DC ExtraTime: Funny File - AYTO 5's Carolina

Following are excerpts from DCBLOG's Are You The One? posts, reposted in the interest of our readers and featuring a key figure in last night's first part of the AYTO Season 6 Reunion which will be covered on here this weekend.

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POST #1: from Before AYTO Season 5 Finale

AN iPHONE FLASHBACK w/ CAROLINA

As we told you back in early January, those in Las Vegas look forward to its first big event of the year and the annual kickoff of wondering what's next in those gadgets we rely on everyday - the Consumer Electronics Show. But one notable item wasn't introduced at any of those shows that take place after the buzz wears off of the holiday shopping season, also the world's largest annual convention taking place in the city with the most convention space of any city anywhere.
   Ten years ago, the iPhone was introduced by Apple patriarch Steve Jobs at the MacWorld 2007 convention in San Francisco's Moscone Center, up the ways from the company's headquarters in Cupertino, CA. The first two models - a 4GB and 8GB - went on sale in the U.S. that June as hundreds of customers lined up outside Apple stores nationwide to the phone that would be the game-changer in the world of mobile phones, with some media calling it "the Jesus phone." The iPhone has become an essential part of the lives of countless millions of people here and around the world.
   And you're not alone: I was given my first iPhone for my birthday back in 2011 and am into my third phone - an SE in case you ask. I do utilize the two previous phones for the sake of being able to retweet cast members' tweets on my DCNOW live hub when episodes of the Trifecta air on TV, and the same goes for sports events and awards shows too.  And of course, I'm on my phone much of the time when I'm not at my day job - always keeping an eye out for what's up around the world, or capturing photos and video for my various social media platforms.

When we met Carolina, she was that Brazilian who now calls Seattle home, and who is honest and independent. Through the help of the Flow Chart that was posted on last week's AYTO Aftermatch, she was first spotted with Joey, then with Ozzy and with Jaylan, but sat for five straight weeks with Hayden at matchup before they were sent into the Truth Booth and became our second Perfect Match. And in the week or so since, she, along with both her perfect match and Gianna, have gotten some hate in social land.
   But something that wasn't mentioned much in her MTV.com bio was that when she came onto the show, she was a student in video & music production in college in the Seattle area. In prep to do this vignette, we happened to find her YouTube channel, which features her going skydiving and a few other odds and ends. She has something in common with me in having a passion to do original videos which we then post on that site.

A video that came up there was one she made in Fall 2014, following the release of the iPhone 6, which increased the screen size and upgraded cameras, connectivity and speed to where now everyone in my family except me have that model (I opted for the SE upgrade so I can still keep the same sized phone holder on my belt, by the way). In the video we have embedded below, she and her class made a parody video where they went into an Apple Store in the Pacific Northwest, had a guy play the role of Apple CEO Tim Cook and where they predicted that the model for the iPhone 7. Check it out for yourself below...which also includes Carolina as well.

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POST #2: From Week 7 of AYTO Season 6

CROUCHING JOGGER, HIDDEN LATE FEES

If you caught that peek at Episode 8, you might've spotted someone very familiar: Taylor from Season 5 invading the house for next week's challenge in what should be the most anticipated "exes" visit we've ever had for the purpose that someone from a previous season will, for the first time ever, return on a regular AYTO season -- not counting Second Chances. That offers the bridge to this brief but hilarious bit of ExtraTime.
   Amidst iPhone mania we've been having this month with the releases of X and 9, earlier this year we showed a parody video featuring Carolina from the first cast to ever lose the money when her, Tay and their cast came up short in Week 10. There, she and her friends discussed a prototype version of the iPhone 7 that ultimately didn't get approval from Tim Cook and the board. But we've also happen to find on her YouTube channel something, as we like to always say, you'll get a kick out of.

In the following film short, Carolina is the lead character in their class's sendup of the 2000 film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the wuxia film that became a surprise worldwide box office hit. That movie won four Oscars including Best Foreign Language Film and remains influential for its martial arts, screenplay and behind the scenes aspects.  In their version of the film entitled Crouching Jogger, Hidden Late Fees, Carolina plays the role Zhang Ziyi played of martial artist Jen Yu in the original film, as she jogs through the Western Washington wilderness when a man comes out of nowhere and she decides to take to a fight. Check it out below.

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