[Chinese Drama] The Fall of a Popular Chinese Idol, Xiao Zhan

Agree with all your points, just want to add that “rip good girl” is probably not written from a homophobic point of view. People are probably spamming this because early when the incident started some people on Twitter/instagram thought he was a trans woman died due to the coronavirus, and someone commented something along the line of “rip good girl”.

And then this was posted on the Chinese social media to mock how his fans reported the ao3 (which has a lot of lgbtq fan fiction) because the fan fiction that written him as a trans person/prostitute? (and they think this is an attack on his character), and now some people actually mistaken him as a trans person. So I think people wrote that to mock how his fans effort was backfired, and most are probably just brainlessly following the trend. There might be some homophobic undertone but I don’t think that’s their main intention.

And just to clarify, I don’t think their action is justified regardless, just that it’s not motivated by homophobia.

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