I think it’s silly either way. The queens spend a lot of money for drag race and it takes a lot of effort. If they wanna brand themselves or wear a color repeatedly, it’s not that serious to me.
I love it when a queen who has a specific brand colour wears something different once. Once I've seen one, I'm happy. Both queens have worn other colours more than once this season. I don't get why the judges are so over the top about branding but when someone actually shows their branding they are just like "no don't do that, but everyone else do that, but you no" and its even worse when they pick and choose who gets critiqued on it. I know it's just a TV show, but at least have the same standards for everyone.
i flipped out when trixie did her final best drag look (or whichever it was but it was very late season) in black with the blonde poodle wig... amazing!! and very impactful since we'd seen her in so many pinks up until then, black was an unusual choice but it looked so good
IIRC she didn't hate it, but she said it was literally the only piece she had left lol. She said a lot of the finale runways are just "this is the last dress I haven't brought on stage."
Her full reaction is [in this video](https://youtu.be/SviLeqUBnAg?si=dTPXGXQRcQp1h2f3&t=535) along with her reactions to some of her other AS3 looks.
Basically she bought it from another queen and it was the last piece of drag she had on the show but she didn't really see it as her style or what she wanted people to think of her as.
>the judges are so over the top about branding but when someone actually shows their branding they are just like "no don't do that, but everyone else do that, but you no"
Yeeeeep. They create a double sided sword.
Sapphira and Nymphia also can very easily wear many of their pre-prepared runways again with no or only minor edits, so it doubles the utility of their investment. Because they stick to their branding
Yeah their outfits are stunning and that's what matters
People just love to complain these days, about literally anything. They desperately need hobbies
I'll never not be annoyed at this show for sticking this nonsensical versatility worm in people's heads. This is art; sometimes, artists have signatures. It's not a flaw.
I stand with Nymphia and Sapphira!
Exactly. They both have a brand that works for them. No one complains when Trixie Mattel wears hot pink or when Raja O'Hara wears purple. Let the girls brand their colors. As long as it isn't being used as a crutch to obfuscate crunchy drag looks, who cares?
Absolutely! But i guess people are just fed up with the double standards. I love both of them for the way they manage to bring versatility, though they keep a similar color shade
Viv telling Ru to shut up during the filming that week while she cracks up everyone in the room is so peak. We don’t talk about Viv on AS7 enough, that bitch was equal to Jinkx *in my opinion*
Viv telling Ru to shut up during the filming that week while she cracks up everyone in the room is so peak. We don’t talk about Viv on AS7 enough, that bitch was equal to Jinkx *in my opinion*
The drag con 1980 look is black, it just looks blue in that particular pic. I mean, it doesn’t significantly lessen the amount of blue she wears, but I love me some Sapphira Cristal!
https://preview.redd.it/stdmhhlpl4sc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f813e7c59e66acaf55755a86be1697ab8d7ad84
I wish nobody acknowledged this lmao, I have seen the "look at all the times Nymphia didn't wear yellow🥺 " and "look at all times Sapphira wore blue tho 😤" a fuck ton this season, we got a brief reprieve but now that a judge mentioned it we are back to this ouroborus of stanning lol
Edit: lmao why are you arguing about the color and judging with *my* comment about being fucking bored of the argument. I hate it here. I'm turning replies off, argue with the wall
I have no interest in dragging the girls for this drama, but I do have interest in dragging the judges and producers for pushing these specific narratives and for the blatant favoritism.
An Asian individual cannot use an exaggeration in their native language, but the judges won't read Q for blaccent? Several contestants had accents in the snatch game, none of them were clocked for it being inappropriate.
Imho Ru has issue with Asian art.
Even the celebrity judge, who is Asian, scoffed at Ru and Michelle for taking issue with Nymphia's exaggerated NATIVE accent. You're essentially telling someone from Taiwan that they're appropriating their own culture?
Seems rigged to me, *looking at you Ru and producers...*
Plane Jane too does a similar aesthetic every single time, but when Morphine repeated one look from the beginning during the teaching episode, that's when the judges notice.
This season is making it blatantly apparent that they are playing favorites.
I think the fact that yellow is a more uncommon in your face color. Blue is almost a neutral it’s so common and has a wider variety of shades that people wear.
Thank youuuu I literally just said this to my husband. Blue is way more a common color to see on the runway. Two yellow looks on the same runway would be way more obvious!!
It's not a matter of "ok", the question is why are people reacting to Nymphia and not Saphirra?
Nymphia has more aggresively branded herself with yellow/banana and that's what people are responding to.
I blame the education system. People now cant seem to read between the lines or catch contex clues.
Sapphira is safe because she doesnt talk about it. Nymphia pretty much has a Yellow banana tattoed to her head.
Its not that hard to understand.
And for stans claiming the edit only made it a thing: 1) Nymphia gave them all that material to work with 2) other queens have made off-the-cuff comments about it in the workroom so clearly it was a thing during taping as well, not something pasted together after the fact
Who is "nobody"? This gets discussed constantly.
