On Monday, the folks at South Park asked fans to submit “romantic” artwork of Tweek and Craig, as this week’s episode would revolve around Asian Students drawing “yaoi” of the boys. Not familiar with yaoi? Let Wendy describe it to you while honoring South Park’s Asian American students in front of the entire elementary school:
Not clear enough? How about if Kyle gives a much shorter, male-centric explanation for what yaoi is and what it means for Tweek and Craig.
That must be better, right?
As a quick search for any animated title on Tumblr will show, this is very much a real thing people do and it’s quite popular. If you were confused, South Park certainly helped to clear it up or possibly compound your confusion. And as promised, Thursday’s episode, aptly titled “Tweak X Craig,” put the fan art submitted earlier in the week on display. The Internet reacted as follows:
Much of it was positive.
https://twitter.com/shaster_/status/659562463776645120
https://twitter.com/shounenhero/status/659562595137880064
iMM literally so happy @SouthPark thank you so much for this
— sam | CISSIE AND MIA CAME HOME (@therealryouko) October 29, 2015
It's official, after tonight's @SouthPark episode, I am pure TweekxCraig trash
— Caelene Burnham 🖤 (@Caelene404) October 29, 2015
art school: so what experience do you have?
me: my south park yaoi was shown on tv once— remade (@antelline) October 29, 2015
https://twitter.com/oreophobia/status/659559456850763776
https://twitter.com/naturalpuppy/status/659563383008722944
https://twitter.com/Terragaze/status/659562094501695488
Others, not so much
https://twitter.com/dulceporcelana/status/659562167058976768
https://twitter.com/KindaFunni/status/659572111623634945
https://twitter.com/aliveinthewired/status/659577871166390272
Between this and the episode on Yelp reviewers, I wouldn’t be suprised if we get an episode on problematic think pieces in the near future.
