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So far on The Challenge: Double Agents, the rookie field has made plenty of buzz as has those who are not yet to the level that most consider veteran status of having done three seasons or more. We saw a Survivor champion make noise in the season's first elimination that left everyone shocked before she set foot in the Crater, a singer and former motocross rider go out swinging at a ginger man, and the facial expressions of the first-ever male Challenger of Asian origin. And yet, we haven't really gotten to know each and every one of them, even though they've been holding the upper hand through one month.
One of this winter's field of first-time Challengers is Amber Martinez, who this past week began to make some noise in Iceland as she aims to follow in the footsteps of those like Tori, Devin and others who've made their way to Challenge Nation from MTV's biggest entry into romantic reality TV. We first met her on the 2019 edition of Are You The One?, where if there's an argument for which of the eight seasons of the love experiment is the most memorable, there's no doubt hers is the most meaningful in which those who are classified as sexually fluid had a chance to find love as only MTV knows how.
That brings us to this story, which involves a fellow member of Amber's Season 8 cast who would then return to MTV to get another chance at love. This, in fact, is a follow-up on a similar story we did after the AYTO season that proceeded Amber's, but just as it was for two members of Season 7, this one came not necessarily on the linear cable channel itself or even on its expanded slate of digital platforms. For this case, you have to look back at the biggest bust in the short but progressive history of the new kid on the block of over-the-top streaming television.
This coming week will mark exactly two months since the World Health Organization officially declared the coronavirus a pandemic, officially gave it the technical code COVID-19, and causing just about all of our best-laid plans for 2020 to get derailed in the process. As we speak to you this weekend, there are almost four million cases of the virus being confirmed, 273,000 people have died, and the United States has over 1.3 million cases & the lives of nearly 80,000 have been claimed by it. And this doesn't bring into account the economic and social ramifications caused by this emergency.
The ones who are most affected by COVID has been, obviously, those who have suffered from it, those have had health scares due to it, and those who are family or friends who are going through this agonizing situation right now as they try to recover. Chances are, those of you reading this have someone you know who are living through this, as those who are affected by the coronavirus have taken every conceivable precaution to distance themselves as they try to recover. And there is one person in the community of MTV Reality who has been through this tumultuous experience.
Last year at this time, anticipation was growing in the lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender community for Season 8 of MTV's Are You The One?, which became the first time on American reality television to have a romantic dating series consist of an entirely gender-fluid cast. Last year's season debuted during the annual celebration of Pride Month, premiering five years after the Supreme Court's landmark ruling to make same-sex marriage legal coast to coast (June 26, 2019), and two days before the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City that brought about the LGBT+ revolution.
"Come One, Come All" saw everything viewers have come to expect from AYTO, from the jaw-dropping hookups - including five girls getting it on inside the signature Boom Boom Room, to the always juicy relationships among everyone in the house as they looked for their perfect match and align everyone together to win money. They eventually did win that money in eventually figuring out the magic code late in the season, but the real winner of the summer was love and acceptance... and AYTO8 also brought viewers countless stories of the sixteen singles as they shared their struggles to be truly accepted for who they really are, continuing MTV's strong LGBT legacy.
One of those who came to this revolutionary season was Kari Snow, a 23-year-old from East Hanover, a small New Jersey township 30 miles west of New York. MTV.com wrote of her, "Kari is a hardcore cosplayer who loves to play dress up, but when the costumes come off, her personality is just as bright and colorful. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about her relationships. Underneath the surface, her relationships got pretty dark. Kari remained the loud and fun person she truly is, but the underlying darkness left her guarded when it comes to love. Can Kari be the superhero for her own heart and rescue it from the cage she put around it?"
