Romance Club is a hypocritical app
Before, you come after me with your hatchets and chainsaws, let me just clarify this IS MY PERSONAL opinion and nothing else.
Isn't it funny for this app that 2 years ago so bravely said, we left Russian market because we care about LGBTQ+ and won't bend to their ways.
Fast forward to 2 yrs later and this app literally went back to them. How funny! So, that all thing was a farce and lies.
I think at this point it's honest and very true to say:
Romance Club never wanted to leave Russian Federation they, just needed time to remove all the queer content and start with clean chit again.
2 yrs were the perfect time to develop a neutral, straight app for Russians and to fund this all nonsense they added the subscription thing, wheel of Fortune and what not.
Then let's go to the poor representation of POC (No, I'm not saying that they don't add too many of them it's just most of POC are just not given vitality, originality and stakes with the plot)
Black characters are the worst sufferers in this app. They are always made by default a nice and same personality character. You can rarely see a red flag , or a complex character in them. I have seen Asian red flags, Indian red flags and antihero characters but, with black characters they are 90% lazy and very much scared of the phobia. God forbid we can't make them diverse in behaviour it's racist otherwise.
Vincent, Lucien and Regina might be the only black characters that break the troupe but it's still 3 vs 70 of them.
Regarding authors (Very offensive take )
Natalia , was never given the respect nor the chance to redeem herself in RC. They kept on funding that racist Remy and homophobic authors and they have the audacity to say that they care about fair chances and representation.
You can't even help the man who was the reason your company actually started I'm talking about, Tepish who is Andrei of this app who, can't even give a proper explanation and keep people on board with no professionalism.
I understand he has health issues BUT DEAR LORD can't you have some mercy and complete his books before launching your stupid sequel cash cows?
Do RC hates Tepish don't they have professionalism to help him complete his book? You helped Veronica why can't him? This is literally discrimination.
Also, who are these people who has made Anton's book to be on Top 10? Who are you people? This book has the worst romance and barely anything is original. This book shamelessly rips on Attack on Titan, has only one man as a love interest and the romance is so lacking what is this book even about???
If you can give Langley , Dmitry and others a chance to redeem then why, not Natalia? Anna also was ostracized just because her 1 book flopped?
Not, all authors will have dynamic start but, can't you just see, sometimes you have gems in your treasure that needs.
RC also has a poor behaviour and it's high time we drop our rose tinted glasses and look at it's shitty attitude.
It seems RC won't give a f unless this fandom goes toxic or go stalker mode on them to accept their fuck ups.
And I am tired of an app that plays two face. You can't even commit fully to your promises and we can see you are in your desperate phase.
I also have issues with League of Dreamers but, they are transparent on their f ups and welp since , unfortunately they belong to Russian federation who has now made it very impossible for them to ever have a Western market or LGBT overall I can say atleast their stories are better than RC these days and they aren't that bitch when it comes to treating their authors
That's all my rant. Go Home now!