HoYoverse just made Kazuha GAY 

If OP is basing it solely on Kazuha’s sleeves, then that kinda falls apart given that Kazuha’s design is based on Japanese culture and “cut sleeves” don’t hold that much significance in Japan as it does in China.

Counterpoint, Kazuha is Japanese, not Chinese, if they were Liyue characters, sure I would be convinced but I don't see how that specific Chinese short story or superstition even applies to anything Japanese, and I get hoyoverse is a Chinese company but I'm pretty sure not everything they make has to be inherently based only off of Chinese culture

Old Chinese guy here, I remember reading that story once. It's just one story from literature. It's not part of our "cultural code". No gay person is walking around with a sleeve cut off. Imagine thinking that a single short story from old literature defines an entire country's culture. Absolute ignorance, I'm almost inclined to call this person a racist. Also, Kazuha is Japanese, and his sleeve is "short"... not "cut". It has to be long originally and then cut off to be called "cut". It's like go visit China in the middle of summer and everyone's wearing short sleeve t-shirts and this fool is standing there thinking "omg EVERYONE is gay @o@"

I was waiting for someone to straight up say "Actually.. it's canon that they're cousins" 💀💀

Twisting concepts and voice lines from a character to make them gay is like the signature move of the Genshin Fandom, already did this to my girl Sara, Miko, Ei and Lisa who apparently can't praise a god/have friend without being OMEGA GAY as a result.

The mental gymnastics Genshin fans do to make a character Gay is beyond me. Just enjoy the game bro XD

As a kazuha main, i persoanlly do not care how people perception about kazuha's backstory is. I connected with him since 2021 and i always found he has the most profound background story of all the other characters plus a strong friendiship with his deceased friend

Wow, getting Ayato flashbacks from this. Apparently just wearing whatever clothes you want is now considered gay. Twitter really doesn't know what friendship is do they?

"Someone fell and cuts their sleeves on accident" Twitter: ArE yOU Gaé??

What I really wish fandom would go back to the mindset of “I don’t need you to be canonly queer to ship my ship. It’s fiction. Live out your fantasies, change things to fit your ship in your mind. Leave canon alone.

Me, who cuts my long shirt sleeves: *profusely sweating*

People need to normalize same sex friendships, being loyal to your boss and calling someone by the appropriate term (Last 2 goes out to Sara and Thoma)

Repeat after me: "Your headcanon belongs in your head"

Twitter: “It’s kinda gay.” Kazuha: “It’s not gay, c’mon.” Twitter: “It’s kinda gay.”

Ah genshin tweet, the place where either you're gay or dead.

Bro.. It's just a sleeve.. Twitter is hopeless

I think any ship is fine as long as no one tries to claim that it's a "fact" (unless there's actual evidence or stated by mihoyo). Idk if this is possible, but I'm in the middle of thinking that the traveler is building a harem and thinking that everyone are just really close friends.

Bro is stuck in 2016😭

I think they need to learn the difference between cut sleeves and short sleeves. Lol

This reminds me of the time when someone claimed that Ayato was gay because he has long sleeve. they compared his dress to a women dress that had long sleeves to attrach men, but a lot of male attire had long sleeves during that age as well so the comparison is really reaching. don't get me wrong i am bi who is more attrachte to men and I have my own HEADcanon gay and straight ships but no way i would pose them as canon or get a olimpic gold medal in mental gymnastics to prove that it is canon.

I don't mind if a creator makes a character a certain sexuality, but I always hate it when "fans" force their own notion of a character's sexuality and attack others for not agreeing. Also, making claims without actual hard evidence makes you look like a fool

And I bet the people swooning over the sleeves symbolizing homosexuality are the exact same people that were offended by the top/bottom/switch sleeve meme!!! I bet!