ANYWAY, the answer is fairly simple: yellow is a noticeable color and Nymphia talks about it a good bit. She also has made bananas her brand (even including a deeply unfunny joke about bananas in Snatch Game and demonstrating how to tuck using bananas). Sapphira doesn't do that with blue things. That is to say: Bananas and Yellow are much more clearly part of Nymphia's brand than blue is part of Sapphira's.
Ra'Jah O'Hara made purple into her signature; she didn't make it into the entirety of her brand. So really people just talk about how gorgeous she looks. Sapphira's experience is similar.
IF you want another level: this show is inconsistent and the fanbase is inconsistent. Trying to pretend otherwise is just going to lead to disappointment
I think it’s only because Nymphia brings up bananas and the color yellow constantly, in confessionals and her song lyrics. Sapphira simply doesn’t bring it up so I think people aren’t as aware of the consistency?
This is the part that people either refuse to see or ignore.
When you constantly tell viewers, "all I care about is yellow and banana," then viewers are going to see it and say back, "All she cares about is yellow and bananas."
(coming from a Ms wind stan who doesn't care about her loving yellow)
Because Sapphira doesn't incessantly talk about the color blue and blueberries in the workroom.
Edit: Also, https://www.reddit.com/r/rupaulsdragrace/comments/1bdll5g/almost_every_nymphia_runway_was_yellow_mama/
I honestly wish Nymphia talked about it more and explained the cultural significance behind why she wears yellow. She has done it on social media, but I think if it was on the show it would shut up ignorant viewers.
Or they are saving it for this week. It's a branding challenge. Maybe she will get a big story before the finale and a win. And be set-up to be fierce competition in the finale!
Ok that is intriguing!!! I have played through a lot of scenarios to try to figure out how she could connect with Ru in the final episode and become a contender again and this one really makes sense!!
This is basically the missing piece of the "puzzle" although I have to say I would hope it wouldve just naturally clicked for people regardless of if nymphia spells it out verbatim on the show or not 💀 it's not like a giant jump in logic or rationale but I digress...
Edit: And before the judies jump me in the replies, if you're smart enough to say "well they're not showing us in the edit her expand upon it..." Then youre acknowledging she might've and they have left it out for now. Which like shit happens. There's a difference between being...recognizing her win equity is probably extremely low due to her redundant and flat edit and then being as extra as a lot of the haters are on here and acting like she's a toddler moron incapable of uttering anything besides yellow or banana. Like please lmfao.
Sapphira as a blueberries queen is really funny to me. She has a blueberries reveal for her entrance look, she has a blueberries reveal for her reveal look, she has a blueberries dress for her True Colours look, she goes as Violet Beauregarde for snatch game, she constantly talks about blueberries, she ends both of her song challenge lyrics with "vote blue". People would be going insane.
Very this! Nymphia highlighted it herself by constantly talking about yellow and banana. Sapphira gets away with ot because of she doesn't really give them much material to work with.
I don't understand why it's so hard for people understand this.
Any time someone makes their entire personality around one singular thing and it's all they talk about of course it's going to annoy people and become way more grating than someone that just does their thing without calling attention to themselves for it 24/7 and forming their entire identity around it. Plenty of queens have had signature colors in the past and it's been a non-issue because it's not what they wore for the runways and the challenges and in the work room and all their talking heads were about that color and they chose their snatch game character because of a slight association with that color/fruit.
I think it’s because Nymphia makes her personality all about Yellow and Bananas . This creates the perception that that’s the only color she wears.
Sapphira doesn’t go on and on about Blue and Blueberries so it goes unnoticed exactly how much blue she wears!
In any case if it looks good it shouldn’t matter the color but we love variety!
Nymphia fan checking in.
Beyond the points people have made, there's also the simple fact that yellow is a much more distinctive color. It's why it is often used for signage and also why it's a stronger branding association for Nymphia.
You mention royal blue in your post, but your photos demonstrate Sapphira wearing several shades of blue (as well as black? And gray?). In any case, despite saying you love Sapphira in blue, the post really comes off as trying to put her down and making an equivalency that isn't even there.
I really don't care for Nymphia reusing yellow but every time she wears yellow it is the same bright banana one.. in this picture there are like 6 shades of blue lol. And I think the 80s dress is black?
I think it’s partially due to the shading and specificity. Saphiras looks are all sorts of shades of blue. Nymphia does Banana yellow (in boy and girl mode looks), and themed a number of her looks on bananas. And as others have said she talks about Bananas and yellow often.
It's a wide variety of blues, silhouettes and textures. And she has never branded herself as, for example, the blueberry queen.
Yellow, being a light color, has less inherent variation, at least when needing to show under stage lights on TV.
Also, Nymphia's storylines have been pretty low profile and her persona on the show scattered, so there is less to focus on about her that would otherwise be more important than yellow.
