#ohmnanon

2 years and we're still not over them 🥺

Let's play a game! Let's explore the magic of critical thinking together. :D

Yay!

In 2021, GMMTV released "Bad Buddy" starring Ohm and Nanon, a career move they have both lived to regret, at some level, to this day! While "Bad Buddy" was airing and the OhmNanon machine was being constructed, brand new OhmNanon fans cheerfully (and sometimes aggressively) told everyone they could pin down with their knives long enough to listen to them that Ohm and Nanon hadn't even wanted to do BL! Ohm had done a fair number of BL series already and was looking to phase out of it, and Nanon had never done a BL series and wasn't especially interested in joining in!

(I wonder why?)

Legend has it that director Aof knew they weren't keen, so he got them to agree to "Bad Buddy" by going to them separately and telling them, "Hey. Y'know your friend? The guy you're friends with? The boy you enjoy spending time with? He's signed on. Don't you want to work with him?"

So Ohm and Nanon signed on to this one BL series.

Ohm was twenty-one.

Nanon was twenty.

Just underscoring their ages for no reason whatsoever. It's not like young people are easily pressured and exploited or anything.

"Bad Buddy" was a massive hit, and GMMTV probably went, "You can't stooooppppp! You're making us moooooneeeeey!"

Somehow, even though Nanon had been very clear and open publicly that he had no interest in doing BL long-term, he became half of the imaginary couple OhmNanon. FOREVER.

Do I know what went on behind the scenes? No.

But let's go back to that critical thinking thing.

Nanon said: no BL.

GMMTV said: ONE (1) BL.

Nanon said: fine, one BL.

"Bad Buddy" ends and GMMTV continues to promote the fuck out of NEWLY MINTED OHMNANON THE BRAND.

How much agency do you think this twenty-year-old had in holding his boundaries?

I'm not a GMMTV Is Evil person. I am a GMMTV Is Exploitative and Money-Obsessed person. I think if you're an artist with savvy and good legal representation, you can make a solid life and career at GMMTV. It's a job in a cutthroat industry.

I'm sure that's how Nanon, with family in the industry, got out of his imaginary couple work with Ohm when Whatever Happened Between Them happened between them.

And now it's 2026 and there are still OhmNanon fans devotedly making sure no one on the internet ever associates Ohm or Nanon with anything but the memory of OhmNanon.

Now, Sky and Nani were twenty-six years old when they did their first series together. From what I know, GMMTV got dancey happy giddy excited about their series "High School Frenemy" doing really well, so they probably went, "HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY WHAT IF YOU TWO KEEP WORKING TOGETHER AS A BL IMAGINARY COUPLE? YOU JUST HAVE TO FLIRT WITH EACH OTHER AND EXCHANGE JEWELRY AND TELL PEOPLE YOU'RE IN LOVE FOR REAL AND WE'LL GIVE YOU SOME OF THE MONEY WE MAKE FROM IT."

On cue, the ghosts of Ohm and Nanon's peace and sanity set the ceiling on fire and screamed fountains of blood from their gaping mouths onto the floor around Sky and Nani's sneakers, so Sky and Nani said, "I think we'd rather not."

But GMMTV wanted money, and BL imaginary couples make easy money, so what do??? HOW GET MONEY [geysers of fire and melted gold]

Presumably, GMMTV went, "Ooh, ooh! I know! Okay, what if we don't market you as a BL imaginary couple, but just…friends! CLOSE friends!"

So they did that. Are doing that.

If you're mad at SkyNani for [checks notes] refusing to appropriate queer culture for profit by marketing themselves as friends, but you simultaneously support BL imaginary couples whose sexualities you don't know, then you've found yourself right smack in the middle of a conundrum there, partner!

How can you be sure BL imaginary couples aren't exploiting queer culture for profit?

Because I guarantee you some of them are. \:D/

I even know some of them are! And one of those pairs is pretty ding dang diddly doo popular with some of you making the most noise. \\\\:D////

Attacking SkyNani like this is just using half-baked logic and performative justice-seeking language to justify going on a witch hunt because you can't deal with your own unexplored or reckoned-with issues.

Find joy in something, anything, immediately.