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Just reminding you all of 2016 KristSingto interactions.
Looks like we'll (probably) be getting the previously mentioned Pebaca Concert next year!
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A STUDY OF PUBLIC HANDHOLDING WITH KRISTSINGTO: THEN AND NOW
2016 Shyness Level: 7.6
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2024 Shyness Level: 0
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I see a lot of people questioning if it's KristSingto or SingtoKrist, since they go by KristSingto officially, but if their shipname was like the usual order of top/bottom from their series, it would be SingtoKrist.
It gets more interesting to me when you think about how SOTUS credits Krist before Singto (I don't understand why they always insist on crediting the "top" first even if they aren't the main character in all these BLs but it is a thing) but SOTUS S did vice versa.
Switch couple.
And I find it funny what Krist has to say.
KRIST CAN HAVE EVERYTHING INCLUDING TWO BOYFRIENDS
So just to catch everyone up to speed on what goes on over in the hellscape of Twitter, there have been sock puppet accounts attacking Krist for months because of Gawin. Tagging Krist, GMMTV, the staff, and his friends. Leave Singto, they crow, and go back to Gawin if he loves him so much. They don’t need him. They don’t want him. He’s just using Peraya for their money. He doesn’t really care about Singto.
Y’know. This guy:
He doesn’t care about Singto. According to them. :’)
This guy:
It’s real pointless and mean. No one seems to have any proof of who they are, but they’re ridiculous.
A sampling of the depths (the top tweet is a QRT of the middle tweet):
There’s a lot of hate circulating. Singto hate, Gawin hate, Krist hate.
And in the midst of it all:
Krist had a little singalong with Singto.
And just now he posted a photo of Gawin at his place with a guitar to his Instagram Broadcast channel. I can’t repost due to his request not to repost photos or videos elsewhere, but it’s real cute. He said Gawin’s still hanging out there past midnight (it was around 1am).
“You can’t have everything.”
Yes.
He can.
And I love that while he’s always seemed to struggle to stand up for himself, to tell people off when they deserve it, he never hesitated when it came to his nong.
Their friendship is more important than fan wars. In an industry that’s so fickle and shallow, Krist took Gawin under his wing, and Gawin feels safe with him. He could have left him behind, at least publicly, but he didn’t. He’s the senior, and the more famous of the two, and he was more than just a friend on set. He was mentoring Gawin in music. In performing. And that seems to matter more to him than the petty anger of people who can’t stand that he won’t play to their whims.
Gawin is his favorite nong.
And he won’t leave him behind.
(And Singto wouldn’t want him to either, so nyah.)
It’s really saddening that people who claim to be fans who love and support Krist will spew vitriol at him and the people important to him. Krist is having to come out multiple times and defend his right to publicly have friends. After being told to “leave” one of his friends behind. After being tagged by many so-called “fans” who find fault in a friendship he values. I can’t go a day without seeing hate (especially on Twitter) towards Krist, Singto, and Gawin. And it’s tiring. Fans can’t, and shouldn’t dictate what artists do. I’m happy Krist is defending his right to be open with his friendships, but it’s truly sad that he has to.
Peraya Party Begin Again: Favourite celebrities ✧
hey key! since things are so tense rn could i ask you to tell me your favorite things about singto and gawin? like as people, as actors, as friends... i would love that! thanks 🙏🏻
Hey Anon. :')
So I obviously got this when things were still tense, and it's been a big comfort for the past week to know that someone did this for me. So first of all, I want to acknowledge how kind this was and thank you. <3
I wanted to wait until things died down a bit before I answered because I was so wrapped up in the thread I was making that I couldn't focus on anything else. SO! Now I can just have fun answering. :D
MY 5 FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT SINGTO AND GAWIN
OKAY starting with Singto. :D
1. First is, hands down, his relationship with his father. For anyone who doesn't know, Singto lost his mother to cancer while he was in university, so ever since, he's been making a concerted effort to spend as much time as possible with his father before he passes. Singto's said he felt guilty for the time he missed out on with his mother, and he doesn't want to regret it twice. He goes out to eat with his father, hangs out with him, built a house with the intention of living with him (that his father turned down), and just generally seems to adore his dad.
