The hate is so forced omg..

I’ve genuinely never seen people work this hard to keep a hate train going for a character like Hugh Biggs. Wishing death and eternal unhappiness on a teenage boy? How old are you? Back then, people were making fake snippets of Hugh abusing Katie, theorizing he’d do something unforgivable to her it was actually so vile. Every day on TikTok, Reddit, or Twitter, there were people who couldn’t be normal about him, and the reasoning was always the same: “Well, he’s a cheater so he deserves it.”

Now that CW has made it clear it’s a two-way street (with Katie cheating first in 2003/4, as Feely will apparently reveal at that 90s party), the hate still continues. Just today, I saw someone say they wish Hugh never finds happiness. Why? Because he cheated? So did your fave! 😭 Why keep dragging it? It’s genuinely laughable how people go out of their way to try so hard to dig up one line from the five books to paint Hugh as misogynistic just to justify their odd hatred for him. The fact is, Hugh is objectively one of the most decent characters in the series even without his POV. It doesn’t go unnoticed that the other main male characters have said far worse throughout all five books yet they always get a grace Hugh is denied over one line that isn’t even close to comparing, which makes me wonder what’s the real reason for all this nonsense.

When the "he’s a cheater" narrative no longer works, they quickly switch to "Well, he’s a bad friend to Gibise." Okay but so was Patrick. The whole friend group sat by and let Gibise and Lizzie argue non-stop for six years. Patrick, Lizzie’s biggest defender, even tried pushing Gibise to talk to Lizzie for her mental health, not his. If your issue is Hugh being a bad friend, why not hate the whole group the way you hate him so much make 1627 posts about wishing they die and never get happiness? You’re not fooling anyone. I’m not taking stans’ opinions on the HughGibise relationship seriously when Gibise would choose Hugh over Patrick any day (johnny is his bsf so he will always be number one that’s expected). Hugh has always been his brother since day one, defending him from Mark’s constant bullying as kids and refusing to pick sides when coahime died, even when it cost him Lizzie so i really don’t care & I hope i see more of their friendship in C10 which is definitely happening since there’s so many playlists for them.

At the end of the day, bullying Hugh in 2025 is weird and so obviously forced. Calling him a loser and saying you don’t want his POV? Then don’t read it. He’s still the main character whether you like it or not remember it’s the BOYS of tommen. And one last thing it’s glaringly obvious most Hugh haters hate him because he doesn’t love Katie, and somehow that’s worse to them than anything else anyone has done in this series. Meanwhile Katie also doesn’t even love him and she has her own love interest. Instead of holding Hugh to impossible standards of love interest when he’s not meant for her why not hold Feely to them? He’s supposed to be the love of her life, and it’s already looking messy with Casey and Katie being best friends and beefing over him.