What are your thoughts on remaking originally straight series into BL and GL?

Just scrolling through Twitter and found out there are Thai remakes turning originally straight lakorns into queer versions like the BL remake of Love Destiny, and the GL remake of I Wanna Be Sup’Tar. I only caught on that because someone called Love Destiny is basically just “Love Upon a Time” lol

So I’m curious, what do you all actually think about this remake? Are you guys okay with it, or does it bother you?

I was seriously surprised how there’s barely any huge homophobic backlash. I’m so used to seeing massive outrage every time this kind of change happens in Western media. It really feels like Thai lakorn fans are nowhere near as strict or weirdly homophobic about these shit compared to Western audiences. Like maybe now all know about the drama over Francesca’s in Bridgerton, like how people lost it just because Michael became Michaela. And don’t even get me started on the ridiculous amount of homophobic garbage thrown at HBO over ASOIAF, when GRRM himself confirmed those characters were gay like literally years ago like why are western people so mad for no reason even the man is literally fine with it for live-action like HBO getting hate even when they didn't make things up in the games of thrones one turning straight into gay because they are gay according to the author. (GRRM only gets upset when writers mess things up for erasing Maelor and Nettles just to make Rhaenyra look more saintly. It’s so funny how people turn the house of the dragon drama about “turning Rhaenicent into lesbian” when that’s not even what GRRM is actually talking about at all). The difference between how people react to this stuff here versus over in the West is honestly night and day.

That said, I’m still not fully sold on remaking straight stories into queer ones. Even if it’s calmer in Thailand, I’ve seen how changing straight into gay, gas still end up getting so much unnecessary hate because of it. I’ve already run into so many homophobic straight fangirls on Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, TikTok who are obsessed with Michael Sterling and absolutely fuming that he was changed to Michaela. It’s not just lesbian they lash out at, gay guys get dragged into it too because straight people will blame all the gays because they are homophobic. I much rather we just adapt stories that were always written as gay or lesbian from the very start. At least then, even if we still get homophobic hate, the queerness is actually intentional and meant to be there. I'm especially not here for the homophobic takes when the original author is obviously homophobic cough cough looking at you Bridgerton author. I don’t have a problem with Francesca myself , or with remaking or reimagining straight characters in the books as gay in live action but what really bothers me is there are so many way more deserving original BL and GL novel stories out there just waiting to be adapt and poeple keep wasting those opportunities on stuff like this instead and we get unnecessary hate over it