The D!ckheads has surged past 31.6M views by marrying messy high‑school stakes with sharp, slow‑burn queer romance and a voice that privileges character over contrivance. GummyBunni fashions Oaksdale as a lived‑in microcosm; loud, tender, and morally complicated; where newcomer Eliana’s bright, hopeful energy collides with two magnetic opposites: Levi, the quietly steady football captain, and Marco, the brooding loner with guarded edges. Their antagonism turns ordinary school life into a pressure cooker of jealousy, loyalty, and small betrayals, and Eliana’s attempt to belong forces all three to confront what they really want, who they protect, and how messy growth can be.
Premise and hook
• Fresh start that detonates into complication: Eliana arrives in Oaksdale to outrun past bullying and small‑town stigma, only to find the two people who make her feel safe despise one another, turning her tentative refuge into an emotional tightrope.
• Relational drama, not mystery drama: Conflict grows from misreadings, competing loyalties, and the exhausting labor of being wanted by imperfect people; the tension comes from how characters fail and repair each other rather than from plot twists.
• Queer heart at the center: The comic foregrounds male‑loving‑male dynamics and queer friendship with frankness and tenderness, treating MLM romance as a lived, messy experience rather than a trope.
Key characters
• Eliana Marie Ocampo: Radiant and relentlessly hopeful, Eliana fuses buoyant energy with a hard‑won resilience. She arrives wanting to belong and immediately shifts the town’s emotional gravity: her warmth exposes cracks in other people’s defenses, forces buried tensions into the open, and turns passive alliances into combustible choices.
• Levi James Coleman: Quietly magnetic, Levi balances athletic leadership with an introspective, bookish interior life. His calm, steady exterior conceals pressure to perform and a deep hesitation about vulnerability; small gestures from him carry disproportionate emotional weight.
• Marco Alexander Muñoz: Moody, guarded, and intensely perceptive, Marco moves with the wariness of someone who’s learned to survive on the margins. His cruelty is often defensive, his tenderness rare and seismic, and his fraught history with Levi supplies the series’ most combustible, emotionally fraught scenes.
• Supporting cast: Oaksdale’s students, parents, and teachers don’t just decorate the story; they complicate it. Friends, rivals, and family members each bring conflicting loyalties, cultural texture, and tone shifts, from sharp comedic beats to quietly devastating reckonings, making the world feel inhabited and consequential.
Tone and themes
• Friendship as battleground and balm: The comic shows chosen family doing double duty, it rescues characters from isolation while also exposing fault lines. Friendships here are protective, transactional, and emotionally costly; healing comes through hard conversations, boundary‑setting, and the quiet labor of staying with someone when they’re difficult.
• Belonging and self‑rebranding: Eliana’s move is less about geography than identity work: she’s trying to shed a past marked by humiliation and insist on being treated with dignity. The story traces how belonging is negotiated; earned through consistency, challenged by gossip, and reshaped when someone refuses to accept your old label.
• Rivalry, reconciliation, and incremental repair: The Levi–Marco antagonism fuels romance and character growth by forcing misaligned histories into dialogue. Reconciliation is neither cinematic nor immediate; the comic honors the slow choreography of trust; micro‑repentances, repeated reliability, and awkward reparative moments that actually change how people behave.
• Humor that humanizes: Jokes and awkward beats are not relief valves so much as character work: they reveal coping strategies, diffuse pressure, and make high‑stakes emotional moments feel earned. Laughter sits beside vulnerability, allowing the narrative to be tender without tipping into sentimentality.
Art and presentation
• Vivid, personality‑driven character art: Bold color choices and expressive silhouettes make every character readable at a glance; tiny facial ticks and posture shifts carry emotional subtext so that a single panel can communicate embarrassment, longing, or steel‑edged resolve.
• Cinematic pagecraft for emotional timing: Panel layouts prioritize rhythm; tight gutters and quick cuts for jokes, lingering full‑bleed moments for looks that crack open a scene, and staggered pacing for confrontations so each beat lands with clarity and impact.
• Worldbuilding through extras: Character sheets, profile posters, and process posts deepen the setting and backstory, turning throwaway details into hooks for fan discussion and making the creative process part of the reading experience.
Community, merch, and creator voice
• Direct creator-to-fan connection: GummyBunni keeps a lively, personal line to readers through frequent character profiles, behind‑the‑scenes posts, and limited shop drops on Etsy. Those touches turn casual viewers into invested supporters and give fans concrete ways to back the project beyond clicks.
• A warm, unfiltered creator voice: The artist’s candid updates, podcast appearances, and playful commentary cultivate a persona that feels approachable and delightfully chaotic. That voice mirrors the comic’s tone; honest, affectionate, and a little messy; which deepens trust and keeps readers coming back between updates.
• A participatory fan culture: The D!ckheads has spun an active ecosystem of fan art, theories, and shipping communities. Fan creativity amplifies the story’s reach, shapes conversation around character beats, and makes the series feel like a shared, evolving experience rather than a one‑way broadcast.
Why read The D!ckheads
If you crave queer YA that trusts messy friendships and the slow work of emotional repair, The D!ckheads is essential reading. It pairs character‑first drama with small‑town specificity: romance that grows from friction, not instant chemistry; friendships that save and complicate in equal measure; and a diverse cast whose choices carry real consequences. The series rewards patience; its payoffs arrive through awkward reckonings, repeated acts of care, and honest confrontation; so readers who want authenticity over neat closure will find its emotional moments both earned and resonant.
Where to follow
• Read and subscribe on WEBTOON: Follow the series on WEBTOON to catch new episodes, season releases, and comment threads that track fan reaction in real time.
• Explore creator extras: Visit the creator’s WEBTOON profile and linked pages for character sheets, process sketches, high‑resolution art, and limited merch drops that expand the world and reward superfans.
• Go behind the scenes: Listen to podcast interviews, scan social updates, and read creator posts for production insights, commentary on story choices, and context that deepens your understanding of characters and themes.