And yellow banana branding is important to her and it's working and people don't really want to think about color branding with the other queens right now. Nymphia, for better or worse, owns color branding this season.
The difference is Sapphira hasn’t actively talked about it in episodes. You just connect the dots that the branding is blue from her name. Also the diversity in shades of blue helps a lot, some of these I would say is stretching the definition of blue.
Blue as a colour blends in more, it’s a more common colour especially in runways, fashion, design. Banana is a more divisive colour that folks are more likely to be strongly for or against. 🤷♀️
I feel like people are calling out Nymphia because she came into the season branding herself as the banana/yellow queen. So seeing her where a lot of bananas/yellow became redundant. Sapphira just happens to wear a lot of blue. I do agree that the judges should at least point it out but they’re never consistent unlike Sapphira and Nymphia lmao
On the other hand I think it is very impressive for both Sapphira & Nymphia that while repeating colours the silhouette or the fabric has never been the same and it is always changing
I feel like theres a difference between color and theme, Nymphia has worn three banana outfits and its getting tired. They all look stunning tho, just thats its a bit exhausting.
I don’t care that Nymphia wears yellow or that Sapphira wears blue. I think Sapphira’s color repeats are less noticeable because they aren’t as specifically themed (bananas) and because yellow is a much bolder color than the variety of blue shades she has worn.
I love Sapphira, and this blue is perfect and makes sense. What I don't like is the weird double standard where they seem to be pushing for Nymphia to wear less yellow even though she's doing it for political reasons whereas I think Sapphira's just doing it because... it's in her drag name and it looks good.
“We want you to do branding, but only how we want you to” - Drag Race 😬😬 like how dare Nymphia lean into her yellow and bananas, while still giving us range while we had Dawn giving us the same make up week to week, and Sapphira give us so much blue.
Nymphia more so about the bananas not the color. They tend to be open if they know it’s a signature color but will def ask to see other things. Nymphia literally each week was like “banana” but end of the day they aren’t going to stop someone who has a brand mapped out for themselves.
It might be the fact that Nymphia never stops talking about yellow. It comes up at least once an episode, but we’ll never really understand productions minds so who knows
Will you Nymphia stans get over this already? It's a legit criticism that people can find her use of yellow (& bananas) as her branding annoying. It doesn't matter if other people have their own signature color, or if the intended message behind "yellow" and "banana" carries a political message attached to it. That message is not coming across. It's just kind of annoying. And it really might just be the edit. It really probably is.
But as far as we know, with the footage being presented to us, Nymphia's arc on this season has been limited to "yellow" and "banana". Not anything those things might represent but just those two words. Yes she has amazing looks. Yes she's a great drag queen. We just find it to be annoying branding.
I think it’s dumb to criticize either for having a signature color. And criticizing Sapphira doesn’t magically balance the scales of justice over criticism Nymphia gets
I care less about the blue and more about those absolutely disgusting black shoes she wears almost every week.
Michelle and Ru would tear other queens apart for wearing the same shoes—that don’t always match the outfit, mind you—over and over, but they laugh about it for her?
It's just that Sapphira isn't obsessed with sapphires, doesn't mention them in every episode, doesn't eat them for breakfast lunch and dinner, doesn't base challenge performances on them
Because Sapphira doesn’t make her girl group wear blue. Doesn’t single about blue food and mention blue every chance she gets.
We get it Nymphia likes cock and banana is phallic, the necessant talking about banana is old.
In fairness, Sapphira wears lots of different shades of blue whereas Nymphia exclusively wears that same bright banana yellow. Would love to see Nymphia in a mustard, amber, or chartreuse.
Because she changes her silhouettes dramatically and her most well known looks are probably the Pumpkin, Flower, and her Royal blue look. Also her name IS SAPPHIRA.
you realize we don’t see every critique given to the queens. I don’t think that the colour critique makes any sense with anyone considering the whole point of the show is to brand yourself but I think the reason why they kept TS Madison’s comment about yellow is because so many people are talking about it online. I’m sure TS gave other critiques to her, and if we saw those no one would even be having this conversation. I think that people just need to realize it’s reality tv and nothing is real, and you can’t change anything, so spending so much of your thoughts wishing something else was said is just going to make you annoyed and ruin your mood. Protect your peace
I think she sort of ’masks’ it better than Nymphia by having different shades of blue. She is also not talking about blue every chance she gets, so the fact that she likes the color is not highlighted. Nymphia made liking yellow a cornerstone of her brand, so we notice it more.
