Even Google Is Obsessed With Love Island's Amaya With New Easter Egg
My wife is currently on maternity leave, and though she's never touched the show, she found out that a friend of a friend is on this season of Love Island USA. That would be Austin (who has now been kicked out), but there have been roughly 28 episodes of this show playing in my house over the last two weeks, so I've gotten a general sense of what's going on. If I had to pick a favorite? It would be Amaya. And it seems Google agrees.
In a rare insertion of an easter egg into a search term, Google has hopped on the Amaya train, as she must have some fans within the company. When you search for her, there's a scrolling message at the top, one of her quotes from the show: 'I never said I was perfect. I never said I didn't have any flaws,' followed by an image of a Papaya, her nickname.
So far, I've gotten this to come up by Googling:
LOVE ISLAND USA — Episode 731 — Pictured: (l-r) Amaya Espinal, Bryan Arenales — (Photo by: Ben ... More Symons/Peacock via Getty Images)
Amaya by itself didn't work, but there are probably more. Google is no stranger to fun little doodles to spotlight events or holidays and such, but Googling specific terms for a little bonus doesn't happen all that often, but here we are.
Love Island USA has become a monster hit by season 7 here, arguably replacing series like The Bachelor or Love is Blind as the most talked-about dating series on TV. The structure is…very strange, just a shuffling around of couples who often don't seem terribly interesting in each other, punctuated by R (nearly X) rated games. Rarely is anyone not wearing a swimsuit. It's a base-level appeal but I mean, base-level appeals work for a reason.
The show airs a tremendous amount of episodes. This started in the UK, but the US version is now up to seven seasons and 229 episodes. Season 7 is now airing an episode pretty much every single day, meaning there's always an hour of Love Island to watch at any given time. We really almost never see anything like this on TV.
LOVE ISLAND USA — Episode 727 — Pictured: Amaya Espinal — (Photo by: Ben Symons/Peacock via Getty ... More Images)
Love Island USA is watchable on NBC's Peacock, where it has broken records on that platform and all services in terms of current reality TV viewership. It seems like it will inevitably run forever. It premiered in 2019, and again, the show has jammed in seven seasons and 229 episodes since then.
As for Amaya, will she win? That $100,000 prize seems somewhat paltry, as the attention she's getting is likely to land her some sponsorship deals after that. But if America decides, I bet she does.
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