Erik giving his individual immunity necklace up and getting voted out is something that gets brought up at least once a Survivor season and he's gotten clowned on for 15 years straight about it. In hindsight, it's obviously a bad move (and here comes the but).
BUT, you kinda have to take into account he was *21* when he played Micronesia, a naive kid that was up against 3 of the savviest and most manipulative Survivor players of all time at that point in franchise history. Also considering that he was on the bottom for most of the game and at least self-aware enough to know that he wasn't a contender to win at that point, it's not really *insane* that he would think "well, fuck it, I may as well give Natalie my necklace and maybe Amanda will vote Parvati out with me and I can tell the jury I made a big move". Sure, it was a stupid plan that never had a chance to work, but also there really wasn't anything else he could to do to get any jury votes at that point.
At any rate, I'm not enough of a contrarian to say "ackshyually giving your necklace up and going home is a GENIUS play!" but at the very least I don't think it rises to the level of him deserving to get clowned on for 15 years straight about it.
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I deffo agree! also if Cirie knew it was gonna be a F2 I do think there's a good chance the vote goes through.
