About time to take it down.

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Several years ago I was just starting to get into the anime world. A lot of things were very new to me including yaoi. Many of my friends and I decided it was gross because basically, it was new and therefor weird. I decided to make a stamp here on deviant saying "I'm allergic to yaoi" om-nom-nomnivore.deviantart.co…. This stamp quickly became popular and currently has the most comments and favorites of ANYTHING in my entire gallery.

Since then, me and my friends have obviously matured a lot. Many of my friends who originally despised yaoi started to read it themselves. I have met many nice people who are homosexual and have absolutely noting against any of it. I simply didn't understand it when I was younger. I then edited the stamp's comments, saying that I now had nothing against any homosexuality, but only against when people depict two heterosexual characters together romantically in fan yaoi art or writing. But now, I've realized that I don't even believe in that any more. I'm perfectly fine with people shipping and or drawing whatever they want! I used to think that it offended the original story and creators, but that's up to them weather they're offended by it, not mine. There will always be ships that i don't agree with, and ships that I do. The genders of the characters in the pairings should make no difference!

Lately, this stamp that I posted years ago is still getting favorites and comments. Some of them are people saying that they agree with the stamp, and others hating on the stamp. I'm shocked that after years in my gallery, this stamp still gets new comments. With every comment I've been writing to people about the change in my views, but I'm now just tired of this stamp existing at all. Not only is it a symbol of my ignorance as a young teen, but others use it on their pages to spread the ignorance. If people don't like yaoi, then they still shouldn't be hating on others for it. People can choose what to like or dislike, that's perfectly fine. I just don't want people to be using my stamp for a view I no-longer support. There are a lot of hateful anti-yaoi stamps out there, and I don't want mine to be one of them which is why I'm removing this stamp!

The only reason I've kept this stamp around for so long is because it is the most popular thing in my entire gallery. Out of my 372 works, this simple stamp with views I don't agree with is the most popular... I've always been kind of offended by that. I kept it around because it did give me more page views and favorites, but I'm fed up with that now!

I want to get rid of this stamp, but I think rather than deleting it, I'll replace it with something else.

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Drakeblood4's avatar
To be fair, if the yaoi community and the gay (or at least gay male) were a Venn diagram, they'd basically be two separate circles. It's much more women sexually objectifying men (gay and straight) than it is gay men expressing their sexuality.