I’m from BKK but I’m currently on a university exchange in San Francisco so my English is good but my Spanish is no good, forgive me if I translate it wrong for understanding.
To give you an idea my mother was really into Thai lakorn, which is like soap opera way before social media ever existed. So were many other Thais. They would just for fun pair on-screen couples who had really good connection.
So then that on-screen couple would tease and joke with each other during interviews, etc.
It was just something fun and mindless…fantasy, not real.
So this became sort of a business package in the entertainment industry in Thailand…nothing serious, just fun.
But social media changed it all because it created an international reach and it also created that need for immediacy.
So us Thai fans who grew up around this business model know it’s fun and games = enjoy the pairing, don’t assume it’s real.
But when international fans got involved they didn’t understand this, so they treated it as something serious. Then brought a level of toxicity to it that our entertainers never had to deal with before, like:
Demanding confirmation.
Demanding explanations.
Blurred boundaries.
Not respecting the artists if they find out their cp’s aren’t actually dating.
Stalking.
Making up stories that aren’t true…like there is an account who hates one half of a pairing, they keep showing the same 5-6 photos and circling an air vent or table saying “this table is in this man’s house so she’s definitely dating this man,” etc. but this “fan” lives in Brazil and literally only has these photos to cling to with no defined evidence because A: they don’t live here and B: they don’t know these girls personally.
We (Thai fans) often joke in long threads but then an international fan will try AI translate and get it wrong then get upset with us for misleading them but we are always joking.
We also protect our artists, their privacy, and their revenue.
This is their life and we can separate the work from the artist.
Interfans need to learn to do this.
Also, many of our gl entertainers are a part of the LGBTQ community, that is not false.
What is a problem is bi-erasure from interfans if one does date a man they’re made to seem as though they are lying but they aren’t.
There are also straight women in the industry, as well.
All of this is okay. They do not need to be dragged through the mud whether they are gay, bi, pan, or straight to find out their private lives.
The way Emi talked about manifesting a girlfriend in 2024, only for Bonnie to walk into her life later… sometimes it genuinely feels like a rom-com plot. Emi’s manifestation game must be elite because the universe really looked at her wish list and said, “Here’s Bonnie. Don’t say I never do anything for you.” 🤍✨😌
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