Stumbled upon a good fanart in ~Yaoi Perverts FB page~
That's when I found out the existence of yaoi not in novel medium but in manga form. Tbf, it was a doujin that broke me into yaoi manga world. But my interest for BL has started far longer than before I knew it in manga.
It was when I read one story in wattpad and I didn't know what MxM tag meant. I was so into the story that when I reached the ending did realization hit me that the couple are actually two guys. It didn't make me feel off or anything which started my fall in the pits of yaoi hell. Never made it near the surface ever since.
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oh my god, I had that momentary shock too... read a good fic and realised only at the end that both their pronouns were "he/him"... that was it for me