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Actor Shipping is literally about fans shipping real people. YMMV on whether that's a respectful thing to do, but that's the literal definition of the trope. It's fair game to trope within reason.
And deleting Ho Yay examples because it's not legit LGBT representation? No one said it was. Ho Yay is about unintentional homoromantic subtext, so this was okay to trope.
I'd say it's okay to add those examples back.
^ Thought so. I've reverted the edit with a link to this thread.
personally, i find shipping real people to be incredibly creepy, but i understand that the trope isn't making a judgment on whether it's good or not, just noting that it happens. given that it does, in fact, happen, it's acceptable to list it.
Migrated to Chloe Jessica!
^ Oh, yeah, not a huge fan of it either. Personally I'm alright if it's just "eh I'd just think they'd be cute together, no biggie"—unfortunately there are a few too many cases of it going into "these real people are absolutely dating, here's a 10000 word fanfic of them, and their actual partners don't exist".
Edited by iamconstantine
On the YMMV page for Aladdin, here
, asjshfsdf deleted the entries for Actor Shipping and Ho Yay with the edit reason "Let's focus on actual LGBT rep and not encourage 'shipping' real people, thanks."
I haven't seen Aladdin (2019), so the entries might not apply, but I question the reasoning. Deleting Actor Shipping for "encouraging the shipping of real people" seems...I don't know, like deleting the audience reaction because it exists and they don't like it? On top of that, is the point of Ho Yay not that it's unintentional romantic tension between two same-gendered characters, i.e. not "actual LGBT rep"?
Edited by iamconstantine