Making an assumption of a person's sexuality based on what clothes they wear is exactly the type of behavior these people would call homophobic, but look, thats exactly what they are doing

Also the cut sleve thing is chinese and kazuha and tomo are japanese (inazuma based on japan and all) If we were talking about characters from liyue it would have made sense But the sleeve cutter is not part japanese culture

I'll never understand the desperation to force characters to be something they're clearly not. This happens way too much and it just makes people look bad.

Having friends is considered "gay" now? I better get rid of my gal friends now

Mihoyo actively encourages headcanons and alternate universes, but no one should force any of their hcs or aus on anyone else. Unless literally stated, no one in Genshin is straight, gay, etc. Have fun shipping, but stop forcing it on others

OH NO SOMEONE HAS A HEADCANNON HOLY SHIT ITS THE END OF THE WORLD

What’s with Twitter and pushing their ships on everyone

Genshin twitter tryna turn the everyone gay like wtf💀💀

I genuinely believe that the Genshin Impact community is just MHA disguised

Didn’t they say this about Ayato??

How to trigger/upset Twitter (Part 1): 1) Straight people existing 2) Anime girls existing 3) Anything worth praising existing 4) Anything that gives off the slightest amount of enjoyment or pleasure existing 5) White characters existing 6) Siblings hugging innocently 7) Men just wanting to live their lives and not be around a single person just because it’s their girlfriend 8) The success of Spy X Family 9) Smug Anya 10) Mommy Yor 😩 👌 11) Loving the greatness that is anime 12) Adult (fictional) Anya 13) Localizers 14) Enjoying video games 15) Aging up characters 16) Boruto’s existence ☠️ 17) Naruto’s wife, Hinata Hyuga 18) Complaining against clearly unjustified and idiotic comments 19) Non-canon events that are just made for fun (even if it gets intense or nonsensical at times) 20) Makima’s juicy Ass 21) Chainsaw Man anime (which will have gore scenes but it’s still a Shonen anime at the end of the day) 22) Trash Taste’s Joey liking loli 23) Loli content 24) Lolicons 25) Anya manga edits 26) Shonen Jump advertising (in a way) 27) Genshin Impact fanart 28) Honkai b00bs 29) Fruit (stupidity at its finest) 30) Predator Fruit 31) Anime Swimsuits (some people just don’t understand quality) 32) Caring about killings IRL (jokes aside, my deepest condolences to all those who’ve lost their loved ones) 33) Misinformation 34) Rainbow always = LGBT for some reason 35) Determined Artists 36) Anime Body Pillows 37) Mikasa “fan service” 38) Getting called out for doing the wrong thing 39) Not “fixing” harmless artwork 40) Being a “fan” of animated things 41) Anime fans in general 42) Innocent artwork that doesn’t specifically imply anything between a group of characters (oddly specific here for a good reason) 43) Mangaka coming from hiatus (i guess) 44) Hololive Vtubers 45) Anime specifically targeted at young adult males 46) Pride Month memes 47) Joe mama 48) A Silent Voice messages 49) Having brain cells 50) Muscular Women 51) Whitewashing in official artwork (Twitter is just plain dumb) 52) Hero Hei getting involved 53) Skintones 54) Vox Akuma 55) Yelan from Genshin Impact 56) Violet Evergarden 57) Looking at adult content, as an adult 58) Anime existing (again) 59) Crunchyroll (which is understandable) 60) Mangaka making manga for people to enjoy 61) Crossdressing Pikachu 62) A man showing any signs of femininity 63) Chun Lei being Chinese 64) Manga with bad LGBT (even if it’s not needed) 65) Pepe the Hate Symbol Frog 66) Breathing 67) Sadge 68) Context 