Yaoi novels like a virus

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  1. Stinx

    Stinx Well-Known Member

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    Does anyone know the reason for the insane rise of yaoi / shounen ai novels? Until six months ago, the release of chapters of novels of this genre was not so frequent, but about three months ago this has only increased. I went to the site today, of seven unknown novels I saw in the main feed, five were yaoi.
     
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  2. thelurker

    thelurker [The Crazy Guy] Death to All BL Novels

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    BURN ALL OF THEM
     
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    They are there to prepare you for your future. Study well, grasshopper.
     
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    Harry Now you see me

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    YOU!!! GO AWAY!!!! You bring the yaoi virus!!! You're the CARRIER:blobscream:
     
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    DragonMage18 Outcast

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    It's part of the great chinese plan to make everyone outside china gay, so they can counquer the world throug their superior population size.
     
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    waleuska Well-Known Member

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    because they are popular.
     
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    sanushilshad Well-Known Member

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    It's becoming a pain.
    Recently whenever you click a link in scribblehub or novelupdates, it's all yaoi or hmm yuri or trash
     
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    Stinx Well-Known Member

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    Wow, a serious reply.
     
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    There is no point in running. It's not the carriers you should stay away from, it's this whole site!

    This place is a nest crawling with content you would curse the day you know of their existence!

    Run? Impossible. Hide? Inefficient. What's next? There's only road here, soldier. It's hell you're going into, so prepare your filters and your favorite tags as if they you're premium pots. We're going raiding! The raid boss? Well, it's eNUF!

    *imagines you and the rest advancing forward in the valley of corruption as the shadows of corrupt members pose in intimidating and mysteriousness like in a volume cover*
     
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    Stinx Well-Known Member

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    Sure it's scary, but I think I'm in the denial phase
     
  11. RizYun

    RizYun #Kaffee4Laifu

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    the viruses were way more potent that virus isekai + harem combo...
    even more than rebirth 2nd chance or reincarnation type..
     
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    Wujigege *Christian*SIMP*Comedian

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    It's all about gender.
    Guys rather pirate stuff or play games.
    All the new translators are female.
    I would argue that in general translators are mostly female.
    You should use filters at least on NU to hide yaoi and shounen ai
    I haven't seen either or loli nonsense in years :blobsmirk:

    [​IMG]
     
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    Because peoples tired of reading cliche female lead and male lead together? Even the non cliche plot become cliche once you read too much similar novel
    I think they just looking for new excitement
     
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    But you've got to admit some of them aren't so heavy on the romance and the plot is pretty good, I don't mind reading them
     
  15. Sabruness

    Sabruness Cultured Yuri Connoisseur

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    I havent seen any but then my filters nuke anything related to those tags from my view.
     
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    Agree with @Devil Heart people are just looking for something new. I mean, you get tired of reading the same isekai romcoms and quick transmigrations all the time. And they're hard to find in popular media, so they end up here.
     
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  17. Amaruna Myu

    Amaruna Myu ugly squid dokja (●´∀`●)

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    Go away homophobes!:blobhero::blobhero::blobhero::blobhero:

    It's the great plot to decrease birth rates and the earth's population.

    but don't you agree that translated bl novels have better plots and translators? and also heaps of translator drama?:blobpopcorn_two:
     
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    Bitter Well-Known Member

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    Well, as a person who often reads BL (Boys Love), I think It's because of the recent rise of the popular Chinese BL novel being adapted into a live action drama (which is on netflix btw), luring a bunch of people from the KPOP and anime fandoms. This means that more and more people will be interested in reading Chinese BL novels that are similar to it.

    On the translator's side, as there are more demands for BL novels, more people will be willing to donate money through ko-fi and give page views to translators in order to encourage them to continue translating, resulting in the increased amount of updates/uploads of BL. Of course, some people may just have the pure intentions of wanting to share a good BL story that they find enjoyable.

    These are solely based on my own observations, I don't really know if it really started with the live action drama. I'm sorry if my English is weird.
     
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    Pro Tip for OP: Novelupdates site, Lower right side menu, User tools > Release filtering > Genres (Exclude) add yaoi, yuri, shoujo ai, shounen ai (as a baseline) to the list then if you want to be thorough, cycle through lists for the Genres (Exclude) and the Tags (Exclude) as well for things like "trap" or "bisexual protag". There are other items on my lists for things I don't like in a story like sports or gender bender but it's up to the individual user to determine what they don't want to see.

    This has made my release page bearable to look at again without having to cycle through vast amounts of garbage just looking for something interesting and took me far too long to discover. It doesn't get rid of all the garbage, but at least you don't have to sift through nearly as much to find a gem.:cookie:

    Side note: do not add anything to the "Genre (Include)" list unless you ONLY want to see novels that are of that specific genre type.
     
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  20. Amaruna Myu

    Amaruna Myu ugly squid dokja (●´∀`●)

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    you first paragraph was great, the "garbage" part made me feel a little choked, and I think everyone should just do this so they don't complain about things they don't want to see.
    it was so useful for filtering paywall chapters and qidian chapters in particular :3
     
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