@Lowercase I internet ywyw. I can't quote you because this is the Kiwifarms. And on the topic this is an open offer: I have the whole ass archive and a few methods now to dig for stuff so if anyone wants me to sniff out a clip I can try to crack it, even something that might be tricky. It's a lot of fun for me so don't hesitate to ask.
But yeah, it's crazy because I think his mindset was so at odds with reality. I think he had three major miscalculations:
1) "You can take a situation, and flip it into the way you want it." Vance said this a lot, and I think regarding the show it's 100% not true. It applied at noncompetitive times, yes, but when push comes to shove you can't narrative and surf your way out of every situation.
He did the vancepills even when the freeloaders made it 'against the rules' and did the Dark Vance thing to quash the freeloader torture early. When Letty was targeting him with the poop he ignored it and when a shark moved the poop onto his bed was extremely careful to throw it out without letting anyone know he had noticed it. When Frank tried to shave him he broke the razor, twice.
He was so sure even after Sam told him it was
not going to be him versus Josie in the final two, that he could force it. And even after losing immunity he was like, ah, I didn't need it, I'll just beat Letty in the challenges or scare her out of the house in some novel way that hadn't yet been tried, as though he had it in him to, idk, throw
five cups of toilet water on Letty in an evening or something. He spent like five straight days hearing the PULL UP alarm and going, I don't have to pull up, when I'm about to hit the ground I'll just slap it away.
2) He was so sure that he had something in his pocket for all challenges. I think after Schizo, the Cell, the ball-finding challenge, and Impressions, he got the mistaken idea that if he was really pressed he could win at every challenge and that everyone else's wins were pity wins, or he was just not putting his best every time, or something. That the producers would deliberately trip him just like he saw them trip Letty a dozen times before, not realizing that the producers had his number and could challenge him to do things he would buck just like Jon bucked the schizo challenge, that he wouldn't always just beat Letty by tying with her because of producer preference, just did not occur to him. They gave him so much time, he got to sleep on it, he got like five overtimes, Sam gave him shit to eavesdrop that he only happened to miss, and there was just nothing secret in his pocket after all.
3) I think more than anyone else he kicked around words and phrases like "I'm being genuine" "are you okay for real" "you do what you have to for the show" but more than anyone else he had no fucking clue where the boundaries actually were. Letty didn't see any and that was a much smarter way to be - if you fuck with me, you hate me, period.
But you can see in that clip - I cut it so it's not as obvious I guess but when he finally asks if she's REALLY okay but in the moments prior he's like massaging his sinuses and like, failing to relax. I think he was on some level feeling
actually guilty at times about shit like this. But then immediately rolls into, just after this clip, more gaslighting about how Frank gave it to him and Josie just as bad that day. Vance one night literally said stuff about how she had musical talent and how he believed she was going to do well breaking out of her NEET thing after she show and then went right into fucking lying about shit like one moment later.
It's like, if during the menace challenge you're gonna yell at Letty about how you're a "NICE GUY," maybe like, be one. Don't excuse every rude thing you ever did as being "for the game" and every nice thing as your core personality, and then lambast Letty for being
"morally corrupt" for the things she did during the game after saying dozens of times one-on-one with her that he understood she was just doing it for the game.
. Barely harassed by freeloaders and sharks? Make the best of it by doing absolutely fucking nothing all day to prove your worth as a contestant. He just exudes a type of pathetic aura. 