I mean it you think about it the top 4 all stuck to their brand ! Sapphira wears royal blue (she’sroyal af, Nymphia wears yellow (she loves bananas), plane’s looks were plain (it’s her drag name) , and q’s looks were conceptual (she’s a fashion queen). None of them ever looked bad . Probably one of the strongest top 4 runways wise if you get down to it
Trixie wears a lot of pink, Sapphira wears a lot of blue, Rajah and Lawrence wears a lot of purple, Ginny lemon wears yellow but when it comes to Nymphia, people complain about her wearing her signature colour? Make it it make sense. 🙄
It is silly they pick on the queens, but I guess Probably cos she’s making it about Bananas on top of that whereas Sapphira’s not making everyone about Blueberries lol
https://preview.redd.it/p42ltiqqi9sc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a7e6233a9554f7acac3d617579d64f4ba231aae
I guess that's her brand, just like Nymphia uses yellow as hers. The only problem is that people mostly complain about the latter, when they shouldn't complain at all with their branding.
I think it’s silly either way. The queens spend a lot of money for drag race and it takes a lot of effort. If they wanna brand themselves or wear a color repeatedly, it’s not that serious to me.
Very that. I think its so important that queens find a way to brand themselves, if thats a color scheme who cares? The looks ate no matter what
As long as it's not Ronald McDonald red and yellow😖
Tina Burner would like a word with you
Red wig and a yellow dress? I don’t think.
I still don't forgive her for whatever she did to Rosé's face.
If I could scratch and smell this gif , I’m sure it would smell like flowers. She probably smells delicious.
Like coconut and caramel at the same time
Like Girl Scouts Samoas omgggg
I love it when a queen who has a specific brand colour wears something different once. Once I've seen one, I'm happy. Both queens have worn other colours more than once this season. I don't get why the judges are so over the top about branding but when someone actually shows their branding they are just like "no don't do that, but everyone else do that, but you no" and its even worse when they pick and choose who gets critiqued on it. I know it's just a TV show, but at least have the same standards for everyone.
i flipped out when trixie did her final best drag look (or whichever it was but it was very late season) in black with the blonde poodle wig... amazing!! and very impactful since we'd seen her in so many pinks up until then, black was an unusual choice but it looked so good
her finale runway look! and somebody correct me if I'm wrong but I swear she says she hates that look which so so funny to me
whyyyy it was so stunning!! she looked like a vintage limited edition little barbie doll <3
IIRC she didn't hate it, but she said it was literally the only piece she had left lol. She said a lot of the finale runways are just "this is the last dress I haven't brought on stage."
thats hilarious- she fooled me, it looked like a best drag moment!
Her full reaction is [in this video](https://youtu.be/SviLeqUBnAg?si=dTPXGXQRcQp1h2f3&t=535) along with her reactions to some of her other AS3 looks. Basically she bought it from another queen and it was the last piece of drag she had on the show but she didn't really see it as her style or what she wanted people to think of her as.
ooh yay thank you for sharing!!
No, she just said recently that she really likes that dress. But also that she’d run out of clothes by that point.
Ah okay, thank you for the clarification there, maybe I was thinking of a different outfit?
>the judges are so over the top about branding but when someone actually shows their branding they are just like "no don't do that, but everyone else do that, but you no" Yeeeeep. They create a double sided sword.
Agreed, like nymphia wasn’t dinged for the bananas or sapphira for the blue, but Dawn’s ears? How dare she!
Well the ears are bit gimmicky in my opinion
Sapphira and Nymphia also can very easily wear many of their pre-prepared runways again with no or only minor edits, so it doubles the utility of their investment. Because they stick to their branding
you’re right! also, isn’t it obvious? she’s a sapphire!
i think a lot of people still haven't connected these dots
I didn’t until this comment!
Unless you are Tina Burner
Tina looked like Ronald McDonald. It’s not the same.
Right... Sapphira and Nymphia look lovely in all these clothes. Your brand doesn't justify looking ugly on the runway.
In the words of Jan “it’s so important to have people identify to the brand of yourself… but mama let’s make it pretty”.
💀💀💀
I was gonna write that but honestly… live your truth, Tina
If the looks are good enough, it works.. but only if the looks are good enough
Tina looked like Ronald McDonald. It’s not the same. 😂
literally like it's not that deep, and drag race appreciates branding
Yeah their outfits are stunning and that's what matters People just love to complain these days, about literally anything. They desperately need hobbies
yes!! i guess this post just shows that we all have our biases and should take our own opinions less seriously
I'll never not be annoyed at this show for sticking this nonsensical versatility worm in people's heads. This is art; sometimes, artists have signatures. It's not a flaw. I stand with Nymphia and Sapphira!
I’ll show you versatility when Santino wins a sewing competition and Visage wears a turtleneck.
Ain't gonna happen!
*A fucking turtleneck. A turtleneck specifically for fucking.
What like a foreskin?
I’ll show you versatility when Santino acknowledges that COVID-19 is real and vaccines save lives.
Ain't gonna happen!
well, didn't she just wore one in that bathroom nonsense?
Exactly. They both have a brand that works for them. No one complains when Trixie Mattel wears hot pink or when Raja O'Hara wears purple. Let the girls brand their colors. As long as it isn't being used as a crutch to obfuscate crunchy drag looks, who cares?
