[ SECRET POST #6543 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6543 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This might have been true 5 years ago, but it is increasingly becoming not true. I'm not quite sure how true the "hurt your bottom line" part is at the moment because most of the platforms doing canon gay relationships in TV/film are online ones (Prime and Netflix), and it is unclear to me what their bottom line even is (it's very complicated to calculate profit with platforms that are both a content hoster and a content producer, and also how one individual show/movie affects that bottom line). But they do continue to pump out shows and films with canon gay relationships, and these have been some of their most successful/most watched programs, so at least in terms of traditional notions of profit, it is very unlikely these shows are hurting their bottom line.

And like, it's true that most normies are not as "yay gay relationships!" as fandom is; fandom forms an extreme point on that scale. But even normies like to see gay relationships in fiction -- you only need to look at things like the sweeps week kiss in order to see that there is actual appetite here from just typical TV-watchers. Companies have just traditionally had to balance the interest that many segments of the population have had in gay relationships depicted on-screen with the conservative Christian backlash you'll face when you confirm characters as gay, which is why you got queerbaiting and sweeps week kisses and so on. But more and more, people can just have actual gay characters on screen and there isn't a massive backlash. That might reverse in the future but so far the trend has been towards confirming characters as gay rather than the opposite.

[(Anonymous)]

Less of a backlash from viewers, but I suspect advertisers are lagging behind - they don't want their products associated with anything 'controversial', and they're the customers the show is actually courting and getting paid by.