No.103
I watched Black Butler at 13 (or maybe i was a few years younger, aha) and fell for the Ciel/Sebastian dynamic instantly – I didn't think it was weird at all. Then again, my previous/fundamental experiences with media were like, Toonami, Syfy's Ani-mondays, South Park, and reading Anne Rice novels with my mom so lol. My mother was very free with what content I could and could not consume + too busy to really moderate what I looked at, so long as it wasn't straight up porn.
Also. BL spaces were also so…fun, I think is the word I'm looking for. It was genuinely nice to squeee with a bunch of girls over 2d boys, especially since I didn't get the appeal of 3dpd shit like 1d and twilight.
Plus, they were a haven from weeb moids. I could deal with, and was more or less comfortable around, women calling Sebastian "smexy~ xD" or whatever…not so much dudes detailing all the ways they'd violate Orihime.
No.105
Discovered porn > hentai > loli > shota > yaoi (> TL/otome/yumejo stuff)
It was a very long journey that started in my childhood. I discovered yaoi in my teens.
My first yaoi was probably a SasuNaru fanfic, or some doujinshi.
No.107
>>105are you me? literally same journey. somehow didn't even fathom people could be gay until i came across yaoi doujins online based on shounen anime or hetalia, well after all the hentai/lolishit i was subject to
i do remember that my first ever yaoi OTP was kawoshin though, i could just tell they were the meaning of 'one true pairing' to me. i miss the euphoria of finding a ship to actually be invested in for the first time
No.110
>>107Samefag but I liked kawoshin when I was like 10 years old, I also thought the TV suddenly broke during that one scene… I somehow never thought about reading fanfics or doujins of them back then though.
No.111
i stumbled upon koisuru boukun when i was a kid, extremely young and obviously had no business doing so, on youtube. flipnote hatena, vocaloid, and KH 365/2 were my life at the time and there was also this infamous emo yaoi flipnote series that i was obsessed with. from there i started reading fanfic.
i think my otps were from hetalia, free!, and some rps kpop ships. even before that i was unconsciously shipping male characters together in the shows i watched. but back in the era of tumblr and when free! was airing is when i became a hardcore fujo, listening to BLCD's, reading doujin, all of it. my friend in middle school also liked yaoi, and was probably the first fujo i've ever met in person. i found her super "hardcore" at the time, she watched things like papa to kiss in the dark and no money while i liked free!. i remember one of the girls in my class at one point telling me how she shipped two of the guys in our class and being so shocked kekkk
i think i have an attachment to fujobait type of franchises now because a lot of my first otps came from them
No.113
I remember in middle school a couple friends were into Gravitation, Loveless and shipping Kingdom Hearts characters. Personally I didn’t get into BL until highschool, I watched Evangelion and read the Antique Bakery manga. The high school also had Tokyo Babylon but I didn’t “get” it back then
No.115
>>114Lol okay but how the fuck?
No.117
Around the time when Free! came out I was an active tumblr user that was interested in the show cause of the cute anime boys, and through following blogs that posted about the show I was introduced to homo shipping and eventually the BL game Dramatical murder. After that I was hooked.
No.118
it might've been around, 5th or 6th grade? i had a friend that was a huge fujo and got me actively into anime. the first time i shipped yaoi was probably with katekyo hitman reborn or something, or vocaloid. this girl is a fakeboi nowadays, though its no big loss since she was the worst case of weeaboo brainrot i have ever seen. still is.
No.119
older friend showed me yaoi bases on dA -> ane djs -> seedy bls -> western media shipping mega moment -> only reading bls because i couldn't relate to the girlies in shoujo (hint: i'm a lesbian) -> now is prime minister of fujodom w my friends.
i think i was 11-12? and now i'm 25.
but the real gateaway was vassalord, and from then on i was HOOKED.
