Boyfriends.

 is a Slice of Life Webtoon Original created by Refrainbow; it updates every Tuesday and Friday.

Synopsis
''A comic about getting yourself a boyfriend… or multiple boyfriends! Four college students begin a polyamorous relationship and navigate the adventure that is their dating life!''

Goth (Felix)


Goth is a 21-year-old transgender man. He's a lover of dark-colored clothing and the typical goth aesthetic. He is shown to like playing video games in his spare time. Goth is a smoker. He started dating Nerd first, before starting a relationship with Prep and Jock as well.

Nerd (Adrian)


Nerd is a 19-year-old pansexual man, and is taking a double major in math and astronomy in his first year of college. This is shown to be stressful for him at times, and he relies on the support of his boyfriends to get him through. Nerd likes K-pop idols, which helps him kindle his relationship with Jock. They learn dances and go to concerts of their favorite performers together. He also spends a lot of time playing video games and watching anime with Goth when they start dating. Nerd regularly changes his hair color and is also the shortest and youngest of the group. In a patreon postWhich One?, it has been confirmed that Nerd is not a virgin.

Prep (Vincent)


Prep is a 21-year-old gay senior, a business major, and part of the student union. He’s reasonably well-off money wise, but still likes Goth to pay for his things. He is Goth’s tidy roommate and is shown to have had numerous flings with him. The two were relatively physical, but he never realized Goth liked him as more than friends-with-benefits. Prep starts off dating Jock, who he was extremely awkward with at the start. Both him and Jock then start dating Nerd and Goth.

Jock (Kevin)


Jock is a 20-year-old bisexual sophomore. He's a physiology major and plays on the college's football team. He is also a good cook.

Controversies/Criticisms
There have been many controversies and criticisms surrounding Boyfriends. The fanbase is known as toxic.

Many users criticized the webcomic for bad or stereotypical representation of gay men, trans people, and polyamorous relationships. Users also criticize that the fan-animation as "cringe" and "awkward." For example, in an ad that ran featuring the webtoon, the voice actors had stereotypical 'gay voice'.

Others have criticized it for fetishizing gay relationships, yet there are an equal amount of people that do not think that it does, especially in comparison to other similar boys' love stories. The rated 18+ scenes have been criticized for over-feminizing the bottom characters and portraying them disrespectfully.

One of the characters is childlike, yet sexualized the most. And the character is a proshipper. The unusual characterization leads fans to speculate that it is a self-insert of the author. The author itself has fallen under fire for shipping kpop idol idolswhen they were a minor, saying racial slurs, and excusing criticism by saying they were a transmasculine.

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