Any boyfriends fans?

underthestrawberries 3/24/2021 05:38 am 1684

I rly like the webtoon boyfriends and i was wondering if anyone else has read it (its a major comfort for me tongue)

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Jul 23, 2022 1:38 pm

who dug up this thread from 2021 cry

Jul 23, 2022 11:07 am

@C4NDYB0N3Z: yeah, someone did just do a big thread here about what the creator did, hopefully that helps

Jul 23, 2022 9:59 am

oh hell naw

  • bugz_doez_kandi
Jul 23, 2022 8:44 am
@bugz_doez_kandi: (PART TWO)

(tw: mentions of antisemitism, nsfw)


4. on their tumblr acc, they still have nsfw art they drew of the bts members up. you can still view and access it.

5. this is more recent, and i do think they have apologized. but more ppl dug up antisemitistic (if thats how you say it) tweets they have used in the past. i haven't seen this apology, but i plan on viewing it (its just hard for me to see because i don't have twitter, and twitter only lets you scroll so far before it stops you)

thats all of the beef i found on the creator. but if there is more. please lmk.

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whats wrong with the comic? *some stuff here is just criticism*

1. the comic seems very...fetishy. i've heard some people say that the creator also draws porn of the characters, but i haven't found any proof for this. i've read some of the comic myself, and it seems very fetishy imo. maybe others feel like it isn't fetishy, but i know other people do. heres a pintrest image that talks about this in the comments. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/811492426622307981/ (safe) just scroll down in the comments, you'll see it. the comment was made by the mincicodex.

2. the characters are stereotypical. and I KNOW that they were supposed to be. i mean, you literally have characters named "nerd" and "goth". but the sterotypes just get really weird and boring after a while. also the personalities of the characters are stereotypical as well, no tjust their appearances.

3. i don't rlly see a lot of ppl talk about this. but goth also seems like a stereotype of trans men. i don't wanna explain all of it because its a lot, but on this pintrest image there are some good comments talking about this. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/104708760078789727/ (safe) i am also not trans, so if any trans men would like to comment on how they feel about goth lmk.

4. the comic itself has very little character development and the plot is dry af.

5. one more thing, the characters are constantly sexualized. i mean, its fine to have some sexual stuff here and there, but if your comic isn't supposed to be nsfw and the characters are being sexualized in weird ways its very off putting.


there you go. thats my take on it.

  • bugz_doez_kandi
Jul 23, 2022 8:24 am

ik this thread is old, but i've done a bunch of research and i have a lot of screenshots. a lot of ppl are asking whats wrong with this comic, and i'm going to explain it to the best of my ability. if u would like any screenshots lmk and i can send them to you on discord.

(tw: nsfw, mentions of slurs, cursing, mentions of pr0-shipping

so whats problematic about the creator?

1. refrainbow (the creator) used to make an nsfw bts comic. keep in mind, these are REAL people. and it wasn't just a one time thing. they had an entire account dedicated to it. also apparently they made the nsfw when they were only 16...yikes. they tried to defend it by basically saying, "well they're real characters but technically its fiction soo..." which doesn't justify breaking the band members boundaries or drawing porn of real human beings without consent. they also had an ao3 acc with a nsfw bts comic, that was updated from 2018-2020 (i think). they have abandoned the acc, but it is still up and you can still access it.

2. an old tweet was dug up where refrainbow used a racial slur. they did apologize, however i feel like the apology was very shitty. i am not a person of color, so i don't feel like its my place to comment on the validity of this apology. but i think its still up and you are free to view it if you would like. i also have a screenshot of the apology (and dw, the word is censored)

3. refrainbow also made one of the characters in their comic, nerd, a pr0-shipper. if you don't know what this is, do your own research because its quite disgusting.

(im going to split this comment into two parts, so wait for the second part)

Jul 23, 2022 7:02 am

@Smolgecko: for some reason i didnt hear anyone talk about them doing this?? it mightve been because i have a very low attention span and just stopped watching some of the videos i saw before they could talk about it? idk but ill probably try to find more about this later

Jul 23, 2022 6:55 am

@dannybytez: thats very true, tbh a lot of the rep is just tjhnghjnyh bad?? the girlfriends characters kind of upset me because they were just copies of the main characters with little variation except they were more elegant or something and theyre so boring and 2 dimensional.

this doesnt go just for the girlfriends, all the characters are boring and 2 dimensional.

Jul 22, 2022 5:48 pm

@C4NDYB0N3Z: I'm not entirely sure of the whole thing but I know that they made the nerd character supportive of stuff that has to do with children, and in a gross way, I think (not really sure how else to put that without saying something that may upset someone)

Jul 22, 2022 5:07 pm

@gothles: they used to draw super nsfw stuff of kpop idols + in the comic they fetishize poly/mlm relationships

Jul 22, 2022 4:39 pm

isn’t the creator like really really problematic D