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Dating show producers match highly incompatible people

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A quiet, mutually respectful romance is a complete disaster for network ratings. Recruiters purposefully pair extremely neat individuals with absolute slobs, or aggressive personalities with highly sensitive souls, intentionally engineering spectacular romantic trainwrecks to keep viewers aggressively engaged.

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