What’s the hobby of Nigeria before the reality?

Dedicated Nigerian fans of reality dating show love Island usa are loaded to watch the onset of the couple six weeks after the finals of Fiji.

“Nigerians love drama. We love” coat “,-tells a 20-year-old Nigerian student ashamipos, using the Nigerian Pidgin word for problems. And there is a lot of this on the island of love.

But on the drama screen, the tension in the screen was among some in the world fan-base.

Nigerian viewers often got into the intersection, with some “toxic” brands – and others who want them to be banned from watching the shows.

All this is due to the accusations that some in the most popular Nation of Africa tried to manipulate the results of public voting, as well as interfere with the accounting of the social media of some participants.

For the uninitiated, Love Island USA-it’s American Spin with a hit-British dating format. Contestants who called “islanders”, couples in a luxurious villa on Fiji, navigating problems, romantic confusion and public voices under constant observation of the camera. Prize: 100,000 dollars (£ 86 200) and possibly love.

This year’s love Island usa was Amai Espinal and Brian Arena, which were combined last week’s shows – and still together.

Ms Olamiposi seeks to distance themselves from what she calls “crazy” attempts to influence the result.

However, her admiration for the show is still obvious when she talks to BBC from Lagos – a month after the finale.

In her eyes there is an excitement, her blond braids waves back and forth as she remembers the drama villas, gutting chats of late nights and hard online days like a veteran of war that shares the fighting stories.

“Love Island USA” was written on Twitter more than 2.1 million times during the season in Nigeria, reaching a maximum of 574,000 tweets per day in X – more than in South Africa or Ghana.

Nigerians can watch Love Island via VPN, making it as if they are in the US and then access the app with Pailock TV and, like Ms Olamiposi, look at the episodes located on YouTube by anonymous users.

Mrs. Olamipos, who watched the previous seasons of the island of the US, says that this year was different – mostly thanks to several videos from a particular Ostrovets: Huda Mustafa.

“I liked,” Who is this girl who knocks his eyes? “,” she says with pleasure, adding that she was one of the only islanders who “came for the right reason” and had a “depth”.

The 24-year-old mother became one of the most popular contestants because of her polarization, public confrontations and complex relations with colleagues.

Ms Olamiposi came across a WhatsApp group after she got into social media, trying to find ways to vote for her beloved acyland because people outside the United States should not participate.

The group to which it joined was founded two people – one of the UK and the other in Nigeria.

Of the 200 people in the chat, about 150 were Nigerians, and the rest were from the USA, Ghana, Kenya and the UK, Ms Alamiposi tells the BBC.

With military accuracy and determination, a well -oiled WhatsApp group combined funds for the purchase of US phone numbers so they can vote.

Donald Clark, London’s television producer, who worked on the first series of Nigeria’s great brother and has two decades on African realistic television, is not surprised by this, and the love Nigerians have realistic television.

“Nigeria has a huge culture culture. Nolvud is a symptom,” he says, citing the country’s large-scale film industry.

“It breaks off in realistic television and how Nigeria’s viewers are watching it. They are greatly investing, and they greatly express it on social media.”

This is an investment, it explains, it is intensified by social media.

“On the show – the spiky conversations, they provoke the topics of discussion, and then the audience escapes with it. With social media and the way it turns into memes and joint moments, the conversation becomes as big as the show itself,” he says.

For Dr. Wendy Oseph, Nigerian American Sociology at the University of Weslian and a participant in the reality show “Real Housewives”, Lyubov Nigerians are connected with the rich political landscape of West Africa to realistic television.

“Many Nigerians have lived politically through the viewers’ lens,” she says the BBC.

In a country that has been experiencing military administration for several decades and has had allegations of controversial elections, the Nigerians felt a little more than the audience, explains the 41-year-old guy.

“The biggest realistic television is our political system,” she says of Nigeria, adding that it can also apply to the United States.

However, both worlds have great faces, alliances, treasures and dramatic turns – in the legislative body and villa on love.

And, like politics, the culture of fans of Alanda love can become angry, very fast.

When asked to connect BBC with more people in their WhatsApp group, Ms Olamiposya reluctantly treated potential spies.

Some fans of Alanda love Alanda USA who support other islanders, penetrated the group and traced their conversations and strategies, she explained

Then the “Wahala” began on the allegations that the group had attached the group to close the credentials of the social media participants, which led to “toxic” charges.

One user on X said “Please ban Love Island from Nigeria.” This scored almost 9,000 likes.

“There should be a way to ban all Nigeria watching the island of love next year,” another person in the US has posted.

Someone in the UK wrote on Twitter: “Why is it always Nigerians with this toxic attitude towards TV shows? … Nigerians in Nigeria should leave the island of love alone.”

The tensions between American and Nigerian supporters often come down to their different perspectives, especially when it comes to identity, says Ms Olamipos.

“Black Americans always make a race, whereas the Nigerians are not so worried,” she says.

There were four girls at the starting line of the show next to Khuda Mustafa, who has Arab heritage.

Chelley Bissainthe and Olandria Carthen were the only black islanders in this original and faced a lot of racist comments. If other black women did not support them, some saw it as a betrayal.

Ms Olamiposy says she was dubbed “anti-black” because she supported Mustafa.

“I was a bamboo,” she says, her eyes wide.

D -OSEF says that these cultural differences are introduced in different historical experiences.

“I think that when you come from a predominantly black nation, race is not what goes out at the forefront of your mind,” she says, explaining that black people in America have no such luxury.

The Nigerian Fandho is also determined by the more colorful use of the language, the academician says.

“There is a saying that when you hear the Nigerians talk, you think they are arguing because we’re so passionate.

“Even in the way we entrust people. Your mom in the US can say,” You need to make your bed. “Nigerian mom can say,” Do you want to live your life as a beggar forever? “This is deeper, and this passion translates into social media.

For Mr. Clark, this emphasizes how deeply realistic television became built into Nigerian culture.

“This is part of the fabric of society now. In the best form, realistic television reflects the audience and reflects the desires and hopes of the people who watch it.”

Parties are expected – some practically – to view Aland’s reunion, the US love, from the stream later on Monday.

“I want everyone to” stand on business “,” 10 Toes Toes Down, “says Ms Olamipos,” using two phraseologisms that became viral during this season on the island of US love.

Essentially, they convey the message: mean what you say and say what you mean.

If this happens, it, like most Nigerians, will fit into the “wagging”.