original game, it proved her as a player, there’s a significant difference. I love Michele as a character and I think she proved herself as a shrewd player on WAW, but I’d be remiss if I reminded you that she beats maybe Ben in a FTC and that’s it. In terms of a career percentage, she has the worst voting record of anyone on WAW at 63%. To put that in perspective, the next lowest is Amber with about 77%. Overall, Michele deserved her win, I personally would’ve voted for Aubry based on WHAT WE SAW ON TV. I was not there, I’m not disregarding the jury’s decision and I respect the integrity of the game. Michele did what she needed to do to win, I applaud her for that and therefore she deserved to win.

[@timolee]

@@yourlocalramen1660 girl this essay over a three year old comment shut up and go outside