>>3986146
>Calarts
It predates the beanmouth shit. By the 90s American cartoon boys had gotten noticeably less cute. And it just got worse from there. Western artists being influenced by anime, like your pic, has been the only saving grace for American animation.
And I've got to disagree on the variance. Just compare 90s shounen boys to 90s BL boys and then both to today. They're wildly different. Meanwhile the scanty examples of Western boys that aren't made intentionally ugly are mostly made up of remnants of pre-enshittification disney with varying amounts of anime admixture.