His Man and Merry Queer, Korea's first LGBT dating/reality programs

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On 7/26/2022 at 4:02 AM, oh my dora said:

talking about his man

Translation of second image: “The person who makes money off gay content has this guy in the algorithm…How do you spell, say my relationship is BL? Sorry we are not fiction or fiction. It's REALNESS!!!!! It's disrespectful to say that heteros look funny because they're new to this. I just watch dating programs because they like people. Wtf…Please educate yourself.”

Four episodes in, and there’s already some drama… So one of the contestants(Hokeep) called out Namgyu(a popular Korean gay YouTuber, who’s not a contestant himself, but knows two of the contestants(Changmin and someone else) on His Man) for comparing real-life gay reality show contestants to fictional BL couples(which are typically/usually made for straight fangirls), in which Namgyu said he hopes straight people “find entertainment and understand” through it. Namgyu’s fans started attacking and sending him hate through his Instagram DMs, while Hokeep keeps calling them out. Fortunately, most His Man fans and viewers are on Hokeep’s side and are sending him support. Make of this what you will…

Edited August 3, 2022 by K-Poppie

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Happy for them, but I wonder how exactly this works? Like, what is the legality/validity/legitimacy of their marriage and how does it apply to them as South Korean citizens? Did either of them have some kind of American citizenship to get a marriage license? A Chinese gay couple I followed also obtained a marriage license from Taiwan, despite having Chinese citizenship and living in China, so I wonder how these kinds of marriage laws work(For example, a legally married same-sex couple visiting/travelling to countries that prohibit same-sex relations)…

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Reportedly, Hokeep himself is also in a relationship with someone else, and the stories/pictures he posted of him and Hyeokjun were from months ago. As he said in his earlier story, he knew this whole time that Hyeokjun was seeing someone and the recent posts of them together were a way to bait and mislead viewers/fans, only for Hokeep to expose Hyeokjun’s alleged cheating. Apparently, this was some kind of plan/scheme of his, waiting to shade/expose Hyeokjun’s ways, and the only reason he refrained from speaking about this until now was to not disrupt the airing of the show. He was actually planning to go on live to spill the tea, until Hyeokjun called him, apologizing to him and begging him not to. Hokeep’s own recent apology on his Instagram story is not only to the production team, crew, cast, and viewers, but also to Hyeokjun’s partner, as well as his own boyfriend for this incident. Talk about petty…

Also, fans may have found Hyeokjun’s boyfriend/partner(they also follow each other).

 

Edited August 27, 2022 by K-Poppie