69) Humor (Who doesn’t love humor) 70) African Americans 71) Anya and Damian (from Spy X Family) hugging 🤗 72) Hugging = S3xual 73) Not Doing cancel culture everyday 74) Child P0rn (I do believe this generally upsets people because it’s disgusting no matter what way you see it) 75) Journalism 76) English Localization 77) Having fun 78) Ya like jazz? 79) Being rational 80) Being friends 81) Genshin Impact 82) Venti 83) Speaking out to bad localizers 84) Using facts 85) Smiles 86) Video games 87) World peace 88) Internet peace 89) Apologies 90) Lisa (from Genshin Impact) not being “canon lesbian” 91) Pro-shipping 92) Respecting others 93) Touching Grass 94) Life 95) Controversy 96) Localizers publicity 97) Japan being flawless (which it isn’t, just like every country) 98) Imperfectness 99) Head-canon 100) Integrity (we’ve finally reached level 100 boys and girls 🎉) 101) Brown-skin characters 102) Not banning someone innocent 103) Siding with the good people 104) H3nt@i 105) Being respectful of others 106) Short and flat-chested fictional characters 107) Being competent 108) Femboys 109) Tomboys 110) Masculinity 111) Feminists 112) Localization blunders 113) Maturity 114) Icky words 115) Dreams 116) Going to Japan 117) Anti-localizers list (idk why I put it here, but Twitter is triggered by the people involved) 118) Innocent memes 119) Time 120) Space 121) Toys 122) Ahegao 123) Spy X Family (again) 124) Karma 125) Healthy relationships 126) Having to love every LGBT person 127) Demanding love for no reason 128) Segregation 129) Sussy Baka 130) NSFW 131) Bathing 132) Feminism (in Japan) 133) Mediocrity 134) Being special 135) Cancel Culture 136) Anime Fighting games 137) Lolicon bait 138) Exprssing yourself 139) Projection 140) Western games 141) Japanese games 142) Naughty Dog (Dev team) 143) Having a favorite series that is made by a Japanese studio 144) League of Legends 145) One Piece 147) Lolicons (again) 148) Racists (that’s fair point though) 149) Criticisms 150) Pretending to be Asian 151) Asian accounts 152) Interacting 153) Fetishization 154) Muting 155) One Piece black characters 156) Furry Gore 157) Getting a life 158) Having maidens 159) Nail biting 160) God, this list is long and it’s only goin to longer folks 161) Cosplaying 162) Tanjiro and Nezuko 163) Grass 164) Proof 165) False Banning 166) Lying 🤥 168) Being Guilty 169) Being straight honest with your community (for companies) 170) Liking Loli (I personally don’t have an affection to Lolis, but I respect anybody’s preferences as long as it doesn’t get out of control) 171) Fiction vs. Reality 172) Fictional children 173) Bullying 174) Harassment 175) Being normal 176) Loli P0rn (I don’t like this stuff, but I know it’s something that generally upsets people because of how disgusting it is) 177) Assaulting 178) Good Publicity 179) Bad Publicity 180) Any Publicity 181) 10/10 women 182) Misandry 183) Women being oppressed (which is a real problem) 184) Mental Gymnastics 185) Minors talking about things they don’t know about 186) Grudges 187) Proper Grammar 188) Productivity 189) 0nlyFans 190) You down bad? 191) What have you done? 192) No bit*hes? 193) The FBI 194) Exposing their lies 195) Loli addiction 196) Memeing 197) Unironic 198) Spreading Misinformation (again) 199) Genshin Impact average age players 200) Allegations (Can’t believe we’re already here, I’m so proud 🥹) 201) Spy X Family Translations 202) Getting all the glory for one’s self 203) Spy X Family’s success 204) Trap 205) Ridiculousness 206) Good Anime memes 207) Femboy is a Slur 208) Roseboy 209) Pro-shipping (again) 210) Minors 211) Good Decision makers 212) Problematic