Please tell me about Love Island- What’s the issue with it?

[ManderlyAgain]

Ok, first off Old Gimmer Alert. My niece loves Love Island and my Sis is not happy about it. I haven’t seen it but it seems very popular and quite innocuous viewing. Sort of like Big Brother but a nicer location.
However, there’s been a bit of a brouhaha in the press about mental health problems. And I’ve noticed some people are a bit snobby about it in a oh it’s like Jeremy Kyle kind of way. It seems fun and relatively harmless to me but then as I said I haven’t seen it as I usually work evenings. Should my sister be concerned? It’s not like my niece wants to go on it.

I find it thoroughly depressing, a show that celebrates thickness and focuses solely on looks, six packs and tans.
The fact that last years unwanted male was a dr says it all. Yes some may say harmless but these People are in the paper daily and make a living from filtered instagrams. On a deeper level I find the show borderline racist.

You can still watch bits of it on ITV hub.

Better than relying on inaccurate accounts here (Yewande and Michael discussing their science degrees is in an early episode)

Or dip in to the 28(?) part thread in it, or yesterday’s AIBU thread - lots of opinions already on those threads

Ooh bloody hell, missed the AIBU thread I’ll check it out thanks! And the other one, thanks iVamp 👍

It is fun and harmless. All the contestants know what they are getting into, many of them are already z-list famous/instagram 'influencers' so the fame isn't new to them.

The issue was one contestant committed suicide 2 years after the show - she was already a model and won Miss GB, so was use to publicity. However she said she was cyber bullied.

The other contestant, Mike, committed suicide after his best friend died, and the his grandmother, who he was live in carer for, also passed away.

The most recent series, everyone knows that no-one in real life looks like those girls, and its pretty scripted and set up.

Its just a bit of fun, easy watching.

Ah I see Nesssie- tragic but not really directly related to LI. The press makes it seem like LI was responsible for the suicides.

It makes random nobodies with no talent to speak of and the morals of an alley cat famous. What's to like?
It's certainly not the type of garbage I'll be wanting my DD to watch when she's older