#izaya

I've been finding many Japanese YTers with few subscribers, fewer than 1000, fewer than 50k, fewer than 100k. Ive been watching a lot of Japanese gay couple channels, specifically, and I've been subscribing to the ones that have English subtitles. I think that it's a good reality check by watching their videos so that I'm not too deep in the BL juice.

I then found this channel named Izaya, yea he looks hot. I watched all of his videos immediately, and he actually added his own English subtitles, which means that the channel fits the requirement of a channel that I'd like to subscribe to (I much prefer a channel with a written English subtitle than an automatic AI-based dub, because I also have been learning Japanese here and there). I then subscribed to him because on top of the English sub, he's also very funny.

Before I did my walk in the afternoon today, YT recommended me a clip from the show The Boyfriend, the gay couples reality show on Netflix, and his name came up, Izaya. I was so confused... He's a reality show celebrity? I then did a quick google search and it turns out to be the same Izaya, the YT channel owner and the one from the show.

I was contemplating during my walk about whether I should continue subscribing to the channel because he's a celebrity and thus can never tell stories of what it means to be gay in Japan as a normal person. But, on the other hand, he's funny and he has his own English sub.