children 213) Reputations 214) Clout chasing idiots 215) Consequences of bad actions 216) Thirst-traps 217) Moral Principles 218) Therapy 219) Emotional comfort 220) Healthy relationships 221) Having a partner 222) Getting emotionally hurt 223) False declarations 224) Honesty 225) Not slandering someone everyday 226) Making a good response towards unwholesome situations 227) Helping those who’re having a bad time 228) People appreciating generally existing 229) People whose happiness somehow invalidates their own expectations 230) The arrogance of thinking that someone dare point out that they revolve their life around harassing others because they don’t want to put the effort in to accomplish literally anything 231) Dignity 232) Being a real man 233) Dressing like a normal person 234) Femboy controversy 235) Forcing people to be things that they aren’t or don’t want to be 236) Being scared 237) Deleting dumb comments 238) Attack on Titan 239) Roe V Wade (I’m not going to get political, I mean that as just something that angers Twitter or they use for clout) 240) Protection 241) Twitter Police 242) Katrina the Controversial Localizer 243) Surprise Parties 244) Not creating drama on a daily basis 245) Adults 246) Confusion 247) Cows 248) Femboys are automatically trans ideology 249) Joe dad left 250) Ace Attorney 251) Clown Girls 252) Clussy 253) You down really bad? 254) Hero Hei getting involved into any drama in Twitter 255) Sumeru characters 256) Cultural differences 257) Hoyoverse 258) H3nt@i 259) Elden Ring “problematic” fan art 260) Dark gray in grayscale = black characters for some reason 261) White characters being too white 262) Smol 263) Trap 264) Education 265) Being respectful 266) Not hating feminine men for 5 minutes 267) Banning words 268) People trying to limit others on their freedom of Speech 269) Not Tearing something down 270) Caring about IRL people over fictional content 271) Underage fictional characters 272) Reporting art to the FBI 273) Cringe 😬 274) Fantasizing with fictional characters 275) RWBY anime 276) Japan 277) Americans 278) “Strange Festivals” 279) Loli controversy 280) Not giving a Tl:DR on any situation 281) Making this list exposing them 282) Anime controversy 283) Crunchyroll 284) Hoyoverse memes 285) Daily Honkai Chibi 286) Being white 287) Hero Hei existing 288) Not getting upset at reasonable discussions 289) Suspicious activity 290) Vshojo 291) No Speculation 292) Venti from Genshin Impact 293) Learning Lessons 294) Treating Vtubers well 295) Relevancy 296) Upside-Down 297) P@nty and Stocking 298) P@nty dropping anime 299) Illegal Anime 300) Wow, I can’t believe we’re already here, I can’t wait to get to 1000 301) Facebook doesn’t like loli 302) Cosplayers 303) Good Cosplays (The ones who resemble the character) 304) White cosplayers 305) Horror fans 306) Gore enjoyers 307) Respecting the actual lore of some book, comic, etc. 308) Respecting authors and their wishes 309) Actual facts 310) Writers who don’t do LGBT content (either they don't want, don't know how construct them or makes them uncomfortable. they shouldn't be attacked for doing their art as long they aren't harassing anyone 311) Backing up points with actual proof and info 312) Logical and sensitive thinking 313) Smacking them back with their own actions 314) Wholesome (and healthy) parent-children relationships 315) Wholesome (and healthy) straight relationships 316) People enjoying other cultures 317) Happiness in general 318) Animals (believe or not they always find a way) 319) Food (specially something with meat) 320) "Minorities speaking for themselves" 321) World History (speaking of uneducated)

