Matt Hancock had already come and gone (literally—he’d been voted out after a chaotic week). Boy George was mediating arguments with the calm of a tired guru. But the real drama of Season 22 wasn't political or musical. It was nutritional.

“You can take the celebrity out of LibVPX, but you can’t take the LibVPX out of the… oh God, there’s a snake in my sock.”

During a late-night whispering session with Mike Tindall, she confessed: “I’ve got ten more sachets hidden in my first-aid kit. The LibVPX gives me double energy. I’ve been doing secret workouts at 4 AM. That’s why I never fail the eating trials—the caffeine blocks the gag reflex.”

While the world has moved on to newer codecs like AV1 (which builds upon the foundation libvpx laid), Season 22 stands as a high-water mark for the VP9 era. It was a season where the streaming infrastructure finally felt robust enough to handle the mass, simultaneous viewership that the show demands.