What Happened to Voting Confessionals?

Maybe it is just me, but it seems like one of the most well known parts of Survivor isn’t there at all in the more recent seasons. Is it just me or are there no more voting confessionals in the show anymore? What could the reason for their disappearance be? Are people just not giving good ones anymore?

While a small part of the show, voting confessionals often were a good part of it whenever someone had an interesting thing to say that was worth airing, we would see it. There were interesting things from what Gervase said when voting against Hayden in Blood versus Water to Eliza voting against Twila in Vanuatu. We could get more insight into what people said in these confessionals. But now it seems as if they are gone from the show entirely. Surely contestants nowadays still do them, right?

As each newer season happens, they seem to be focused on showing up plenty of the game that we did not see before. We also miss a lot that used to happen in the game. Tribal councils can take up a whole entire act of the show and yet we still don’t get voting confessionals as much as we used to. Are they trying to keep us in suspense regarding who will be voted out? Is the person who is going to be voted out so obvious that they don’t want to show us something that we already know? Or are they trying to go for the viewer blindside where there is no good setup for the vote that they just want to surprise us and make it unclear who the target could be?

I don’t get why voting confessionals aren’t seen as much or at all during current seasons of Survivor. It would be part of the whole edit of good moves and whatnot that shows why someone is targeting this contestant and what they have to say about it. Now, it could be that lately people haven’t had anything interesting to say when they vote (according to the editors) and that is why we haven’t been seeing what they’ve been saying. It could also be that other stuff is shown in favor of this. It is not like we don’t get general confessionals even if we don’t get voting confessionals.

Maybe I am wrong about the whole thing and we have been getting voting confessionals on the show that I just don’t notice. What are your thoughts on this? Have they been airing and they just aren’t as notable anymore to be noticed? Or maybe they stopped airing them for good, which is an issue in my mind. I hope that they can return. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.