Love island 8 the Anton appreciation thread 🏝☀️

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Here we go!

I feel like no one is going to come in for Anton which is a shame because he seems like a genuine good guy.
I would like someone to come in who was just Tommy's type as I want MM to see through the BS he feeds her. Arabella was right in what she said to MM she shouldn't trust him.
Yewande and Amy should leave for their own sanity as they are both coming across really badly in most people's perception. The online abuse I have seen towards Amy is horrific if she was my daughter I would try and get her out.

The abuse they are receiving is awful.

Even if I dont, personally, like them I just cant be ok with all that at all.

What are people saying about Amy? That's awful, especially in the light of the suicides in relation to reality tv. I don't like her but she hasn't committed a crime! People need to take a hold of themselves.

Agreed @Proteinshakesandtears

Everyone on Twitter is laughing about how she was walking up the stairs. Comparing her to a dinosaur etc. If you just look up Amy Love Island on Twitter there are hundreds of tweets all negative about how much people dislike her. Probably the same people saying mental health matters!! People are literally pissing themselves laughing about the way she was walking it's so strange

People are literally pissing themselves laughing about the way she was walking it's so strange

I've see the tweets, very juvenile, she wasn't that bad! I noticed she had what looked like a big bruise on the outside of her thigh, maybe she's hurt herself? The vitriol she's getting is beyond the pale, I feel sorry for her and what she's coming out to.

Agreed @Proteinshakesandtears**

I also agree.

I remember thinking the way she went up the stairs was strange. Like she skipped a couple of steps at a time but then I remembered I used to do this when I was younger and I guess it just looks strange from the camera angle.

Its not actually a big deal, it was a fleeting thoughy and i can't believe people took to Twitter to laugh about it.
People are weird.

I have not seen one positive comment about Amy online. Only a couple of people saying "remember what happened to Mike" who just get ignored.
I have seen people say "if Amy was a shop she would be peacocks" "I bet she shops at Cath Kitson" "why does she look like a grandma" EVEN "Amy is a c**t" !!
I think Yewande has behaved worse recently and have not seen any abuse towards her! Not that I want her to get abused obviously.

I think the problem Amy had was that after doing all the beauty pageants she thought she would be queen bee and the reality is she isn't one of the best looking girls and certainly not in the villa with the likes of Maura, Arabella and Lucie. She's gone her whole life being told it's all about looks and now she's completely out of her depth. I think she is coming across a quite demanding and spoilt but that being said the comments I have seen about her on social media are disgusting.

I have researched last nights. I am in the fence with Arabella. I cant work out wether Arabella was right to tell Yewande what Danny had said. Or was being a bitch. Though before, I admit, I thought she was right to tell her

I think Danny is in the wrong as he is telling them both different things. I didn't think Arabella was being a bitch, she was just telling Yewande what Danny should have. Yewande totally denied the friends telling her how to play it with Danny when we all know they did coach her. She doesn't have a likeable personality at all, she's not coming across very well. I wonder if Danny will man up and be truthful tonight.

I'm guilty of Amy bashing on this thread.

The problem is that these shows are all about interpersonal relationships and dramas, which some contestants inevitably come out of as the 'villains'. It's a popularity contest and clearly a lot of contestants who go on imagining that people will love them in fact come out realising this is not the case. People love to hate a villain and bring them down a peg or two if they feel it's deserved. This has always been the case with human nature.

Twitter and social media mean that people's opinions are now encouraged to be aired anonymously from behind the keyboard - the funnier/meaner the more 'likes' and 'retweets'.

Reality TV has and always be about exploiting people who want fame and popularity....whether they turn out to be villain or hero the show creators don't give a fuck because it's good tv. From talent contests to LI.

I think MM is Tommy’s type, similar to his ex petite blonde hair. I really like the 2 of them now.
Feel very sorry for Amy.

I’ve said I don’t really like Amy but I’ve also got opinions on all the others. I’ve seen some disgusting personal comments about her that are completely uncalled for.

I really don’t think Amy has been that awful - she was a dick about Lucie and banged on about it too much, but the last we heard of that was the food fight episode and that was more coming from Lucie. I never bought that she pulled a nasty face when Joe picked Lucie therefore she’s an evil bitch who wanted Lucie gone - the recouplings are tense and that one particularly so after all the Maura drama, plus it was looking like Anna was going to go who Amy is friends with - I think she was pulling a tense/stressed/this is a shit situation face. Danni last series had a face like that every

She got upset about the kissing thing, had a moan then got over it. She even said ‘I’m being silly and need to get over it’. I don’t think that showed her to be utterly terrible either. I’m getting in for twice her age and still have the odd silly strop about things before giving myself a talking to.

