If you think navigating a relationship with one partner can be tricky, imagine having three!
Boasting 141K followers on Instagram and 22.6K subscribers on YouTube, a gay quad—or 4-person relationship—from Singapore calling themselves “Just4bbs” have been giving fans an inside look at their unique love story on social media since January.
Later this month, they’ll share even more insight into their dynamic in a YouTube documentary, “Foursome.”
Here’s everything we know:
How They Became a Foursome
The four handsome gents making up this quad relationship include Peter, Tekky, Joel, and Dan.
Before becoming a foursome, Peter and Tekky had been together for three years, racking up followers with couple content across their social media channels. Joel and Dan, meanwhile, had been doing the same, having been together for one year.
“We were each living out our best lives,” the four wrote in an Instagram post detailing how they went from two separate couples to a group.
“By chance we met one night in Thailand. The connection was instant. We got along like best friends after only spending time together for a few nights,” they shared, explaining that they later went on a week-long vacation together.
Things only blossomed from there, as they began spending more time together, traveling to see each other whenever they could. Starting off long distance, they say, made navigating their growing bond easier.
“As we spent time together, we naturally grew closer, became more comfortable, more affectionate, and more loving. Eventually, people started asking us, ‘What are you guys?’” they shared, saying that, eventually, they began referring to each other as “boyfriends.”
“Life’s really damn short. So when you find something that works for you, it doesn’t need to make sense to anyone else,” they concluded, telling their followers to “go live your best life for you.”
How Their Followers Reacted to the Quad
While they said they’ve had an “overwhelmingly positive” response to their quad from followers, it hasn’t been without some criticism as well.
In another Instagram post, the four boys said that when they first started opening up about their foursome on social media, “it was met with a lot of backlash” from people who “didn’t agree with our relationship.”
They said, however, that the more they kept sharing, the quieter the hate became.
“There are ppl out there who will love you exactly the way you are, sometimes it just takes a little bit of time to find them 🥰 (its taken us YEARS),” they wrote to their followers, adding, “Whether you’re gay (or have 3 boyfriends 🤣), the world always benefits from having people who are a bit different.”
As the four continue to share Instagram posts highlighting some of their more intimate moments as a foursome, as well as longer YouTube videos delving into the relationship, they’ve explained why being in a quad has been so rewarding for them.
“One of the best parts about getting into our quad relationship has been being able to better meet our individual’s needs as there are more points of matching between the four of us,” they told followers in one post.
Sharing an example of how things became “more comfortable” for the initial pairings after becoming four, they explained that two of them—Peter and Dan, each from different pairings—weren’t big fans of physical touch. Now, their more physical partners are able to get that affection from their new arrangement, without the other two having to “give them more than what came naturally to us.”
Foursome premieres on the group’s YouTube channel. You can stream the first episode here:
