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Yaoi/BL is boring
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying ALL BL is boring, there are a few I really loved, but when you look at the genre as a whole it goes really downhill. Obviously not everyone expects a masterpiece when trying out new stories but something that I realized after trying out the boys love genre for several years is that even though there’s some highs the lows are unbelievably bad. The yaoi fandom has shit tastes, it’s all a bunch of regurgitated tropes, characters and stories that are made without a second thought. I don’t even think many authors try because no matter what they do it will sell just as long as there’s two handsome men. My question is, why? Why do you guys settle for such garbage. Some people say that the BL genre has a limited amount of media but I believe that is far from true, specially in the present. Comparisons can be made to the shoujo and Yuri genres, Yuri being the most limited out of the three, but in my opinion the things shoujo had to offer at it’s peak are so much better than my favorite BLs. I just wished people tried harder to make complex characters and stories more common instead of having to find a bunch of diamonds in the rough. In the end I just realized that BL is not for me, I find much better and complex relationships between men in other medias although they might be subtle.
Ahh. The problem here is the story writing NOT the genre itself. And if I were to use your logic, I can pretty much use the same complaint in other genres since I also know stories that are boring, no plot, pretty faces only.
So pls blame the story writing instead of the genre itself. Ur smearing icecream on the wrong face my lad（￣へ￣）
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Most popular genres are like this though, romance in it's entirety is like this. The majority of content that primiraly focuses on romance is just same 5 tropes used again and again. Every story feels like the same dish with one ingredient in excess or missing lmao
I think when you read/consume only one genre for a long time you feel like everythi...... 2 reply
Posting this as an answer to the main question as well because it also fits here:
It's not the teens that set the narrative for the authors, it's who buys the books that sets the narrative. Most rated 18 books you'll find on here require id to be bought in person (online too i think) where they're sold, Korea, Japan, etc. So, adults are the ones b...... reply
Nah bro you're just reading the wrong stuff
You should try looking harder and discover what your preferences are
Use user-made lists
Use the tag search and go to a random page
You can't find gems if you don't dig deep for it
Look, I've read A LOT of stuff, like, A LOT (3k+), some of it is absolutely shit 1/5 star rating. But every now and then ...... 1 reply
Tbh, as an author. I also agree with you BUT not really, sorry, i mean the genre is not a problem because it's just a "station" to pick up a "passenger" not a destination itself. What i mean is, when you pick a station(genre) you will take a passenger (books) no matter who or what kind of passenger is that as long as it's a passenger(book) you nee...... reply
The writing is probably ass most of the time the ones you readed probably only focused on romance or smut or sometimes there's rarely any romance or smut at all js find smth with actual good plot(Wich is rare actually) try 19 days it's a pretty good one since I don't know your taste js try It out 1 reply
