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Telecinco is so desperate for you to show ‘The Island of Temptations’ that it is generating brainrot-style AI promos

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In its desperate search for a minimum audience that will lift its trembling numbers, Telecinco has launched an unexpected promotion on social networks: anthropomorphic fruits having fun, getting jealous and declaring their love like the contestants of ‘The Island of Temptations’. Behind it is not only a late recovery of the brainrot aesthetic, but something else: riding one of TikTok’s latest viral hits. Fake strawberries. On April 8, 2026, the official Telecinco account on X published a promotional video for the tenth edition of ‘Temptation Island’. The piece was generated with artificial intelligence and caused some perplexity among followers of the series. The reason: it is a piece that accumulates the worst vices of what has come to be known as AI Slop: rigid and not very expressive animations, inconsistencies between different versions of the same character (the strawberry with different skin and features, the banana with variations in the head) and a very poorly worked finish. Hearing problems. Why has Mediaset made this decision? The chain closed 2024 with a 9.8% screen sharethe worst annual mark in its history since it began broadcasting in 1990 and the first time it fell below the 10% threshold. From the departure of CEO Paolo Vasile in 2022when the chain averaged 12.3%, the accumulated loss is close to 20% of audience. ‘Survivors 2026’, which started in March, is not harvesting the expected data and ‘Temptation Island’ is practically the only format that works consistently. The ninth edition reached 17% on its best night and averaged 11.5% in access deliveries. As soon as that edition finished, Mediaset announced the tenth and advanced its production to January 2026, breaking the tradition of summer recordings. It will hit the screens very soon: on April 13, with a triple weekly broadcast and five new couples as protagonists. Only three months have passed since the previous edition. That is why Telecinco has launched itself into AI aesthetics: the always coveted young audience is the one that has been consuming brainrot at industrial speed on TikTok for months. The island of Frutitentaciones. In March of this year, the AI ​​Cinema TikTok account posted the first episodes of ‘Fruit Love Island‘, a reality dating show in which the contestants are anthropomorphic fruits generated by AI. In nine days The account experienced an absolutely excessive speed of growth, with episodes with an average of 15 million views, although the profile has currently disappeared and has been dispersed into parallel accounts. The format directly parodies ‘Love Island’, and by extension its adaptations such as ‘Temptation Island’. Soon imitations were born as The Island of Fruitsexplicit parody of the Telecinco program. The AI ​​slop aesthetic. This is clearly what this Mediaset piece alludes to: low-quality digital content that is consumed compulsively, and that is intuitively associated with cognitive deterioration due to overexposure to social networks. AI Slop has been defined as unconvincing, repetitive images and videos designed to generate immediate reactions, and to be produced as quickly and at the lowest possible cost. The most paradigmatic case of AI Slop is italian brainrotwhich was born in 2023, plaguing the internet with absurd characters generated by AI and accompanied by meaningless Italian phrases. Tralalero Tralala went from being a niche meme to accumulating billions of views on videos with no clear origin and that repeated the same mechanisms over and over again: visual absurdity, squeaky sound and minimal or directly abstract narrative. Children love it and Mediaset wants to lower the age of its audience, no matter how counterproductive it may seem to bring a product like ‘Temptation Island’ to them. In Xataka | The latest edition of ‘The Island of Temptations’ has not only been a viral phenomenon: it has saved the month of Telecinco

The contestants of ‘The island of temptations’ have made a new face after the program. It is a symptom of something else

