Produce 101 is boring, and so is this post, and so are you

Wow, I've gotten more questions about reality TV show Produce 101 and their associated group I.O.I than just about anything else in this blog's entire history!  So here a post where I tackle all 238672 questions that I received about this shithouse TV series.  Read on and enjoy, or be completely fucking bored out of your brain like I was when I wrote this!  Yay!