Let’s be honest, there aren’t a ton of Love Is Blind memes about literally everyone on the season eight cast looking the same for no reason, and it’s been proven that this season is the whitest we’ve had yet.

During the first seven seasons of Love Is Blind, about 50 per cent of the overall cast weren’t white but season eight has cut that down to just 30 per cent.

The lack of diversity on the Netflix show hasn’t gone unnoticed by viewers, however, the creator of Love Is Blind season eight, Coelen, has defended the overwhelming whiteness of the cast.

They told Entertainment Weekly: “Well, the show casts itself. We put people in the pods, and you try to have a very diverse group of people in lots of different ways [at the start]. And then the people who get engaged are the people who get engaged.

“The people who fall in love are the people who fall in love. If you’re sort of trying to tick a box, there were lots of people who were in the group coming into the pods who ultimately just didn’t find their person and who we didn’t choose to [follow].”

Coelen added that if a cast member does connect with anyone in the pods they won’t feature in an episode, explaining: “It’s like [how] we chose to tell the Madison-Meg-Mason-Alex story because it felt really worthwhile telling.

“There are 32 stories times however many people each person dates. So if each person starts off dating 16 people, do the math, that’s, I don’t know, close to 1,000 stories? Something like that. And you can only tell so many of them.”

The creator continued: “We always, always, always strive to seed the pods for the greatest possible success, and within that, diversity of not only ethnicity or race, but backgrounds, and financial status, and body types and looks and all that stuff.

You’re less concerned about that, to be honest, than just trying to have a group of people that you hope are somewhat compatible and then seeing what happens. And like I said, then they cast the show for us.

“We don’t decide, ‘Oh, this is a good couple. That’s a good couple.’ We don’t steer it in any way. They figure it out on their own.”