For a girl who calls herself "Kariselle" as in carousel with a "K" in front, Kari was also an aspiring singer before she came to Hawaii, as she still is now. But well after the afterglow of AYTO 8 had faded out (one where she had a public social beef with her perfect match, Max Gentile), she would find herself fighting the same battle millions around the world are battling: the virus. Last week, Kari disclosed publicly for the first time on social media that she had tested positive for COVID back in March, well before cities, communities & countries began implementing social distancing regulations and public gatherings were closed off to contain the spread. In where she calls home, the New York metropolitan area is far & away the metropolis most affected by the pandemic.
Kari tweeted earlier this week @KariselleSnow, "Here's something to think about: I kept it private when I found out I had COVID-19 & during that time there were people asking me to come hangout. Do you now see that you could literally be asking to see someone who has the coronavirus and not even know? As someone in their early 20s in good health who tested positive for COVID-19, we are not invincible to this virus. If I knew what I know now, I would’ve taken this WAY MORE seriously. Nothing is worth even the tiniest risk. Please learn from my mistakes I swear it’s not worth it."
Someone who was among the first to know about Kari beating COVID was Joey Sasso, winner of Season 1 of Netflix's The Circle... and he tweeted, "Guys, just got off a FT call and learned that my good friend @KariselleSnow had and beat COVID-19!!!! She feels amazing and healthy! Go show her some love for making it through this dark period. Love you and so happy you are okay ❤️." And her fellow AYTO castmate Nour Fraij wrote to her, "I love you baby gurl! Keep your head up and stay strong. You beat Covid!!!! I’m so happy you’re doing better 💗."
In two additional social posts below on Instagram and YouTube, Kari discusses more in both photo and video form, and more in-depth in her video post, of what she has had to endure, from her having to quarantine when a friend of hers in their house had contracted the virus despite her being healthy and at a young age, to how this entire process of recovering from it has affected her mental state, one which she calls the day of her initial prognosis "one of the scariest days of my life." We are all hoping for a speedy and safe recovery for Kari as this crisis goes into its third month.
This past summer, it was the turn of The Hills to return to the MTV spotlight with New Beginnings, as fans welcomed back Audrina Patridge, Whitney Port, Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt and their assorted friends & significant others, along with Tommy Lee's son Brandon and the lady whose show inspired its predecessor Laguna Beach, The O.C.'s Mischa Barton. Watching the drama unfold there brought us back in time of sorts to when we were ten or so years younger, and we were reminded also about the very place where this show is based: Hollywood and Southern California.
If you watched both the original series with Lauren Conrad (and later Kristin Cavaliari) and its relaunch, something was common: cameo appearances by some of the biggest stars in showbiz -- after all, you can't go anywhere in Tinseltown without perhaps random spotting your favorite stars. Both iterations of The Hills featured Audrina's one-time boyfriend Ryan Cabrera, while LC's passion for fashion saw her work with designer Marc Jacobs. Colton Haynes was seen modeling for Teen Vogue two times on the show before he starred on Teen Wolf, while a deleted scene emerged years ago of Kim Kardashian making a cameo. And two future reality stars -- Scheana Marie Shay and Tom Sandoval -- were spotted at a club and at a photo shoot before they became fixtures on Vanderpump Rules thanks to working for Real Housewife Lisa Vanderpump's SUR restaurant.
But perhaps, the single most significant guest appearance during the six-season original run of The Hills took place during Season 4 in 2008, and provided a harbinger of what was to come for music in the next decade. In Episode 5 of that season, a then up-and-coming singer named Lady Gaga took the stage at an event at Area club thrown by Interscope Records. People's Revolution boss lady Kelly Cutrone saw something about the rising star when Lauren and Whitney were working for her that night, and the ladies were backstage just before the Mother Monster went up on stage. Gaga needed some assistance moments before her big gig when the zipper on her catsuit broke, and LC had to come to her rescue to fix that suit before she performed "LoveGame" that night.