No.120
i was a pretty damn sheltered kid, honestly. we didn't have cable at home so i watched pokemon and yu-gi-oh, the only anime that aired on regular broadcast channels, and a shit-ton of PBS. the first inklings of my fujo awakening were probably from some homoerotic masterpiece theater show.
around the end of middle school, i discovered that if i fiddled with the tv just right, i could watch channels we didn't pay for. there was a lot of visual static, but the audio came through just fine. so i started watching a shit-ton of sci-fi channel instead. stargate atlantis was the first fandom i actually got involved in. i just followed the gay ship trend, i guess.
got into homestuck after that, followed superwholock from afar, flitted from fandom to fandom but didn't have strong opinions about any of them. finally discovered the existence of anime at the end of high school and i guess now here i am.
No.121
I’ve always watched anime, so one day at like 10 or something i stumbled on the classic “the tyrant falls in love” and i didn’t even question it but i didn’t know the term “yaoi” nor did i think it even had a name so i didn’t search for it. But that one scene stuck for years, and it activated me just paying attention more to fujo fanservice in normal anime. when attack on titan came out and eren x levi got immensely popular that i couldn’t miss it in any aot tag so i finally rediscovered yaoi
No.122
before i become fujo i used to be himejoshi or yurifag, it doesnt help at that time old BL were suck such as junjou romantica, boku no pico and okane ga nai that it turn me off. and then i discover shota fetish from one of hetalia fanart.
>went curious
>check the series
>become hetaliafag
>discover a godly homo hetalia boys fanart
>become fujos
now i just become casual BL enjoyer or male chara liker. i dont know if it just me being old or my taste changed but current BL just doesnt appeal to me anymore and it same with current joshimuke media..the boys doesnt really appeal me.
i just enjoying homo content from BL ship from series that cater to general audience (like shonen boys, vidya character and mobage boys) because most of the male character in that genre appeal me more.
also i read hardcore homo doujin more because i get so much degenerate content there kek.
No.167
>>166>hate yaoi>read yaoi to find new reasons to hate it>why can't i stop readinga surprisingly common fujoshi origin story. i think i've gotten into a few of my more niche fetishes this way, too.
No.189
>>188kekk nona that's so cute
No.552
I was mostly a yurifag at first, then got into hetalia and the rest is history
No.758
I discovered what doujinshi was on a yugioh fansite in the early 00s.
No.1128
I think I was 14 when I got into anime and was very into Death Note. I knew at this point what yaoi was from cartoon fandoms and didn't really like it because it interfered with het ships I liked. I browsed deviantart everyday and found lots of stuff about L/Light but just ignored it. However once Mello appeared in the anime he became my favorite character and I just consumed every fanart out there. Eventually found vanilla Matt/Mello doujins and that helped me little by little to get into more raunchy stuff. Like magic I was converted and fell deep into the ship. It helped that I had a friend who shared my tastes and became a fujo too.
After that I couldn't help but get into BL ships in every fandom I got into. Het ships weren't interesting to me anymore and GL was something I didn't particularly seek. I watched junjou romantica in youtube and a couple other BL anime and then I searched for BL manga because I wanted to know more about the genre.
Back to the present, I've easily read over 1000 BL manga by now. I'm even part of a scanlation group. My new interest is danmei novels.
No.1129
>>166>>167Kek this exact pipeline happened to me too. I hated fujos so much and didn't understand what was so great about yaoi (due to being a lesbian) but then I read some BL "ironically" because I wanted to make fun of it, ended up being hooked on it, later became a full blown fujo myself after starting dating one. It's surprisingly common which is why I can't take spergy anti-fujos seriously.
No.1146
Funnily enough, I saw other people shipping guys together and I wondered why they liked it so much. So, I tried it out on my own. My first ship was a literal crossover crack ship. It was Pinescone, a ship between Wert from Over the Garden Wall and Dipper Pines from Gravity Falls. Afterwards, I found out about Hetalia and that's when I started to ship even more.
No.1152
Lmao I was perhaps 14 yo in 2010 when a female friend on Twitter shared lots of Ouran pics and at first I was grossed out or found it cringy idk. Gave it a try and loved it. But since I’m not that much of an otaku I ended up shipping musicians, video game characters, etc.
I’ve gone through a shaming and self censoring phase the past years, so slowly trying to go back to enjoying yaoi in general.
This IB is a godsend.
