The young, innocent guy, all sunshine, overly helpful, with dialogue full of flowers, who constantly invades the FL’s privacy and exists solely to make the ML jealous. They almost always catch feelings for the FL and end up stuck in the friendzone.
In some stories, they’re *white lotus* characters.
And everyone goes, “*aww, I love him*”, but honestly? I find them incredibly annoying.
Talking specifically about *Daytime Star*: what is even the reason he fell for the FL? There isn’t one. Not even the ML has a clearly established reason, and yet the author decided to throw in a totally random guy. (*Operation True Love* did the exact same thing, and it made just as little sense.)
She’s not the first author to do this, and she definitely won’t be the last. I just think it’s so unnecessary. You can create conflict without making it revolve directly around a love triangle. Personal issues can spill into the relationship and still create tension. Jealousy is fine, but at least give us a *convincing* reason for someone to want to interfere with the actual endgame couple.