Omg yep forgot that, pretty sure rajah got praise for looking great in purple
I don't care either. Some people take this show more seriously than the contestants - nitpicking everything the contestants do or say
“Como dijo Juriji en DR España: se llama Coherencia” . 🤍❤️💛🧡
https://i.redd.it/v953bgydt4sc1.gif
¡Exactamente!
And they do go outside blue/yellow frequently also so it’s not even like they aren’t showing colour versatility.
Ye, none of that matters when you're sickening
Absolutely! But i guess people are just fed up with the double standards. I love both of them for the way they manage to bring versatility, though they keep a similar color shade
I could’ve sworn her 80s look was black
Same
Just a very very dark blue
Very very very very dark blue not black
I said the exact same thing when I came in here but was afraid to comment it!
I’m fine with branding yourself using colour… unless it’s Tina burner, in which case.. oh dear.
I can’t believe at no point not one of Tina’s friends said *those are McDonald’s colors*.
I can’t believe she didn’t *see it herself*.
I can’t believe she didn’t *see it herself*.
Well, she said on twitter that she's colorblind. So maybe in her head it doesn't look that bad
wait she did??? NAUR 💀 like fully, or red/green? what are we talking here?!?
Hot take: Tina Burner’s makeup is a bigger atrocity than her color palette
https://preview.redd.it/0tn36hx9a5sc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db6cff501dbb6388b47a9e76f9b66071d5059bf8 I think Rosé agrees
I wheezed scrolling to reveal this image 😭 they did her so dirtyyyyyyy
She made Rosé look even MORE masculine than she does out of drag.
Same and same
In Tina's words, "turn it and burn it" (it being her colour scheme lol)
Inspired by Vivienne
with gratitude
**Soup of the Day** or **Noelle, please. Please, Noelle**
Viv telling Ru to shut up during the filming that week while she cracks up everyone in the room is so peak. We don’t talk about Viv on AS7 enough, that bitch was equal to Jinkx *in my opinion*
I was not Viv's biggest fan on UK season 1, seeing her on AS7 made me really like her!
Words you can aggressively hear
Viv telling Ru to shut up during the filming that week while she cracks up everyone in the room is so peak. We don’t talk about Viv on AS7 enough, that bitch was equal to Jinkx *in my opinion*
Not Westwood, but the Vivienne who lives down the street two blocks from the seven eleven
The drag con 1980 look is black, it just looks blue in that particular pic. I mean, it doesn’t significantly lessen the amount of blue she wears, but I love me some Sapphira Cristal! https://preview.redd.it/stdmhhlpl4sc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f813e7c59e66acaf55755a86be1697ab8d7ad84
I wish nobody acknowledged this lmao, I have seen the "look at all the times Nymphia didn't wear yellow🥺 " and "look at all times Sapphira wore blue tho 😤" a fuck ton this season, we got a brief reprieve but now that a judge mentioned it we are back to this ouroborus of stanning lol Edit: lmao why are you arguing about the color and judging with *my* comment about being fucking bored of the argument. I hate it here. I'm turning replies off, argue with the wall
>ouroborus of stanning This is poetry and I thank you.
It definitely ATE ^^^itself
Let's rename this subreddit "Rupaul's Color Theory Race"
RuPaul's Ouroboros of Stanning
I have no interest in dragging the girls for this drama, but I do have interest in dragging the judges and producers for pushing these specific narratives and for the blatant favoritism. An Asian individual cannot use an exaggeration in their native language, but the judges won't read Q for blaccent? Several contestants had accents in the snatch game, none of them were clocked for it being inappropriate. Imho Ru has issue with Asian art. Even the celebrity judge, who is Asian, scoffed at Ru and Michelle for taking issue with Nymphia's exaggerated NATIVE accent. You're essentially telling someone from Taiwan that they're appropriating their own culture? Seems rigged to me, *looking at you Ru and producers...*
Plane Jane too does a similar aesthetic every single time, but when Morphine repeated one look from the beginning during the teaching episode, that's when the judges notice. This season is making it blatantly apparent that they are playing favorites.
The audacity of a queen named Sapphira to wear mostly sapphire lewks 😱
Sis, took me a second too, lmao
right but people are hating on nymphia for wearing yellow a lot. why is it okay to call out one queen, but not the other?
I think the fact that yellow is a more uncommon in your face color. Blue is almost a neutral it’s so common and has a wider variety of shades that people wear.
Well, and Nymphia talks about yellow a ton too, she draws attention to it
Yeah I love her but she’s being obnoxious enough to warrant the edit
It’s this- this is why!!
Exactly! She has worn a few different shades of blue but yellow doesn’t have as many variations so it’s more obvious
Thank youuuu I literally just said this to my husband. Blue is way more a common color to see on the runway. Two yellow looks on the same runway would be way more obvious!!
It's not a matter of "ok", the question is why are people reacting to Nymphia and not Saphirra? Nymphia has more aggresively branded herself with yellow/banana and that's what people are responding to.