I’m not saying I particularly like Amy and to be honest I find her and Curtis pretty cringeworthy but I really don’t like the way she’s vilified either.

To be honest I only got into Love Island last year and I do still genuinely enjoy it but I do find the nastiness and abuse that runs alongside it really worrying and it starts making me think I’m part of the problem for watching/discussing. I know that I’ve said stuff about them - I try to keep it to the behaviour/particular things they’ve said rather than go for outright character assassination, as do most people I’m sure, but when it tips over like on twitter to sheer vitriol it makes me think ‘who the fuck thought this program was a good idea in the first bloody place?’

I’m still watching for now though - so clearly I’m a hypocrite. I just hope they do have some seriously good support and after care in place.

Based on behaviour I think Amy is a lot more 'unhinged' than Yewande.
What I don't like about Yewande is how over-territorial she comes across as.
All of them (apart from Amy) were philosophical about the kissing challenge. Not Yewande- she made a point of saying it was the last time Arabella would get to kiss Danny.

Re the sitting on him incident, the way she told the others 'I'm going to ho be affectionate for 3mns, I'll be right back' as soon as Danny and Arabella were left alone, was really calculated and quite unpleasant.
She started off the show as a fun, albeit reserved girl. She has made a 180 IMO.

I think you can dislike someone without bashing them.

I dont like Amy. I am in the fence with noth Yewande and Danny and Arabella. I have been back and forth with Maura. From really disliking her, to really liking her.

I dont see that's bashing. Anyone going on reality TV knows they will be judged on how they come across and their personality. I think having an opinion is fine and not bashing.

What's happening on social media is a whole world away from having an opinion.

@Louise0701 you're obviously a nicer person than I am.
At the beginning I really liked her but as soon as she turned into a petulant child I've been guilty of thinking "why is she in there" "she's not even attractive" "she has weird this or that" etc
I'm not excusing these comments...but I know I'm not the only one in the UK.

I do agree they must know what they are getting themselves into to an extent as in a lot of media attention. I doubt Amy would have gone if she had known she would get this much abuse though!

During that episode I hadn't even noticed the way Amy had walked up the stairs...Just found the video and rewatched. She does hobble, perhaps in pain?
I have asked before whether anyone had noticed the way she struggles to walk in heels...

I don't understand the amount of stick Amy is getting either. When people decide they dislike someone, a 'bitchy' mindset will then laugh and lay in to them over any little thing going onwards which is why every little thing she does is analysed.
Objectively I can see she's a good looking woman as well. The only thing I didn't really like was her drawing attention to Lucie but that's done now. She did no worse than what people sit and say online anyway.

@Gummybear11 oh no absolutely I’m not! I don’t think she should be in there either! Or yewande! I’ve said that loads of times. Like you say, they open themselves up for public bashing the moment the enter reality tv shows. They know exactly what happens. I’m not excusing death threats etc but they were all fully aware of what could happen before entering and they all did so willingly. I can’t remember any particular comment on any the threads that I thought was shocking tbh. I think the ones on Twitter are absolutely vile but I don’t think there’s been anything on here that bad. Just peoples opinions.

@Louise0701 I've made personal comments about her appearance. I do really REALLY dislike her and it's making me look at myself - I'm obviously a bit of a bitch

You could say they know what they're getting themselves into but the problem is I don't think they do as a pp said or they wouldn't go on. I don't think Amy thought/thinks she will be disliked, let alone this much. And that's also part of the enjoyment people get in partaking 'bringing them down a peg or two' (I.e you're not what you think you are, love! etc)

really the show creators are actually bringing lambs unknowingly to slaughter for the sake of entertainment and money. And really it shouldn't be allowed. These are human beings.

The producers play a massive part in it all and manipulate it to create more drama and then pretend they had no play in it when shit hits the fan and people complain!
They showed Amy walking like that on purpose because it looked strange and would get people talking in all the wrong ways. Cruel. But to them any publicity is good publicity.
And the Joe thing. Instead of maybe talking to him about his behaviour before he started getting ahead of himself with Lucie they just watched it play out so he looked like a controlling psycho. Then manipulated the voting so people would want him to leave

Surely love island has been around long enough to know that some characters do get vilified. And probably every single islander will have negativity towards them at some point. Even the most popular have people that don't like them, that's life!

And if you enter thinking that won't ever happen to you as you're better than that, then maybe you do need bringing down a peg or two!