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Good morning and welcome back to the Drop In! We're kicking things off with a story about a new reality TV dating show for music festival freaks called Wooking For Love. Yes, you read that correctly.
The show was conceived out of a joke that went viral on TikTok and has now basically grown into a TikTok with teeth and arms and has become an IRL phenomenon…and potentially even a respective dating app? Needless to say, the idea has proven to have legs, and Denver’s wook community is about to get its moment in the sun. You can find that story immediately below!
If you keep scrolling, you’ll find stories on Iboga and OCD, do psychedelics need therapy to be truly healing, and releasing Catholic guilt.
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Wooking for Love Is Getting Ready to Turn Denver’s Festival Scene Into a Dating Show
Producer LaRue Allegretto’s reality dating experiment is moving forward after a viral TikTok and a wave of casting interest.
Denver’s festival scene has always been primed for reality TV. The backbone of the culture is a music-obsessed community comprised of big personalities, a lot of free-flowing, dreadlocked love, and enough group-costume concepts to make Halloween seem boring. And now there’s a new show hoping to capture the essence of this whole world. It’s called Wooking for Love, a new reality dating show dreamed up by LaRue Allegretto, who’s been in the festival scene for the majority of his adult life and is the type of person who can turn a pun into a full-blown cultural project.
And it all started as a viral TikTok video. “We saw somebody post who was griping about their romantic woes. And I said, ‘We should get these wooks on their own reality dating show and call it Wooking for Love,’” Allegretto tells DoubleBlind in a phone interview. “From that moment, it just slept in my brain like a sleeper cell.”
As the idea for the show ricocheted across TikTok, it gained wildfire momentum quickly. Production became real, as did funding and staff. “Before I knew it, I had a team together,” says Allegretto. “I now have a social media manager, I have a casting director, I have three producers from Love Island, Jersey Shore, and Love is Blind. I have an entire production team.”
The team has received hundreds of online submissions, and they even held an in-person audition event in Denver on Valentine’s Day. “We have 1100 applications,” says Allegretto of the submissions the show had received ahead of the IRL auditions. “And that is from the entirety of North America. We both have Canada and Mexico wrapped in that as well.”
But before getting too deep into how the show will be structured, we must address the most pressing question: What the hell is a “wook?” “Our umbrella, operational definition of wook as it relates to our series, is somebody who lives and breathes the festival of music scene,” says Allegretto, who coined the show’s slogal as “Finding Your Forever Groundscore.” “And that can be anybody from the most archetypal, you know, dusty wook, asking to borrow everything at your camp that you can think of, to like somebody who is a white collar worker from Monday to Friday, and like, absolutely goes bananas on the weekend. We all know someone like that.”
Back to the show’s structure. Allegretto described it as a hybrid of “Love Island Villa” and “Survivor”- style challenges, with wink-wink homages to psychedelics baked in. “It’s gonna be really cheeky and irreverent,” says Allegretto. “And we’re gonna make fun of ourselves as well as, like, you know, the format that we're doing.”
Rooster Magazine, which partnered with the Valentine’s Day audition event, framed the show as a response to Love Is Blind’s Denver moment, which was a largely inaccurate representation of the Mile High City’s culture and people. Allegretto said the show itself would strike a different, and far more accurate, tone. “The circumstances will be somewhat satirical in their nature, a bit meta from time to time, but we plan on keeping most of the contestant interactions fully authentic!”
If the whole thing sounds like a meme that’s grown teeth, that’s kind of the point. And it will be hitting streaming services in the second half of 2026.
“Commit to the bit,” says Allegretto. “People keep playing along with my bit, which is, we’re doing the show, and the committal to it is becoming pan-optical in my community, where we’re all committed to it so hard.
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In our latest feature, writer and journalist Patrick Maravelias interviews the founder of the Chambers Project and the Psychedelic Arts and Culture Trust to trace the obsession behind the collection and the community that has grown around it. The piece explores Chambers’ early influences, his role convening heavyweight artists, and why he believes the psychedelic art movement is only just getting started.
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