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Old Yaoi/BL(2000-2010s). Dark Ages of BL. How did it influenced you?
Let's have an in-depth discussion about this. Especially with BL readers of 2010s. The 2010 has served as up with BL with fucked up concepts like Rape, Forced Sex, Questionably pedo, questionable pairings, the Kabedon, The No means yes BL mentality.
Someone is asking about super lovers to trigger this topic. Nowadays, people are quick to point out it is pdf manga but way before.. ethics about super lovers age gap is a highly debated topic with actual readers justifying the fact that Haru and Ren age gap.
So, I wanna ask how did the old yaoi fucked you up too??
I love this question because yaoi has seriously changed SO MUCH.
Honestly don't feel it influenced me at all. The primary reason I started reading yaoi/bl more was because I found regular romance/shoujo so unrealistic that it was impacting my mental health and making me really depressed, because men like that don't exist irl (remember ladies, the...... reply