bro makes creepy jokes but throws a fit over a lighthearted harmless joke

One thing! Even IF what this person is claiming was correct. Kazuha isn’t even Chinese. Kazuha is a Japanese name and inazuma is supposed to be Japan. PLUS he’s literally a samurai. therefore he’s supposed to be Japanese lol

1) They're not from Liyue, they're from INAZUMA. 2) I'm pretty sure the term "cut-sleeve" is just slang for gay people, because of the story. Not because of the way somebody wears their shirt. A Chinese novel I own defines it like that

miHoyo: hey, let's make this characters who barely shows any sign of sexuality at all. Fandom: They gay, case closed.

i saw someone say "yae miko is not bi she is definitely lesbian", and when a bi person replied "so if i like a man im immediately straight and if i like a woman i suddenly become lesbian", they replied "she's obsessed with ei so obviously she can't be bi" just thought it was funny and dumb, twitter being twitter

Friendly reminder folks: the closest we got to a romance was Zhongli and Guizhong. Genshin has more of a theme about family and friendships it is NOT a game about romance 😁👍 have a nice day/night Side note: I stand corrected. Thanks you guys for enlightening me on Zhongli and Guizhong’s relationship. Side note, again: I once again stand corrected. Thank god I read the replies oml (PS please stop arguing in the replies now’s not the time for bloodshed, mkay?)

I swear people from any fanbase that is obsessed with yaoi will take every opportunity to shove their fantasies into anything to prove why it should be canon even if they end up tarnishing that thing with toxicity. Edit: just to clear something up, I never said that *everyone* who supports yaoi is like that. I meant just a *majority* of people in that crowd have been known to be like that.

Ppl can have whatever headcanon they want, BUT acting like it's fact is stupid. Also, 90% of the characters haven't even shown interest in romance. I bet Kazuha ain't interested in settling (given his backstory) and I doubt relationships will be explored, especially since Twitter will get mad over straight couples.

We've reached a point in humanity that somehow having friends is considered gay... What the hell is happening

For anyone who wants to know more about the story, it was an ancient emperor and his assistant (I forgot the word so Im just going to say assistant until someone corrects me XD) The emperor and the assistant were sleeping and the emperor woke up, and cut his silk sleeve to let the assistant keep sleeping, and afterwards many people across China cut one sleeve off for the emperor.

🌸😹I simply do not see why people tend to push so much focus upon the orientation of fictional characters! If is inconsequential such fact unless it plays a pivotal role of importance within the narrative. It is simply so that the world is too woke and focused upon checking diversity boxes! It is like they but utter “we have to have our LGBT representation, our alphabet soup representation, etc”.😹🌸

Ah yes twitter's headcanons

Literally the straightest character in the game

Genshin impact fans are down bad to actually have canon relationship bruh

Why are they so desperately trying to make everything gay in Genshin.. Best friends = gay/les Acquaintances =gay/les Breathes in that characters general direction? Must be gay/les

Sounds like what they do with every female character in the game whenever they have a close friend.

2 fictional characters having a casual interaction. Genshin community: they're bonning each other

Back then you couldn't be friends with the opposite sex, nowadays you can't be friends with the same sex. Like can we stop trying to find proof that characters need to be in a relationship 24/7? As of now there hasn't been a single playable character that is or has been in a relationship. Like ship all you want, but why does it have to be Canon?

Flashbacks to blizzard hand picking overwatch characters to be gay for the hell of it.

What are you doing here comrades? Help me alongside with reznov to take the reichstag tonight, URAA

If twitter users put the same amount of effort proving that their headcannons are canon into societal contributions then we'd be colonizing Jupiter's moons by now.

HoYo turning into an Ugandan meme

Twitter: Look gays!!! Me: Yawn, here we go again…

When the OP spreads misinformation for their headcanons to be “real”.

...I swear this is why I get so annoyed for most representation in media these days. Nowadays the most insignificant stuff apparently people gay or whatever else and people'll eat it up.

I really don't get why people keep try to force a non-canon "Representation" in a Char that IS not representative just for the sake of the representation itself.

I mean It's more than fine if they'd be gay but like bruh, they're just making shit up xD

I’m so tired of the fandom calling every character gay

It's pity most of genshin fandom don't know what friendship is

Remember when Eula invited Amber to dance with her. I was like "that's so cute of Eula to invite a friend to dance", every genshin twittard "LESBIANS".

