It means Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan. Basically South East Asian.
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Thanks
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You’re welcome.
So you don’t get confused when anyone says Asians.
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Can I tell you what irritates me the most? When I’m really enjoying a story for its interesting plot, but then the scene where you meet the love interest comes in and the MC acts so out of character and describes the LI like they are some sort of ruler. I also especially when the LI keeps coming to my character non-stop.
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One thing that I love is a well thought out and directed episode. I like when the ‘drama’ is realistic and relatable. Having good grammar and spelling is a major plus! Also, orginality is key. I get that cliches are used all over, but I wish more authors took those cliches and put a twist on them.
Any story with the token black person that is rude, “sassy”, obnoxious and alllwaaayysss portrayed as the ghetto or dumb friend that’s only put there to add “diversity”. If you’re going to be insulting and subtly racist, I’m out.
There is nothing worse than the "falls for the bad boy who treats me like an object for half the story then turns out to have a sad (pathetic) reason for treating me badly " cliche. It’s played out and boring to me.
Things that turn me off of stories:
Horrible spelling/grammar. I know not everyone is a native English speaker and a few mistakes here and there is okay… .but when everything is misspelled and sentences like “OooOff. I is cld nd is i red the buk.”… how the hell am I supposed to figure that out? I immediately leave.
I 100% leave any story that starts out with a character that falls for a blatantly abusive horrible character and is like “he forced himself on me while I was drunk and so I married him because he’s a millionaire mafia leader who might kill me and who cares that he slaps me and calls me names?” --stories like that romanticize abusive relationships. I feel that since a majority of readers are young and impressionable that it is our responsibility as authors to show strong characters that respect and value themselves more than that.
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I usually quit stories once the mc gets pregnant, or if we find out the LI has a kid… (unless it’s in the very very end) it sounds terrible, but just not my thing. 
nothing against anyone who writes that!
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You mean when the love interest immediately become obsessed with the mc?
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Definitely!
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Writing this sentence made my brain hurt a bit. 
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What exactly do you mean by that?
Just nudity or “physical” scenes? fighting?
My definition of “mature content” has not much to do with what is displayed but more like the topics this is about and real life adult people’s struggles…
I was always wondering why I couldn’t find any “mature themes and strong language” the intro warned me about but that should explain it lol
I’m from Europe, swearing and nudity won’t get censored, I’m not used to it.
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Something that makes me not want to finish a story is when your MC finally starts dating the love interest but then the love interests ex comes back pregnant like “It’s yours”. COME ON! It just sucks when this happens because it always ends the same way: Love interest leaves MC for the baby, MC is all sad and boring, They find out that the ex was either faking the pregnancy or the love interest isn’t the father, then the love interest comes back to the MC and they all live happily ever after! It is so boring, over used and just a bad plot twist!
Anyone agree with me?
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100%
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The LI never asks for a paternity test either or to attend the ultra sound.
Lol.
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Truuuuu 
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I gotta ask how you’d do that.
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The fact that this is a very important topic still is amazing! lol
Congrats @Killer0Succubus for making one of the best posts on here!
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I hate how almost every story turns into a pregnancy story
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I hate when…
- There is only CC in the first episode, I think this goes without saying.
- Horrible spelling/grammar. I have a friend that also reads episode that makes fun of me for saying that because she doesn’t care, but it really made it seem like the author put no effort into the story, and it’s so distracting.
- Bad boys with generic backstories. This is because I feel that no matter what was in their past, it can’t cause them to treat other characters badly, especially the MC if they are in love with them.
- Girls that change personalities in front of a guy. I’ve never had a boyfriend but I don’t completely change/get embarrassed/flustered/stutter in front of guys that I like. That’s cheap.
- When a character talks about Episode in a story/mentions episode/plays episode/says that their situation would make a great episode story. That’s kind of like the character talking to the reader, and this is one of my biggest pet peeves. Also, when people are trying not to mention “brand names” and so rename instagram and youtube and facebook “epigram” and “epitube” and “epibook”. That gets me so annoyed.
- When the author uses the “loop” talking if that’s the best one that fits, and then doesn’t make the character any idle animation so that their mouths keep moving! I get so confused!
- When the MC falls in love with someone that she’s not supposed to: an older guy, maybe a teacher, or her mother’s boyfriend, or just someone like… oh… you know… HER STEPBROTHER. That’s just borderline incest and weird.
- Pacing that is too fast/slow. Too fast pacing can make it so that 20 or so lines in the story, the characters start kissing after they’ve just met. Too slow pacing can leave the reader annoyed and too bored. If you want the characters to fall in love/get married/become bf and gf at chapter 40, or even chapter 2, then there needs to be enough drama/plot twists/explanations throughout the story that would make it seem naturally slow or fast.
- Info dumps at the beginning. The MC does a narration that can last up to the entire 1st chapter basically explaining their life story. The fun part of reading/watching movies/playing episode is to see the backstory through flashbacks, memories, actions that have shaped the character into who they are today, not given all at once. If the story was trying to be realistic and follow the journey of the MC, would they really spell everything out? Example: MC is talking to their best friend during the episode, and the best friend explains the MC’s past - You’ve had a crush on him for so long, ever since you were four! He was at your birthday party when you fell in love. And then he was shipped off to military school, but now he’s back and hotter than ever! Do you think he’ll ever notice you now that he’s dating Madison?
- Lack of/strained diversity. POC, Muslims, LGBT+ people, and more that are just there for filler characters so that the author can say that they have diversity or represent common but completely untrue stereotypes of their race/orientation
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When someone looses memory!
It skips the story to a year later!
It just gets boring lol.
Sometime they are only 3 minutes long like what???
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When authors add themselves into the intro and argue with the MC, it is really annoying like start already.
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