Hentai Foundry - Top Gay Cartoon

Hentai Foundry’s yaoi search is for gay guys who get off on art, not for guys who want to watch two men fuck on camera. If you landed there expecting a tube of gay porn, you’ll bounce. If you like looking at other men’s drawings of men—twinks, bara, elves, soldiers, whoever and reading the stories that go with them, it can actually hit.
I’m writing this as a gay man who has used the site for years when I want illustrated sex instead of another identical studio scene. That bias is the point.
What it feels like as a gay user
Yaoi on HF is a mixed bag in the way real gay taste is mixed. You get:

Pretty, almost vanilla boys love pages that look like they came off a doujin cover.
Heavy, hairy, thick cock bara that some video sites barely bother with.
Fanart of characters you already wanted to see together.
Original couples that exist only because some artist was horny at 2 a.m.

The good pieces are good. Linework, anatomy, expressions, the way a guy looks when he’s getting fucked and trying not to make a face some of these artists care more about that than a lot of live action directors do. When it works, it works because someone sat there and drew the exact body and exact act they wanted. That specificity is the whole appeal.
The bad pieces are also obvious. Stiff poses, same three faces, yaoi that is really two twinks with no heat. You scroll past those the same way you skip a boring scene on a tube.
Opinion, not brochure
HF is better than most scraped hentai dumps because the artists are still attached to the work. You can see who drew the guy you like, read the comments, and sometimes commission more of the same pairing. For a gay audience that is tired of the same six performers, that matters.
It is worse than a dedicated gay site when you want motion, sound, or a body that exists in the real world. Drawn sex does not replace video. It replaces a different itch: the itch for a face, a body type, or a scenario that no studio is going to cast.
Filters help. Turn off the tags you hate. Leave yaoi on. You will still get straight and yuri leaking into a sloppy search unless you tighten it. That is annoying, not fatal.
The site looks old. Nobody is pretending otherwise. You are not here for the UI. You are here because a particular artist drew a particular man the way you wanted him drawn.
Who should bother
Use it if you:

Actually like looking at drawings of men having sex.
Follow pairings OCs specific body types more than performers.
Want free, credited work and the option to support the person who made it.

Skip it if you:

Only get off on video.
Want a clean, gay only homepage.
Hate fanart of anime guys.

Bottom line
As a gay man: Hentai Foundry is one of the better places left for original male erotic art. It is not a gay porn site. Treat the yaoi search like a gallery with a dirty filter, not like Pornhub with elves. When an artist nails the body and the look in the other guy’s eyes, it can be hotter than a lot of filmed scenes. When they don’t, you close the tab. Same as everywhere else.