As a Chinese, the term ‘cut sleeves’ can be found nowadays in ancient themed novels to describe being gay but wearing clothes with the sleeves cut off doesn’t mean that they are gay. The term is just used as an adjective. That’s it

They said this same thing about Yae and Beidou its like straight characters arent allowed to exist anymore lmao

It's really not that deep😭

Uh oh someone needs to go outside and socialize

Oh it’s just a Twitter person

I don't trust the wiki page because people can easily edit the page whenever

I don't understand why these people so desperately need all these characters to be gay or lesbian or really in any relationship. This just seems like a strange hill to die on to me.

I don't really care if a character/person is gay lesbian

god this fandom obsession on sexuality is something else🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

Gotta love how they use a completely different culture from the one Kazuha is based on (Japanese) to try to force him to be gay

Kazuha isn’t even Chinese lmao

I love how how people wanna make this fictional story (not even real) as fact and evidence for Kazuha being gay even though it doesn't even work cause he doesn't even have a cut sleeve and it's not even like myths and legends that are rooted in Chinese culture.

Twitter grasping, as usual.

Head cannons are fine Claiming that they are cannon however...

So they're gay because they have missing sleeves. If so, It's seems my clothes are also trying to tell me something

I sometimes wonder if I'm wasting too much of the precious time I have in this world. Then I see this and realize I'm not wasting nearly as much as some other people.

GG's to oppai for the pin

Y'all ship whatever the hell you want because the truth is that there isn't a single canon couple in genshin where a playable charcter is a part of it

Boys, is it gay to have friends?

I thought inazuma was based on Japan 😭 so kazuha is Japanese . Also his sleeve isn’t even cut lmao

hoyoverse will never confirm any character to cannonically be gay or straight, because then it would take away the romantic potential from 50% of players, depending on whether your protagonist is male or female

Honestly it’s not that big of a deal what people do to make their ships seem canon, as long as they’re not attacking or harasssing anyone about it🤷🏽‍♀️

But isn’t Inazuma based on Japan as well?

Genshin fandom try not to make every character gay challenge level: impossible

I mean. Headcanons about ships are completely fine, but the moment you try and gather evidence, things just become messy

Genshin Twitter moment

Wait until they hear about the chopsticks.

The Childe/Zhongli and Chonghyun/Xinqiu thingy made sense, because it was even supported by Chinese players and the setting being China. (The chopstick, and walking a path of a certain types of flowers) But here it's literally a westerner, finding something on Google, applying a Chinese tale that is not even practiced by anyone on Chinese culture to mean anything other than in the tale itself, to japanese characters, wearing japanese types of clothing that many anime characters have already worn similar style of cut sleeve.

It's a cute head canon ngl there is nothing wrong with having hc like that and going by them. In fact this would be one of the cooler ones since it references a piece of literature. What's wrong is saying that it's real and making up shit that doesn't exist.

Same thing with ningguang and beidou being lesbian coded. I don’t care what people hc unless they make it other peoples problems tho. The amount of times us zhongguang shippers have been bombarded with the excuse is laughable. Especially in a game like genshin, no one’s sexuality will be confirmed unless they are stupid lest they divide the fanbase any further. Feel free to ship what you want and enjoy the game guys. Cuz they leave enough room to make your own canons.It’s not even a proper multiplayer game that others hc should affect u

Crazy how different the Honkai and Genshin communities are.

as a member of the lgbt+ community, stop being so obsessed with character sexualites and enjoy the game

The genshin fandom is borderline just fetishizing gay people at this point

Twitter's grasping at straws, only find none in reach... as usual.

THE THUMBNAIL LMFAOOOOO

In english version in one of Kazuha's character stories, "Tomo" is described as someone Kazuha's fate is linked to. so it could absolutely mean a lot of things. but i generally think Genshin community is too aggressive and toxic for any LGBT+ representation.

Can genshin fandom just stop caring about the characters' sexuality and just enjoy the damn game? This game is not even about romance. I used to have ships but after knowing how toxic it is to be in the shipping side of the fandom,I immediately back away.