Okay, for everyone who apparently have zero functioning brain cells, let me explain to you why Pixelberry, a company run by adults, writing a sex scene between Noah/MC and Mason/MC is fucking weird
1. Noah, Mason, and MC are all minors, as far as we know. There’s been no mention of who’s eighteen and who isn’t in this book so far. Even if they were, I’d still kind of side eye “it’s not weird! They’re eighteen year old high schoolers!” I’m too lazy to get into why that’s weird.
2. The scene was written by adults, for (presumably) adults, about kids. It didn’t need to get that explicit. It would be fine if there was implied sex, and the scene was more centered around the fact that MC/the LI of your choice the LI of your choice if you’re straight finally get intimate (which is typically what most YA PB diamond scenes do, if there’s any sex at all—in HSS/HSSCA/ILITW, you at most made out with your LI a bit and that was it, which was what I expected for this, and what would have been appropriate), but that’s not what this is. It was framed to be sexy. From the screenshots I’ve seen, it was about on the same level as a fifteen diamond Witness scene.
3. Yes, teenagers have sex. Yes, lots of TV shows targeted at teenagers depict sex. But 1) These TV shows usually stop right at the point where clothes come off, 2) the actors in these shows are adults, and 3) Teenagers privately having sex with each other isn’t consumed by an audience, nor should it be. Again, teenagers are kids.
4. Do I think PB did this maliciously? No. Do I think they’re all secretly a bunch of child pornographers? No. But this was, at best, an incredibly dumb oversight on their part, and at worst, them thinking they could profit off of sexualizing teenagers under the assumption that there are enough horny weirdos on this app who would pay money to see Noah/Mason’s (again, both of whom are teenage boys) shirtless sprite and read about him getting a handjob. This isn’t me being bitter that two LIs got dirty thirties and one did not. I’d feel just as weird if I found out there’s a scene where you can read about a teenage girl getting fingered in the back of a car and the whole thing is framed as super sexy and super hot or whatever.
This isn’t moral outrage because I got reminded that sometimes teenagers have sex. It’s anger at the fact that some of y’all seemingly do not understand why it’s fucking weird for adults to write about that with the framing that they did, and it’s annoyance at the fact that yes, apparently, PB is this fuckin dumb.
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