just to be clear (because I've got a couple of comments from people who seem to be confused!) the only pairings in this video that are couples/ships are the ones who appear in the chorus and are listed in the description, all of which are canon! All other duos who come on screen are there to fit the lyrics as friends/relatives etc of the characters! For example, Glimmer and Bow from She-Ra are there as Catra and Adora's friends, observing them being gay together, and Troy's dad from Kipo is there as Benson's boyfriend's dad, observing Benson's feelings for his son! If you can't hear the lyrics/audio clearly, turn on subtitles, and feel free to ask me about any clip choices, but I just wanted to clarify that not every pairing who appears on-screen together, or every character I transition between, is a ship/romantic pairing, *only* the ones that are also featured in the chorus and listed in the description are!
I love seeing just how many WLW and MLM pairings there are in recent years. Even if I’m not familiar with many of these shows, they’re so cute to see! I would have loved to see some of Rogelio and Kyle from She-Ra included lol
ah thank you!! yes, i love that we're getting so much more rep recently :)) sorry i didn't include them, i sort of forgot to but also they don't have that many scenes, still less romantic-seeming ones, particularly as they're canonically dating Lonnie as well, so i couldn't really fit them in!! :)) I'll try to put them in a video in the future though!
That bit that said "I think they figured it out" and we got Willow and Gus, and Glimmer and Bow just watching their besties being gay. That bit was good. It was all good. But that bit was very good.
AAAAAAGHFHHGHHHHHH I AM LITERALLY CRYING! Not just from the video itself, but also thinking about all the queer people in the past that will never be recognized as the queer people they are. How much work has been done for these animated characters to be in openly queer relationships with each other, instead of it being written between the lines (like Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street). I don't really know how to put my thoughts into words, so I think the best way for me to put them is... thank you for making this video :')
awwww thank you so much!! I'm so happy you enjoyed this and that it meant something to you! I love all these characters and all the progress we've made and I'm happy that that shines through in the video :) You're very welcome!! Thank you for watching
yeah i love Sashannarcy!! they weren't in this video because I hadn't watched Amphibia at the time and also because they aren't technically canon and this vid is about the erasure of canon ships :) but i might well include them in a vid at some point!
i'm not totally sure what you mean by this?? i think it's very cool that we have a lot of wlw rep in cartoons now! but there are three mlm couples and an nbylw couple in this video too :)
Ok some things. First I was damn near almost crying halfway through this. Not only from pure adorableness (especially when Harley and ivy came up cause I’ve been recently watching that) but also I have recently found this song and I’m obsessed with it. It’s just such a true song. Like I heard this song for the first time like 3 days ago and I’ve already listened to it over a dozen times lol. Second thanks for putting all the names of the characters in the description and u also put the characters individual sexualities (and for those u didn’t know or whatever u put sapphic). At least that’s y I think u put sapphic cause it’s a pretty neutral term for wlw. And u also put if a character was non binary. Some nice touches there cause now people know where to look if they want specific representation. But yea this must’ve taken a lot of time I’m guessing. Theirs quite a lot of couples in here lol. And lastly I wanna talk about that 3rd paragraph in your description. I’m not a fan of it cause it kinda gives into what this song is all about. I mean keep in mind lovers can be romantically, sexually, or both. Even friends with benefits r lovers. Heck lovers sounds more like it would be just sexually but no it can be one or the other or both. Felt this needed to be said.
hey!! first, tysm for watching, i'm really glad you liked this! yeah, i really like this song too, it's so true to history haha. second, i'm glad that this was helpful!! i always hate finding content and not knowing what it's from, lol. and yes, i put sapphic/achillean/etc when i either don't know their sexualities or they haven't been confirmed as a specific sexuality. and this did take quite a long time, but i think it was mostly worth it!! third, yes, it's true lovers can be either romantic or sexual, but this song seems to be mostly about romance. also, people are only 'lovers' if they label themselves as such, so to say that any two (or more) people who kiss are lovers isn't true. if they label themselves 'friends with benefits' they are. if they're in a queerplatonic relationship, they might not call themselves lovers. i'm categorically not saying what this song is pointing out (that people who are genuinely lovers are actually just 'best friends' because they're the same gender). what i'm saying is making it clear that obviously things like kissing are not limited to romance or being 'lovers'. all the couples in this video are 'lovers' but i've heard from several aromantic people, or just anyone experiencing relationships differently, that things like kissing being seen as exclusive to romance is damaging and enforces other forms of -normativity (amatonormativity, allonormativity, etc). i may not have phrased this all perfectly, but i think it's really important to say it, and to make it clear that i'm not saying 'lovers' are more important, or that the things in this video are exclusive to romance. anyway in conclusion, i'm really glad you liked this and thanks for watching and commenting!! but i think this disclaimer is an important one to make :))
@@gaycartoons But it doesn’t matter. If it’s a sexual relationship u have with someone then yes your lovers. It doesn’t need to have romance in it to be considered lovers so friends with benefits r still lovers. If u have sex on a daily basis or more then just once or whatever then your lovers. Plain and simple. I just don’t like this devaluation of sexual relationships as lovers. Tho it’s not something I’m interested in cause I’m Demisexual but that’s besides the point I’m making. Also platonic is non sexual. That’s the point of that word. Another important thing I just wanted to point out. Anyways thanks for not getting mad or anything. I’m trying not to come off as rude I just kinda got a little mad so sorry if I came off as rude.
