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Enjoying Queer Content Is Not Fetishizing Queer People

So, lately on Twitter there’s been a lot of drama surrounding a VA who has made a lot of inflammatory comments in an effort to promote his own book.

“How A Cookie Tried to Sell a Book” sums it up pretty well. The article mentions that his best-known voice acting role is as Cream Unicorn Cookie in Cookie Run, and the only other known role (as per behindthevoiceactors.com) is in Given, a BL game. I’ve seen people here claim he also had a role in Genshin Impact, but that’s not listed; however, JD Riley’s article mentions that a Genshin Impact VA did come to King’s defense.

(Also, yes, we’re all reeling from the irony that one of his roles was in a BL game, and he’s trying to tear down BL to promote himself. Gross.)

I’m sure this is all well known, but I wanted to provide context for this next statement: People who enjoy queer content, including fujoshi and women who do not identify as fujoshi, are not fetishizing queer people. They literally cannot be, because the people they’re reading about aren’t real.

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