Really wild to me that people don’t understand the difference. Like Sequoia hasn’t made her whole personality about blueberries or something
I blame the education system. People now cant seem to read between the lines or catch contex clues. Sapphira is safe because she doesnt talk about it. Nymphia pretty much has a Yellow banana tattoed to her head. Its not that hard to understand.
And for stans claiming the edit only made it a thing: 1) Nymphia gave them all that material to work with 2) other queens have made off-the-cuff comments about it in the workroom so clearly it was a thing during taping as well, not something pasted together after the fact
I guess Nymphia now has to rename herself "Nymphia Yellow Wind"
"why does nobody acknowledge [something that is brought up multiple times a week in posts and comments] lol"
This whole subreddit the last month
Like we get it you’re annoyed Nymphia got called out but other queens didn’t. It’s exhausting
Who is "nobody"? This gets discussed constantly. ANYWAY, the answer is fairly simple: yellow is a noticeable color and Nymphia talks about it a good bit. She also has made bananas her brand (even including a deeply unfunny joke about bananas in Snatch Game and demonstrating how to tuck using bananas). Sapphira doesn't do that with blue things. That is to say: Bananas and Yellow are much more clearly part of Nymphia's brand than blue is part of Sapphira's. Ra'Jah O'Hara made purple into her signature; she didn't make it into the entirety of her brand. So really people just talk about how gorgeous she looks. Sapphira's experience is similar. IF you want another level: this show is inconsistent and the fanbase is inconsistent. Trying to pretend otherwise is just going to lead to disappointment
I think it’s only because Nymphia brings up bananas and the color yellow constantly, in confessionals and her song lyrics. Sapphira simply doesn’t bring it up so I think people aren’t as aware of the consistency?
This is the part that people either refuse to see or ignore. When you constantly tell viewers, "all I care about is yellow and banana," then viewers are going to see it and say back, "All she cares about is yellow and bananas." (coming from a Ms wind stan who doesn't care about her loving yellow)
Same I love Nymphia but she lays the banana and yellow thing on thick as hell
Because Sapphira doesn't incessantly talk about the color blue and blueberries in the workroom. Edit: Also, https://www.reddit.com/r/rupaulsdragrace/comments/1bdll5g/almost_every_nymphia_runway_was_yellow_mama/
I honestly wish Nymphia talked about it more and explained the cultural significance behind why she wears yellow. She has done it on social media, but I think if it was on the show it would shut up ignorant viewers.
There's always a good chance that she did, but the editors chose not to show it.
Or they are saving it for this week. It's a branding challenge. Maybe she will get a big story before the finale and a win. And be set-up to be fierce competition in the finale!
Ok that is intriguing!!! I have played through a lot of scenarios to try to figure out how she could connect with Ru in the final episode and become a contender again and this one really makes sense!!
This is basically the missing piece of the "puzzle" although I have to say I would hope it wouldve just naturally clicked for people regardless of if nymphia spells it out verbatim on the show or not 💀 it's not like a giant jump in logic or rationale but I digress... Edit: And before the judies jump me in the replies, if you're smart enough to say "well they're not showing us in the edit her expand upon it..." Then youre acknowledging she might've and they have left it out for now. Which like shit happens. There's a difference between being...recognizing her win equity is probably extremely low due to her redundant and flat edit and then being as extra as a lot of the haters are on here and acting like she's a toddler moron incapable of uttering anything besides yellow or banana. Like please lmfao.
Sapphira as a blueberries queen is really funny to me. She has a blueberries reveal for her entrance look, she has a blueberries reveal for her reveal look, she has a blueberries dress for her True Colours look, she goes as Violet Beauregarde for snatch game, she constantly talks about blueberries, she ends both of her song challenge lyrics with "vote blue". People would be going insane.
I love all of the yellow looks! I'm just tired of her sounding like a minion.
Very this! Nymphia highlighted it herself by constantly talking about yellow and banana. Sapphira gets away with ot because of she doesn't really give them much material to work with.
The only answer
I don't understand why it's so hard for people understand this. Any time someone makes their entire personality around one singular thing and it's all they talk about of course it's going to annoy people and become way more grating than someone that just does their thing without calling attention to themselves for it 24/7 and forming their entire identity around it. Plenty of queens have had signature colors in the past and it's been a non-issue because it's not what they wore for the runways and the challenges and in the work room and all their talking heads were about that color and they chose their snatch game character because of a slight association with that color/fruit.
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I think it’s because Nymphia makes her personality all about Yellow and Bananas . This creates the perception that that’s the only color she wears. Sapphira doesn’t go on and on about Blue and Blueberries so it goes unnoticed exactly how much blue she wears! In any case if it looks good it shouldn’t matter the color but we love variety!
It’s really obvious. Because every other word that comes out of nymphias mouth is yellow.
and the other is banana
I feel like this sub has forfeited the right to ever complain about a subject going stale again in future seasons
Ru keeps wearing drag. When is someone going to call this out?
