Love island 8 the Anton appreciation thread 🏝☀️

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Here we go!

I've only watched half of the episode but Yewende sitting on Danny was so awkward to watch.

I thought it looked like Amy had something wrong with her hip. She was sort of hobbling. She has bad posture and doesn’t exercise does she so maybe...,

Either way she is so petulant and spoilt!

I think this is completely the wrong show for both Amy and Yewande and I think they will both need a lot of support afterwards. I don’t think yewande thought it through, she doesn’t seem to want the celebrity either. I think she will regret doing the show.

Totally agree with the poster who said that Yewande hasn’t much experience with men and was worried about being mugged off.
I think that when she was going on about him being needy, I think it was because she was trying to stop herself from being hurt by Danny.
She reminds me of myself at that age.
I was academic and had very little experience with men. If I was attracted to someone, I would avoid them like the plague as I didn’t want them to know how felt. I didn’t want to be vulnerable .

Apparently, Danny is good mates with Arabella ‘s ex. So I am quite suspicious about the whole show tbh

If I was attracted to someone, I would avoid them like the plague as I didn’t want them to know how felt. I didn’t want to be vulnerable

If Yewande is like this, the first thing she would do is go on an eight week tv dating show. Okaaaaay

I do not think we are seeing the true Yewande. At times she gets loud and negative then remembers she is supposed to be ‘different’. I don’t have a clue what her motivation is to want to be on tv but she is unpopular because she is playing parts and it is transparent.

They've all had a drink so everything is bit more het up when alcohol is involved. The others have all said they're fuming/raging etc. at other points and we've had MM screaming at Tommy and getting loud when Anton was telling her off, but I haven't seen anyone call her or the others aggressive- Yewande was venting to friends and I didn't get the impression that she was going to hit anyone.

I think Yewande is being held to a different standard but that's my opinion, others have theirs and so is life! I think she is definitely awkward and inexperienced though. She's slept with one person and people have calculated that was 4 years ago

Slipper- I don’t think we are seeing any of their true colours tbh.
We don’t know why Yewande would choose to appear on this show
Maybe she’s fed up of being a scientist and wants to become a ‘social influencer’ , who knows.
I am just saying that I can empathise with her.

Jim- wholeheartedly agree that Yewande is being held to a different standard. Some posters just don’t realise that they are doing this.

But areyoubeingserviced, if you felt just like that at her age would you have willingly gone on LI? The whole premise is to couple up/hook up. Doesn't make any sense if that's how she feels.

I don't accept this holding to a different standard nonsense, I'm basing my opinion on the behaviour that is shown. Just as I do with Amy.

So Danny is friends with Arabella's ex who is also Lucie's ex, is that right? Wow so incestuous.

Nope, I am not holding her to different standards.

Holly- No, I wouldn’t have gone on this type of show. However, sometimes one has to step out of one’s comfort zone.
A Nigerian work colleague of mine said that Yewande comes from a Nigerian background, where education is encouraged and relationships are often discouraged. This could perhaps explain why she wanted to do something such as appearing on LI. Who knows?

They are only allowed 2 drinks per night I think if they were allowed more it would be a different show

I feel really sorry for Amy there are loads of articles making fun of her walking and the comments on them are disgusting. If this was happening to my daughter I would be furious.

How come it's ok for people on the thread to say Amy has a physical disability and walks strange etc but when someone mentions Lucie perhaps being Aspergers it's nasty

I wondered about Amy's posture because my aunt has scoliosis and it looks familiar. No judgement there, how could there be? It doesn't rule out discussing her behaviour any more than Yewande's skin colour does. What has happened to these threads?

I love that argument

'You are holding her to a different standard and if you say you arenr, you just dont know you are'

Or....you know. You could just wrong.

And people did call MM aggressive, stroppy etc.

I think Anton will have a good career post love island. He's got a good personality.

I do think Yewande is being held to a different standard too. If you Google 'angry black woman stereotype', there are some interesting articles. And the thing is, this type of structural racism is very insidious, you don't realise you are acting in this way, we've been conditioned to it.

Previous posts have described Molly Mae as acting like a little girl, or other girls as having tantrums- more childlike/ innocent, less aggressive (while still harmful). I don't think it's a conscious thing, but worth reflecting on.

Personally, I think Yewande isn't a good fit for the show, she can't turn it on and pretend like the others. She comes across awkward and fake when she tries. Maybe because she's more miserable or maybe because she's more normal?! Her sense of humour seems quite dry, I think she was joking when she said she'd be affectionate for 5 min, and she genuinely thought her and Danny were in a good place from the night before. Arabella was smug and stirring but I can see how some would interpret it differently!

On here people have just observed Amy's posture - no nasty comments that I have seen. I was referring to the videos of it on Twitter there are tonnes of horrible comments about it and obviously on the daily mail comments section but what's new there

Ah yes the Twittersphere can get bad. I stopped reading links on here to TheFail years ago, comments section is just vile hatespeak, and mainly illiterate.

People from where I am from are seen as quick temper, quick to violence and stubborn and thick.

I understand stereotypes. I have been dealing it with my entire life.

I believe Yewande was aggressive last night. Especially warning her crazy was coming out.

I also called MM aggressive in the way she dealt Tommy.

So while you may have an opinion upon why people view Yewande the way you do..

It's not guaranteed to be correct.

Christ the armchair medical professionals diagnosing going on here is ridiculous! Amy was/is a flight attendant, you have to be fit to do that job. I'm neither here nor there about Amy but don't get the vitriol aimed at her.

I think Amy just walks with her feet pointed outwards. She wears heels for hours a day with her job down a slim aisle, I bet it’s a relief to be able to just relax walk in flip flops.

I agree with the pp who said Anton will have a good career. I can see him doing the competition segments on this morning/ loose women; a Rylan/Alison Hammond type role.

Proteinshakesandtears just because you thought MM was aggressive too and feel that you understand how stereotypes work, doesn't mean that others don't think that way. rockingchaircandle demonstrated it much better than myself by comparing the language used, (aggressive vs little girl etc.)