Fast forward over a decade later, and Gaga has become a megastar that everyone knows nowadays. It's remarkable considering how she got to earn her way to stardom singing at open mic nights in New York City, being in school adaptations of Broadway plays, working as a songwriter after Def Jam let her go after being signed out of school, and then getting Akon's help to sign with Interscope. A year after her Hills cameo, "Just Dance," "Poker Face" and her debut album The Fame shot Gaga into the stratosphere... and her provocative body of work, her striving to be anything but conventional in her music and being progressive in visualization has helped her to being the global star she is. She has amassed nearly 30 million records sold, almost 150 million sales of her singles and many records and awards - along with headlining a Super Bowl halftime and her own residency in Vegas. Plus, there's her growing acting career with A Star Is Born with Bradley Cooper, and the Hotel season of the American Horror Story franchise which netted her an Oscar, Grammy and Golden Globe Award. And she has long been an advocate for the LGBT community, and the foundation that bears the name of her song "Born This Way" has advocated in prevention in youth bullying.
Gaga has also added the role of entrepreneur to the titles of singer, actress and advocate, including her beauty brand, Haus Laboratories. Earlier this fall, Haus launched its first, vegan-friendly makeup line on Amazon, which comprises of 40 products including liquid eyeliners and lip gloss, among other items. Haus and Amazon launched a temporary pop-up store at one of the Southland's most prominent shopping districts, The Grove in L.A., as she sported a dress designed by Christian Cowan, a pink ponytail, a custom headpiece curated by Marina Hoermanseder and wore ruby and pearl on her hand as she met the paparazzi and fans there at The Grove.
And two of those who were lucky enough to not only see her but also have a moment with the Monster was on this year's season of Are You The One? - the revolutionary season of the love experiment casting an all-LGBT friendly cast of sexually fluid singles. The most notable romance during this summer's season 8 of AYTO involved Ohio State grad turned EDM fanatic Max Gentile and a retired member of the armed forces, New Yorker Justin Palm. Max and fellow castmate, Amber Martinez, had the chance to meet up with Gaga at the Grove earlier this month, and Amber captioned in Instagram, "Such an honor to be in the presence of this iconic legend right here🥰." And Max added, "Gaga for President." Next up for Gaga: her sixth studio album in 2020.
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It was back on May 30th that MTV added another chapter to it and Viacom's long & storied legacy of championing the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer community when it revealed the cast of Season 8 of Are You The One?. There, a group of sixteen singles identified as sexually fluid began their journey during Pride Week (and on the 4th anniversary of the SCOTUS' important same-sex marriage decision) as the cast of the first-ever season of a reality dating show on U.S. television that catered specifically to, and starring, the LGBT community in a season that's affectionately called, Come One, Come All.
This season has had it all when it comes to the drama, love and heartbreak we've come to expect from the AYTO brand, but Season 8 also stood out in many ways from its predecessors. Similar to what we have seen on many Real World seasons past, Come One, Come All also got to showcase gays, lesbians, trans, bi and queer people as they also got to share their stories of how they've struggled to come to grips with who they really are, as they finally got to prove to the world that, at the end of the day, "Love Wins." And last week, the biggest couple in the house endured heartache when Justin & Max found out that they were not a perfect match, all as the rest of the house got good news in figuring out more perfect matches without the help of a Truth Booth.
After the renowned original first cast took only nine tries to ascend into legend status, this week marks the seventh straight season that AYTO has come down to the tenth & last week for the house to go for the money... and only one of them did not achieve that goal. After receiving an unfavorable outcome in their ninth matchup despite doubling their season-high beam output of six, the house has no more strategy cards left to play... and now the game is in the hands of the Stragglers - six of them in all - who must follow their hearts, find their matches and hope luck will be on their side.
After the jump, it's all or nothing as we welcome you to the 2019 finale of Are You The One, as we bring you the SocialPulse of the season finale from Hawaii.
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Welcome back lovebirds... earlier here tonight, we brought you a Backtracked installment of the 'Pulse of the ninth episode and eighth week of Are You The One? Season 8, as the house got to do something that, ordinarily, would be the duties of the handful of analytics sites that cover this show: figure out their perfect matches outside of the Truth Booth... all thanks to the cast's resident nerd, Silicon Valley native Danny.