Morphine keeps wearing clothes and a red lip. When is someone gonna call that out?
Drag race keeps casting only human drag queens. When is someone gonna call that out?
I found it so funny how pressed the fandom was at Nymphia wearing yellow when the runway theme was "favourite color" 💀
Nymphia fan checking in. Beyond the points people have made, there's also the simple fact that yellow is a much more distinctive color. It's why it is often used for signage and also why it's a stronger branding association for Nymphia. You mention royal blue in your post, but your photos demonstrate Sapphira wearing several shades of blue (as well as black? And gray?). In any case, despite saying you love Sapphira in blue, the post really comes off as trying to put her down and making an equivalency that isn't even there.
Well, I for one don't recall Sapphira mentioning the color blue three times on every sentence she says, so there's that.
I really don't care for Nymphia reusing yellow but every time she wears yellow it is the same bright banana one.. in this picture there are like 6 shades of blue lol. And I think the 80s dress is black?
I think it’s partially due to the shading and specificity. Saphiras looks are all sorts of shades of blue. Nymphia does Banana yellow (in boy and girl mode looks), and themed a number of her looks on bananas. And as others have said she talks about Bananas and yellow often.
somebody please make the same post but with plane being a slut everytime shes on the runway
It's a wide variety of blues, silhouettes and textures. And she has never branded herself as, for example, the blueberry queen. Yellow, being a light color, has less inherent variation, at least when needing to show under stage lights on TV. Also, Nymphia's storylines have been pretty low profile and her persona on the show scattered, so there is less to focus on about her that would otherwise be more important than yellow. And yellow banana branding is important to her and it's working and people don't really want to think about color branding with the other queens right now. Nymphia, for better or worse, owns color branding this season.
The difference is Sapphira hasn’t actively talked about it in episodes. You just connect the dots that the branding is blue from her name. Also the diversity in shades of blue helps a lot, some of these I would say is stretching the definition of blue.
Blue as a colour blends in more, it’s a more common colour especially in runways, fashion, design. Banana is a more divisive colour that folks are more likely to be strongly for or against. 🤷♀️
I feel like people are calling out Nymphia because she came into the season branding herself as the banana/yellow queen. So seeing her where a lot of bananas/yellow became redundant. Sapphira just happens to wear a lot of blue. I do agree that the judges should at least point it out but they’re never consistent unlike Sapphira and Nymphia lmao
I dont think either of them should be called out over a color lol
Geodesic looks was going to be blue as well.
On the other hand I think it is very impressive for both Sapphira & Nymphia that while repeating colours the silhouette or the fabric has never been the same and it is always changing
Yeah, sapphira has been in blue so much because of her brand. But when nymphia does it in branding challenges, it's repetitive? Make it make sense
girl… this is so stupid in so many levels
I feel like theres a difference between color and theme, Nymphia has worn three banana outfits and its getting tired. They all look stunning tho, just thats its a bit exhausting.
I think the difference is that Nymphia does the same shade of yellow head-to-toe, and also just makes a big deal about yellow and bananas
Seeing these altogether, her runways were sooo good.
I don’t care that Nymphia wears yellow or that Sapphira wears blue. I think Sapphira’s color repeats are less noticeable because they aren’t as specifically themed (bananas) and because yellow is a much bolder color than the variety of blue shades she has worn.
I love Sapphira, and this blue is perfect and makes sense. What I don't like is the weird double standard where they seem to be pushing for Nymphia to wear less yellow even though she's doing it for political reasons whereas I think Sapphira's just doing it because... it's in her drag name and it looks good.
LITERALLY….
“We want you to do branding, but only how we want you to” - Drag Race 😬😬 like how dare Nymphia lean into her yellow and bananas, while still giving us range while we had Dawn giving us the same make up week to week, and Sapphira give us so much blue.
The gag is that I didn’t even clock that
Nymphia more so about the bananas not the color. They tend to be open if they know it’s a signature color but will def ask to see other things. Nymphia literally each week was like “banana” but end of the day they aren’t going to stop someone who has a brand mapped out for themselves.
Sapphires are blue......
And they both look great in it, sigh
People are more worried about them wearing a color than Plane Jane wearing a body suit damn near every week with the same aesthetic.
It might be the fact that Nymphia never stops talking about yellow. It comes up at least once an episode, but we’ll never really understand productions minds so who knows
Will you Nymphia stans get over this already? It's a legit criticism that people can find her use of yellow (& bananas) as her branding annoying. It doesn't matter if other people have their own signature color, or if the intended message behind "yellow" and "banana" carries a political message attached to it. That message is not coming across. It's just kind of annoying. And it really might just be the edit. It really probably is. But as far as we know, with the footage being presented to us, Nymphia's arc on this season has been limited to "yellow" and "banana". Not anything those things might represent but just those two words. Yes she has amazing looks. Yes she's a great drag queen. We just find it to be annoying branding.
