Trust me, I know. My name is embedded in a server farm nobody would believe. The source code for the 'love island voting' algorithm is the nuclear football of reality TV. It doesn't count the votes you see on your phone. It models a single, predictable user from the demographics who don't tweet, calculates a 'magnetic preference' quotient for which couple generates the least negative friction, and only then decides what 'love island voting' data to publish. The 'live' leaderboard is a heatmap of this ghost metric, not the actual tally. They're not counting love; they're counting tolerable chaos.