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This year, the island of temptations has become a viral phenomenon, and much of the prominence has fallen to a particular person: José Carlos Montoya. However, this edition has not only managed to be the most seen of all editions, According to Mediaset herselfbut it is also the edition where the aesthetic touch -ups of the contestants have attracted attention to the networks. Many touch -ups. In this edition, the program has had a total of seven couples. Although five initially entered, during the recording two more were added after the departure of others. As a result, we have seen 14 participants, many of whom, when leaving the realityhave decided to undergo various aesthetic treatments, Most in the same aesthetic centerranging from the use of botox and hyaluronic acid to rhinoplasties and lipotransferences. The most radical changes. Of all the casting, three have been the most commented due to the magnitude of their aesthetic changes: Álvaro Rubio, Tadeo Corrales and Guillermo Zamora, the latter a tempting. First, Álvaro has decided to perform a lipotransference, As the clinic shows in networkswhich consists of eliminating the fat from the abdomen and the flanks to transfer it to the buttocks. In addition, a Botox jaw and injected profile has been performed. It is followed by the case of Tadeo, who has undergone a total facial change. Unlike his classmates, he went to another professional, Who shared the process in networksmentioning the use of hyaluronic acid and neuromodulators. Finally, Guille, whoever was tempting hyaluronic acid has been applied, According to 20 minutes. Both Tadeo and Guille have been very questioned and viralized on social networks for the obvious change in their face. Revert the touch -ups. The case of Bayán al Masri and Stephany Pérez, who have decided to go together to remove the filling of their lips to replace it with a more modern technique, as they explained in their mtmad channel. For her part, the participant Alba García, the youngest in reality (21 years), I wanted to get Botox, but the doctor He has decided that would not be convenient due to muscle tension. A trend beyond reality. After Scrolle In social networks everything mentioned, this boom of aesthetic touch -ups is only a reflection of a greater trend: the exponential growth of aesthetic procedures among the youngest. In fact, according to an independent perception study promoted by the Spanish Society of Aesthetic Medicine a 47% of the population It has undergone an aesthetic intervention. However, this affects both men and women and a study conducted by the same entity showed only women exceeded men by 2.2%. However, where is all this pressure from beauty standards? The aesthetic pressure. In Tiktok or Instagram there is a high number of Reels dedicated to aesthetic treatments. This social pressure and the obsession with self -image are fed by viral tendentials, such as extreme morning routines, Fixation by a perfect denture either the use of Gadgets To look better. It should be noted that it is spreading among men A beauty standard that women have been dragging for many years. On the other hand, these applications have ultra -up filters that have caused an increase in the demand for aesthetic surgeries. According to several studies, Constant access to retouched images generates a digital dysmorphia that drives young people to look for aesthetic medicine in replicating these unattainable standards. The debate is still open. From Telecinco himself They have asked To all contestants about the fact of becoming aesthetic touch -ups, the answer has been homogeneous: “Everyone does what they want with their body.” Here the question that would have to be done is that we are facing a generation that seeks to feel better with itself or in the face of a social pressure disguised as self -care. Image | Tiktok and Instagram Xataka | From collagen to hyaluronic: we have gotten into a scientific career to improve the quality of our skin

Telecinco crossed a deep audience crisis. Until the key on ‘The island of temptations’

