LOL because it's SO FUNNY AND INFORMED to assume that most or even a large amount of BL and comics featuring mainly gay male characters predominantly feature rape as a hilarious trope! That's not an out-of-context assumption at all! And that a majority of fans are "creepy" or "weird" for being enthusiastic!
It probably is worth pointing out that any fandom, regardless of what they focus on, will have its more regrettable members. It will also have its majority of perfectly fine, unobtrusive and unobjectionable members who just like what they like. And if you are not in that fandom, it will be very easy to just see people who are as strange and inscrutable.
As I've pointed out numerous times before, having dudes into dudes in your comic is not some easy path to fame and fortune. It's bad when a creator just fetishizes gay men and doesn't respect them enough to support them having, you know, actual human rights...but that's a rarity. It's a lot more harmful at this point when people become hyper-critical and jump on the anti-anything-remotely-BL bandwagon with misinformation, incorrect assumptions, and frankly harmful stereotypes misrepresenting stories that incorporate gay guys.
There is no easy, handy formula for popularity. Even if some stories that incorporate BL elements achieve meteoric popularity, and even if it's a trend for a long while, that's just another trend. By the time you've jumped on it and produced enough to keep a title sustainable, it'll be over. Don't do that. Don't just put gay dudes in your comic in a woefully misguided attempt to garner popularity or readership, because it won't be something that ends up successful in the end.
I am for stories that tell more stories of gay male characters, because they are not common even now. I want to see the different perspectives and different ideas. Pointing fingers and assuming does a great deal more harm than good, and I don't think it's a very good thing to end up discouraging people from telling the story they want to tell. There's far too much of that here at Tapas(tic), and it just comes off as sour grapes.
Work on your story, and in time you will have your own solid and stable audience, I'm sure. If you're eager to toss your story out in favor of something that might be more popular in the moment, I have to question your dedication to the story you claimed to want to tell.
