>>82946292A yesman is someone who immediately agrees with anything that someone says regardless of their actual feelings
They did not agree, they told her that, and their feelings slowly changed to the point that they either agreed or were at least willing to put up with the thing they didn't agree with
The important factor here is that they had to adapt their own feelings over time and stayed true to their own initial attitude and only started agreeing once their attitude was ground away at over the course of multiple years
If Towa said that chocolate was dogshit and you immediately agreed with her despite liking chocolate just because it's Towa, that's a yesman
If Towa said chocolate was dogshit and you slowly came to agree with her over the course of a year after initially telling her she's retarded, that's not a yesman, it's just someone that was convinced of something