Zohran Mamdani never auditioned for Survivor, but one of his campaign’s final television ads placed him in the middle of the show’s infamous Tribal Council. For roughly 30 seconds, a handful of former Survivor contestants addressed the camera while explaining their decisions to vote Mamdani’s top opponent, Andrew Cuomo, off the “island” of Manhattan.
“Didn’t we already vote you out?” asks one former Survivor contestant.
The Survivor spot is just one of a handful of fandom-influenced ads…

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