E-sport is a pretty big business in Asia, you can get your brooding aloof antisocial top and your nerdy, fail husband, socially inept bottom simultaneously as super rich and super poor while on the same industry and with real chances of meeting, it's like, a really useful plot device (and it's fun because you can fit the competition aspect, add action scene if/when you want, the creative freedom goes brrrr)
Guideverse prolly popular because koreans have a kink on destined pairings, "only you can handle me", "I can fix him" and like most east Asians, they are very specific about top/bot, and I guess you can escape from the inherent feminization of ABO? But this is just me speculating, on most illegal raw websites I'm yet to see comments feeling sorry for the abused bottom as long as the Sex is hot so…
Wow this is a very in depth explanation, thank you for talking about it ! I've always wondered about this but could never really find the answer lol. I'm not a huge fan of Chinese bl but I find the esports stories interesting, especially with how strict China's gaming laws are. And I also do definitely prefer guideverse as an alternative to omegaverse. It's just been driving me crazy how many different verses I've been seeing lately, like I thought there was only omegaverse and I wasn't even a huge fan of that. Maybe I'm just getting old, idk ╮(￣▽￣)╭
What is with Korean bls and guideverses?? What is with Chinese bls and e-sports??