Maybe you’re new in the comments, but you can watch the drama to decide on your own or scroll down the comments.…
Thank you for your suggestion. I haven't made up my mind if I want to watch the drama yet, but I would not be inclined to watch a drama where there is just hinting and innuendos and homoerotic subtext and no romance at all. Not even an explicit acknowledgement and confession of romance, because that in my mind is the text-book definition of Queerbaiting.
My understanding of Queerbaiting is that - If there is a lot of hinting, suggestions, homoerotic subtext, clever twists, slow burning tension, innuendos, poetry, bone-throwing that is going on that is suggestive of a same-sex romance, but there is absolutely no depiction of same-sex romance, not even a romantic confession or explicit acknowledgement of a same-sex romance and relationship between the men, then I have always felt that technically that classifies as Queerbaiting and not exactly BL. There has to be some explicit expression and acknowledgement of romance and not just innuendos and hinting and subtext.
that classification doesn't have enough nuance. queerbaiting is just doing it for pure clout, it is queerbaiting…
My understanding of Queerbaiting is that - If there is a lot of hinting, suggestions, homoerotic subtext, clever twists, slow burning tension, innuendos, poetry, bone-throwing that is going on that is suggestive of a same-sex romance, but there is absolutely no depiction of same-sex romance, not even a romantic confession or explicit acknowledgement of a same-sex romance and relationship between the men, then I have always felt that technically that classifies as Queerbaiting and not exactly BL. There has to be some explicit expression and acknowledgement of romance and not just innuendos and hinting and subtext.
I understand why they may have done it - Chinese censorship and all. I get that. But it doesn't change the fact that it is afterall Queerbaiting.
OMG can't stop thinking of her Flower song now and I'm turning my hands too. LOL.
My understanding of Queerbaiting is that - If there is a lot of hinting, suggestions, homoerotic subtext, clever twists, slow burning tension, innuendos, poetry, bone-throwing that is going on that is suggestive of a same-sex romance, but there is absolutely no depiction of same-sex romance, not even a romantic confession or explicit acknowledgement of a same-sex romance and relationship between the men, then I have always felt that technically that classifies as Queerbaiting and not exactly BL. There has to be some explicit expression and acknowledgement of romance and not just innuendos and hinting and subtext.
I understand why they may have done it - Chinese censorship and all. I get that. But it doesn't change the fact that it is afterall Queerbaiting.