‘Love Island’ feels different now and it’s because of #MeToo

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This has, categorically, been the summer of Love Island. Despite being an annual fixture since 2015, this year’s Love Island has utterly steamrolled popular culture: it has become mainstream popular culture.

2018 was the year that the broadsheets couldn’t ignore it: MacBook anthropologists mused about attachment theory and heteronormative personality tropes and generation-Insta – before finishing with something like, ‘or maybe we just like watching semi-naked hotties getting it on!’

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‘Love Island’ is the best British reality dating show you’re not watching

At precisely 9 p.m. every night for the next three months, just as the sun is setting over the United Kingdom, Twitter comes alive. 
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This reality dating show is so popular a guy redecorated his house to celebrate it

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In case you somehow managed to miss the news, Love Island is back.

For anyone who hasn’t heard of it, the record-breakingly popular ITV show is essentially a British reality dating series in which a bunch of outrageously chiselled people stay in a villa together and couple off.

It sounds simple — fairly similar to a bunch of other shows, even — but that didn’t stop an average of 2.95 million people tuning in for the first episode of the new series on Monday.

Oh, and if you need further proof of just how dedicated a following the show has, just take a look at the surprise this husband put on for his wife to celebrate its launch: Read more…

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