2. His struggle tweets. 90% of the time this man tweets anything, it's because he's complaining about some minor catastrophe: he put his clothes out to dry and it rained, the soup bag in his delivery order burst, the delivery guy never showed, etc. etc. etc. I just think it's a very clever way for an introverted actor to use social media in a way that gets him engagement. He made being inconvenienced a brand, and that's super cute to me.
3. His love for Linkin Park. Because I also love them. That's it. I love that he loves one of my favorite groups, and in another life before Chester passed, I would've loved to go with him to a concert as concert buddies.
4. The mood lighting in his room. It's ridiculous and pretty and I love it.
5. That he's been very open about his mental health issues. Even knowing that some people would use it against him, he still shared extremely private experiences with the public, and especially considering how closed most of Asia can be regarding depression and conditions like it, I admire him (and Krist) for speaking openly about how he's been affected and he lives with it.
And now Gawin!
1. That he threw shade at Pennsylvania in the funniest way I've ever heard. ("What do you miss about Pennsylvania?" "I can tell you what I don't miss about Pennsylvania.") I just love that Gawin's been such a recluse for years that very few had any indication outside his acting that he's funny.
2. His singing, dear god. When he dropped his Maroon 5 cover during the early days of the pandemic I genuinely thought he'd gone out and quietly gotten himself a record deal. I love his acting but I genuinely hope he makes more of a move toward singing. He's just too talented and passionate about music to keep doing OSTs forever. (GMMTV I'm scaling the side of your building.)
3. That he's historically been averse to social media in all forms but he threw himself into promotion for Be My Favorite. When Off teased him at Livehouse last autumn and Gawin teased him back, there was a beat of genuine surprise where Off didn't react, and then he said, "At least you talk now," with affection. It reminded me how much work Gawin had done with some big names and yet he'd been so reticent and shy in the promotional materials, very few had gotten to know him on a deeper level. Last year was really special. I'd already been fond of him, but to find out he's even sweeter than I thought was lovely.
4. Getting to chat with him during the fan benefit for the Be My Favorite finale and finding out how sincerely humble he is. He's genuinely just happy to be here. I don't think he knows he's famous. Someone should have told him the cameras were on.
5. He fucking took Nong Kawi (the turtle plush from Be My Favorite) on the plane with him for his first trip to Japan. T___T
I love them both. They have very different introverted energies, but they're similar enough that I am genuinely curious what they're like one-on-one. I hope they have opportunities to interact with each other publicly in the future. <3
Thank you again for the question, Anon. :') It felt nice to talk about this.
KRIST, FAME, AND WHY "YOU SIGNED UP FOR THIS" DOESN'T EXONERATE THE BEHAVIOR OF THE PUBLIC
Lindsay Ellis uploaded this video to YouTube framed around the myth that Yoko Ono broke up the Beatles. It's phenomenal, as her work often is. I'll probably watch the whole thing multiple times in the near future.
Toward the end of the video, Lindsay expands on the morbid paradox of fame. Many of us see it as this aspirational thing that famous people should be grateful to have, and yet we're also aware that the circumstances of being famous often lead to tragic ends for celebrities, either by violence or by their own self-destruction.
Over the past week, I made this thread to explain the events that led to Krist putting his foot down after months of trying to placate the segment of KristSingto fans who are vocally opposed to Krist sharing any part of his continued close friendship with Gawin, Krist's costar from his 2023 BL series "Be My Favorite."
The day he started his break from social media, Krist addressed his fans about what he'd been dealing with very clearly and characteristically sincerely. He expressed his confusion, explained the impossible situation this unreasonable portion of his fanbase had put him in, and ultimately just gave the vibe of a very tired teacher. Coupled with the reality that Krist's fanbase is on average much older than he is, it's a little absurd that a twenty-eight-year-old had to tell a fair number of middle-aged, tax-paying adults that he's allowed to have friends.