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The hearings of ‘The island of temptations’ since The Montoya phenomenon He made his irruption on social networks have only grows, and have reached a climax in both narrative and spectators with this week’s galas. Although it will still be in the coming weeks with some gala of ‘What was …’ and the like, the last regrets in Montoya, Anita and Manuel, the tempting who generated a schism inside the couple has been the icing for this edition. “You have left me like a scolding.” It was alone One more of the many glorious phrases that the Infinite Andalusian Ingenio de Montoya. All immersed in a narrative that is hard to believe that he was not previously scripted due to his devastating sense of rhythm and his iconic Rancio melodrama characters (the hero who finds dignity, the liar who remains alone, The villain that punishes twice). Result: 16.7% quota and 2,103,000 spectators, the best Wednesday of this edition. The figures. They are not precisely nimios data: it exceeds 2.5 points and more than 300,000 viewers for the best audience that the program had had until now, three weeks ago. But above all, the most important thing: it exceeds the two daily titans and exceeds both global data and in strict coincidence of ‘El Hormiguero’ and ‘La Revuelta’. The motorcycle program had 13.7% of Share and 1,865,000 spectators, and well below, Broncano scored 11.1% and 1,519,000 spectators. Football again damages the latter again, since the Champions League in Movistar Plus+ made 8.6% and 1,139,000 spectators. The Telecinco respite. These figures suppose an oxygen ball for Telecinco, which remains the third option behind Antena 3 and 1. The triumph of ‘The island of temptations’ adds to other variables such as the final of ‘Big Brother’ and the Return from ‘Ana Rosa’ in the morningwhich makes Telecinco the option that goes up to January, with nine tenths. Of course, it came from playing background: its historical minimum in regular season (8.7%) and despite the rise, this February has been the worst in its history, with 9.6% on average. That is, certain notes of improvement are perceived, but the audiences remain abysmal. Ana Rosa as spearhead. Yesterday ‘Ana Rosa’ program, which returned in the morning after a dull evening stage in ‘afternoon’ (which curiously is working very decently in the afternoon without its alma mater) signed his best data since he returned to his original schedule: 15.2% of Share. In his strip, he led without possible competition, with almost two points of advantage, but could not stand up to Arús in his first two hours, which remains untouchable from 9 to 11 in the morning with 16.1% of Share. Even so, they are also good news for a Telecinco willing to grab any favorable data. Big Brother confirms the domain of the realities. For many headlines that monopolize its discussed final (which has made ‘tongo‘Be Trending topic in networks), ‘Big Brother Duo 3’ has both a confirmation that the formula is exhausted and that the realities They are almost the only resource of Telecinco to scratch respectable audiences (Share record -17.6% – with their end). With the failure of ‘Whoever falls falls‘, one of his great bets of this season, and the bass ratings of talents as ‘Next Level Chef’ (which You have to take over the strip of Late Night To give decent data per comparison), it is clear in which gender will continue to trust the channel. The future of the island. Now, Telecinco meets a reality that he had relegated to a secondary role obtaining his best audiences from the first auditions, so he undoubtedly has a very specific objective for the next edition: finding his next Montoya. Meanwhile, the new edition of ‘Survivors! The usual feedback of Telecinco programs, now at the service of responding to low chain audiences. Header | Mediaset In Xataka | ‘La Revuelta’ has made the issuance of lotteries at last something interesting. In return, a millionaire fine has been taken

‘The island of temptations’ overwhelming in February

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Finally, it has neither ‘Big Brother’ nor ‘First Dates’ nor, of course, ‘Next Level Chef’ the Mediaset bet that has planted that roller of audiences that are ‘El Hormiguero’ and ‘La Revuelta’. He has been an old acquaintance of the house (eighth year already) in the genre that I rent the most of Telecinco (the realitiesSubsection beaches and sand), and with the unexpected help of this year’s great television viral surprise: Montoya. The frightened of Montoya. Montoya’s attempt to enter the house where his girlfriend was with one of the seducers has gone around the world for his many comic elements: the overflowing passion of the contestant, the screams of Sandra Barneda asking him to return, the (possible) good Physical form of the camera that had to follow him … all that made a more than possible script scene but, fiction or not, it was exciting, which has generated Thousands of memes in everyone. We are left with Don Pico Patobut yesterday Whoopi Goldberg It was a trend in Spain Because in his morning debate program he had spoken with his Dyslate of Montoya. Good audiences. Before the final explosion of Montoya we talked that the program had not started with audiences especially high. Last week, when Montoya began to be a family name, the season had an average audience close to 16% of Share, similar to last year. But from there, he has not stopped climbing. Strategies in search of audience. The tactic that Mediaset has carried out is to chop its Monday program, first issuing an “express” edition that retains interest and competes with ‘El Hormiguero’ and ‘La Revuelta’. This past Monday was issued between 22.06 and 23.10 and reached 14.9% screen share, an absolutely unheard of Telecinco (‘Big Brother’, when it was issued in that section of coincidence, it stays at 6%) . ‘El Hormiguero’ got 14% of Share and ‘La Revuelta’ 15%, with which Montoya was only a tenth below Broncano. From that point of the night the audience of the reality He shot, reaching 21.4% and defeating their competitors: the talent culinary ‘bake off’ and the Turkish soap opera ‘Renacer’. 9 out of 10. Even before the global domination of the Montoya Meme, ‘The island of temptations’ already had a brand to show off: 9 of the 10 most viewed emissions in January belong to them. It is a space that usually dominate the afternoon snakes of La1, but Montoy Prime Timebut certainly explains the interest that this new edition has aroused. The audiences, child. Since ‘the revolt’ they have always made references to the war of audiences with ‘El Hormiguero’, not taking them too seriously (especially, because frivolizing about their value is also a form of attack to those who do value them), and This Tuesday was Lalachus the one that referred to the entrance of the new contender. Broncano finished the issue with a reference to one of the most ridiculously viral aspects of suffering from Montoya: “The battle of the decade, interrupted by a pussy in the neck.” Header | Mediaset In Xataka | Broncano, Giró and Buenafuente: the plan of the new director of TVE to put the war of audiences up

