At the 18-minute mark of the second episode of Love Island USA Wednesday night, as islanders awoke in their luxury Fijian villa, narrator Ian Stirling delivered the line that was (sorta) heard 'round the world:

"Yulissa has left the villa."

Yulissa Escobar, a 27-year-old from Miami, had been part of the latest group of singles to join the popular Peacock reality show. But while Stirling’s five-word announcement signaled her exit, it came with almost no context or screen time. Many viewers (this writer included!) did not even realize Escobar was gone until well into the episode.

So, what the heck happened?

While it remains unclear whether producers removed Escobar from the villa in the middle of the night or edited her out of the episode, one thing is clear: Her stay was as brief a

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