I really do not give a single shit about any reality tv dating shows and that includes things like Love Island, Love is Blind or either form of the the Bachelor(ette). They are vapid and annoying and they make me feel so so weird, like we live in some weird dystopia where you go on tv and ruin your reputation all so people can see you at your lowest, most petty point in your life and for what, a marriage that ends in divorce in the span of three months? I just don't get it beyond watching pretty people expose how ugly they are. You want to watch flypaper white Ari Luyndick (or however you spell his name) go on tv only to waffle over three very pretty caucasian woman, cutting any and all but one women of color in the preliminary rounds, for him to change his mind literally two nights before the finale airs on live tv? Like, I just don't understand why you'd want me to watch that and derive joy, PLEASURE, from that shit. I'm really not interested in that man at all and I don't understand why anyone would be. Love is Blind is also an interesting concept for the sake of a dating show, like "oh we made it so you have to like their personalities first and foremost" but they also seem to cast the worst people on the show because these are the people who are sociopathic and/or self-centered enough to televise their marriage on national television when there's clear problems. Like eurgh. I have a friend who worked on the latest season of it, so of course I'm gonna support them and just watch an episode because like, sure, why not, let me see all these horror stories you mentioned, and then I'm like, shit, how can literally anyone sit through more than five minutes of this. It's like, even the friends of the bride are just tiring. I love how there's always one girl who's friends with the ain girl who is like "I'm Jenny's bff since we were in 10th grade," (context Jenny is probably like 19) " and I know that this guy, BRandon, and gurl, he, uh, he's no good for her and I'mma make everyone know that his business ain't right for her", and she ends up using like AAVE and Queer terminology she learned on tiktok despite being the most socially conservative cishet white woman you've seen go to Texas Christian since the bride's own mother or something. This trope, the best friend who is a camera hog who muggs up every single shot for as much screentime as possible for a spinoff show I guess(?) is the worst and I don't understand why anyone would find that kind of television interesting in the slightest. THE WORST ONE THOUGH? THE LOVE BOAT on CBs last fall. Like, they made it as a reboot of an old tv show but this time as a reality dating show that couldn't decide if it wanted to be Survivor, the Bachelor in Paradise or like The amazing Race? I watched 15 seconds of a commerical with the male host who might as well have been Mehmet Oz or something, and I noped out of there faster than the time I accidentally walked in on grandma using the toilet. it's so bad dude, it's genuinely cringeworthy every time that commercial appears on my screen, thank GOD it got cancelled
tl;dr reality tv dating shows are dumb and i don't like em and if you do then you're a strange one who enjoys watching people be petty and bad
though idk if my words carry much weight since i want to be on survivor looooool