Topic: The Rise of Platonic Relationships
Grant me a minute to say that yes many times DSMP (especially SBI) is cringe to non-fans and even mant fans. Allow me to say that its introduced the idea that not everything is romantic, there can be platonic relationships and queer platonic relationships. We've seen glimpses of this in Voltron with Space-Dad, MHA with Dadzawa (even if most of the time Aizawa is presented OOC), and Marvel with Irondad and Spiderson. But with the rose in popularity of SBI and BeeDuo we've seen a rise in normalization to queer platonic relationships. As someone on the aroase spectrum it does bring me true happiness to see that not everything is romantic and not everything is eros and erotoropia. That people are recognizing the other type of love like philia, storge, and philautia.