'Dark Romance' on TikTok

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[tashokukisune]

Dark romance is just an “I can fix him” fetish.

[ObbyAlined]

"Dark romance". You can only give them black flowers, dark chocolate, obsessive love poems, and you have to drive them places in the bat mobile

[justjulie]

Dark romance is what happens when you give a Wattpad obsessed 11 year old unlimited internet access

[nerco]

A dark romance starts with an abusive relationship, a bad romance starts with _rah rah-ah-ah-ah roma roma-ma_

[MusiciansRule]

So, TikTok's not only found out the Dark!Fic genre but promptly made the worst parts of it into a Trend. Lovely. Dark Romance could've been an awesome band name or an acceptable perfume name but nope. It had to be this.

[adrianamulet]

Emily: I don't want to disturb you.
Emily less than a minute later: I will be crawling on the walls of your room tonight

[TheAnthraxBiology]

So dark romance is straight up just about romanticising the most abusive relationships and unstable/violent people?

[capricat]

I love when people romanticise abusive relationships 😍🥰

[orangespark]

I have to say, as an italian, it's kinda tiring to see stuff like mafia etc being romanticized in this? Like, they killed people. Like the arranged marriage one was terrible.

[elisaelisaross]

Nobody in italy ever used "mio dolce" (unless it's some kind of inside-joke of a specific couple I guess). It's clearly a made-up couple nickname, probably made-up by somebody that does not speak Italian. When you use a possessive adjective ("mio" = my), you need a noun after it (most of the time). "Dolce" is another adjective. It's like calling somebody "My sweet lover" but without "lover", just "my sweet". My sweet what? What?! Unless "dolce" is intended as a noun, which in that case means dessert... But it's still wrong because when calling somebody "your something", you move the possessive adjective after the noun (eg. amore mio, vita mia, figlio mio, cara mia, etc.). So, the correct version would be "dolce mio", but it still sounds horrible and I doubt any actually Italian couple si calling each other this nickname. At least, I have never heard this and it really sounds horrible to my subjective Italian ears.

[elenacatt]

random guy: slaps her across the face and tells her that she's worthless
her: MARRY ME

[worstnoodle]

These don’t sound like romances. They sound like the beginning of a revenge story.

[maric]

"Chilvary is not dead but i might be" such real words

[tenebae]

i almost choked on the apple i was eating when she said "me giving birth while my husband is in his bullet proof vest like "yeah you know she's pushing pretty hard you never now how fast that thing's gonna shoot out" IM NOT CHOKING I ALMOST CHOKED

[anneharlowe]

Honestly, I read some dark romances but the key word is 'dark'. What TikTok girlies recommend are abusive not just toxic but the whole vat of industrial grade acid. Like whenever they hype books up it is mainly based on the tropes and certain specific scenes of the book not because the writing or the plot is good. People can read what they want but I can also judge how I want. One of the most heinous books that got hyped up was 'Haunting Adeline' which is a prime example of crossing the line from dark to straight-up criminal. Spoilers and SA TW.

The main guy stalks and r-pes the main girl while ironically taking down sex trafficking rings (I guess it was the author's way of softening the blow). I saw one of the comments under a video criticising the book saying 'but she liked it'. The author and the fans of this book need to be studied. Idc if it's through vivisection

[RAZZMATAZZZ]

see, these tiktoks aren't even what dark romance is SUPPOSED TO BE. the reason the "bad boy" archetype was always appealing was because there is fundamentally a soft gooey center to him. it's fun because in that fantasy you have the privilege of seeing parts of him that nobody else does. and the privilege of that relationship not turning into one that's severely abusive lmao. there is NOTHING appealing about a guy who's just fucking cruel to you. they've ruined the genre entirely. i'm about to enter my joker era i swear to god.

[samiracle]

literally so convinced to write some “dark romance” that subverts all these tropes and is actually a good story that doesn’t blur the lines between love and abuse

[Alice-rulb]

Italian speaker watching! Don't worry about the pronounciation at all, our "c" are so different you must have known some italian to get it! :)
What I take issue with is the fact the op uses it as a pet name: unless you add "amore" (love) at the end we don't use it like that. Also even if you add amore, it's still something you wouldn't commonly use in public. Mio dolce by itself it's like calling your so my dessert or my cake.
Better pet names would be: "tesoro" (tresure), "amore" (love), "luce mia" (my light) or "vita mia" (my life)

Adding: PLEASE AMERICANS STOP ROMANTICIZING THE MAFIA. Imagine if any other culture romanticized the terrorists of 9/11... then imagine those terrorists were so pervasive in your country to have still people in the goverment. That's the mafia for us.

Also the mafia has no kings

[Felix-fjib]

Idk why but how emily just saved all those tik toks without liking them is just killing me 💀💀💀

[tomatosoup]

Dark romance irritates me but the fans are even worse (not all of them, some are pretty chill and understanding that it’s not for everyone). They gets so offended when you call out that the the story is straight abusive and be like ‘Oh but it’s supposed to be like that it’s DARK romance!’ Like babe, it’s also a ROMANCE! I shouldn’t be struggling through some girlie getting assaulted and bullied but it’s ‘okay they’re in love’.