
No,
Yaoi means there’s more explicit sex, turns out most mangakas like the rape, toxic tropes…
While BL is usually more like just kisses, or a reference that the sex happened, or the thing is shown but not explicit.
There’s fluffy Yaoi out there, but sadly A LOT of them have toxic relationships…
But you are right, BL usually is more sweet and healthy. I just wrongly have the habit of using the yaoi term for everything.

No, Yaoi just means there's explicit sex in it. It doesn't even mean "smut," most yaoi was softcore with maybe 1 sex scene in the whole story until about 10 years ago when webtoons/manhwa/etc started getting big (of course you still had smut and rape and such, but the story had to have the "yaoi" AND "smut" tags for that)

Bruh -_-. Okay, let me re-translate this so you can see the difference:
Yaoi = BL (Rated R)
Shounen-ai = BL (Rated E for Everyone)
These are not the same, though they are both "BL." Yes, "Yaoi" and "Shounen-ai" are both "BL"--and have been referred to as such for *literal decades,* this isn't new--but the sexual content rating is different. These words just more succinctly show that difference in rating rather than saying "A Rated R BL" or "A sexually explicit BL"

I know the difference. If you had reading comprehension you wouldn't be making such an useless comment. Like I said those are terms that only international fans use and they are outdated so just call it BL and that's it, because with or without sexual content is still called BL. And obviously if it has explicit content it's gonna be rated like any other work. Instead of getting pressed for outdated terms that don't matter anymore you should get with the times or mind your business specially when no one was addressing you in the first place

To Bufferfly_Effect: Lmao, I'd define the function and purpose of a comment section for you since this also seems to have escaped your grasp, but I won't bother since you clearly didn't even bother to read my comment. Hope that salt tastes nice! ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ノ~
(also, did you BLOCK ME after leaving that comment to get the last word??? W O W. I hope all the people who read this afterwards get a good laugh cuz that is wildly immature and petty )
Aff so cute
Why there aren’t more Yaoi like this!? Why there’s always rape, abuse, toxic relationships, jealousy, semes with way more “power” in the relationship etc…
I want more sweet, wealthy, cute, loving stories like this…