I'm so confused about this whole shipping mafia in (asian) BL series, can someone help me?
So I watched 10DANCE and I loved it and thought, "Why not finally give Asian BLs a chance?" Back in my day I watched Skam (all versions), Shameless, Eyewitness, Please Like Me, Sense8, all the hidden gays in dctv series, and many other things inappropriate for my age. And when I got older I moved away from that a bit (i got a job 😔), but you know what? WHY NOT a little more queer media now that it's so much more popular and easily accessible?
I watched Cherry Magic because, according to Google, many people start with this bl series, and well, it's with Keita Machida. And it was the cutest and most adorable series I've ever seen in my life. Then I thought about continuing and, out of curiosity, I watched ABO Desire and honestly, and my only opinion is that I'm traditional and conservative about the omegaverse (wtf is enigma). I hated it, so I abandoned China and went to Thailand and watched Cutie Pie, and it's cute like Cherry Magic but has something more... Conclusion: I've become obsessed with Zeenunew for the past two weeks, watching so many videos about them and thinking, “Awn, how cute! They're a couple in real life!!" (Allegedly 🤨)
And in the end I fell down a huge rabbit hole and WHAT THE HELL IS FANSERVICE IN >>>SHIPS<<< ????
What is this??? A huge shipping mafia in BL series???? How come the actors are paired up and only play couples with the same actors???? And they still promote EVERYTHING together and they are EVERYWHERE together???? If you look at their social media without knowing, you'll think they're a real couple, BUT THEY'RE NOT 🤨
And how can they just PRETEND to be a couple to continue promoting their work???? Are you seriously? That's ridiculous. Where's the diversity??? What a waste of talent, honestly. I watched Cutie Pie and all I could think was how much I wanted a series with two rival CEOs who are also lovers, like ZeeMax, but they both already have partners, and they're only going to be paired up with their partners for all shows?! And their company invests A LOT in these couples and they have PET CHILDREN (whatever that blue thing is)???? Seriously, ZeeNunew is adorable, but if in the end it's just fanservice, they deserve an Oscar
And the worst part is the fans and fandoms fighting over ships? What's wrong with you all? Are you 14 years old? I can't believe adults are making these actors' lives miserable because of "ships." I spent hours trying to understand why they hate that actor called Saint, only to discover that the real problem was the fandom harassing Zee wtf. I've never seen such a toxic fandom behavior
If anyone wants to teach me a little more about fan culture and fandom in the BL series, I'd love to learn (and judge a lot), I'm so confused.