
dropped scammed and rammed brcause of the exremely random rape scene so I hope this won't let me down

Well, I am a man, a gay one too. Plus, it helps to remember that these stories are fictional. None of the characters are real. I get emotionally attach to them. But it isn't like they are a real person in distress. But I get that some people don't wanna see rape scenes in stories. It is tragic... Σ(っ°Д °;)っ

no, that doesn't help actually. it's not about fictional characters not really being able to feel distress, it is so much more than that. it's about the fact that rape is still an act of violence whether it happens in real life or in fiction, and that it is over-used, normalized and romanticized in the gerne. it ruins story telling, it ruins characters, it ruins everything. and in my personal opinion it is not a great trait that people like you are ignorant enough to be able to turn a blind eye to it so that you can say "i'm still going to read it despite the rape"

that was not my point, but sure we can open this can of worms. because if you think rape is bad but apparently not bad enough to ruin a story and its characters and you still continue reading it, then you support the product, which means you also (indirectly) support the creator. you so desperately want to pull yourself out of the ugly affair and pass the buck to the authors, but that's just you ducking out of responsibility. readers are the fuel to a story. if it's in demand, it will be made. you think if not a single soul would touch jinx with a ten foot pole, mingwa would still sit down and draw it? like, be for real...

ok?? if you hate it that much, then maybe this genre just isn't for you. idk what else you want me to say. you can play moral police all you want, but that doesn’t change the reality that we're just readers and ILLEGAL ones at that. mingwa and countless other authors aren’t going to care what gets said in these forums. we are neither supporting the product not the creator in this context, unless you went out of your way to buy them or read them legally.
also at the end of the day, people will still consume what’s available, whether you like it or not. trying to reform an entire industry by blaming one reader (who likely isn't even purchasing them) isn’t activism, it’s just misplaced outrage.
if you actually want something to change, then look at the industry, the platforms, and how these works are monetized. otherwise, this just ends up being performative noise in a space that doesn’t have the power to make the kind of structural changes you're demanding.
the guy at the end might be even hotter than the seme