I don’t know The Spiral quite like Master Cherie, but I know generational theory like the back of my hand. My take? If Tiffany is shamed by her Millennial peers as well, then that’s where her lesson will come from. She will have been excluded and outcast and less-than because she didn’t try, as the others did. But if her peers back her up, later and off-camera, against the Unprotective Adult Force (Tyra), she’ll continue to use her stance of powerlessness as her m.o.

These reality and elimination-style shows are interesting to me. GenXers tend to have a world view that there are a few big winners, a few big losers and most everyone else scrapes by. Millennials tend to believe that they are special, and adults are doing everything to give them opportunities to be successful and prestigious. My guess is that Tiffany already got that experience – of being treated as special, even as a loser — just by being on the show and being doted upon by the cameras and crew. That’s my two cents.