losing weight counts out as a glow up to alot of people including the seme how is it fatphobia when someone loses weight and improve their physical appearance?
Losing weight is great when it's your choice. In the story, the seme is literally harassed, and then he is asked by the uke to lose weight to have a relationship with him. It's like he can only be worth of love and respect if he's skinny and muscular. That's fatphobia. If the story was more about the losing-weight journey, and how the uke fall in love despite the fact that the seme is fat, it would be a bit more interesting. Here it's just "you're fat and disgusting, go loose weight if you want to have any value for me (the uke) or anyone"
Not really though, sunbae already liked him and thought he was cute while he was still fat losing weight. And he doesn't hate him or think he is worthless either. Its just that he has been clear that he needs sexual compatibility to have a relationship and he couldn't feel sexual attraction for him when he was fat, even though he liked his face. It's the same with all of us, we would never pursue a fat giant like Daol in college, because we don't feel the physical attraction. That's just how beauty preferences work and human nature
I can agree on beauty preferences. But I'd never go to some boy saying "your face looks great but I'll dare you only if you lose 40 kg". It's such a redflag, and you should never change for anyone, just for yourself, be it weigh or other things
In real life I agree ofc that you shouldn't change but in this story Daol already was whipped for sunbae and sunbae knew it too because he had noticed Daol stalking him. So it's more like he gave Daol a chance and Daol was more than happy to give it a try right away. And that's were we will probably see conflict in their relationship in the future because Daol will worry and will think that sunbae only likes him in a shallow physical way (when in fact sunbae is already down bad for him but won't accept it so easily)
I just finished reading it all. I don't get why the author decided to make the seme a fat guy who has to loose weight. Like, isn't it just fatphobia? They could have just make a gloomy or unstylish character who have a makeover. Moreover, losing 40 kg in 4 months is unrealistic and dangerous for your health, and don't expect to have any abs at the end... Well, the rest of it is kinda cute, so I'll let it pass, but the beginning was not that pleasant to read.