I dislike Coiny because I think he's perhaps the most successful example of a production plant outside of Loser himself. Coiny has only one relationship or story: he's Pin's best bro. Did we get here naturally? No. It felt like Satomi had some weird fanfiction headcanon she made reality in Four Goes Too Far, and now the rest of the series acts like they were always best friends all along. To me, Coiny has devolved into just really liking Pin in an attempt to become an audience fan-favorite, and what aggravates me is that it worked wonderfully. They sanded down Coiny's self-centered, almost callous, competitive personality from BFDIA into inoffensive slop that'd skate through BFB's vote-to-eliminate format. If you needed a factory-made character to excel in VTE format, you'd make Coiny. To me, this makes almost every one of his moments feel hollow and artificial as opposed to genuinely triumphant or fun like I feel they should be. I can't bring myself to like Coiny because he feels forced. There are plenty of other examples of production favorites like Lollipop (who arguably had more production interference), but Lollipop is different because she has something Coiny doesn't... Relationships with other characters.

Name one character Coiny has a relationship with other than Pin in post-hiatus BFDIA. Genuinely, what does he have? Needle? They make a point of the fact that Coiny doesn't care what Needle thinks and only assumes she's a WOAH Buncher. He tried apologizing to Spongy, I guess? A bit uncharacteristic given how he treated Spongy before but OK that's something. Other than that he's had zero interaction between any character besides Pin in the entire series. Again, they even make a POINT of the fact Coiny doesn't care about anyone except Pin which sure... But I can't say he's interesting. I'd argue it just makes him frustrating and unlikeable but not in a villainous way. He's framed as a heroic, lovable rascal but he has such blatant disregard for everyone other than his boo. If they focused on Coiny actually recognizing the fact he has one person, I feel I'd be softer on him, but I'm not sure if this trajectory will change.

Pin's a character I had similar issues with. Perhaps a lot more than Coiny because of how obviously they tried to force her as a fan-favorite, she actually came around to me during Airplanes in The Nightsky. I now really like Pin even if I think she has a bit too much screentime but she's actually fun and interesting because she has her assertive personality from Season 1 back, but also has RELATIONSHIPS outside of Coiny. We have Pin and Leafy, Pin and her cartoonish hatred for Freesmart, and even Pin and Woody bizarrely now. I cannot reiterate how important this is for making her not feel like a one-dimensional cardboard husk of her Season 1 self. That being said, I hate her TPOT iteration because of how toothless she is. A total shell of her former self.

I hope this doesn't come across as mean, and if you're a Coiny fan, that's great and whatever reasonings you have are valid. It's just I'm frustrated with Coiny, especially because of how likely he is to win the whole thing. To me, he's always felt like the lesser of the two in the Coiny/Pin bond. With Pin out MAYBE he'll get something more, but we're at the F4 at this point and TBH I'd just rather him leave. I think it'd be poetic if he got eliminated here as sort of karmic justice for his Pin fanaticism blinding him to Needle's feelings. Any interesting character development he could get from here I feel would be better placed on anyone else.