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Korean boy band member becomes first active K-pop star to come out as gay (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 28 points 17 hours ago (8 children)

Giving more fuel for their fans to ship real life people like they're yaoi characters.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 10 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

"ship real life people" what does this mean "to ship people"?

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It means thinking they should be together in a relationship (ship comes from the word relationship, I believe). This is a thing that people do a lot in fandoms for fiction stuff. Like shipping two characters together from comics or a TV show or whatever.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

And Lemmy itself does one example of shipping that is iconic:

Julian and Garak

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

We didn't do that, the writers of Deep Space 9 did. We just like that they did. A lot.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 8 points 13 hours ago

It's not a ship if its real

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