Forever will be antishipper advocate. Exploiting gay for popularity is bad.

Shippers directly admit to enabling and support creators who exploit the gay community. Let’s be clear: shippers are a big reason why we see fewer proper BL stories, and especially fewer non-BL series with genuine canon queer characters. They go out of their way to defend authors and creators who rely on queerbaiting, marketing platonic friendships or “bromances” as something more to draw in audiences and they try to justify this behavior, as if it’s not a problem. Creators do this purely for popularity and profit: they know shippers are the ones driving fan engagement, making fanart, writing fanfics, creating edits, and spreading the work online. So instead of committing to telling honest, respectful queer stories, creators take the easy, cowardly route: they offer just enough hints to keep shippers hooked, but never deliver anything real. They hold onto the outdated, harmful idea that “actual gay content might turn off mainstream viewers,” and they use queerbaiting to play it safe. And shippers let them get away with it, they hype up every tiny glance, every casual line, every normal friendly moment like it’s the best representation ever made.

This is exactly why we have no respect for this part of the shipping community. Where is their support for the stories that do have confirmed queer characters? They pour all their energy into fanart, fanfics, merch, and edits for their made-up, queerbaited pairings, acting like keeping those delusional ideas alive is some kind of achievement. But that “support” only rewards creators for doing the bare minimum or nothing at all. Shippers are the very reason these greedy, risk-averse creators keep refusing to make proper BLs or non bl with canon gay characters especially relevant gay characters. They know they don’t have to put in the work to create real representation, because shippers will still spend their money, defend their choices, and attack anyone who calls out the scam. Year after year, this cycle continues and it’s all because of the people who care more about their fantasy ships than they do about actual, respectful representation for the queer community.