[ SECRET POST #6953 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6953 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The idea that you think gay stuff is not mainstream is wild to me. Some of the biggest shows currently running have gay characters! Hell, you may have noticed that Netflix's flagship, the major water cooler show of the past decade, the one that everyone from my boss to my cousin to my neighbor to my kid's 60-something teacher watched, had two canonically gay main characters. That's about as mainstream as it gets.

[(Anonymous)]

...yeah no, gay stuff isn't mainstream. You'll get a gay character here and there, and some might even be partial mains in an ensemble cast, but that still doesn't make shows focused on gay romance or shows focused on a canon gay ship who are the two main characters a mainstream thing.

That's like saying interracial ships are mainstream because some exist in recent famous media. It's really still not. Unfortunately.

[(Anonymous)]

Most shows aren't focused on straight romance, either; the romance is subplot. Saying that gay romance has to be the primary focus of a show in order for gay stuff to be mainstream is not a realistic bar, especially since audiences are less interested in romance overall than they used to be.

And yes, couples of a certain type appearing in famous media does make them mainstream! Couples and situations that aren't mainstream do not appear in media intended for broad, popular consumption.

[(Anonymous)]

Mmm, that's not what I said, nor is that my bar. There are romance shows where gay ships are a focus, sure. There are shows that have a gay couple as the two main characters, sure. Some shows have gay people appearing as parts of ensemble casts, sure. Does that make gay shows, gay ships, gay romances mainstream? I wouldn't say so. Not until they're accepted as common and normal by society in general and that hasn't happened yet. Anime still isn't mainstream for the same reasons, even though show and movie adaptations happen all the time.

I think we have different definitions of mainstream, and this will end up a debate about that instead of OP's secret, so I'd rather leave it there.