Part of the problem with the story was that it was massively picked up by wokesters who ran with the "lie" and spread it across social media despite the inaccuracy. It's come up a few times now and as with many deceptions ends up spreading very far before the truth has a chance to catch up.
It was another "gotcha" and representation virtue signal sperg for many who got to "claim" All Might as theirs which happens in many things these days [see them "claiming" Aeris or someone from the FF7 remake as being "theirs" now for some likewise stupid reason].
The story goes just as you expect when the wokester is confronted with doing this
Ultimately, after being bombarded by fans correcting the false information, as well as fans who were upset that they were tricked into believing that bisexuals had received representation, chiffocado apologized for posting the image, but declared that believing All Might to be straight “is just heteronormative bs”:
Part of the problem with the story was that it was massively picked up by wokesters who ran with the "lie" and spread it across social media despite the inaccuracy. It's come up a few times now and as with many deceptions ends up spreading very far before the truth has a chance to catch up.
It was another "gotcha" and representation virtue signal sperg for many who got to "claim" All Might as theirs which happens in many things these days [see them "claiming" Aeris or someone from the FF7 remake as being "theirs" now for some likewise stupid reason].
BoundingIntoComics did a story on it in 2019
https://boundingintocomics.com/2019/10/24/my-hero-academia-readers-falsely-claim-all-might-is-bisexual-circulate-proven-mistranslation-as-evidence/
The story goes just as you expect when the wokester is confronted with doing this