Korean readers probably might be into that shit, i watched a lot of events from lezhin, boomtoon, etc and the popular toxic works are what sold the most. Vanilla healthy bl’s rarely makes it to mainstream there so expect more to come
but why omg i wonder if they also like the blackest of dark straight romance or bca it's bl that involved no women they felt safe to engage with them.
Nah its more of the aesthetics of tall handsome ceo bad boy type shit going crazy (being a bully or forceful) on boy next door cutie/hottie that has the mindset of ‘I can fix him’ gone wrong then proceeds to runaway after giving up while the toxic top realizes he was wrong and begs for that lost love back and promised that he will change to be a doting, committed, house husband. I watched videos as publishers rakes in profits from fans buying merchs of those works (notably jinx, tree without roots, and painter of the night as known exmples) but rarely popular green flag ones (such as red string quest, unsleep, blossoms of white night) be a top seller. And you know that publishers will lean on what sells more and influence the authors on what to write or how they will write it.
Junk, junk, junk look at all this junk, sh*t, sh*t and more sh*t, why you ain't got nothing good, bruh. ☠