yaoi fandom is still a shithole, but there's been a pretty big pushback against fetishization/objectification in recent years. a lot of stuff that used to be totally acceptable is now strongly side-eyed. there's still a lot of objectification but yaoi fandom is so much better than it used to be.

the neckbeard side of the f/f world is still obsessed with heavily fetishized lolicon or borderline lolicon shit.