If you opened Twitter and saw the #BOYCOTTGMAxTV5xTVJ846 and wondered what happened for the Filipino channels to receive the hate, then you weren’t alone. However, this trend isn’t something that happened overnight. It is a hashtag that has continued for a while, governed by the fans of the Alden and Yaya Dub or the AlDub love team.
Love Team is a unique concept from the Philippines entertainment industry where two actors are depicted as romantic teams in public. This phenomenon began in the early 1920s when veteran actors Gregorio Fernandez and Mary Walter starred together in silent films. Following this, many popular love teams have attained success together.
Some of these on-screen couples become real-life couples and get married. However, some also participate in an open love team where the actors may pursue love outside of the team. Overall, members of the love team only have a few opportunities to choose individual projects. The trend #BOYCOTTGMAxTV5xTVJ846 is also related to one such love team.
Fans of the AlDub team trend #BOYCOTTGMAxTV5xTVJ846
One of the most famous love teams of the recent past is Maine Mendoza and Alden Richards. Fans of this team began the trend on Twitter to boycott any channels open to invite the actors outside of their love team. Although the members of AlDub have repeatedly refuted any real-life romance, their fans believe in their love and wish to see them together.
The AlDub team first appeared in the “Juan for All, All for Juan” segment of the variety show ‘Eat Bulaga!’ in 2015 and quickly rose to become a super couple. The love team is named after the characters that both the actors play on-screen; Richards plays a fictionalized version of himself while Mendoza plays Yaya Dub. Mendoza also celebrated the eighth anniversary by tweeting ‘8 years’ with a heart.
- The couple began to interact through a split-screen segment on Kalyeserye, where their primary communication was through lip-syncing audio clips. AlDub then later began to interact vocally and went ahead to star in product endorsements. The couple notably appeared in films My Bebe Love: #KiligPaMore and Imagine You and Me. They also starred in a 2017 TV series titled Destined to be Yours.
Rumors surrounding Maine Mendoza and Alden Richards
Despite the fame, the AlDub team isn’t a real-life couple, but the fans believe in their chemistry and have frequently expressed their fervent wish to see the couple remain together. Due to this, Mendoza and Richards also ended up facing marriage rumors. Fans also alleged that they both are co-parenting three children.
- However, both the actors of the AlDub team have refuted the rumors. Maine Mendoza first clarified it during an interview with Ogie Diaz. Alden Richards later denied the rumors in a press conference and addressed it during his appearance on the show Fast Talk with Boy Abunda, as per GMA Network.
- Alden Richards shared that both of them aren’t getting any younger, and in a way, they have made their personal choices, referring to the engagement of Maine Mendoza with Arjo Atayde. Alden Richards also clarified that he is good friends with Mendoza and is available to find love himself.
- The actor also reminisced about his love team and shared a message with their fans during a recent interview with Ogie Diaz. Alden shared that he respects the engagement of Mendoza with actor-politician Arjo Atayde and hopes that their fans would do so as well.
Fans still believe in the AlDub team
Despite the clarifications of the actors, the fans of their love team firmly believe they should be together. This led the AlDub Nation to trend the #BOYCOTTGMAxTV5xTVJ846, protesting any channels that aren’t against the individual projects of the actors.
- The fans also petitioned against the marriage of Maine Mendoza and Arjo Atayde. The petition claims that Atayde created fake images, Mendoza is married to Richards, and they have three children together. The fans also shared many photos featuring the AlDub team as a married couple.
According to the statements of Maine Mendoza and Alden Richards, they aren’t a couple off-screen. Mendoza also recently kicked off her pre-wedding traditions with pamamanhikan. In this Filipino tradition, the groom’s family asks the bride’s family for her hand in marriage.
Arjo Atayde’s mother and Mendoza’s future mother-in-law, Sylvia Sanchez, also uploaded images on her Instagram. “The Ataydes and Mendozas will soon merge as one family,” she captioned the family picture with a heart emoji.
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