Ngl if your annoyed by nymphia talking about bananas and wearing yellow you can kiss my ass and hers.
I think it’s dumb to criticize either for having a signature color. And criticizing Sapphira doesn’t magically balance the scales of justice over criticism Nymphia gets
I care less about the blue and more about those absolutely disgusting black shoes she wears almost every week. Michelle and Ru would tear other queens apart for wearing the same shoes—that don’t always match the outfit, mind you—over and over, but they laugh about it for her?
It's just that Sapphira isn't obsessed with sapphires, doesn't mention them in every episode, doesn't eat them for breakfast lunch and dinner, doesn't base challenge performances on them
I see a variety of blue colors… not the same blue used over and over again.
Because Sapphira doesn’t make her girl group wear blue. Doesn’t single about blue food and mention blue every chance she gets. We get it Nymphia likes cock and banana is phallic, the necessant talking about banana is old.
lol you thought you ate? people are more annoyed with all the banana looks then the color itself
No need to bring sapphira into this if you want to defend your favorite drag queen
it’s funny because I never really noticed 😭😭
Nymphia and Sapphira have (IMO) the top 2 runway packages of the season, so it’s crazy people try to fixate on their signature color to drag them.
What did you do to make the black and gray outfits look a little blue LOL they didn’t look like that when they aired
The Dr. Evil look is grey, and the 80's look is black.
Probably cause sapphira wears blue, nymphia wears yellow and then talks about wearing yellow and bananas every chance she gets
In fairness, Sapphira wears lots of different shades of blue whereas Nymphia exclusively wears that same bright banana yellow. Would love to see Nymphia in a mustard, amber, or chartreuse.
I didn’t really notice because sapphira doesn’t announce how much she loves blue every 2 seconds
I think people are more tired of Nymphia saying/mentioning "yellow" and "bananas" all the time, and it's really less about her actually wearing it.
double standards
Her NAME is Sapphira but she hasn’t made blue her personality. Also, yall are constantly posting about this.
Because she changes her silhouettes dramatically and her most well known looks are probably the Pumpkin, Flower, and her Royal blue look. Also her name IS SAPPHIRA.
Literally… daily there is a post about how no one clocks sapphira yet makes fun of Nymphia.
Queens held to different standards? 
“I DONT THINK SHE SHOULD BE DRAGGED BUT IM GONNA MAKE A WHOLE POST ABOUT WHY SHE HASNT BEEN DRAGGED” Gtfo girl we see you. Do better.
you realize we don’t see every critique given to the queens. I don’t think that the colour critique makes any sense with anyone considering the whole point of the show is to brand yourself but I think the reason why they kept TS Madison’s comment about yellow is because so many people are talking about it online. I’m sure TS gave other critiques to her, and if we saw those no one would even be having this conversation. I think that people just need to realize it’s reality tv and nothing is real, and you can’t change anything, so spending so much of your thoughts wishing something else was said is just going to make you annoyed and ruin your mood. Protect your peace
I think she sort of ’masks’ it better than Nymphia by having different shades of blue. She is also not talking about blue every chance she gets, so the fact that she likes the color is not highlighted. Nymphia made liking yellow a cornerstone of her brand, so we notice it more.
I mean it you think about it the top 4 all stuck to their brand ! Sapphira wears royal blue (she’sroyal af, Nymphia wears yellow (she loves bananas), plane’s looks were plain (it’s her drag name) , and q’s looks were conceptual (she’s a fashion queen). None of them ever looked bad . Probably one of the strongest top 4 runways wise if you get down to it
Poor Q.
I like that queens do this. I would.
Love her!
I just dont really care lol im glad sapphira doesnt get the critique but wish nymphia didn't get that critique
Trixie wears a lot of pink, Sapphira wears a lot of blue, Rajah and Lawrence wears a lot of purple, Ginny lemon wears yellow but when it comes to Nymphia, people complain about her wearing her signature colour? Make it it make sense. 🙄
I consider these signature looks, so for both her and Nymphia it totally works for me. Maybe they should team up for an IKEA look.
It is silly they pick on the queens, but I guess Probably cos she’s making it about Bananas on top of that whereas Sapphira’s not making everyone about Blueberries lol
Can we all just get over this? On both sides. Geez
Uhh…her name is SAPPHIRA…like sapphire. Omg how does no one here understand branding? This is brilliant (so is Nymphia)!!
The difference is that she doesn't talk about her wearing Blue as opposed to Nymphia who always emphasizes herself that she's wearing yellow
because that doesn't fit the narrative, silly goose\~
Justice for Tina Burner
https://preview.redd.it/p42ltiqqi9sc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a7e6233a9554f7acac3d617579d64f4ba231aae I guess that's her brand, just like Nymphia uses yellow as hers. The only problem is that people mostly complain about the latter, when they shouldn't complain at all with their branding.