I found them because the show left their watermark intact. Tumblr user beansofyuki managed to score a spot in the episode (above). And when Trey Parker and Matt Stone decided it was finally time to acknowledge Creek and their surprisingly robust online fandom, they went straight to the source, soliciting real drawings from users online. A cursory search of DeviantArt shows Creek art dating back to 2005. (Yaoi is, of course, a popular genre of anime and manga focusing on two young men in an intense romantic, often sexual, relationship.) Tweek and Craig insist they are straight, but the entire town comes out in support of their “ Boys’ Love.”įor anyone paying attention to the world of South Park fan media, the pairing of Tweek and Craig was hardly a surprise: For at least a decade, people on the internet have been drawing fan art of the love between this two characters (a ship known as “Creek”). Last week’s episode of South Park featured a great deal of fan art, as two of the show’s characters, Tweek and Craig, discover that they are the subjects of Yaoi fan art drawn by their new Japanese classmates. Now imagine seeing your art suddenly appear on the show itself.
Imagine devoting time to drawing loving depictions of a romantic relationship between two minor and ostensibly straight male South Park characters.
