Sigh

I didn't make anything up, I was just the town crier of the book-reading world. Readers claimed this or that would happen, and I shared the message. Don't shoot the messenger and blame me for your naïveté. You believed other people's words without reading the novel yourselves. Rookie mistake

"Gives feeling of soulmates vibes this is much beautiful than romance"

Romance and soulmate vibes can coexist. The two can make for a powerful connection. More powerful than, "I don't want to be your lover, I just want to vibe with your soul"

You're the ones getting bent out of shape over a fictional story with a 47-year-old's soul in a teen body falling for an 18-year-old. Meanwhile, you're A-OK with an adult "dating" an elementary schooler (If My Wife Becomes an Elementary School Student)

You're weird

Hold the phone, did I stumble into the Twilight Zone?

It's hunky-dory for a grown man to be with a little girl, but if a middle-aged man's soul ends up in a teen body and falls for another teen, we're supposed to clutch our pearls and scream "yikes?" Since when did we elect you to be in charge of the BL community?

People are cool with an anime that makes a grown woman relive her elementary school years for a family do-over. This gay novel? "It's problematic, gotta censor that!"

We need to have a chat about priorities and double standards

The infuriating part is that you're a broken record stuck on a loop of nonsense

The author didn't complain, why wouldn't we? Why roll over and accept the changes?

Opposing censorship isn't the same as condoning problematic content. We wanted the adaptation to be faithful to the source material, warts and all

Will you start a petition to censor "Romeo and Juliet" because the man was old enough to be Juliet’s math tutor (Juliet was 13-14, Act I, scene 3, Romeo was 21, according to William Painter and Pierre Boaistuau)? What about "Beauty and the Beast?" Will you censor it because the beast was like a million years old (exaggerated), and the story romanticized Stockholm syndrome and bestiality (Belle developed feelings of loyalty or affection towards her non-human captor)? Why did children grow up watching something so problematic? Or "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" (2015), the story of a 15-year-old girl who starts a "relationship" with her mother's 35-year-old "boyfriend?" Why wasn't it censored?

If you're going to censor everything "predatory" or "problematic," throw out your entire library and stick to watching "My Little Pony"

Admit that you're hypocrites. You ignore age gaps or problematic elements in straight stories and immediately become suspicious of them when they involve a gay pairing

The welcome increase in LGB representation in recent years is nowhere near half the characters on TV. It's 4-5%. Even if half of all characters were LGB, what of it? Fiction isn't obligated to be a perfect mirror of real-world demographics or statistics. We don't have to be a minority in fiction

No homophobe's up in arms about the absence of dragons, vampires, werewolves, superheroes, zombies, ghosts, etc, in the real world, and their overrepresentation in fiction goes without complaint. The issue you have isn't accuracy, it's discomfort with the presence of LGB characters

"It's just so annoying"

What's annoying is homophobes complaining and telling LGB people to sit down, shut up, and be happy with the scraps of representation they're given. Take your advice and quit complaining

"Everyone is already walking on their tiptoes just not to offend you"

Most people don't accept the LGB community. They must be walking in stilettos because we can hear the sound of homophobia. They might as well be wearing high heels and stomping around. We're not buying their act

"Korea is conservative and there's nothing wrong with it"

The LGB Korean people who are treated like second-class citizens would disagree with you

Accepting ourselves and living our lives, we're doing that. It's the rest of the world that needs to catch up

I feel the same way about you, too ❤️

Your zero-tolerance policy for BS makes you a badass, and I like badasses

Cut out the middleman and read the novel for yourselves to form your own opinions

You're choosing to rely on others' interpretations, so you're not free from bias or having an agenda either. You're embarrassing yourselves

The romance was between the og high schoolers

Se Kyung was and is fond of og Yi Heon, and that's supported by other readers of the novel. @christinatina sees it differently, interpreting Se Kyung’s feelings as being for the soul that’s inside Yi Heon

Regardless of anyone’s interpretation, the pairing of Se Kyung and og Yi Heon was the ultimate romantic outcome

The production team stated that they censored the gay elements of the story because they wanted the result to be a commercial success. In layman's terms, they wanted to pander to the homophobic majority who aren't down with seeing gay couples on their screens

If you can’t see that censoring gay content is homophobic, that’s on you. I’ve made my point, and I’m not going to keep repeating myself

You're the "VIU-llain" now

The romance wasn't between a 47-year-old and a high school student, it was between two high school students. Yi Heon and Se Kyung found themselves drawn to each other from the beginning. They eventually had the chance to develop their feelings into a relationship after Yi Heon returned to his body

Slow down, Speedy Gonzales

Wiping away gay relationships from mainstream media is a clear-cut example of genuine homophobia. Society is telling gay people, "we’ll allow you to exist as long as you stay hidden and silent"

Comparing the censorship of gay themes in media to the censorship of trolls and wizards is a false equivalence. The discrimination faced by gay people isn't the same as the discrimination faced by imaginary creatures

The "Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter" franchises have a huge amount of lore and world-building that couldn't be fitted into the films. There was no malicious intent to censor trolls or wizards. There certainly is a malicious intent to censor the gay elements of a story. And this isn't the first time it happens. It's suspicious, homophobic, and it's not like the producers were pressed for time and had to cut the gay elements to make room for more commercials

"Go protest outside the embassy"

Homophobia is a spectrum. We can't forget to address the more subtle forms of homophobia just because they're not a "death" sentence. You’re using a "Suffering Olympics" approach, you focus on the worst problems and ignore the rest

There isn't a homophobia quota we have to meet before we can speak up

You don't understand, the gangster didn't fall in love with a teenager. Two teenage boys fell in love with each other

Who made you the spokesperson for the gay community? You're not offended by censorship, some other gay people are and their feelings are valid

I know it can be tempting to try to impress the homophobes by pretending homophobia is no big deal, but they're not going to give you a cookie for being their "I'm-not-like-the-other-gays-I'm-tough-and-not-offended" lapdog

I'm sorry you feel the need to be condescending. Perhaps you could try being as clever as you think you are. Just a thought

Where did we "negate the absolute existence data?"

We emphasized the role of homophobia in the popularity of this censored drama. Society is intolerant of male intimacy beyond "friendship." The depiction of close male "friendships" has become an appealing substitute for other forms of male intimacy

"How can I know there bunches of mediocre in BL"
"HSROAG has BOTH unlike those current BL drama"

That's your opinion. In my opinion, those so-called "mediocre" BLs are better and more enjoyable than this censored, homophobic excuse for a drama