SalaciousBCrumb@lemy.lol to World News@quokk.au · 14 days agoKorean boy band member becomes first active K-pop star to come out as gaywww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square31linkfedilinkarrow-up1188arrow-down18cross-posted to: globalnews@lemmy.zip
arrow-up1180arrow-down1external-linkKorean boy band member becomes first active K-pop star to come out as gaywww.nbcnews.comSalaciousBCrumb@lemy.lol to World News@quokk.au · 14 days agomessage-square31linkfedilinkcross-posted to: globalnews@lemmy.zip
minus-squareJoShmoe@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down5·14 days agoNotice how the headline implies there could be more.
minus-squareVitoRobles@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·13 days agoMy god. Exponential growth. Soon it’ll be four gay men. Then Eight. Then Sixteen! Damn you Rice on a Chessboard problem!
minus-squarePunnyName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·14 days agoFirst because no one has ever done it before.
minus-squareJoShmoe@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down10·14 days agoSounds like they are trying to infer.
minus-squareJoShmoe@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down8·14 days agoNope just reading between the lines. That kinda speech is reserved for world records. It strikes me as unusual to use it this way.
minus-squareJoShmoe@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down9·14 days agoThere’s no reason to use first.
minus-squareAwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·edit-214 days agoThat is literally the meaning of first. Nobody has done it before. It does not necessarily imply there will be a second
minus-squareIMALlama@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·13 days agoI read it as “first to come out while still active in K-pop”, but even that seems inaccurate and there are lists of people who have come out.
Notice how the headline implies there could be more.
Two gay men?
Could you imagine?
My god. Exponential growth.
Soon it’ll be four gay men. Then Eight. Then Sixteen!
Damn you Rice on a Chessboard problem!
Maybe more
First because no one has ever done it before.
Sounds like they are trying to infer.
Sounds like you are.
Nope just reading between the lines. That kinda speech is reserved for world records. It strikes me as unusual to use it this way.
First to come out as.
There’s no reason to use first.
That is literally the meaning of first. Nobody has done it before. It does not necessarily imply there will be a second
I read it as “first to come out while still active in K-pop”, but even that seems inaccurate and there are lists of people who have come out.