2016, Jocelyn Chambers, "The Exclusion Of People Of Color In Fanfiction", Majesty, December 2016, page 96:
so that night at like 1am, i, baby kylo ren trash, went to the tumblr to see what the fandom had to say about him. within a couple of days i was immersed in fanart, imagines, fanfics, theories and an overwhelming amount of reylo blogs.
2017, Deney Taylor & Frannie Branswell, "Star Wars: The Last Jedi Official Trailer Review", The Beacon (Crandall University), 8 November 2017, page 5:
So, all you “Reylo” fans out there, and even those of you who are just hard-core into Star Wars in general, be sure to pre-order tickets for December 15th, 2017.
2018, Kristina Busse, "Afterword: Fannish Affect and Its Aftermath", in Everybody Hurts: Transitions, Endings, and Resurrections in Fan Cultures (ed. Rebecca Williams), page 217:
In The Force Awakens fandom, for example, there is a vocal contingent of anti-Reylo fans, that is, fans who hate Rey/Kylo, the pairing of the main female character and the main male villain in the latest Star Wars movie.
2018, Katie Ward, "The Last Jedi: All You Need To Know", Woroni (Australian National University), Vol. 68, Issue 1 (2018), page 22:
She's not related to the Skywalkers at all, which leaves the #Reylo door wide open.
2018, Frank Lehman, quoted in Christopher Panella, "Q&A: Assistant Professor Frank Lehman dives deep into iconic 'Star Wars' scores", The Tufts Daily (Tufts University), 23 February 2018, page 5:
This really is a new type of villain in the series, and, no, I'm not a "Reylo" person, and I don't think this is ultimately going to be a romantic story; it's not in his destiny.
2018, Anonymous, in "Letters to Editors", Lot's Wife (Monash University), Edition 2 (2018), page 3:
It has now been a month since my last letter to you, and Reylo is closer to becoming canon than ever.
I had an inner band of nerds and they were all wearing headgear and geeking out to Reylo fanfic online.
2019, Emily Webb-Mortimer, "2019: year of the remake?", InQuire (University of Kent), 25 January 2019, page 15:
The final instalment of this Star Wars trilogy will be in our cinemas in December to answer all our burning questions: will Reylo ever happen?
2019, Bridgitte Barclay, "'Rebellions Are Built On Hope': Women and Star Wars", Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship, Issue 1, Number 1, Fall 2019, page 4:
I recognize that there is a Reylo (Rey and Kylo couplehood) movement for the next episode, but this scene of clear abuse is the one that convinces me that Star Wars wouldn’t do that to us.
2019, Yan Graf, "Star Wars trailer reveals dark side's return", The Index (The Haverford School), November 2019, pages 14-15:
However, the hopes of “Reylo” fans have been dashed by leaks and trailer footage.
2019, Lauren Rouse, "The fan fiction reading guide: the use of multimedia and comments as close reading tools", thesis submitted to DePaul University, page 96:
This also means that there are significant clashes between Reylo shippers and anti-Reylos.
2020, Kurt Larson, "Movies Of The Year: From WII Horror To Hollywood", The Advocate (Mt. Hood Community College), 10 January 2020, page 7:
If all you've ever seen of Adam Driver is his "acting" in the new "Star Wars" trilogy, you are seriously doing yourself a disservice because the man is much more than Wide Kylo or the fodder for Reylo fan fiction.
2020, Bridget Cagle, "Fandom frenzy: Fan 'ships' should have boundaries", The Journal (Southport High School), 31 January 2020, page 14:
“Star Wars” has a different type of toxicity within the fans, caused by another “ship,” in this case, “Reylo.”
2020, Matt Glasby, "Ever After?", Total Film, February 2020, page 16:
Would Reylo ever have stood a chance?
2021, Annie Pickup, "Fanfiction: a new era of literary criticism", The Boar (The University of Warwick), 26 October 2021, page 17:
It is difficult to picture Lord of the Rings 'imagines,' or Reylo smut alongside such classics as The Great Gatsby, or Pride and Prejudice.
2021, Christine Hilario, "'The Love Hypothesis': TikTok Made Me Read It", The Observer (University of Notre Dame), 1 November 2021, page 5:
BookTok's latest obsession is published "Reylo" fan fiction.
2021, Victor Larsen, "'It Makes Me, A Minor, Uncomfortable': Media and Morality In Anti-Shippers' Policing of Online Fandom", thesis submitted to Ghent University, page 42:
Most pairings criticised on a moral basis are between two male characters, reylo is one of the few male/female couples.
Noun: "(fandom slang) a shipper of Rey and Kylo Ren"[edit]
And with the Reylos, rose the Anti-Reylos who argued that the ship was indicative of racism and perpetuated abusive relationship tropes.
2020, Alexandria P. Sutherland, "Star Wars, Parasocial Relationships and Breakups, and The Force...of Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of Tennessee, pages 29-30:
She goes onto state that Reylos experienced harassment over the death of Kylo Ren, as well as inherently political harassment that included sexist and racist taunts.