DC ExtraTime: An AYTO Girl Makes "Love Not War" with Jason Derulo

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As the calendar turned to the month of December over a week ago, it marked not only the start of the run-up to tonight's premiere of The Challenge: Double Agents, but also the start of a depressing time for those who have Netflix. This is the last month that the platform's most streamed show, The Office, will be available for those to binge, as the show's distributor NBC Universal will bring the series to its fledging rival Peacock come January 1st, joining fellow Must See TV hit Friends in leaving the biggest player in the world of streaming video on demand for an in-house startup in the streaming wars.

But on the upside of things, December also saw the start of something magical for those who follow MTV Reality in the first of several shows from the channel's vast library being made available to Netflix. Unlike its rivals in the field (including where Friends went with HBO Max), the vision ViacomCBS has when it comes to making its shows available on streaming is that it doesn't make it exclusive to its own platform -- in this case, it's CBS All Access (soon Paramount+). Case in point: reboots of Singled Out and Punk'd were available on the now-shuttered Quibi service, and Facebook Watch was the home to the most recent season of The Real World in Atlanta.

In this case, two seasons each of The Challenge, Survivor and Teen Mom are being made available on Netflix, while Catfish and Jersey Shore are available on Hulu. And on December 1st as that time of year known as cuffing season began, it also got to welcome the first two seasons of MTV's Are You The One? to its lineup much to the delight of those who have followed the entire series from day 1 - which includes this blogger. By week's end, the show vaulted to the top 10 of Netflix's most-viewed TV shows list, and that has given reason for some of the show's alumni to do something that they didn't get to do when it aired back in 2014: do live sessions on Instagram with fellow castmates just like those from later seasons have been able to do to spill the tea... we'll share you some of those flashbacks from those as we get deeper into this winter.

But this has also brought to light the many accomplishments the many AYTO alumni have achieved since they were on the show, including the handful of those who've made their way to The Challenge including Amber M. of Season 8, Devin & Nelson of the legendary Season 3 cast, and part of the next generation of female challengers Tori and Kam who are among the group of Double Agents. There are so many other things that has happened to their fellow alumni since they left that last matchup, but this time we'd rather save the time and space for that... which leads us to the latest instance of AYTO making a mark on the mainstream.