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Boi.

Okay, so we don’t have empirical evidence. But we should have a right to be afraid, upset, and alert. YOI has broken so many barriers with its beautiful, healthy display of a same-sex relationship. It has broken barriers surrounding skating stereotypes. I’ve also talked about how it CHALLENGED GENDER AND CULTURAL norms with my Guang Hong post. So for this new movie to wipe away all of that and essentially distil it down to another cheesy drama with the exact same plot as YOI, minus the most important relationships in the series, Yuuri and Viktor’s, I should be mad. Granted, Viktuuri wasn’t the only reason why YOI was great, but their relationship made history. It made members of the LGBTQ+ community, like me, have hope. We were being respected, normalized, and PORTRAYED BEAUTIFULLY. We weren’t some oddity. We were talented. We were beautiful. We were loved and we LOVED. So after all that, a movie comes out and basically has the exact same plot minus that history making relationship..shouldn’t I be a bit rattled? SHOOK? Angry?  

While I don’t have proof to back up the plagiarism claims, this coincidence is way too creepy. If YOI was someone’s essay and Love on Ice was mine, I’d be expelled from university.