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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It's also probably relatable to a significant portion of the audience. I wager a fair number of people have experienced a relationship or wanted a relationship stemming from that situation.

Through no choice of yours or theirs, suddenly you are spending a lot of time with someone. From some perspective 'relatives', but pratically speaking you have a stranger who is your age move in and you are both 15 to 17 and things happen.

I had a not-blood relation suddenly happen when we were both sixteen, and we ended up dating for a bit. A bit more removed than 'siblings', but close enough to spend a lot of time together.

[–] uberfreeza@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I'm sure that's partly true. In my experience, that's just most of what's tagged as "reality", so any other situation with anything resembling a storyline takes digging. No wonder I couldn't get into it.