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why are manhwas becoming slops? is it ai or same plots over and over?
i love yuri and sometimes yaoi but im finding it straight romance to be a bore….like why is it boring for me? im so used to queer romance as a lesbian that it just kinda mid to me. but i feel this way with yaoi sometimes where i feel like yaoi is sometimes boring as its literally the same kinda plot over and over again. im finding these days manhwa are becoming slop no matter what genre idk if ai is bleeding into manhwa writing and plots but theres definitely something going on with ai theres like too much slop. its like the same thing with action manhwas and those reincarnation ones.
It seems like you’re looking for a nuanced response so here you go:
TBH this isn’t new in any way shape or form. Media will always have “trashy” products to fill out the basic cravings that their audience has. Think random airport romance books, think beach reads, think all those novels/novelas that ride the genre waves that popular books ...... 3 reply
I feel like the tiktokification of novels engineered mainly for women is affecting stuff like the kind of manhwa that more frequently gets translated into English, a big part because women are the primary consumers of the romance genre. Genuinely sick of seeing language that infantilizes women, we all need to get more feminist now!!!
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First of all, what is "slop"? This word is thrown around so much these days that it has lost all meaning. Is it content that you personally find boring? Uninteresting content? Repetitive content? You mention "the same kinda plot," but the thing is, this is not a new phenomenon. It has always been part of every media sphere to try and capitalize on ...... reply
YESSS ive been saying this for years now new age bl and gl are so mid its the same dynamics, tropes, characters, conflicts, resolutions over and over again. 1 reply
I mean, it has been like that for as long as I can remember, just more apparent now. And honestly, as someone who likes reading similar things, I'm not even mad at this, since that's what I like, of course if I get tired of that genre, I'll read a different genre and will read until I get tired of it and then get back to what genre I was reading be...... reply
