Editing America's Next Top Model (section)

===Impact in pop culture===
The show has been referred to in many series, such as [[Freeform (TV channel)|ABC Family]]'s ''[[Greek (TV series)|GREEK]]'', [[CBS]]'s ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', and [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]'s ''[[Family Guy]]''. It also had its own ''[[E! True Hollywood Story]]'' episode, featuring past contestants Ebony Haith, Giselle Samson, [[Elyse Sewell]] (all cycle 1), [[Adrianne Curry]] (cycle 1 winner), Camille McDonald (cycles 2 & 17), April Wilkner, [[Mercedes Scelba-Shorte]] (both cycle 2), [[Toccara Jones]], Ann Markley, Amanda Swafford (all cycle 3), [[Eva Marcille|Eva Pigford]] (cycle 3 winner), Michelle Deighton (cycle 4), Brittany Brower (cycles 4 & 17), [[Naima Mora]] (cycle 4 winner), Ebony Taylor (cycle 5), [[Lisa D'Amato]] (cycle 5 & cycle 17 winner), [[Kim Stolz]] (cycle 5) and [[Bre Scullark]] (cycles 5 & 17) as well as judges & personals [[Janice Dickinson]], [[Tyra Banks]], [[Nigel Barker (photographer)|Nigel Barker]], [[J. Alexander (model)|J. Alexander]], [[Jay Manuel]], [[Ken Mok]] and Michelle Mock-Falcon. It covered the first five cycles and recently re-aired with a few added minutes of footage which cover cycles 6 to 10 and ''Stylista''.

In 2009, [[Oxygen Network]] aired a series based on the show called ''Top Model Obsessed'', featuring past contestants [[Lisa D'Amato]] (cycle 5 & cycle 17 winner), [[CariDee English]] (cycle 7 winner) and Bianca Golden (cycles 9 & 17).<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20081202oxygen01|publisher=TheFutonCritic|date = December 2, 2008|title = Are you obsessed with "America's Next Top Model?"|author=Oxygen}}</ref>

Many credit ''America's Next Top Model'' for inspiring later reality television shows, most notably ''[[RuPaul's Drag Race]]''. Kevin O'Keefe and Mathew Rodriguez noted that ''America's Next Top Model'' served as "the biggest inspiration" for the show and that [[RuPaul's Drag Race season 1|season 1]] of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' was "a parody of a couple different reality shows ... but more so (of) ''America's Next Top Model''". They explain that "''Top Model'' was a groundbreaking [[Reality television|reality show]]" and that "it crawled so that ''Drag Race'' could walk". They drew parallels between [[Tyra Banks]] and [[RuPaul]] as black people "who (have) been at the top of their field" and "play a persona" on their respective shows. They also compared the judging panels, comparing [[Michelle Visage]] to [[Nigel Barker (photographer)|Nigel Barker]] as an "anchor main judge" who is "harsher in their critiques", although contrasted RuPaul's judges with Tyra's, stating that "RuPaul has never allowed a [[drag queen]] to sit on the panel the way Tyra would bring in either [[Janice Dickinson]] then [[Twiggy]]." Moreover, the "first mini challenge of the first several seasons of ''Drag Race'' used to always be a photoshoot" and [[RuPaul's Drag Race season 6|season 6's]] photoshoot of jumping off a platform was "directly taken from a photoshoot in [[America's Next Top Model season 6|season 6]] of ''ANTM'', where they had to play fairy tale characters and jump" off a platform. Another "artefact" of Top Model's influence on the show comes from ''Drag Race'''s focus on runway, with [[RuPaul's Drag Race season 8|season 8]] contestant [[Kim Chi (drag queen)|Kim Chi]] being "criticised for not having a model walk".{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} Most importantly, ''America's Next Top Model'' "was one of the most [[queer]] shows on TV" with regard to the inclusion of [[Jay Manuel]], [[J. Alexander (model)|J. Alexander]] and [[Benny Ninja]] on the judging panel and numerous openly [[LGBT|LGBTQ+]] contestants, most notably [[Isis King]]. It was "covertly queer enough to make the space on TV for something as queer as ''Drag Race''."<ref>{{Citation|title=How ANTM Inspired RuPaul's Drag Race {{!}} The Kiki Ep 4| date=August 26, 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS9wu9tj9jQ| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/hS9wu9tj9jQ| archive-date=2021-10-30|language=en|access-date=2019-12-26}}{{cbignore}}</ref>