Seeing an alien goblin at the Emmys should seem normal and yet … this was the first time. Because literally, there was an all-green, goblin-looking alien on the carpet, and everyone was confused and shocked by her presence there.
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Created out of the goblin in question’s feelings about having to be beautiful and perfect and instead, she said she could just do the opposite. That resulted in a perplexing figure on the carpet that had many online just screaming questions about her existence. Who is she? Why is she a goblin thing? Do we want to know the reasons or just embrace this chaos?
The goblin was drag queen Princess Poppy, who joined the stage when RuPaul won for Outstanding Reality Competition Program, an award that they’ve won 8 times in a row! When asked about the Goblin look, Princess Poppy said, “I wanted to take everything that is rude and ugly about the usual decorum of awards and do the complete opposite.” She went on to talk about how she wanted to be a “troll.”
“I wanted to be a troll, to literally and figuratively troll the Emmys,” she said. “The whole purpose of doing this is a way to showcase that the rules of fashion, and rules of beauty and bull—, I think it’s more beautiful to show up like this than to show up how you normally would at an awards show.”
Truly, it’s a great commentary for the award show scene and how people are forced to look a specific way, but genuinely hilarious that Poppy picked a goblin. Seeing her on stage with RuPaul for the show’s win was incredible, but the legacy of the goblin on the carpet will live in infamy for fans of the Emmys and on X/Twitter for the rest of our days.
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