can we please stop lying? they’re litteraly in love with each other, they even confessed it 😭
“not reading all that” while confidently throwing around words like queerbaiting and homophobic is exactly the problem 😭
you can dislike the drama all you want, but calling a confirmed queer love story “queerbait” just because it didn’t fit your personal expectations of romance/intimacy is still something selectively homophobic.
can we please stop lying? they’re litteraly in love with each other, they even confessed it 😭
that’s not true at all 😭i’ve been waiting for this drama for so long, so i looked to it very closely since then. the director has consistently described it as a “love story,” “queer drama,” and within LGBTQ+ framing from the very beginning, not as a BL drama specifically. the BL label is something audiences applied based on expectations and marketing spaces, not something the creators explicitly defined it as.
and this is important because a lot of confusion comes from people assuming every queer-coded or male-male love story automatically falls under BL, when in reality that isn’t always how the creators themselves position it.
in multiple interviews (including the japanese ones), the language used stayed very consistent: “love story,” “queer love story,” and broader LGBTQ+ terminology. there was never an official claim like “this is a BL drama” from the director or script team.
so if people interpreted it differently, that’s understandable, but it’s not accurate to say the creators or script “made it something else” on purpose. the framing was already there, it just wasn’t labeled in the specific category some viewers expected.
can we please stop lying? they’re litteraly in love with each other, they even confessed it 😭
and that’s completely fair 😭 you have every right to dislike the way the relationship was portrayed or to feel uncomfortable with how subtle it was shown on screen.i think where we disagree is on the word “queerbaiting.” because to me, queerbaiting is when creators tease queer romance while refusing to actually confirm it. but here, the story was openly confirmed by the director, the actors, and Netflix as a queer love story from the beginning.so i fully understand criticizing the execution or wanting more visible romantic development. i just personally don’t see it as “bromance” or queerbaiting when the romance itself was never hidden or denied by the story/team.
and what feels inconsistent to me is how quickly people jump to “it’s not queer / it’s bromance” specifically when the romance isn’t portrayed in a very explicit way. you can dislike the delivery, but erasing the queer framing altogether because it doesn’t match a certain expectation of intimacy is where it stops being just criticism and starts becoming a double standard.
can we please stop lying? they’re litteraly in love with each other, they even confessed it 😭
i never said i was “better” than you 😭 and as a queer person myself, i’m not talking about you as a person, i’m talking about your behavior of denying a confirmed queer love story because it doesn’t match certain expectations of intimacy or romance.
you absolutely have the right to feel hurt or disappointed by the show. my point is simply that criticizing the portrayal is different from completely erasing the fact that it was still written and confirmed as a queer romance.
can we please stop lying? they’re litteraly in love with each other, they even confessed it 😭
except queerbaiting does not apply to a story that has been openly confirmed as a queer romance by the director, the actors, and Netflix themselves 😭
y’all can criticize the execution, the intimacy, or the writing all you want, but throwing around “queerbaiting” at every queer story that doesn’t fit your personal expectations is exactly why the term is losing meaning.
can we please stop lying? they’re litteraly in love with each other, they even confessed it 😭
"stop promoting queerbaiting show?" can you even read interviews & synopsis/tags ? it’s confirmed to be a queer romance. can you please stop throwing "queerbaiting" it’s literally homophobic at his point and it hurts us, lgbtq+ people, thanks.
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you can dislike the drama all you want, but calling a confirmed queer love story “queerbait” just because it didn’t fit your personal expectations of romance/intimacy is still something selectively homophobic.
and this is important because a lot of confusion comes from people assuming every queer-coded or male-male love story automatically falls under BL, when in reality that isn’t always how the creators themselves position it.
in multiple interviews (including the japanese ones), the language used stayed very consistent: “love story,” “queer love story,” and broader LGBTQ+ terminology. there was never an official claim like “this is a BL drama” from the director or script team.
so if people interpreted it differently, that’s understandable, but it’s not accurate to say the creators or script “made it something else” on purpose. the framing was already there, it just wasn’t labeled in the specific category some viewers expected.
and what feels inconsistent to me is how quickly people jump to “it’s not queer / it’s bromance” specifically when the romance isn’t portrayed in a very explicit way. you can dislike the delivery, but erasing the queer framing altogether because it doesn’t match a certain expectation of intimacy is where it stops being just criticism and starts becoming a double standard.
you absolutely have the right to feel hurt or disappointed by the show. my point is simply that criticizing the portrayal is different from completely erasing the fact that it was still written and confirmed as a queer romance.
y’all can criticize the execution, the intimacy, or the writing all you want, but throwing around “queerbaiting” at every queer story that doesn’t fit your personal expectations is exactly why the term is losing meaning.
this is just being selectively homophobic atp.