Shurbly Burbly

A little bit of everything from Stewie in her

(Stop reading now if you aren't into Thai GL btw, imma ramble)

First and foremost, whoever took that video is a criminal and should be punished severely. Stalking is not okay, invading someone's privacy is not ok. Freen already has a panic disorder, this person has probably just made it 10x worse.

They also very possibly just destroyed her career, at least as a GL actress, which is frightening. But this person has also brought the truth to light. They absolutely didn't do a good thing, but they've revealed the truth about Freenbeck and IDF, so people are gonna react to it.

Plenty of people are going to call me a delusional shipper right now, and fair enough, they never outright said they were together. But no one can claim that Freen, Becky and IDF haven't been implying that they're romantically involved either. They want us to think it's possible because it boosts their profits, and that's fucked.

The video brings up so many issues with the entertainment industry across asia, and the idea of shipping as a marketing technique, particularly when it comes to the LGBTQ community.

We are a vulnerable group of people, constantly under attack, constantly in danger. When people pretend to be part of the community, or encourage others to think they are part of the community in order to get our money, our support and our love, it is SO hurtful. Not only are we being killed, beaten, raped, and rejected by our families around the world, now we're being used as money-cows too? Being manipulated and sucked dry like vampires.

I would encourage people to think clearly here also - there's no way in hell Becky doesn't know. She's not being cheated on; if Freen is in a relationship, there's no way Becky isn't already aware. That makes her equally culpable. Honestly if she and IDF claim that Freen's been "cheating" on her this whole time, there's no way I'll believe them. I'll think they're just cutting their losses and trying to rescue Becky's career as a GL actress by separating her from Freen.

I don't think FreenBecky are the masterminds behind this by the way, it's just what IDF encouraged them to do. It's what the BL/GL industry asks their idols to do as standard now, to fake being together in order to get our money and love.

It's not okay.

If they were just honest about who they were from the start it wouldn't be a big deal: actors who play same-sex couples in the west aren't expected to pretend they're together. We still love them, and they still make a whole heap of money, and they never lie to our faces. We know what we're getting into and we accept it. That's how it should be. There's no reason to lie, we're desperate for representation. All we want is for people to treat us like we're worth something as human beings. This situation proves that IDF don't think we're worth anything but our money.

Don't forget too that when the little girl who played young Mon on Gap said (truthfully) that Freen had a boyfriend, IDF were going to force her and her mother to go on a live and apologize. They were going to punish a little girl and force her to lie to maintain *their* lie to the fans. It was only the objections by fans that stopped IDF doing it. THAT is *fucked* *up*. They were willing to screw up a little kid's life to cover themselves. How sick is that?

I don't hate Freen. I think she's very sweet, intelligent, and VERY talented (in fact I think she's an even better actor now than I used to because she kept up this pretense for so long and was really convincing). But I am hurt by what she, Becky, and IDF have been doing.

LGBTQ people just want to be respected and treated like we matter, for more than just our money. I don't care if Freen and Becky are not really together, I just care that they've been manipulating us from the first moment.

everyone could have been normal and just watch gap, follow them on social media, enjoy a few things here and there, but people needed to theorize and hope for something that didn't need to be analyzed.

people were eating up everything involving the two of them, and now you're upset that they milked you for money? you all wanted it to be true, so they gave it to you, even though it was fake.

People getting scammed isn't okay even if you think it was obvious, ESPECIALLY when their target is a group of people who are underserved and desperate for content. A lot of people will watch any kind of wlw content they can get their hands on, and it leads to this situation.

An entire industry made from scamming people is also not okay just because it's obvious.

FB went a lot further than most shipped couples in order to cover their own backs, including humiliating a little girl and her mom for telling the truth, and selling a book about a romantic day under their own names instead of the character names for like 4000 baht.

