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SalaciousBCrumb@lemy.lol to World News@quokk.au · 2 months ago

Korean boy band member becomes first active K-pop star to come out as gay

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Korean boy band member becomes first active K-pop star to come out as gay

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SalaciousBCrumb@lemy.lol to World News@quokk.au · 2 months ago
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Publicly identifying as gay is rare among active K-pop stars, whose behavior is tightly controlled by music labels and policed by fans who expect them to have wholesome images.
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  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    Giving more fuel for their fans to ship real life people like they’re yaoi characters.

    • Novaling@lemmy.zip
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      I’m full fujo trash and yet I have never understood, for the life of me, people who ship real, breathing people. Don’t care if it’s queer or straight, I’ve always hated it, and I get so mad when I see how Real Person Fanfiction (RPF) will have thousands of docs on AO3, while some of my fandoms are starved for scraps. Like I wish I had no standards and liked reality, but alas, I can’t get into it.

      Maybe it’s just cause I’m not invested in romance outside of 2d characters but god…

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        I thought you were talking about human trafficking. Like “those delinquents are very inconsiderate to to their victims. They should as if they are gay”. Thankfully, someone explained

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      “ship real life people” what does this mean “to ship people”?

      • Secret Music@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        It means thinking they should be together in a relationship (ship comes from the word relationship, I believe). This is a thing that people do a lot in fandoms for fiction stuff. Like shipping two characters together from comics or a TV show or whatever.

        • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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          And Lemmy itself does one example of shipping that is iconic:

          Julian and Garak

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            It’s not a ship if its real

          • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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            We didn’t do that, the writers of Deep Space 9 did. We just like that they did. A lot.

      • notarobot@lemm.ee
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        Thanks for asking

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    Good for him. I hope the fans support him.

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      Isn’t Japan like REALLY homophobic?

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        he’s from south korea

        • notarobot@lemm.ee
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          Oh. Shit. Now I feel like a racist.

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            The title said “Korean”, how did you get Japan?

            • notarobot@lemm.ee
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              I know… that is why I feel bad.

            • jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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              And what did you think the “K” stood for??

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    That’s surprising. I assumed most of them were gay

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    Notice how the headline implies there could be more.

    • Stamau123@lemmy.world
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      Two gay men?

      Could you imagine?

      • VitoRobles
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        My god. Exponential growth.

        Soon it’ll be four gay men. Then Eight. Then Sixteen!

        Damn you Rice on a Chessboard problem!

      • jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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        Maybe more

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      First because no one has ever done it before.

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        Sounds like they are trying to infer.

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          Sounds like you are.

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            Nope just reading between the lines. That kinda speech is reserved for world records. It strikes me as unusual to use it this way.

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      First to come out as.

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        There’s no reason to use first.

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          That is literally the meaning of first. Nobody has done it before. It does not necessarily imply there will be a second

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      I read it as “first to come out while still active in K-pop”, but even that seems inaccurate and there are lists of people who have come out.

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    I just read somewhere that fans went CRAZY when a Korean idol shared that she had a boyfriend and was planning to marry him. Like, she had to go into hiding.

    I wonder how it’ll be for Kpop girls who thirst for a guy to then reveal he’s not into them.

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      The K-pop girls are all furiously writing boylove fanfics as we speak

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