It had already been hinted at in recent seasons.

Just a few years ago, girls who were already underweight in bikinis regularly stood in front of the jury and were officially given a place in their homework books, and a little more sport wouldn't necessarily hurt either.

Thanks to a more sensitive public, a more sensible approach to beauty ideals and a changed zeitgeist, these times are fortunately a thing of the past, even for ProSieben's former sexism flagship.

With the same stringency with which unhealthy role model parameters were influenced unfiltered to underage fans, the 17th season of "Germany's Next Top Model" consistently focuses on diversity and woke relevance.

In the frenzy of revolution on the catwalk, the new school year at the model academy of tutor Heidi Klum even starts with an almost political contribution to the discourse on the subject of media.

In any case, one of the first sentences that can be heard in the 2022 season is: "It's fu****g ProSieben at prime time and not somehow ... ARD or something".

The bashing of public broadcasters is so en vogue that you are no longer safe even on the runway.

So bad cards for the Günther Klum of the satirical magazines: Jan Böhmermann.

In order not to come across as too intellectual, ProSieben directly compensates for the unusual excursion into day-to-day politics with the new title song.

Snoop Dogg and Heidi Klum, well, sing a Tokio Hotel-produced version of Rod Steward's "Baby Jane" titled (no joke) "Chai Tea with Heidi."

The first victim of the new season is rap.

Although: Eko Fresh once wrote a song with Dieter Bohlen, which Yvonne Catterfeld then sang.

So if you have never owned a "BRAVO Hits", throw the first stone.

Incidentally, with the voices chased through various autotune programs around 400 times, Snoop Dogg's tea time with Klum sounds like it was sung by Puff Daddy on Valerian and Jan Delay.

A safe last place in any case at the next ESC.

"Really really old, like 30"

Grooved from the opening credits and barely spared from hearing loss, the diversity gladiators enter.

However, the first handful of protagonists looks like an attack by the Evelyn Burdecki clone troopers.

To compensate, 25 more girls will follow later.

So the first thing to do is keep calm with the social media professional feminists who are already lurking on Twitter under the hashtag #GNTM and are commenting on everything.

The idea of ​​diversity becomes more recognizable at the latest with Noëlla, Kashmira, Lenara, Inka, Analotta and Amaya.

At first glance, this ensemble sounds onomastic like a Christmas card from the Wollny family.

However, those responsible for casting at ProSieben immediately compensated for this with Anita, Barbara, Lieselotte, Martina, Julia and Wiebke.

All 31 selected are flown to Athens and personally welcomed by Heidi Klum at the first location hotspot.

Finally the flair of the big wide world again.

After 2021 had to be staged as a kind of quarantine special, in which no girl was ever allowed to stay more than three kilometers from Alexanderplatz Berlin.