when nb understands the pen references from obey me i feel like an unc </3
Been reading BL a lot longer than that. The community has always been toxic and will always be toxic. Lots of holier than thou attitudes, fujoshi mentality that goes past the point of just being funny/stupid in a joke way, romanticizing rape/gaslighting/confinement/etc.
The covid era brought a lot of new and temporary people into the community that didn't take all of it so damn seriously and weird (of course brought in a lot of crazies,too.) It's what the community needed to help water down the extra toxic. But they're not here all buffering and making jokes/memes anymore so it's transitioning back into the toxic wilds again.
yeah but it only got worse by the time, or maybe i was too young to understand, but i feel like now the authors LOVE to put rape/confinement/sexual content. As if a love story only ran around this. And now the new people in the community are like sexual content is a need, twink rebel (but submissive) feminine bottom is the slay period mc and the top must be a super muscular alpha rich dude (red flag and black flag is the best for them). For exemple Jinx is only famous because of the author, the sex and the red flag top, and people calls that a love story, but then when you tell them it's shit they expose your whole identity as if you killed their hamster.
Before there were of course some dumb people who liked that but they were always quieted and never truly exposed their fetischism. The community was a little more healthy, we had 19 days, red candy, the third ending, pearl boy (before season 2) and we made fun or trauma of things such as Placebo and Dark Fall. But somehow the new fans made those books as "hot stories" and now there is 90 chapters of Dark Fall that ppl call it as a reference and a serie of Placebo where ppl touch themselves because "the red flag is so hot stooop".
Yes the fujoshi have always been weirdos but at least they were quiet and never got this proud of it as they are today.
What i mean in the end is that the community changed so much that talking abt a sweet green flag story is so rare that when it happens i always meet some old readers just like me because they like boy's LOVE and not BOY'S love as some ppl pretend to like today. I wanna exchange with the old ppl because they're like me, they search for the romance in a community that search for sex and abuse
(sorry if i sounded mean i had a bad day) :3
I am a big bl reader since my 13, i found mangago when i was 15, and since then, i feel like the old gen of readers has just disappear (or maybe it's just me?). Per example, i keep seeing people saying that their first "bl" was jinx and people are like "oh yeah same" or "it's a good way to start", while when i say mine was literally lost in the cloud people start crashing out saying i'm a new gen who just follow the trend.
(and for those who think yes i'm a new gen, at THE real beginning of lost in the cloud, the updates were CRAZY long, there were only 20 chapters and so i dropped it, plus i felt like the whole story was kinda messed up and irrationnal, i was 13 okay?? TT).
Tbh i feel rejected from a fandom i've been part of for 5 years
Well my explanation is kinda long, but i wanna talk with people who lived the 2020 bl peak with the Taeddicted edits and omegaverse peak content... I don't wanna be alone on this one.
I kinda feel lonely you know ?
Most of the bl readers ik don't even know what placebo or obey me is... (THIS WAS NOT GOOD BUT IT'S WHAT MARKED ME THE MOST, the table meme)
Also sorry for any people who mistook my message (but jinx is still trash and so is bj alex :3)