Fruit Love Island — an AI-generated short series featuring talking fruit with names like Plumero and Watermelina — did something the academic consciousness literature has not managed in years: it made the sentience question feel urgent by making it feel ridiculous. The post that cut through [20] was not arguing against AI consciousness. It was arguing that the humans consuming the content had abandoned the cognitive habits that make the question answerable. That inversion — from 'is the machine aware?' to 'are we?' — is the structural move that the…