I think there’s kinda like the O.G. Beast Boy fans of Wolfman and Perez’s interpretation of the Titans in New Teen Titans, and then there are Beast Boy fans from when he started getting solo storylines, kind of in the Geoff Johns era, and the New Teen Titans he wrote.
I think there are different Beast Boy fans.
While Beast Boy can be jokey, it comes from how big of a heart he has.
In Teen Titans he was the jokester, the butt of the joke.