At the end of that episode, the house was confronting their eighth matchup ceremony and a game that, when they were last there watching the night light show, was starting to slip away from them in having not made as much progress as they wanted. As we rejoin them here (after a two week's wait on TV and a Season 7 stud coming onto Singled Out on here), a couple who have been through a lot in the house are on edge of whether or not they are a perfect match: Justin & Max. They will find out their fate without ever getting voted into the Truth Booth, and it's what happens afterward that will give clues to who the remaining couples are, while the others who are matches will get to know each other more intimately, as we wrap up our summer in a state that just marked its 60th anniversary of statehood.
After the jump, it's the Pulse of this week's episode of Are You The One? - Come One, Come All. Thanks for joining us here tonight...
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Well, we have made it through the first week of the post-summer season... that means, the NFL season is underway (albeit a sleeper in Chicago), and that means fall TV season is now starting. It also means that a summer vacation that began back in June is now headed towards its conclusion for the cast of Are You The One? Season 8: Come One, Come All.
When we were last brought you the SocialPulse of AYTO back in mid-August (for reasons to be explained here at the end), the Hawaii house had the traditional nighttime party under the skies, and once again the focus was on the one with the bleached blond hair, Kai... and there was also a fight on the dance floor as well. And a couple that took over the house was the pair known simply as #Rage - Remy and Paige.
As for the game itself, as it stands after their seventh matchup ceremony the house is stuck at three beams, and there's not much time left for them to get from there to eight - which is the magic number as there's just sixteen singles here in Hawaii. And as we rejoin them here, the house will have only three tries left to get from there to the end and $750,000. But something that the folks at AYTO Math have been doing has been of figuring out the matches before the house does: that's what a few in the house will figure out thanks to something called analytics. That may have bearings on the couple of the most intrigue in Hawaii.
After the jump, it's a special Backtracked edition of the 'Pulse of AYTO, as the game begins to change in paradise. And welcome to the weekend...
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Well hey there, it is the weekend - and for many of you, the last one before a new year in college and school begins. We here are headed towards the end of our summer in the MTV Reality calendar, but the good news is we're only a couple weeks away from the start of fall in the fifth major pro sport. Before that, we have the Pulse to bring you here of Are You The One? Come One, Come All.
When we were last with our sexually-fluid group in the Hawaiian islands, they recovered from the first blackout in a matchup ceremony since Season 5 two years ago (and thus, the first one of Terrence J.'s hosting tenure) with not just the first upward movement in the beams but also a first Truth Booth match. And as the house tries to build on that momentum, two annual traditions of any AYTO season took place: the getaway challenge seeing those know the singles better than we do of family, friends and exes popping in via skype to spill some dirty secrets. We also had Kai's latest trip to the Boom Boom Room cause more riff, as well as the other tradition: a party.
That party is the time where the house gets down and dirty under the night sky, and there's more of that on this week's quest for love. And THAT guy and his player ways is once again causing everyone to pick up the pieces and do what they can to tell him that what he's doing to them may not get them to the $750,000 - for which they face their seventh matchup this week. For another guy here, he tries to put his player ways behind him to make the hashtag #Rage the one that perhaps will bring them to eight beams.
We'll find out that and much more after the jump on the Pulse of AYTO Season 8, plus meet the show's biggest new fan. Thanks for spending part of your Saturday night with us...
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Well, here you are... we're glad you're here with us to kick off your weekend with DCBLOG's view of the MTV Reality world as we see it on a Friday that sees the fandom you're likely part of commence the countdown to a new season of The Challenge. But before we here begin our road to the sequel to War of the Worlds and the Wednesday after the VMA's, the Summer of Love rolls along with Are You The One? Come One, Come All.
