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Love Island USA Gave Viewers All the Power
And turned a boring season of TV into a phenomenon.
Anyone following social-media conversations about the show knew exactly what was happening: Fans had discovered video of Yulissa using the N-word, and producers decided to ax her from the series before she had time to establish herself as a long-term character. The reasoning behind her exit was not explained within the main text of the show, meaning that only audience members who fell down an online Love Island rabbit hole knew what was happening. For weeks, Ortega had been developing a relationship with season-seven favorite and mamacita-meme-maker Nic Vansteenberghe, and by episode 25, they were the only couple to have “closed off” (a show-specific term signifying they’d no longer date other members of the cast in order to try to win together at the end of the season).
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