Sid, you here? 😲
We all know it's Corruption. What I can't understand is people think the general housewife audience wo watches her shows votes for her. It's only the young people who vote.
In my family, all my aunties, cousins etc are Ishima fan but never did they vote for her cause she doesn't matter to them outside the show. Even many YHM fans on Twitter expressed their dissappointment saying they didn't deserve it. People aren't blind. So I am more than sure, she didn't win it with votes. The extra Space for nautanki she was always given, the extra promos, no international voting, it was always clear she is the winner already. In fact many were convinced she's got a secret ticket to finale.
Coming to her 4.5 M online fans which are in real never present online, not only on I-F but other platforms as well. Where are they? Insta and FB are online platforms, why don't you see them making her win grand or promote her in a huge manner before? I never saw that. In fact when you search for the winner jodi, you see trolls and bashing, no Congratulations etc. 4.5 M fans should have this less power to overweigh the trolls and bashings if the other jodis weren't that popular. Idk if anyone is aware but you can always buy followers. There are apps for it and the much fond she is with her 4.5 M followers. I doubt her popularity, she overhypes herself.
Anyway, what is her win even worth? She lost respect and I bet she also lost friends in the industry this way because everyone knows it all. They were congratulating their choreographer by saying he deserved it, "only him". Monaya and Abinam gained a lot of respect and won many hearts, they even lost many YHM fans (as per what I saw on twitter).
It is clearly SP and Ekta's funda.