Pop the Balloon or Find Love is a YouTube sensation \u2013 but in a mainstream form, it\u2019s terrible. Why does this keep happening?<\/p>\n
If you threw Blind Date, the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan and the auction block into a blender, what you\u2019d get is Pop the Balloon or Find Love<\/a>, a weekly hour-long Black dating show on YouTube.<\/p>\n The show was created by Arlette Amuli<\/a>, an African American of Congolese origins, and her husband, Bolia \u201cBM\u201d Matundu<\/a>, a Black Brit also of Congolese descent (he had a previous life as a UK rapper<\/a> and then as a Ndombolo musician<\/a>). It has become an international sensation in an age where our fried attention spans have us addicted to short videos. The format is minimalist to the point of brilliance: each week, a line of eight or so balloon-clutching love hunters line up to court and be courted by a singleton of the opposite sex they have never met before.<\/p>\n Nels Abbey is an author, broadcaster and the founder of Uppity: the Intellectual Playground<\/a><\/p>\n Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section, please click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pop the Balloon or Find Love is a YouTube sensation \u2013 but in a mainstream form, it\u2019s terrible. Why does this keep happening? If you threw Blind Date, the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan and the auction block into a blender, what you\u2019d get is Pop the Balloon or Find Love, a weekly hour-long … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}