‘The island of temptations’ had been without great successes for years, but it has revived thanks to an unusual memes reef: Montoya

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‘La Revuelta’, in La1, coincides a couple of days a week with ‘The island of temptations’, the tronado reality of TV5 of couples who undergo high pressure tests to demonstrate their love. On January 29, Broncano and her guest, singer NIA, chatted for a while of the abundant plots that the Mediaset program has generated: that is the level of the eighth edition of the program, commented to In its direct competition. Or as with Retraca they recognized in one of the subtitles of the program, “the debate of ‘The island of temptations’ is in La1. TV in Spain is more complex than Marvel Multiverse” Ascent audiences. The audiences with which this edition of ‘The island of temptations’ started They were not especially high. Although it is still to see the average audience of the season, which currently is around 15.4% of Share (something less than last year), in recent weeks its audiences are exceeding 16%, as its content is viralized in networks: its maximum was obtained this last Monday, with a remarkable 18.5%. In any case, it remains far from those stratospheric audiences of 24.1%, 22.5% and 26.3% of the first three editions. What makes this edition different? Without a doubt, their contestants, who have managed to generate viral content without a price. Let’s briefly remember the rules of the contest. A series of couples come to an island, where they separate in two large groups: boys and girls will be tempted in their respective residences, and their partners will later see the images of nonsense, erotic games, dances and falls in plate in temptation. Of course, the more exaggerated the reactions of their partners seeing them “sin”, the more television it results. And thus, the Sevillian Jose Carlos Montoya has become a living meme with his exorbitant reactions to the behavior of his girlfriend Anita. What Montoya has done now. In these weeks that the eighth edition of the program has been running, there have already been criticism for the High level of toxicity of one of the couplesbut Montoya like for that imposed drama, almost an involuntary parody of the Latin character. That personality of an advertisement of colony that has led to Open several shirts to pull As a gesture of spite, literalizing so many couplets about misfortunes, passionate (not knowing that “breaks the shirt” is sometimes also a metaphor); to run aimlessly and finally collapse in the sand of the beach between shoutsas in a karaoke video; And as a great final number, break into the house of the brides to catch her In fraganti in bed, crazy whose conclusion will be seen on the night of February 5. A meme that crosses borders. Montoya’s clear precedent on the island are contestants from other editions that ranged from the cartoon jealousy (“Manué, La Manita Relajá“) or the passions that spread much further further and their weak human wrappings (that cristofer scream”Estefaníaaaaa! “In the first season and that closes the circle with the escape of Montoy Trochants Memesnext to threads that review their life out of the island and inside. But Montoya also transcended borders: It is not necessary to understand Spanish to alone in your body expressiveness of MUPPET in love. A dead end. Montoya is the perfect example of all the needs, attractions and problems of the program: it is very hilarious to contemplate its naked behavior, but we all know that it is creating show. There is an abyss between Montoya and the Primal “Who puts my leg on me“From the first edition of ‘Big Brother’, disarming in its naive ‘Blind trust’ that was crowned as the best reality Spanish of all time. Here we all know the rules of the game, and that makes it more wild, but in essence, much less human. Header | Mediaset In Xataka | Japan had a real “Truman show”. And it was starred by a man locked up, naked and forced to survive with coupons

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