Last we left the islands of Hawaii, the house of gay, lesbian, queer, trans & bisexual singles were dealing with something that last happened on the only season of this series where its cast did not walk away with the money: a matchup ceremony where they didn't record a single light. It was after that blackout that the group had to begin all over again down $250,000... but the cast got back up in a big way: they put Brandon and Aasha into the Truth Booth and became a perfect match, and they picked up three beams in the 6th matchup, which when it they need eight instead of ten is good news.
Whenever any AYTO house grabs the first piece of momentum as a truth booth match and a net-gain at a matchup, things typically amp up a bit in the hope category, and this week is no exception as the annual outdoor party under the stars takes over the house. Meanwhile, there's another tradition that takes place each season: those who know the cast better than us pop in to offer some intimate details thanks to family, friends and even exes. And one suitor finds herself walking the fine line of strategy and heart, while our latest trip to Poundtown may have some big consequences.
After the jump, family, strategy, the Boom Boom Room and parties on Season 8 of Are You The One, and the Pulse of this week's episode - which this week moved into a precious spot of airing not just after Teen Mom as Season 1 did five years ago, but also The Hills. Welcome to the weekend...
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If there is a thing to believe in when it comes to romance, for those in the LGBTQ+ community it's that anyone is loved - both for who they are and who they should be able to love. That has certainly been the case with this year's edition of Are You The One?, as the season starring sexually-fluid singles have been offering us.
In the first half of this season, we've seen plenty of action in the Boom Boom Room: a 5-person orgy, several couples who are each other's perfect match both logically and without confirmation from the matchmakers... and there have been moments of both the hookup variety and a concurrent coming-of-age story for everyone in the house. Last week, however, saw the house with things getting to slip away from them when it comes to the important task of looking for everyone's match and winning $1 million: first, they lost a beam in the previous week's matchup, and then they were dealt the biggest blow yet: a Week 5 blackout and them losing money - in this case, a $250,000 penalty.
When an AYTO house does not record a single light at a matchup, in the short term there are plenty of tears and finger-pointing - as we've seen in four past seasons of this. But long-term it becomes the equivalent of free truth booths and the ultimate wake-up alarm for everyone to now change things around. And this week, the singles begin from square one once again, as the attention now turns to starting the home half of this journey trying to overcome toxic behaviors in the dating world, while the man who everyone is pointing to for causing their blackout tries to redeem himself, and another couple grows closer as this season is now at $750,000 game, like it was for Devin and Tori.
After the jump, Week 6 of Are You The One? Come One, Come All... plus we get to offer a tennis analogy. Why are we featuring that? We'll tell you when you join us there.
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Welcome back again... we've just gushed over another case of a guy getting a drink thrown in his face, a blast from the past in the latest Big Brother showmance to invade MTV, and when you count other matters - a fight on the Real World as well. Now, we turn to more lovin' in Are You The One? Come One, Come All.
Last week, there was something that has never gone down in an MTV Reality show: a scene where not two, not three, but FIVE people getting together in an orgy when those inhabitants of this love shack took over the Boom Boom Room. That only adds more to a record-setting season of sorts of hookups in this extraordinary season of sexually-fluid singles being the star of this show, where the Max & Justin show continues to go along, and where the man who's looking to what Devin did a few years ago in being the resident nerd in this place, Danny, teared up discussing his divorce.
If there's a time for any AYTO house to realize that this is a game for $1 million, then it's when they get dealt some bad news: at the end of Episode 5 the group lost one light beam in the fourth matchup. And this week, the house is on a mission to see who that one beam could be as they try to figure out who is a perfect match in that combination. The man with hair to go for days will try to do what he can to get a romance to look for other options in the house, just as another couple who've provided us with memorable moments aplenty here will do just that after they were a confirmed no-match.
After the jump, the 'Pulse of Week 5 of Are You The One? 8. Thanks for joining us, again...
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Well... happy Thursday to you wherever you may be, and if you are doing what you can to beat the heat we're having in much of the U.S. this week, we hope you're safe and cool. For here, we are in the midst of a season like no other of Are You The One?, as Season 8: "Come One, Come All" rolls on.
