D: I think that humans cannot stop this natural tendency, so we might as well embrace the good sides of it. D: Fan fiction, creative writing. P: I love it! D: How will the next generation of bestselling fiction authors train? P: They need the yaoi
D: That's fine mostly, but then it becomes "I wish they were really dating." P: "Are they? Are they gay?" D: And look, that is a valid question for people to have in their heads. But a line gets crossed when that turns into "LET'S FIND OUT!"
This was not everybody, okay? Out of our whole audience, there were plenty of normies, people that had no interest in the ship of Dan and Phil whatsoever.
And even within the fan fiction writing community, there's a lot of people out there that are strongly respectful shippers that go "Hey, I'm gonna draw bondage yaoi of my favorite content creators and I never want them to know about it."