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I'm Brittany Luce and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR,

a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.

Thank you. culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. I don't care if you're watching it or not.

We have to talk about season seven of Love Island USA.

So if you don't know, Love Island throws a bunch of very hot, very single, and very ready to mingle contestants into a villa together to look for love, connection, $100,000.

And yes, maybe they are really looking for love, but also it is an amazing launching pad for being a real influencer.

And that makes watching the show pretty engaging. As these couples pair off, break up, make up, make out, and so on, the audience responds in real time online, like actual real time.

Because the show is produced on such a tight turnaround, they have access to how the American populace is responding to stuff.

So they can see us hating or loving these islanders and then make decisions the next day of what to do with them.

I'm tired of going on stupid dates, love island.

Find me a man.

I think what is really appealing to me about it is it's kind of like watching the

Stanford Prison Experiment.

Like the producers are just putting these people through absolute hell.

As these couples try to keep their relationships going strong, they are constantly tempted

by potential new hot connections from a never-ending stream of bombshells, aka hot people

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