@@davidstratton696 okay, so no. You don't have the right to label other people's relationships like that. And platonic is actually non-romantic. You can have sex with someone who you have a platonic relationship with, and queerplatonic is a slightly different thing anyway. You can also have sex with someone who you're only platonically attracted to. It matters to me that no queer people feel erased here, which is why that disclaimer is there! I'm not angry with you but it might be good to do some research into all the different types of attraction and relationships, because there are so many more than you think!
also, i find debates like this kind of stressful so i might not keep replying back, because i want this to stay friendly and this channel to just be about appreciating content!
i love what you wrote about in the description, also the timestamps with the names and if they're saphic, bi, trans etc, and if its cannon. ultimately im just impressed with the effort put into it! thanksss
amazing, the quotes fit the song very well and flow nice after one another great work also love seeing all these queer character together, especially those that usually don't get that much love
aww thank you! i'm so glad you enjoyed it, it was a struggle to make! and yeah, that was really important to me, to include so many different shows, characters, and relationships, including the underrated ones! thank you :))
ive seen so many fan arts of marcelene and bubblegum and the comments have “they are such good friends” one of them they were literally twerking on each other. and the comment we just like that. i really couldnt tell if theh were just jokinng or actually stupid
On a Dragon Prince kick right now since Book 4 is incoming and while I obviously enjoyed that you included Janaya and Anneha, that tiny little glimpse of Ruthari absolutely CRUSHED me. The man thought his best friends betrayed everything they stand for, saw off his husband and surrogate daughter on a potentially deadly mission, believed said daughter betrayed his husband and the rest of their teammates, learned that said daughter is on a mission to make things right, presumably learned the truth about said best friends, and still thinks his husband is dead. GIVE 👏🏽 ETHARI 👏🏽 CLOSURE 👏🏽
ahh yeah their story is absolutely heartbreaking and i really hope we get some closure in Book 4! idk how they'd incorporate it because it's 4 years later, but however they do, they just need to give us some more content about the whole thing! also thank you for watching! :))
This was so amazing to see! I felt so much more accepted coming out as bisexual with characters that were like me. And especially in other worlds where homophobia doesn’t even exist. I wish we saw some of the Steven Universe characters in here too but it’s okay! We have a lot of my other favorite shows and I guess some other gay shows I need to go find.
ahh thanks so much, i'm so happy this meant something to you!! i love all these characters, and all these shows are well worth watching! i have another edit with almost all of them if you want more of the same (check my most recent video!). Btw, SU wasn't included because I haven't watched it due to having heard about anti-Blackness in the show, so that's why! thanks for watching and commenting :)
@@gaycartoons I haven’t heard that about Steven Universe before. But it could be something I haven’t heard about, I dunno. But yeah I’ll go check it out!
haha haven't seen Wednesday yet but i've heard a lot about those two!! this was just for animated shows but if i do watch Wednesday I might edit it at some point, who knows? :)
Glad you liked it!! But it doesn't take much critical thinking to realise why certain characters aren't here: I haven't seen every TV show to ever exist, and I don't include characters I don't know, obviously
I would love to see some Transformers representation. There is a TON of LGBTQ+ rep in the fandom some is canon such as Knockout and Breakdown and some are fan made such as Starscream and Knockout.
yeah sorry, I haven't seen most of Steven Universe because I heard there's quite a lot of problematic stuff in it, particularly around anti-Blackness, afaik. So that's why it's not here, but I hope you enjoyed the video anyway!
Yeah we need season four asap… Though it’s gonna be a pain to wait for every other season after to, but will be worth it! At least I have other shows to watch while we wait. In the last year I’ve watched She-ra, then the dragon prince, then Korra, and now half way through season 2 of owl house and will probably finish it by tomorrow :)
lol exactly like. history is *so* much queerer than cishet historians would have you believe. and whilst it's not always helpful to apply modernly-used labels to historical figures, there's a difference between that and not acknowledging that label or not, they were queer and they were having queer relationships!
Not to be T H A T P E R S O N but I find it kinda funny that Harley's love for Ivy wasn't the thing that lifted the mind control - it was Psycho being too busy fetishizing them to keep a hold on her.
oh yeah for definite, that whole thing was... Complicated. Like, it was obviously intended as a portrayal of a "true love's kiss" but due to the show being a comedy they subverted the reason why. It's actually not funny because fetishizing queer women isn't funny, but I guess it also does make that point. I never know how to feel about it tbh, except hatred for Psycho because he's the worst lol. But no, definitely you're not being "that person" it's a valid conversation!
haha no, i do ship a lot but actually nearly all of these pairings are canon, and all of them have some kind of canon/heavily implied romantic feelings for each other! :)
