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#i know a whole bunch of cishet people who've watched and loved YOI
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If I see another dumbass call YOI fucking queerbait I WILL throw hands. They literally kissed! They've said they love each other multiple times! The fuck do you fucking want?! Why is it always 'okay but did they say it?' because queer characters just aren't queer enough to cishets unless they offer cishets a 'coming out' that has less to do with them and more to do with cishets continuously trying to police exactly what it is to be gay. Nobody cares about your fucking opinions! Stop telling me, a queer person, how YOI should make me feel!
I've said it before I'll say it again, YOI is not queerbait. Victor and Yuuri are canonically in love and fuck 'but they never said they were gay' YOI is not a universe where discrimination based upon sexuality exists so of fucking course they don't feel the need to broadcast which box they fall into! That literally isn't a thing because it has never mattered in the canon universe! And even if it did, queer people in media do not owe anyone verbal expression of their sexuality because they're queer with or without it. They kissed. They love each other. And if you, for a second, believed gay love was something as natural and normal as straight love you won't be making a fool out of yourself online saying two characters kissing and declaring they are in love didn't matter because they didn't outright talk about their sexuality. Get. That. Through. Your. fucking. Skulls.
YOI also isn't a BL or a yaoi because it's not looking to exploit it's gay male leads for female pleasure, so you assholes can get outta my face with that dumb take as well. It is a sports anime (with a gay lead couple), because the main plot is the sport. It would be considered a yaoi if the main plot revolved around Victuuri figuring out their sexuality.
Here's a hot take: having a gay lead doesn't make an anime a yaoi, maybe because you can have gay characters who have lives, ambitions and a journey that goes beyond their sexuality. It's natural. It's normal and everyone of you dimwits, when you say to a queer person something along the lines of: "I am sorry for the queerbait in YOI" or "YOI is a yaoi." Sound like literal clowns.
Not to mention it gives me a fair idea of how you view my community, and fuck if I want anything to do with that.
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