The Theory Of Queerbaiting

Why do CP fan groups fight? 

It’s because they share either a gong or a shou. For example, the current situation between the sandwich and meteor CPs.

The night before the episode where Liu Yanhui was a guest on aired, the two CP fan groups began to prepare.

JiaXin fan: 【Please pay attention to all the JiaXin sugar, tomorrow night, we will focus on their own sugar. If there are passers-by that are interested in watching, try not to brush too many comments of the CP on the barrage. For those that just love the CP and don’t do modding tasks, we should always maintain a cool image [cool] Let us welcome the JiaXin sugar waterfall tomorrow night, ba~】

Meteor fan: 【Sisters, tomorrow night is our big day!!! The echoes of this ship have been kept in my mind constantly [bawling] [bawling] I always knew my geges would walk the flowery road together once more! Love is a long journey, love is everlasting, and the feeling of returning to when you were still teenagers! [love] On our great day, please ignore those who eat other clips’ sugar, those are just low b [smile] Tomorrow night there is only one thing to do, and that is to eat sugar, eat sugar, eat sugar! [applause] [applause]】 

Of course, each fandom’s solo fans also expressed their own opinions.

You fan: 【Mama, tomorrow night, there will be a lot of CP candy to eat, ah. I’m so excited, ah! Our meimei is such a charming child. I hope none of us quarrel, oh [doge]】

Liu fan: 【Please react calmly tomorrow, former teammates reuniting is very normal, just send enough to make the program popular. Please don’t meddle with others’ businesses unless your favorite is the one involved [broadcast] [broadcast]】

Duan fan: 【Those who like CP, listen OK? Who are you to be so happy to be sticking others to someone else? Don’t pollute my eyes by reposting your links to the main page, thanks [smile]】

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You Xin went on Weibo to check the program’s update when he found that the atmosphere wasn’t right. While reading the fans’ over-the-top stories on the super topic, it was exciting to hear them shouting for their favorites. When he was still an idol, he’d already seen many kinds of fans. In those days, even in the same fan group, solo fans and CP fans used to fight each other to the death for nothing, so now he wasn’t so surprised to see these similar scenes. But it was a pleasure seeing many new fans praising him for his gentle and attentive nature and excellent cooking skills in his own supertopic. These gave You Xin a feeling of finally being recognized.

You Xin had a better understanding of the CP world, but Duan Jiashu didn’t know any of those things. Because he doesn’t go on Weibo often, Duan Jiashu also didn’t dig too deep for information from blogs. He thought that Bilibili was already too much, but he failed to understand that Weibo is the actual home base of the real CP fans. So when Duan Jiashu watched their new “Wacky Family” episode as per usual, he accidentally faced the battlefield of CP fans.

Duan Jiashu was at his home as usual, and he opened the video to open the pop-up to open the bullet screen and began to watch the latest episode. Many people brushed the screen at the beginning of today’s program, but they were the usual bullet screen content, which was generally harmonious. 

【JiaXin is rio!】

We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.

【Meteor is rio!】

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After all kinds of teasers for the special guests at the beginning, the program finally showed Liu Yanhui’s appearance. After, the unscrupulous program team fired that CP and put a lot of pink-colored special effects on the frames when You Xin and Liu Yanhui reunited, not to mention that as soon as they met, they hugged and touched their heads, so the bullet screen exploded in an instant.

【Oh my God! My eyes are full of tears.】

【They’ve embraced after so long [crying] [crying]】 

【Head touching!!! I’m dead!!!】

【My Meteor CP would never fall to the ground ahhhhh!】

【What’s so great about hugs, our JiaXin sleeps in one room~】

【Duan laoshi is standing on the edge of the screen and is jealous】 

【My God, what kind of sadistic drama is this? I love this kind of love triangle plot!】

【Those in the front, less imagining okay. Our Duan laoshi just doesn’t like going to crowded places and is allergic to queerbaiting men!】

Duan Jiashu looked at the pink-filtered screen in front of him, simply getting angrier than when he saw Liu Yanhui and You Xin interacting in person. Those JiaXin CP fans brushed the bullet screen so much every episode, but the program team didn’t give him and You Xin pink special filters on their scenes. How come Liu Yanhui’s had so many filters?

Duan Jiashu was so angry that he didn’t want to eat his potato chips any longer, opting to just stare at the TV. The CP part of the program came to an end, but the battle between the fans had just begun. 

【Duan laoshi is in front and is drunk from drinking in a vinegar jar】

【The JiaXin CP is only being participated by Duan Jiashu alone, poor thing】

【Can the little b*tch in front just get high on their own sugar and learn to close their mouth instead?】

【We’re the ones who have a CP that kissed each other in the mouth.】 

【Can the CP fans go away, don’t add such drama to my Duan laoshi, our Duan laoshi is a Kongtong okay?】

【Only JiaXin is real, those former teammates are gone, and there are still a hundred servings of sugar for JiaXin】

【JiaXin isn’t believable, only Meteor is rio】

After the quarrel, it was time for the dinner scene. You Xin and Liu Yanhui were recalling the past. They saw that what Liu Yanhui said was delicious, Duan Jiashu immediately picked up a pile and put it into his bowl. However, even if Duan Jiashu’s performance was so obvious, You Xin still didn’t look at him at all in the camera. It was just the same as the bullet screen’s comments. He was acting alone. 