When we last left our sweet sixteen sexually-fluid singles on the Big Island of Hawaii, the house had reason to dress up and get down as they got to relive their high school and junior high versions of themselves of having a Prom Night in the house, and it was not your ordinary party as it was "Queer Prom" in the AYTO pad. As you'd expect for these blowout galas, we saw hookups and heartbreak aplenty as the cast continued to make a bid for the record of most hookups in any AYTO season.
As far as the quest to get to $1 million is concerned, not much has changed. But as we rejoin our friends in paradise, a season that has had its share of people making out and getting it on in the Boom Boom Room will get to experience something that, to our knowledge, has never happened on any MTV Reality series: five people getting together to have sex. There is the latest chapter in the tale of what's become our latest fan-fave romance of an Army vet & a Midwesterner, and the one who's the self-confessed nerd of this group shows a different side of him.
After the jump, it's the Pulse of Week 4 of Are You The One Season 8, as we continue this MTV Reality Summer of Love from our DCBLOG point of view.
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With a side order of friends by the Shore and some dessert of Realness in the South, it's the Summer of Love in the world of MTV Reality, and we're now entering a busy time of romance, hookups and our fair share of drama with a new season of Ex On The Beach, and here with Are You The One?, as this year's groundbreaking season "Come One, Come All" rolls along.
When we were last with our sexually-fluid friends in Hawaii, the Season 8 class of singles were still getting settled in for their summer in paradise. But once a love triangle forms for the first time in any reality dating show, then the season as we know really gets going as a former member of the Army, Justin, found himself in the middle of a love triangle with both a girl and a guy. And while the week's challenge saw some dirty laundry being tossed into the house, the sign any AYTO season is now officially starting went down with a game of Truth or Dare.
Game-wise, things are still stuck in neutral: only a couple lights, no truth booth match, but it's just early on. But as our singles enter their third week in Hawaii, the house is about to turn up in a big way, as a thing from their days going to junior high and high school takes over the house: Prom Night will give everyone reason to dress up, and in the case of one person, there is reason for the alter ego known simply as "Dionne Slay" to come to play. And when you have a house party on AYTO, it means only one thing: hookups and heartbreak will happen.
Who will kiss? Whose relationships will sink? And will the house make any movement in the quest for $1 million? Join DCBLOG after the jump for the Pulse of Prom Night on AYTO Season 8.
Welcome to the weekend friends, and into a busy time we have ahead of us this summer in MTV Reality. We have a lot of bring you in the coming days with the main attraction of this Challenge-less but love-filled summer of ours ahead, and partying, kissing and madness on Are You The One.
But before that, enjoy the lead-up to Week 3 in Hawaii before that is posted in just a bit. And we'll have this week in MTV Reality covered over the weekend, including the premiere of Season 3 of Ex On The Beach with some familiar AYTO names, among other matters. See you shortly.
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We just had a long holiday weekend that saw the U.S. Women's National Team rule again, a new season of Stranger Things cause you all to go bingeing, and bombs going off in the NBA. And it was a most stressful weekend for those of you in Southern California and in Las Vegas after the two earthquakes that shook, rattled & rolled your 4th of July fun. But as far at the MTV calendar is concerned, we are now in the Summer of Love with Ex On The Beach to come our way next week, and here it's Are You The One?.
The last week of Pride Month saw the beginning of a historic and game-changing season for both AYTO and romantic reality TV, with a season taking the LGBT community under its wing for an all sexually-fluid Season 8. As usual, the cast got to know one another as they began the annual quest to "love together, win together" in paradise, but quickly our class of sixteen lovers all found out about how unique and special they are, and we got to know them a bit more than has been the case in years past. Not surprisingly, love triangles, new romances and trouble began to form in the house, but they escaped what would've been a devastating blackout by eeking out getting the minimum of two lights.
