When the Japanese series Sailor Moon was dubbed in English for the US, the lesbian couple Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune were portrayed as cousins to avoid controversy.
However, the edits didn’t hide their obvious flirting, so their attempts at censorship instead caused people to think the relationship was both homosexual and incestuous.
im completely fine w/ criticizing how commercialize valentines day is but its so fucking obvious when ppl r using that as a justification for hating the holiday bc theyre bitter