No.1173
When I was younger I was super into Hetalia and stumbled upon a Canada x America doujin while browsing Youtube. Afterwards I just started gravitating towards BL doujins on sites like Tumblr or Yaoihaven
No.1174
I borrowed some raunchy bl from a girl I knew when I was around 13/14. It wasn't anything good, just your run of the mil 2000s type and at first I was just reading it for laughs. However, the extra had a taller bottom with a exhibitionism kink which honestly caught my interest. Afterwards I started looking for more stuff, even came across this western novel hidden in the school library that, thinking back, probably shouldn't have been there considering it had graphic gay sex but eh, I was probably the only one to read it.
Looking back, I was never really interested in female characters and even as a kid would try to avoid them and look for "male bonding" stories so it was probably going to happen one way or the other.
No.1175
It all started when I was ten years old and dicking around on the internet. I was really into the Suite Life of Zack and Cody at the time. So, of course, being a curious little kid, I eventually stumbled onto the gay incestuous fanfics. I was instantly hooked, and it's been downhill ever since.
No.1625
I used to google image search yaoi porn as a kid
No.1685
>>1681damn, i don't remember making this post… nona are you me? i got into it the same way
No.1717
>>1681In early 00s if you didn't ship Yami Bakura and Marik you weren't considered a fujo.
Same with Yami Yugi/Yugi.
No.2156
>>2143rip nonna you will be missed
No.2177
I don't know if anyone here is old enough to remember, but there was this old fan video they used to show at cons in the early 2000s called "This is Otakudom." I was already somewhat aware of homo in anime but hearing so many homoerotic jokes combined with Tamahome and Nakago flirting in an overtly sexual way just broke my brain. I watched it at a community anime club so after seeing it I started constantly talking about yaoi to impress the older girls there. They took me under their wing and introduced me to the way of the fujoshi.
I'm eternally grateful to them for corrupting me. Having IRL fujo friends is truly a blessing.
No.2178
>>2177How do you meet irl fujos? Could I find one at a con near a BL booth?
No.2179
>>2178Your question seems a bit suspicious nonna, why do you want to meet irl fujos? If you can elaborate with your motive I have some tips.
No.2180
>>2179NTA but I cant see why someone (presumably a fujoshi) on a fujo board wanting to meet fujos irl would be suspicious
No.2181
>>2178The ones I met were at a community anime club run through the local college but you could probably find them through school (if you go to school) or cons. Seek out other anime fans, especially girls who like male-heavy casts, and be open about what you like. You might not meet any fujos, but you'll probably find girls open to reading bl at least.
No.2182
>>2179A lot of us want to meet other fujos…
Should there be a friend maker thread? It's not like this is LC and we'll all be doxxed
No.2183
>>2182Nta technically there is a friend thread
https://fujochan.org/ot/res/6.html No.2184
>>2180Consider it PTSD from previous events before this site was created, if you know then you know.
>>2182If that's the case then what I usually do since I do not go to school or college anymore is that I always have a BL related keychain hanging from my purse, usually has Aoba on it because he's the most recognizable in terms of being a yaoi boy. Being a big autismo this method have helped me weed out the no yaoi anime fans I come across in daily life and the fujos would approach me whenever they feel comfortable, for example when doing grocery shopping or if I'm out on business related meetings. I've met a fujo store manager because she noticed my keychain, I always keep it on tables and in places they can notice, I don't pull it out when I notice there's more moid than women since the fujo will probably be automatically uncomfortable that way. In conclusion just have something on your person that indicates you're a fujo and they'll eventually approach you, gotta have patience too because not everyone will be as courageous. Best of luck!
No.2198
Started off as trying to get my hands on any Naruto doujins I could read in english growing up, regardless if it was BL or het to then shipping picrel in full earnest
Surprisingly after moving on from Naruto I was more into yuri and didn't read any yaoi since then until about 3 or 4 years ago
Now once again I've been reading fics/doujins of KakuHida, despite never even keeping up with Naruto after their arc kek
>>1178>I was confused at first to see two guys being paired up with each otherSurprisingly I never felt that confusion, just "oh, these two look good together" when looking at yaoi
It always surprises me to hear others being confused when first discovering it (but maybe I'm the weird one here)