I mean… maybe? But I’d prefer to give the benefit of the doubt rather than jump straight to that. Don’t teens make up a pretty significant proportion of users on this site?
I think that the thread rather than being a passive matchmaking deal has simply come to be viewed that way by people. I think it manifests when one partner realises that they deeply and truly love the other. Hence the inconsistent timing? I mean Senpai's case certainly has the hallmarks of that for sure.
That's totally unfair tho, just because X likes Y, Y is now connected forever with them and will never find happiness with someone else? And from a background char saying something like "Thank goodness we met each other through the thread." makes it seem that you can be connected with someone you never even met.
Pacing is weird to me, and idk if this is the translation but the way the dialogue was made it seem like she only realized she liked her because of the thread? Which feels extremely very lazy writing..