Netflix is ready to fend all of s 'unnecsary gay characters'

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• NETFLIX SHUTS DOWN HOMOPHOBIC CRIC COMPLAG ABOUT “UNNECSARY” GAY CHARACTERS
• NETFLIX IS READY TO FEND ALL OF S ‘UNNECSARY GAY CHARACTERS’
• NETFLIX RPONDS TO SPONGEBOB MEME CRICIZG 'UNNECSARY' GAY CHARACTERS

NETFLIX SHUTS DOWN HOMOPHOBIC CRIC COMPLAG ABOUT “UNNECSARY” GAY CHARACTERS

Recently, they’ve released a number of shows and films featurg a diverse range of stori about LGBTQ+ people, om Alice Wu’s new rom- The Half of It, Mdy Kalg’s hilar teen show Never Have I Ever, Ryan Murphy’s revisnist seri Hollywood, queer documentari like A Secret Love and Circ of Books, and, of urse, the ntroversial Tiger cric took to Twter to exprs their displeasure about all the gay characters featured on the streamer. Usg a screenshot om SpongeBob SquarePants, er @AdamSB___ ma a meme featurg Patrick (labeled as Netflix) shovg a pumpk (labeled as “an unnecsary gay character”) to SpongeBob’s mouth (labeled “any new seri”). “Sorry you have yet to realize that every gay person is very necsary, ” the streamer wrote a tweet om their official Twter acunt.

One rponse by @femmenart, which received more than 29, 200 lik, reads: “so straight characters are normal but gay characters are unnecsary? The whole pot of reprentatn is to normalize bee beg gay is normal and so isn't unnecsary, s important and is no ls ‘necsary’ than straight characters. ”Queer edian Jaboie Young-Whe also rpond to the homophobic meme by repurposg wh new labels.

NETFLIX IS READY TO FEND ALL OF S ‘UNNECSARY GAY CHARACTERS’

Over a photo of Spongebob SquarePants' Patrick about to put a pumpk to a tube feedg to Spongebob's mouth, the meme ascribed the players to new rol: Patrick beme Netflix, the pumpk an "unnecsary gay character, and Spongebob was "any new seri. "You have yet to realize that every gay person is very necsary. "\u201csorry you have yet to realize that every gay person is very necsary u201d — Netflix (@Netflix).

“Every damn new seri, ” Twter er AdamSB__ ptned a meme of Netflix shovg “an unnecsary gay character” to “any new seri. “Sorry you have yet to realize that every gay person is very necsary, ” the streamg giant rpond. Movg forward id like everyone to pls refer to me exclively as ‘unnecsary gay character.

Movg forward id like everyone to pls refer to me exclively as ‘unnecsary gay character’ ? Ben Platt (@BenSPLATT) May 6, 2020. Some people, however, sid wh the creator of the meme, argug that Netflix ntu to create gay characters simply so they n say they have them.

NETFLIX RPONDS TO SPONGEBOB MEME CRICIZG 'UNNECSARY' GAY CHARACTERS

“Or, and work wh me on this Netflix, maybe there’s more to a gay person than jt beg gay, ” one person said.

“Havg straight or gay people isn’t the problem, ” another er add. “It’s when they throw a gay person jt to make the show ‘diverse. Though Netflix has been cricized before for g gay characters as a way to broan s dience, there’s no nyg that the platform has done wonrs for LGBTQ+ reprentatn.

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