The holiday week sees our sweet sixteen continue to get to know one another as they settle into the pattern of having ten tries to going 8 for 8. For one of the guys who was a member of the Army prior to this season, he will see himself be caught in the middle of a triangle of one who wants him and another who doesn't have any idea of what they want. For the drag queen who identifies as both genders, they are struggling for acceptance as a season that's more than finding love continues on. And while this week's challenge sees the house take out the trash while answering some personal trivia, a popular early season tradition takes over.
Truth or Dare, garbage time, and tears for the drag queen... it's all ahead on the Pulse of Are You The One: Come One, Come All.
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This is the final day of June, and the last day of the one month that gives an entire community from coast to coast reason to celebrate and to remind everyone who they really are. This is Pride Month, and it's with this backdrop that we commence the Summer of Love in MTV Reality, and the start of something new in a five year's tradition.
Since it premiered in 2014, Are You The One? has come into its own as a refreshing and entertaining take on finding love in the genre of romantic reality dating television. But the 2019 installment of this social experiment will take on something new, as it's now Come One, Come All: the first time that any show in this subgenre will cast those who are sexually fluid can get their shot at $1 million and landing their perfect match... and also provide viewers a new and better understanding of what it's like to find romance while also being someone who's gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and those who take pride in being proud of who they are, and where they can love anyone.
This week, it's the first act of Season 8 as AYTO will make history and MTV will add more to its storied legacy of embracing the LGBTQ+ community, as a group of 16 sexually fluid singles will come to Hawaii, and where they will find that anyone can be paired with anybody. We'll have the chance to get to know everyone a bit more than has been usually the case with previous seasons of this show, including a few of the singles coming out for the first time. And as is always the case for when our group moves in for the first time, there will be trouble looming for these first-time couples, with love triangles getting formed and everything else as they begin the journey to love and money, as we'll have it all covered here.
As we begin, for the many of you who might be new to this site and checking us out for the first time, welcome, get comfortable and indulge yourself in DCBLOG's insightful and distinctive look at Are You The One and some of your favorite reality shows. The SocialPulse is one of those aspects - a unique aspect of our MTV coverage that's exclusive to us, and bringing you the other show taking place simultaneously to when the episodes air each week: social interaction among castmates, fellow AYTO & MTV alumni and fans as viewed by them in the Twitter sphere, part of the communal experience watching the show as it airs on TV, and the leadup and aftermath which are just as entertaining. We've done the Pulse for every episode of AYTO, plus other series of interest too.
These exclusive running diaries are specially designed, curated & pieced together in its uncensored & raw entirety to bring the drama, hookups, jaw-dropping moments and more to you here as it took place in its original Wednesday night airings as a service to all fans each week. Whether you're reliving it all over again on your DVR or on-demand, or if you don't have cable or satellite in relying on streaming it later & are just catching up for the first time, you are covered here. And along with those, we also offer our take on the traditional weekly episode recaps with opinions & analysis, and you'll most especially love our site's other key element of ExtraTime: our spotlight on the people and stories of the MTV Reality world, both on- and off-camera, and in and outside the bubble.
Now, the following is the action, reaction and interaction, and the actual posts of the cast of AYTO: Come One, Come All, fellow reality alumni and fans like you as they watched the premiere on Wednesday, June 26, along with the day-before buildup and the aftermath to that first episode. • As we begin, please note there is explicit language in many of the tweets below, but they are kept uncensored in order to retain the heat of the moment. So if you are mature enough, please read with discretion. :-) • Plus, if you haven't watched the episode yet, then do not proceed with reading this post. But need not worry...DCBLOG will compile all of these tweets into these posts after every episode so you won't be in the dark of how your favorites saw this all unfold.
Sixteen singles who are unique in their own way have come to Hawaii for a history-making season of the ultimate love experiment. Welcome to the premiere Pulse of Season 8 of Are You The One, and thanks for joining us... enjoy.
