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During the live finale, Maya refused to follow the script. The vote was running 80% in favor of “Sloane betrays the new students to save herself.” The director screamed through her earpiece: “Say the line, Maya. Say ‘I’m done being the sidekick.’”

In that version, Sloane sits alone on the fountain. She doesn’t laugh. She doesn’t cry. She just says, “I think I’ll go home and read a book.” Then she walks out of frame. xxxbpxxxbp

In other words: if enough fans voted that “Sloane was secretly a bully,” then in the collective memory—on wikis, in reaction videos, in the actors’ own recollections—she always had been. During the live finale, Maya refused to follow the script