#lukey crit

I hate when ccs do it but it's even worse if the community keeps pushing for it as well. Like with Lukey and Pangi, their "romance" was already bad and weird ass queerbaiting (especially when they met up irl) but the fans would turn every interaction they had into "omg gay!!! 🤭". It's so annoying, so many fans are queer themselves and claim they just like queer rep, but instead of watching actual queer ccs and supporting them, they're only looking for queer rep in straight ccs rping stereotypical and hypersexual gay relationship where the whole joke is based on the fact that it's not real. Ofc it's not everyone, eg Aimsey, Pili and Zam did get a lot of support as well, but it is noticeable quieter than with the straight ccs and it's also noticeable how it's only loudly cheered on when it's one of them with the fans favourite straight cc (like people cheering on Pili × Foolish, Aimsey × Ros). It's also those rps that are used as a shield to criticism as fans use these rp ships as a reason on why they're supporting queer ccs as well. Meanwhile they never talk about said queer ccs outside of this context and it's clear that they also don't watch them. But you can never have a proper conversation because "I'm queer myself" clearly makes you immune to a nuanced conversation about queerbaiting and how queer fans feed into it 🙃

Again, it's obviously not everyone and there are plenty of fans that support the queer ccs rp as much as the straight ones/it's also obviously fine not to be interested in some ccs rp regardless of their identity. It just pisses me off how many fans genuinely treat gay rp by straight ccs = peak content, maximum support; straight rp by straight ccs = sibling coded 🥺 any shipping is a crime; gay rp by queer ccs = either ignored, used as a token gay ship while clearly not watching the streams or for some reason they get called out for queerbaiting/being homophobic???