Uhhh

If they do, someone should help them touch some grass

yes unfortunately. ppl are really weird and they
fetishise gay guys like it's normal

I Never met anyone who would do something like this tbh it’s always just some random internet strangers that say they it happens but in my +25 years on this earth I never met someone like that.. just the other way around. Men who would fantasize about girls who are simply friends or don’t even know each other well (like classmates or work colleagues)

someone outed me being gay in high school to some fujoshis and they kept trying to ship me with another random gay guy i was just friends with so unfortunately yes

Uh no they normally don't. We understand that it's creepy and unacceptable. Maybe you'll find a few who do this but they're the exception not the rule. And btw male fans of bl are actually called fundashi. In this story, it's just a plot device. The author is not saying that fujoshis and fundashis are normally like this. It's just fiction man

Exactly

Fetishize is not the correct word. It's a common misconception among people that bl or fujoshis/fundashis "fetishize" gay men but it's not true.

Fetishisation means having a sexual fixation on a non-living object or a trait of a person(for ex, their race) that isn't in itself sexual. Sexual orientation is neither of these so it can't be fetishised. If you mean objectified, that's about real life being treated as objects. BL is not about real people. They're fictional characters and you can't objectify fictional characters because they're literally objects, just drawings on paper.

https://www.fujoshi.info/
This is a good site for more info. It also debunks many harmful ideas that people have about bl and fujoshis.

Ayo fujoshis don't ship irl ppl what?? I don’t

that sounds super annoying sorry that happened to u

yeah not saying that its a common fujoshi trait but there is definitely a glaring amount of “fujoshis” who do this sort of thing. theyre more like the female version of straight dudes liking lesbians and bi women though than fujoshis.

ok u guys might hate me for this but there was a time that i did "ship" two of my guy friends (i wasnt actually fetishizing them, i guess its more similar to matchmaking or smth)

3 yrs later they ended up dating (not bc of me btw )

You can't fetishize gay men anyway (see my comment above) the word you're looking for is objectifying. But if you kept your thoughts to yourself and didn't harrass them then it's pretty harmless. I mean don't we ship celebrities and think some people look hot together (whether it's a het couple or lesbian or gay couple). It's the same thing. Of course boundaries shouldn't be crossed. There's this movie couple that I love very much, they have starred in a no. of hit films and have great chemistry. When I was younger I thought they were married irl and when I found they weren't married to each other I was so disappointed. My little heart broke lol. And the funny thing is I'm not the only one, all fans of that couple have felt this way at some point. People still wish they were together even though it's been decades now. Our only consolation is that they're best friends even now lmao.