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.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

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

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Giving more fuel for their fans to ship real life people like they're yaoi characters.

[–] Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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...

[–] notarobot@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

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

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"ship real life people" what does this mean "to ship people"?

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

And Lemmy itself does one example of shipping that is iconic:

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

It's not a ship if its real

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We didn't do that, the writers of Deep Space 9 did. We just like that they did. A lot.

[–] notarobot@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks for asking

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good for him. I hope the fans support him.

[–] JoShmoe@ani.social 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Notice how the headline implies there could be more.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

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.

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Two gay men?

Could you imagine?

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 4 points 14 hours ago

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 3 points 19 hours ago

Maybe more

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

First because no one has ever done it before.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

First to come out as.