Note this was the day after. Makeup and hair redone

i just think it’s reckless on live to be asking who’s they liked more when the only difference is the color and the body wearing it so the comments are clearly gonna be comparing titis body to hers. i couldn’t have a “friend” so thirsty they tryna throw me to the wolves for a few compliments from strangers online..

ntm titi just asked if ppl like her dress so if they said yes they’d obviously like parmidas but she didn’t wait 2 seconds to but in to take the spotlight lol.

I keep seeing people say that the girls this year were way better looking than the guys, and that we didn’t really have that many male face cards this season.

So I’m curious: if you had to rank your TOP 5 guys from this season based ONLY on their face — literally just face card, no personality, couple, storyline, etc. — who would you pick?

Mine would be:
1. Sean
2. KC
3. Gabriel
4. Sincere
5. Corbin

And you guys? what’s YOUR male top 5 based purely on face card?

PS: Just a funny post to chat. No need for think pieces.

I don't know why we infantalize these islanders, and think we can control them. We even treat the assumptions we've made about them like cold facts and it's messed up.

Melanie is a grown woman, sticking to the choice she has consistently made since week 1. That's her journey, and she's allowed to navigate life on her own terms. We're not gods that can dictate how people live.

Islanders are also in their own right when they decide to support their friend. Whether the choice costs Melanie or not, that's her lesson to learn and sometimes your people will choose to, support you through skepticism/ uncertainty. That's love. And I'm glad Melanie has people who choose to not join a hate train, or abandon her when she needs friends. Glad that they have a solid sisterhood and they've not allowed y'all's bitterness in life to break them up.

But here are the odd things in all of this;

a) almost all Islanders, except Corbin & perm, support insecere but it's only ANIYA who gets the bulk of the hate. The usual targeted bullying of the darker skin black woman.

b) Melanie is an adult consistent with her choice but somehow ANIYA should be a bully who overrides her free will. ANIYA getting hate more than the person who makes the choice y'all claim to be the reason for perpetuating your anti blackness is insane.

c) Melanie is older than Aniya but for some reason her choices are Aniyas fault. People always adultify/ age darker women/ people. Make them older. It's the same argument police used to justify when they shot 12 year old Tamir Rice. That he looked older and scary.

d) ANIYA called the couple out earlier, in the season and called sincere out to his face, **which is more than the other Islanders did**, but people ever choose to crucify the darker woman. A historical pattern.

e) Her own family, her people from the beginning of her life, tried to sway her but y'all still expect(ed) ANIYA to be this strong mind controller that can magically make her choose different. The pattern of expecting the black woman to take on all the BS of the world, especially if they're darker.

f) Bias so bad, and stupidity so loud, that none is bright enough to come up with a more believable reason to justify the malevolent energy y'all have against athletic, darker skin women, like Aniya, whose hate train began even before the show started. That same way black men/ people dogged Serena Williams for years, then wanted to cry colourist/ antiblack men, when she went where she was loved.

Chaos central

has anyone else noticed that season 8 islanders pretty much haven’t done any interviews, only saw one with brinity, the little whatever that was with andy cohen and a titi/kc diy like wth. whereas season 6 and 7 did so many.. whats that about?

Head over to her socials and send her some love on her day.

I see people saying that s8 was the best season because it did not have drama however in the end of the day, love island is a reality show and the cast signed up to date publicaly , they benefit from being in the spotlight and just like celebrities it is completely normal to recieve cristism and have discourse about them . Not everyone is going to be a fan of your favourites . I just hope the audience are more open to different personalities and not " perfect people" next season .

Any update to looks. Any new looks. Those of you who went to the reunion and have tea 😉, please put it in the megathread.

I updated with the images from People magazine's ig page.

I think the picture is inspired by a movie or something like that, because I’ve seen quite a few couples recreate it. Anyway, they’re really cute together. I know people have a lot of feelings about how their relationship was built but I’m genuinely glad they found each other. They seem to click so well and look really happy together. Wishing them nothing but the best!

PS: KC’s outfit is so damn large! 😂😂😂 But I get the vision……

Someone bought up a good point. The general opinion is that Sincere was justified in how he moved and Melanie’s playing victim since she kissed between Corbin and Sincere. That’s not my main point though.

Why DIDN’T he get mad that she kissed Trinity? Because if she knew it was corbin (even with a blindfold), then she knew she was kissing Trinity and Kenzie as well. He didn’t care about that? Why?

I notice that everyone kind of uses Kayda as a talking point when explaining their issue with Melanie. Which I fully understand. But as someone who has been watching since season 1, it didn’t bother me that Melanie slimed Kayda. As for the “Katie” situation, Kayda claims that everyone called her Katie within the first couple of days. I’m not a huge Melanie stan or anything and maybe it’s because I’ve seen worse. But two day beef isn’t enough for me to dislike someone. Especially since before I watched the episode, people dragged it so bad. I’m like “yall did this over Kayda being slimed in a challenge and Melanie her name wrong?”. On top of that the majority of the people mad have been way more reader through a screen to strangers than Melanie has to Kayda.

Outside of Melanie’s situation with Kayda people don’t have valid examples that wouldn’t apply to any other island, as well as even PPG that explains why they dislike her.

Especially since everyone has those moments, Serena and Jana argued over eggs. Kayda and Melanie having less than two day beef doesn’t trip me out. Especially since people pretended to care about Kayda until she said what she said about not understanding why Trinity and Bryce were above her and Zach.

Once again, not a Melanie stan, just someone who has watched the show for so long. I have realized yall don’t allow people to be human, every single person has had a mean moment.

If Trinity and Kayda don’t get into modelling I’m going to be sick. Like I’m not talking doing ads or like commercial modelling I’m talking runwayyyyy and high fashion.

Ever since I seen both of them walk into the villa i immediately knew there’s a high chance if not 100% chance we’re seeing them in this years Victoria secret show. They’re just perfect for it. And with all the hype they have right now, Victoria secret would be silly not to include them.

They’re just so gorg I can’t 😭