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[–]INeedSomeTime 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Many reasons. To put them shortly:

  • majority of Tumblr users are straight women (but certainly a lot of them now identify as some flavor of non-binary or trans men to hide this) they just fetishize gay men, so they love to make characters gay and ship them

  • they clearly see "cishet" as something negative and boring, so making them anything but cis or het is seen as a cheap way of making characters interesting (if they're OCs)