If they didn't do anything wrong then there wouldn't be a 5 minute apology video all over the internet right now, they would have said shipping is all par for the course. ESPECIALLY after Freen was the victim of such a fucking disgusting invasion of privacy.

Freen is taking the most blame out because of this, I don’t understand why, people wanted to believe in something, so they believed it. Becky is not a Victim here, Freen is. And if we support Freen and Becky, and we ever liked them, we should not be turning our backs on them. 

I don't like to follow too much of the fandom drama, but I had to mention what's going on re: Seng and Freen, two QL industry artists.

Seng is a BL actor who has been in Secret Crush on You, Y Destiny, and War of Y, all partnered with Billy Patchanon. Seng was originally with Idolfactory but left on January 2023 when his contract expired.

Freen is a GL actor who has been in Secret Crush on You and GAP the Series both partnered with Becky.

The FreenBecky ship is particularly strong and this ship has been really active promoting and doing fanmeets since GAP aired.

Last week Idolfactory posted a notice that the privacy of one of their artists, Freen, had been violated and that they were taking legal action.

A video was posted a few days ago (no I'm not going to link it) taken through a window from a distance, showing Seng and Freen kissing. Since then, both Freen and Seng have come forward to say that yes, it is them in the video, that someone followed and recorded them without their permission, and they apologize to their fans.

I...just cannot handle the way people are talking about this on Twitter [still calling it that]. Thank goodness for this place, honestly.

Listen, feel however you want to feel about your ship being real, but don't shame a victim of stalking, harassment, and attempted extortion for having a relationship that isn't the one you hoped they had in their real, private lives.

No matter how much money someone makes from performing a relationship with someone else in a ship, they don't owe you their personhood. They are still allowed to be who they are and love who they love on their downtime.

Gatekeeping who can and cannot act in queer media does nothing but force people out of the closet (potentially threatening their life, depending on their circumstances) and take away peoples' fundamental right to decide who they share parts of themselves to and when. [Note if someone is in a position of power enforcing homophobic legislation or culture and they are outed that is different because it's about the hypocrisy of their politics and the prevention of further damage to other queer people]

Insisting that people who are acting as part of their job have been lying to you by not being the people they are pretending to be for money does nothing but explain that you don't understand the meaning of the words acting or job. If you don't like that shipping culture feels real when it isn't, then don't pay attention to it.

Leaving here the note from one of the authors of War of Y (which if you haven't seen it includes a plot in which another shipped Idolfactory couple, Tohru and First, play characters who are in a ship but one sleeps with a costar which potentially ruins both of their careers when it gets leaked to the press... it's all a bit wildly accurate tbh)

[I know this rant is not for the people here who are going to see it but I had to yell it somewhere, sorry tumblr buds]

Editing to add: OMG I can't believe I forgot that I would have to say this, but also bisexuality and pansexuality exist, just because someone kisses someone of a different gender does not mean they also never have and never will enjoy kissing someone of the same gender, and either way it is literally none of your business and you cannot queerbait people in real life. That is Not A Thing. Please stop saying it.

The fans shouldn't waver in the midst of this, the real fans should all be there for Freen that is a VICTIM, that it was already cracking under pressure, and now someone added this as well on her, they are human beings, that deserve respect, and if people think that leading the fans to believe that they actually are involved in real life is wrong, they made a mistake, and follow whatever the company they work for ask of them.

And there were already rumors that they both dated man since a while ago, so this is not a complete shock, most of us wanted the FreenBecky thing to be real because of our selfish reasons. FreenBecky is a great friendship and a partnership in a different way than romantic, but they support one another through the though things that they are going through, and destroying that shouldn't bring joy to anyone.

Let's not make them pay and let the person who assaulted Freen to win in this situation, let's keep firm for Freen that needs the support, and not a bunch of angry people going after her, for a career move.

Also, knowing what we all know, Freen was in the Macau event with a smile on her face, playing around, entertaining an arena full of people that travel to see her, knowing what was to come, and she was a professional.