While Boys Love (BL) and Girls Love (GL) are not new genres in content making — with BL tracing back to Japanese manga series in 1970s — they have been increasingly popular over the years, especially in free streaming services.

In the Philippines, the internet allowed fans to discover more BL content in the form of manga, TV shows and online series. Thai BL series are one of the most popular ones in contemporary BL genre with titles such as 'SOTUS' (2016), 'Love by Chance' (2018), and '2gether: The Series' (2020) being among Filipinos' favorites.