As tension builds in the villa, fans are taking to the Love Island USA app to make their voices heard.
The Stand on Business challenge on Tuesday, July 1, led to a new show record as the Love Island mobile app received more than 1 million votes in the first six minutes, according to Deadline. The internal date noted that after the less than two hour voting window closed, the app had received votes from more than 3 million unique users.
Fans are asked to vote multiple times throughout the season to affect the outcome of the show. Earlier in season 7, the results led to a recoupling where Jeremiah Brown was paired off with Iris Kendall instead of Huda Mustafa, Hannah Fields was selected to be with Pepe Garcia over Charlie Georgiou and Olandria Carthen swapped Taylor Williams for Jalen Brown.
One week later, Hannah and Jeremiah were dumped from the island after they were one of the people with the least amount of support from the public. Since the app relaunched in May, it has grown an average of more than 100,000 unique users per day. The app has added more than 1 million new users since Tuesday with over 5 million unique users.
The Love Island USA Islanders live in isolation and are under constant video surveillance while searching for The One in a luxury villa in Fiji. They must be coupled up to remain on the show and to stand a chance to receive the prize of $100,000.
The passion for the outcome of the show has led to the network reminding fans not to take their passion too far.
“The keyword in Love Island is … love. We love our fans. We love our islanders,” read a statement from Peacock that aired in a June episode. “We don’t love cyberbullying, harassment or hate.”
Host Ariana Madix has also had to step in. “I do want to say something to some of those people who are online,” she said on Aftersun. “Don’t be contacting people’s families. Don’t be doxxing people.”
Ariana continued: “Don’t be going on islanders’ pages and saying rude things. You still have time to delete all of that because the islanders don’t have their phones. So we are giving you a chance because this is a fun, amazing and beautiful show. We should be thanking each one of these islanders every single day for giving us themselves.”
The record-breaking voting comes as the villa is at odds. During Tuesday’s episode, the Islanders had to write letters to each other — signed or anonymous — where they called them out in front of everyone. This led to several falling outs including between Huda and Chelley Bissainthe following the former’s makeout session with Ace Greene in an earlier challenge.
New episodes of Love Island USA are released six days a week — except for Wednesdays — on Peacock.