Krist concluded his TikTok Live only to be tagged in even more abuse and complaints on Twitter. I saw some of it and didn't bother saving receipts, but you can imagine it. You're hurting your comeback with Singto by posting Gawin's photos, Krist. This comeback isn't going well, Krist, and it's your fault. You're supposed to be loyal to Singto, Krist. You abandoned Singto at the outing, Krist. If you hate it here so much then just go back to Gawin, then. Don't you feel guilty for ruining Gawin's career, too? He must be good in bed for you to come to his defense like this.
Oh, wait, I did save that one.
Presumably sensing that he had done everything he possibly could, Krist addressed fans one last time on his Instagram Broadcast channel.
Let no one misinterpret this: Krist left social media mainly and specifically because some Peraya were viscerally outraged that Krist didn't cast Gawin aside and spend 100% of his time adhered to Singto. Even though Krist is the one who wanted the comeback, a significant number of Peraya seem to think he's not trying hard enough.
"Not trying hard enough" even though he was so obsessed with getting Peraya Party right that he made himself sick.
This tweet was when he admitted himself for an IV to keep himself healthy, and then he ended up getting admitted anyway for almost a week. During which time he continued working on the concert from his iPad, messaging staff and Singto who continued with rehearsals.
"Not trying hard enough" isn't something Krist knows how to do. He's a self-professed perfectionist who identified so strongly with the character of Anxiety in "Inside Out 2" that he posted about her on his Facebook seven different times. He has an Anxiety plush. He even tweeted about the anxiety attack scene when he visited Beijing for work.
Krist has spoken about his experiences with depression. He moved back home in 2022 to be with his parents at the suggestion of his psychiatrist, the fourth he'd seen.
It's widely known that Krist hates being alone. Singto recently said it's something that concerns him, that Krist has someone or other at his house most of the time because he doesn't want to be on his own. Just last year Krist said his favorite thing about his four cats is that they're with him always, whereas people eventually have to go their own homes.
Rather than close himself off, however, Krist has remained a phenomenally open and affectionate person. He treats his fans like friends. (The ones who aren't trying to control his life.) He took the time to address fans twice in text and in video.
And yet, as soon as Krist stepped away from the helm of his own narrative, some fans were horrified by the idea that Krist might be mad at them. Others began to twist his words and intentions to suit a more palatable narrative. This wasn't about Gawin, no. He did it for Singto.
And while, yes, Krist did also make it clear that he won't tolerate people trash-talking one of his favorite people, this was about Krist.
It wasn't only about Singto or Gawin. This was Krist facing down fans who have relentlessly demanded more than he could have or even should have ever reasonably done for them.
It's a special kind of horrifying to me that fans are misrepresenting Krist when Krist clearly said as recently as last October that what hurts him most is being misrepresented.
I spoke with some Peraya in DMs about this whole mess.
A few said they have no issue with Gawin, they're only envious of the closeness he has with Krist. They're both musicians and singers, and they're both people-shaped emotions who went through hell together during all the "lol who asked for this pairing" and "ew I'm not watching the homophobe show" nonsense.
Others said Krist is behaving childishly and that he should just ignore everyone.
After all, all of this comes with the territory of being famous. It's normal. He shouldn't overreact. He's taken the wife role. He should be cute and soft and sweet at all times.
When I posted my thread about this, some were underwhelmed by the informational tone and had hoped it would be more of a call-out. Thing is, I'd already criticized that portion of the Peraya fandom:
It's frankly beyond my comprehension how Krist has made it this far as stable and as kind as he is. He was bashed by homophobes for starring in SOTUS in 2016, then stalked at his university by fans who disapproved of him having a girlfriend since he belonged to Singto, harassed about his sexuality until he snapped, vilified by international fans who showed up late to the party in 2020 and made everything a thousand times worse by not bothering to fact-check anything they were seeing, tormented off social media, put through four different psychiatrists, lost the partner he'd been through all of this with, found a new one, lost him, and gained his original partner back only for fans to demand more from him.
