Originally Posted by
JT Effect:
“He's a young, good-looking, straight male.
He models for a living, has a gorgeous child and an apparently good relationship with the child's mother. He's had 300 women willing to sleep with him and seemed popular in the house (apart from Evelyn catching on to his contradictions 
)
So what exactly does he feel the need to be 'accepted' about? He's what most of society would class as privileged and blessed, surely?
It's not like he's struggling with a socially awkward disability like Tourettes, he wasn't born in the wrong body, he's not gay (or bi) growing up in a community which accepts that easily, he's not ugly or overweight.
The fact that he's using the word 'acceptance' (a lot!) comes across as very disingenuous - but that's Jackson to a tee!”
Absolutely. Every series people like to think they can 'suss out' gameplayers, and almost always go for the soft targets. Usually people who just get name-called it the most, or housemates who literally tell you that they want to do well and get to the final.
People in general tend to not think about what a gameplayer actually is as we have come to understand the meaning of the term.
It's likely to be a housemate who the housemates trust because that would suggest that their gameplaying is working effectively.
The gameplayer is likely to be one who uses the same phrases and platitudes which BB housemates in previous years have used, the person who does a lot for show, who starts spontaneously acting in exaggerated ways then calms down just as quickly, the person who frequently acts out premeditated rants in the diary room, cries at the drop of a hat to tug on your emotional heartstrings, who is a walking self-advertisement of themselves. who talks about their hard life, their journey, that they're doing it for their children, wanting to be accepted. that they've come from being a boy to man.
When you find most of these elements within one housemates, if not all of them, then usually I'd say that you've found your real gameplayer.
But for some reason they always seem to get away with not being called a gameplayer. It's often the case that all it takes is to call somebody else a gameplayer first and they're immediately perceived to be a 'massive' gameplayer.
It's even got to the point when the evidence for somebody being a 'massive' gameplayer can consist of simply not being dramatic enough to not voice their displeasure or annoyance with somebody.
One example of this was the other night when Ryan came into the house and accused Jason of being a gameplayer based on the criteria that he '
only told people what he thought about them when it was necessary'.
Yes Ryan. That's actually normal behaviour. That's what most of us are like in the reality of the real world.
I think that this is the sort of 'gameplaying' that every single housemate is guilty of, bar none. If any housemate is nervous about how other housemates see them and is paranoid and edgy, and their behaviour is affected, I think that's understandable if they don't want to get nominated.
But Jackson is a full on gameplaying machine, the cliched 'massive' gameplayer, and for some reason housemates themselves don't even seem to spot them, and neither do large amounts of viewers. Although in Jackson's case Evelyn appeared to, and perhaps Laura too.
Even though they play out the same tired antics and reel out the same old platitudes and phrases as you've seen so many previous housemates use in previous series.
Somehow it has come to the point where housemates providing affected performances which have been cherry-picked from the behaviours of previous housemates which have been seen so many times before are seen as genuine housemates. But housemates who mostly behave in the normal ways that we do in real life are seen as the gameplayers in the house. Now that's strange and screwed up.
You just know that Emma is not going to bring up Jackson being a gameplayer in his interview when he leaves the house don't you? It just isn't going to happen. But a housemates who is seen as a gameplayer just because they've been accused of being one by other housemates will get a grilling over it.
Jackson constantly telling people that 'he's just being him' but elaborating on it with long drawn out self-serving speeches, usually with Andy sat there as a stooge having to listen to the drivel, or Jackson occasionally bringing up how he's in there to be 'accepted' should tell people all they need to know. But for some reason with most people it doesn't.
