Before it became popular...

[protecterofelements]

yeah "LET IT GROW, LET IT GROW, LET IT GROW"  

[Toko Boko]

My friend introduced it to me during the summer of 2006. I think thats how I became bi. O.o  

[Lenre Li]

Wow... 5 years about, now. eek Was it a given to find yaoi/slash-themed fanart back then? *shrugs*

Well, I was 10 when I stumbled upon it, and I'm 15 now. surprised I remember reading lemons at 10-12... ninja

Holy s**t...  

[Hoshi no Miko]

RionaDaidouji

I started liking it when I was in (I think) 10th grade, so that was around 2000-01... It all started with Gundam Wing, and 3x4 goodness. biggrin So that means... Wow, 5 or 6 years? Dude, I didn't realise it had been that long. XD Awsome.

I know I am using an ancient quote here but... holy sh*t, this is exactly me! I got into yaoi in gr. 10 in the same year, with the same freakin' pairing... Freaky.  

[GojakInucrawler]

When I had just "graduated" from the 7th grade, I started to look around the Internet for anime and I came upon some yaoi fanfiction of Trunks and Goten from DBZ. That's how I learned about yaoi.

I was afraid of telling my sister, Brianna (who, by the way, is Iridesence here on Gaia). It wasn't until the second semester of 8th grade that I told her that I loved yaoi. It turns out that she loved it, too!  

[Mayze]

God, I think I got corrupted into yaoi with Gundam Wing came out. I was looking for some pictures through a search engine and got smut instead. Man, I was so horrified back then XD

So whenever GW first aired on Toonami, I was drafted. If what I looked up is right, it was in 2000, so it's going on 8 Years now?

I was so horrified of telling me friends I was like: Hey, yo! I discovered something great... wanna see? It's embarrassing though. You can't tell a sole!!!

I dunno though, it kind of bugs me how mainstream it is. One one hand I like it cause it's easier to get stuff, on the other hand it bugs me because then I have to deal with the mob of people at stores.  

[palindrome88]

Mayze

God, I think I got corrupted into yaoi with Gundam Wing came out. I was looking for some pictures through a search engine and got smut instead. Man, I was so horrified back then XD

So whenever GW first aired on Toonami, I was drafted. If what I looked up is right, it was in 2000, so it's going on 8 Years now?

I was so horrified of telling me friends I was like: Hey, yo! I discovered something great... wanna see? It's embarrassing though. You can't tell a sole!!!

I dunno though, it kind of bugs me how mainstream it is. One one hand I like it cause it's easier to get stuff, on the other hand it bugs me because then I have to deal with the mob of people at stores.

Oh man, it was the same for me. XD 7th grade, Gundam Wing. I found a 'lemon' fic on a website I was browsing and that was that. I read such an unholy amount of badly written 1x2 fics and tried a few myself that make me cringe with embarrassment when I look back at them...good times.

So yeah, it's been about 7-8 years for me.  

[User_2629207]

Let's make this Christmas...

Soon it'll be... 4 years, I think *^_^*
I discovered BL through a magazine article.. and I was like hey, that's hot. And BAM! fangirl.

...a real scream~

 

[meow-ku]

I've been a yaoi fan girl before American Book stores ( sorry if this sounds offensive not try to upset ne one) could distinguish manga from western comic books

seriously i had to go through batman and superman to find half-dead manga and when i used to ask for them i would always get some messed up confused look............  

[Lady Gyrfalcon]

Speaking completely...

BL/slash fandom is still pretty hush-hush where I am. mrgreen
I don't read Yaoi.

Hmm, but I think the first hint of fandom to come was when I read (and absolutely loved) the Last Herald Mage trilogy of fantasy books about, eh, two and a half to three years ago (Not much manga at that point.) In terms of age, that would make me about then to be... 12-13 years old. neutral
Then I was all over the rather slashy hints in DNAngel and such, but I only really started to get into the fandom a year and a half ago, and get things like Loveless and Earthian.
So does that put me at three years worth of fandom or one? Poll wise. xd

...Different languages.

 

[Punk_kya]

I don't know how long i've been a Yaoi fan i think maybe about two years  

[Mika_Clari]

It's been a while now...sometimes I can't even remember myself... Probably 4 years ago. How? Still can't remember. Heh. xp But there were good times. Probably 4 years.  

[- A y u C h u -]

i think ive been a fan for about 3 years now 3nodding  

[-Saint Ayame-]

Im a yaoi fan since 2003 XD

But yeah i got really into it with Gravitation in 2004 XP  

[Ichinilla]

Started with Gundam Wing for me too. Cept, I'm not from America, so I didn't discover it that early. Must have been four years since, I think.