And the thing is, I don't want to say all of this on Twitter because it's becoming more and more of a noxious hellscape with every passing day, and the people who need to embrace this aren't going to read it. But I did want to say it somewhere.
Watching Lindsay's video, I felt such a bolt of fear. He's just been pushed so far, and fame isn't what destroys: it's people.
So I'm so proud of him for handling this with composure and strength. I'm proud of him for keeping the promise he made to Gawin in October last year at his solo concert, that nothing would change between them.
One of my Gawin fan friends said it best: Krist was the first person to see Gawin's potential and then show the world. He featured Gawin in his own solo concert, he mentored him through promotion, he opened up to Gawin about his life and his thoughts. He would never cast Gawin aside, and the fact that people are still trying to hand-wave how important Gawin is to him is maddening.
He loves Singto. He also loves Gawin. One doesn't cheapen the other. He loves a lot of people. That's who Krist is.
The idea that Krist should be cute and demure and ignore constant harassment he can't avoid because he needs to use social media for work is so unimaginably cruel I can't fathom how it could even transform from an idea to a real belief. Whether you like it or not, he's standing up for himself now.
Being famous eases some things and barbs others. You'll get free stuff and fans who admire you, but you may also get a deterioration of your mental health and fans who feel entitled to your body, soul, and mind.
You tell 'em, sweetie.
An early birthday celebration at KristSingto's first Macau fanmeeting.
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From the pose game at the Macau FM.
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While rewatching the behind the scenes for the pilot trailer of The Ex-Morning, these decorations on the wall of Tamtawan's place have continued to stay in my head. The emphasis put on obscured mouths makes me think that there's definitely something that Tamtawan cannot say. Perhaps what he can't say is tied to why he left.
Also, I don't recognize the other posters, but seeing a poster of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind on the wall makes me giggle. I can't stop thinking about the idea of Tamtawan watching the film, thinking about Pathapi, and putting it up on his wall as he travels back to Thailand to try help restore his ex-boyfriend's reputation.
SINGTO THE KING OF HEALTHY DISTANCE
This might be an odd thing to hear from me given how effusive I’ve been over Krist being so open and vulnerable with his fans, buuut:
I love the boundaries that Singto keeps up with his fans.
Like, today he posted this quotation to his Instagram:
Man’s a notorious introvert and famously keeps to himself when he’s not working. It stands to reason that he’d want people to respect some healthy boundaries. He’s perfectly lovely at events, but I’ve seen how he shuts down if you approach and record him in his private time.
So while he’s not always going to jump in and speak his mind, he has opinions and he has his own way of sharing them.
Like earlier today he retweeted the tweet below, which basically says it’s good to have all kinds of friends and not to feel jealous or upset when friends have other friends. And I mean. Given the current situation? With toxic shipper fans harassing his partner Krist for sharing moments of his friendship with Gawin? That retweet could have only been more pointed if Singto had written and tweeted it out himself.
Some have criticized Singto for being distant, for not standing up for Krist, for sitting back and allowing unhinged fandom situations to just unravel around him without stepping in. And like, sure, he could have done more, but at what cost? He’s been dealing with mental health issues apparently as far back as university, and he knows who he is and what he can handle.
If Krist, the kind one who opens his heart to everyone, couldn’t get through to toxic fans who want to control his life and shame him for having friends, then Singto probably knew he wasn’t going to have any more luck.
Sometimes putting distance between you and a fire is all you can do, and I think that’s how Singto navigates fame without losing his mind.
Krist and Singto on the cover of Hamburger Magazine, November 2017
Peraya Party Begin Again: I am happy that nong came to see us. But since he's here, I wanted to tease nong "little kitten" too~ ↳ 3/?
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Bonus:
Fans Gathering 290724: 🧑‍🎓📸🎉 We'll take photos with those who are graduating this year only. Either that, or those getting a Master's degree. - Master's or PhD, all good. If anyone gets a PhD, we'll carry you above our heads! - For those with a PhD, we'll carry you on a palanquin!
