Catia Hultquist: That’s why we’re so angry at Ola in « Love is Blind »
Forget Måns Zelmerlöw. The only man you need to know to be updated in the spring of 2025 is the « Love is Blind » -ola. Few reality profiles have managed to upset as many, as much and in as short a time as he. The closest challenger is well in that case Märtha who built pillow walls And dissected his husband brutally in « poison at first sight » in 2022.
Ola Jönsson is thus one of the participants in this year’s « Love is Blind Sweden » (Netflix)-a 42-year-old real estate consultant who « took a sabbatical to develop ». In addition to jobs, he has peeled away alcohol and sugar in his life, now he wants to explore his spiritual side. Based on Ola’s talk about how important it is to be authentic If the suspicion arises that he has taken some self -help course. With him in the « Love is Blind » house (where he thus dates women without seeing them) Ola also has a rose-quarter crystal-a stone that is said to make the wearer « extra receptive to love ».
Once inside the capsules sets Not much questions to his female counterpart. Instead, he regularly ejects a yogic « hmmm » … which turns out to be smart because most people choose to interpret the sound as a sign of elevation. In the men’s half of the dating house, Ola will soon achieve gurustatus with the help of humming and hands -on. In the capsules he manages to catch Milly, a relaxed woman with a non -eating relationship with sweets. It is now the problems begin, when Ola is going to let a partner in his « spiritual » life.
Admittedly, not many seconds of Ola’s barefoot style and crystal hugging are required to understand that it is he who is the big snack ice of the season. It’s easy to see in front of them how the casting pros rubbing hands as soon as they found him. But that he would awaken full So much emotion I don’t even think they could imagine. At the time of writing, social media boils over of memes and reaction videos that all debate Ola – and not directly in admiring terms. Even in the international Reddit thread trends « The New-Agey Sadistic Guy ». And like the phenomenon of Meghan-Ilskan Is it close at hand to ask: Why are we so heavenly angry at « Love is Blind » -ola?
A key scene is when Ola together with his friend « Holy Fuck » -Bea (yes, actually the same Bea who participated in The sect documentary in SVT and who now sells self -help courses) try to convince Milly that she is dependent Because she sometimes drinks soda, eats sweets and partying. This is in turn a sign that she is uncertain and insecurethey mean. So now Ola wants to control, not only his own food intake, but also Millys. He must also be « authentic » and say that he does not like her short hair or that she is not deep enough when talking about her grandfather.
In Liv Strömquist’s book on the self -help industry, « Pythian talks », she puts her finger on how all these constant advice from home -made coaches rather helps the advisors than their followers. For example, an American experiment showed that under -performing students received give advice to others began to perform better and strengthened their self -confidence while another investigation showed that the person who received receive Unweded advice lowered its self -confidence.
And possibly they are furious The Ola reactions a sign of frustration in all those who are tired of being ignored by self-proclaimed social media experts. Or to be raised by passively aggressive partners who have taken a self -help course and believe they are Jesus. And since Ola in a short time managed to give both « Therapy Speak » And the self -help loop a face, I am afraid that he now gets shot for all that frustration.
Let’s just hope that the criticism is « authentic » enough for him to be okay with it – and that that love crystal finally does its thing.
