The past season of Big Brother was really blown out of proportion. Erika made a racial remark in BB4 and then was voted back into the All-Star house by fans. Jeff made a homophobic statement in BB14 and then won America's Favorite. ED tormented people worse than Amanda did and he still had favor in the America's Player polls. I'm not justifying anything that was said, but viewers were much quicker to villainize everyone this season in particular.
It was just bad because there wasn't a single likeable person on the cast.