“Love Is Blind” season 6's Chelsea wants people to stop sending her memes comparing Jimmy to a thumb

Sydney Bucksbaum
·4 min read

"The internet's a wild place," she tells EW with a laugh.

Comparing Love Is Blind season 6 cast member Chelsea Blackwell to Megan Fox is so last week. The new comparison taking the internet by storm is her pod-fiancé Jimmy Presnell ... and a thumb.

A meme has gone viral on TikTok comparing Jimmy to the giant thumb men — a.k.a. the Thumb Thumbs — from Spy Kids, and it's gotten to the point where Chelsea wants people to stop sending it to her. "I feel so sad because everyone's sending that to me to make me feel better," she tells EW with a laugh. "And I'm like, 'I don't want to see this either! Stop!' The internet's a wild place, so we just got to ride it out."

<p>Courtesy of Netflix</p> Jimmy and Chelsea

Courtesy of Netflix

Jimmy and Chelsea

That's also how she's feeling about all the negative comments she's received since the season premiered, showing her asking Jimmy during one of their pod dates if he has any celebrity doppelgangers. She went on to tell him that she often is told on airplanes that she looks like Fox, but immediately added, "It's just because I have dark hair and blue eyes. But I don't see it, so don't get excited. That's the only reason, there's nothing else."

"It's been a wild ride. It's been crazy," Chelsea says of the response to what she thought was an innocent comment. "I am very surprised of how I'm handling it. Obviously I've never been put in this situation, I didn't know what to expect. I knew not everyone was going to love me. I did not expect this whole hate dilemma to come from this comment. But I'm really proud of myself for how I've been handling it. It comes with the territory and I'm just riding this wave though."

She laughs at how even though she said she doesn't "see" the comparison to the actress, fans have largely not remembered that important fact about the moment. "Neither did Jimmy, so they're acting the same way Jimmy did," she says. "They heard what they wanted to hear and they ran with it."

Negative online comments aside, she's trying to enjoy the experience of watching her engagement play out onscreen in the episodes. "It's been absolutely crazy," she says. "It is bringing up a lot of emotions and feelings, and of course it's so fun to see our love story and see how we were so in love. It's kind of rough to see the hard parts, but it's part of our journey."

She also wishes that viewers would see more of the positive aspects of her relationship with Jimmy, since the season largely focuses on their respective pod love triangles and post-engagement issues. "There's so much that's not shown, and we only film for a very short amount of time in the afternoons because of our work schedules," she says. "So really seeing and feeling like I felt my emotions for a reason, I felt insecure in that moment of time in the latest drops for a reason — I wasn't getting the validation from him that I needed, I wasn't getting his words to match his actions — and I wish that the viewers could see how our interactions were off camera and how our interactions were in between that weren't aired. But everything happens for a reason."

Chelsea adds that her loved ones have been helping her through the roller coaster of watching her relationship on TV as well as the online hate and negativity. "I'm very, very grateful for the people behind me supporting me and just really lifting me up," she says. "And that's all I'm focusing on right now. I'm not focusing on the hate or anything like that. Not everyone's going to love you, and I'm okay with that."

New episodes of Love Is Blind season 6 premiere Wednesdays on Netflix.

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