Love is Blind? More like Love is (Face) Blind.
On Feb. 16, Netflix dropped the newest season of its hit reality show Love is Blind, a series where men and women date each other, fall in love, and get engaged without ever seeing each other. As soon as fans sat down to watch Season 8, they immediately realized the men in this season are almost impossible to tell apart.
Well, more specifically, the white men.
Enter cast members Daniel Hastings, Alex Brown, Mason Horacek, Ben Mezzenga, and Dave Bettenburg—five similarly attractive men with side-parted light-brown hair, all dressed in the same bland, generic style.
After a fan uploaded a side-by-side image of the men on X, their resemblance became undeniable, sparking a dunking campaign across the platform.
“Same letter slightly different sans serif fonts ass cast,” one fan joked on X. Another fan agreed, writing, “I can’t tell anyone apart, and I’m four episodes deep loool.”
Other fans quickly pointed out that viewers would have been able to differentiate the men if Netflix bothered to add more diversity to its cast, even joking that the platform shouldn’t have revoked its DEI program.
“If ANYTHING shows the importance for DEI, it should be this new season of #LoveisBlind,” wrote an X user. “Because there’s no way you’re casting these 5 men on the same show, giving them all a large amount of camera time, & expecting me to know the difference.”
While Love is Blind is no stranger to controversies, from fame-hungry contestants to misogynistic men to toxic couples, Season 8 will forever go down in history as the season where viewers spent more time trying to tell the identical-looking men apart than actually following the romance.
Love may be blind, but given this season’s men are virtually identical, it certainly seems to have a type.