And now the barrage is full of sadism.

【Why doesn’t Xin Xin turn his head to look at Duan laoshi, Duan laoshi is so angry that he’s going to eat all the food!】

【I don’t know what to do with CP’s, but when I compare the two, I realize that the JiaXin CP is quite like a twisted melon…】

【You Xin and Liu Yanhui get along so naturally, ah. With Duan Jiashu, its rather awkward. It’s just a normal relationship between them…】 

【Duan laoshi’s jealousy can’t be more obvious…】

【It’s definitely a three-person film, but only our Ah-Shu is a no name. The fans must be shedding tears】

【Bullsh*t, our JiaXin is szd wuwuwuwu】

Seeing this, Duan Jiashu couldn’t help but worry for the JiaXin CP fans. In fact, he knew what the situation was at that time. Because You Xin made an agreement with him not to sell CP, it was unnecessary for them to communicate more in front of the camera. In the first two episodes, his relationship with You Xin wasn’t obvious compared with that of other cast members. When he competed with Meteor on the latest episode, he immediately beat the JiaXin CP back to its original shape. However, although he knew that all these were mere misunderstandings and illusions between the fans, Duan Jiashu looked at the sad comments rolling in front of his screen and felt that their appearance was like a rushing flood and its taste salty like tears, representing the sadness of their true feelings. 

And this flood also made Duan Jiashu angry.

He, Duan Jiashu, has good-looking acting skills. After debuting and in addition to his first few plays, he played the male lead.

When did he ever play this kind of role that doesn’t even have a name?

When did he ever give a supporting role to a non-acting love interest like Liu Yanhui? 

How could his self-esteem as an actor allow his CP to be trampled on so easily when he is pitted against another CP?

For the first time, Duan Jiashu turned off the TV without finishing the episode. He walked back and forth in the living room with a stern face, feeling that he desperately needed to do something to save these CP fans, but after a dozen turns of back and forth, the angrier Duan Jiashu became, the more confused he was, and he didn’t know what he could do. The more he thought about it, the more he pushed to search for “JiaXin” on Weibo and tap into the JiaXin Super Topic.

Aside the first few blog posts containing beautiful pictures, the others had ghostly cries. The more Duan Jiashu looked, the angrier he got, but he then saw a blogger with a lot of fans sensibly analyzing.

【Friends, don’t cry, you still don’t understand, we JiaXin CP isn’t the kind of “general straight men queerbaiting” CP, but a nurturing CP.. You Xin and Liu Yanhui are old acquaintances who have known each other for many years, so of course having a good relationship is normal, and they are like this, acting flashy or playing the straight ball way of getting along, just to prove that they have a clean relationship and are good friends. We in JiaXin have two people that, because of the program, got to know each other. They were so close and yet distant, their ambiguous and suddenly cold way of getting along is not a normal relationship. This is the kind of relationship that’s the most likely to become a real CP couple, ah. The other ship has what is just called brotherly love, not love. Let’s wait and see, I believe that JiaXin’s relationship will get better and better.】 

The blogger’s words were obviously very convincing, Duan Jiashu watched this Weibo post quickly gain from dozens to hundreds of reposts. There were also a lot of CP fans in the comments, full of proof that their JiaXin CP is rio and promising. They can’t afford to suffer losses and let themselves be deceived. They could also feel the real love from JiaXin’s interactions.

The CP super topic gradually repaired itself back to a normal state, and CP fans again began posting a variety of messages such as “My CP is really worthy”, “Come block the doors for the JiaXin CP”, “JiaXin is really to rio”, and so on.

Duan Jiashu was amazed at the tenacity of those fans. Even though they got hurt deeply, they not only quickly got rid of their negative emotions, but they also continued to fight on, full of spirit too. He himself had yet to come out of his own sad emotions, alright? Moreover, Duan Jiashu continued to think for a while, and somehow felt that what the rational blogger said was very reasonable and matched the actual situation by 89 points.

You Xin and Liu Yanhui indeed have what is called brotherly love, which You Xin rolled his eyes at and admitted in front of him. And he and You Xin did start to have a better relationship after stumbling into each other. But as for love… 

Thinking that Duan Jiashu’s brain was no longer overheated and out of gear, he reopened his Weibo, found the blogger called “Full of Absurd Words Written on Paper” and clicked into her home page. He discovered found that the blogger not only made sense in his speech, but also wrote something called “fanfiction”.

“The blogger’s speech earlier was quite reasonable. Let me see what else she wrote.” Duan Jiashu downloaded the story to his mobile phone while talking to himself. He first read a few pages expressionlessly, then frowned as he read a few more. Then, Duan Jiashu suddenly threw down his mobile phone and wanted to report the Weibo! But after a moment of calm, he couldn’t help but pick up his cell phone and look at it.

“So You Xin is actually pregnant…” Duan Jiashu read out incredulously, he felt almost as torn as the Duan Jiashu in the fanfiction.

And just like that, Duan Jiashu read all night and opened the door to a new world.