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America’s Next Top Model Reckoning: Netflix’s Reality Check Reexamines ANTM’s Complicated Legacy
Reel Perspectives February 17, 2026 Netflix America's Next Top Model (ANTM) wasn't just a modeling competition, it was a cultural phenomenon. Who can forget Tyra Banks, infamously raging at contestant Tiffany Richardson, screaming, "We were rooting for you! We were all rooting for you!" Premiering in 2003, the show was created and hosted by supermodel Banks and developed by Ken Mok and Kenya Barris. It ran for 24 cycles and ended in 2018, not before redefining the landscape
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