Making a link between innovation on the internet and yaoi being a new word to someone seems to convey that the word must have appeared a few years ago. Being at least as old as the early 2010s, and probably much older, I didn’t check, makes it a long time ago by comparison.
It exists since a long time. I knew it in the early 2010s.
When did the long time happen in the 2010s?
Making a link between innovation on the internet and yaoi being a new word to someone seems to convey that the word must have appeared a few years ago. Being at least as old as the early 2010s, and probably much older, I didn’t check, makes it a long time ago by comparison.