#shoutout to heartstopper all my homies love heartstopper

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I also think the difference between Boyfriends and Heartstopper is that, I believe, Heartstopper had better character development. I’ve never seen Heartstopper, so this one might be shorter than the others, but based on how little criticism there is and slander, I’d place my bets on Heartstopper having better characters and characterisation and storylines than Boyfriends. I’m confident a big part of that is that Heartstopper, at least the show, had more than one writer, whereas it seems Boyfriends was written by mainly just the one person. And I’d also like to say the idea that people hate on Boyfriends because of personal aspects of the creator (gay, trans, and Asian) doesn’t seem to really hold water. Most people don’t know the creator is from Indonesia! I didn’t know until I tried to do research on the hate for the creator. Most people also don’t know about him being gay or trans. Most people seem to think he’s a girl, which has its own problem with the hate given to teenage girls interacting with fandom, and don’t know who he actually is! Now, that’s not to say that some might hate the comic for racist reasons, that’s always a possibility, but when there’s genuine criticism to be make towards the comic without ever bringing up the creators ethnicity, race, gender, and sexual orientation in a negative way? That’s foolish and short sighted. Boyfriends has genuine problems and issues and isn’t a good comic, it’s storyline is flawed and isn’t good. I wish this comic hadn’t gotten the publicity it did, god I wish it could’ve stayed hidden in its own little bubble with little to no hate or knowledge, but that isn’t what happened. Heartstopper was placed in the public eye when it was ready, and it gained notoriety by itself and through Netflix making a, to my knowledge by what others have expressed, quite good show. Boyfriends was placed in the public eye as a comic that only a few would enjoy due to the way its written and made, and could never even pray to stand strong by itself. It has nothing to do with any personal attributes of the creator himself, aside from his choice to let the comic be made into an ad, and solely to do with the comic itself.

I actually heavily reccomend heartstopper! The author is also really good about putting warnings before content because the comic often handles harsher topics