Favourite 17 responses to people bemoaning that Love Island had more applications than Oxbridge

In case you hadn’t noticed, the new series of Love Island started on ITV2 yesterday.

Which must mean it’s time for the annual ‘Mention that more people apply to be on Love Island than apply to get into Oxbridge’ day. Seems to come around sooner each year, doesn’t it?

Here’s BBC1 Breakfast presenter, Dan Walker.

I’ve just read that more people applied for #LoveIsland this year than Oxford & Cambridge! What is happening to us? 😩😩😩

— Dan Walker (@mrdanwalker) June 5, 2018

And here’s his BBC colleague, Tina Daheley.

A reminder that more people applied for Love Island this year than Oxford/Cambridge University.

— Tina Daheley (@TinaDaheley) June 4, 2018

Except not everyone thought this was cause to move the doomsday clock another minute towards midnight.

Here are our favourite responses online.

1.

Probably because Love Island isn’t aggressively biased against people from comprehensive schools. https://t.co/gb5JiyEB1j

— Romesh Ranganathan (@RomeshRanga) June 5, 2018

2.

A reminder that Love Island is open to literally anyone, so of course applications are higher than to a selective and notoriously barriered establishment. In other news more people applied for a Tesco Clubcard than Oxbridge… https://t.co/LTicJJwN4w

— Dr Dr Jack Monroe (Hon)(Hon)(extra irritating) (@BootstrapCook) June 5, 2018

3.

https://twitter.com/MartinBelam/status/1003908955981131776

4.

https://twitter.com/hughwizzy/status/1003928188005896192

5.

'What is happening to us?'

I guess people would rather go on a free holiday than get in tens of thousands of pounds' worth of debt, Daniel. https://t.co/GXTZc9dvSG

— Daniel (@sillyolddaniel) June 5, 2018

6.

You leave #LoveIsland with a hot partner and £25,000, you leave Oxbridge with a lot of debt and huge misconceptions about the world, I know what i'd rather. Plus, I don't think Love Island declines applications depending on what school you went to. https://t.co/iJFwiAwE3i

— krish. (@krishithink) June 5, 2018

7.

https://twitter.com/LowQualityRegen/status/1003920944853913601

8.

I’m sick of the Love Island London media bubble https://t.co/HXjG18GS9V

— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) June 5, 2018