Why you shouldn’t blame Frankie Cocozza for Frankie Cocozza

'X Factor's' Frankie Cocozza survived a double elimination last night, the best opportunity yet to send him crashing out of the competition and on his way towards a life of tabloid photographers and girls with low self-esteem.

He survived despite turning in one of the worst 'X Factor' performances ever. So bad it managed to ruin one of the worst songs ever, 'I've Got a Feeling' by The Black Eyed Peas.

When his name was read out as a survivor of Club Classics week, Twitter erupted with hatred for the walking haircut with a level of outrage the Daily Mail would be proud of.

One user said: "Disgusted. That pest just won't go away". Another said, "Frankie Cocozza is not only an insult to music but also humanity."

Is he really so bad? After all he's just an 18-year-old boy with a golden opportunity to do what most 18-year-old boys want to do. If the spotlight wasn't shining on him would any of us really bat an eyelid?

[See also: Frankie incurs Ofcom investigation and threatens to quit on omg!]

Maybe the old adage "Don't hate the player, hate the game" is appropriate.

Sure he can't sing or perform but neither can I, half the problem with Frankie isn't actually him. He's just at the eye of a storm of idiocy.

As soon as the powers that be at 'X Factor' saw him, they saw someone to market to the teenage girl demographic and he hadn't even opened his mouth by that point.

As his notoriety grew, he started to get the attention of the press, which in turn gave 'X Factor' bosses more reason to keep him on.

The judges haven't heaped praise on him and thankfully even they recognise that he can't sing but they do keep mentioning "on-stage presence".

It is less the presence of a pop star however and more like the presence of an overflowing toilet or a black hole threatening to destroy everything we hold dear. Equally horrible things that cannot be ignored.

Essentially Frankie Cocozza is just a boy with a whole heap of insecurities which he's fighting by being unruly and generally having the personality and appeal of a puddle of cold vomit but let's not begrudge him for that.

He's come to represent everything that's so repulsive about today's youth, but actually he represents everything that's wrong with society.

He encourages stupidity from his young female fans, and anger which could be put to better use from the likes of me but it's neither our faults, nor his.

It's the show's producers who are at fault for encouraging him, and setting him up for a dark future for their own personal gain.

The debate over the age limit for the show cited the emotional trauma some of the youngsters go through when they're rejected.

The real reason the limit should be raised is to stop young people being turned into the likes of Frankie and to stop impressionable viewers from thinking fame is the only worthwhile goal in life.

All Frankie Cocozza and this storm of supposed controversy proves is just how ridiculous 'X Factor' is, and how futile and wasteful getting angered by it really is.

This Saturday I might just read a book instead.