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I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
Yeah, Tingle isn't gay. I really hate stereotypes, like this, though I'm guilty as well; I thought Bob from Animal Crossing was gay when that game first came out. Is the dislike that people have had over tingle actually related in part to homophobia?mif so, that is a scary thought.
Nah, I think the dislike over Tingle is more so due to how he represents the "kiddyish" side of Zelda that a lot of fans, especially those who began with Ocarina of Time, dislike.
Remember, Ocarina of Time was many Zelda fans first game, and although looking back the game has a lot of lighthearted moments, when it was released it definitely felt a bit "darker" than most games that were out at the time, probably also due to how it was one of the more realistic looking games back then. When Majora's Mask came out, Tingle was probably the silliest character those Zelda fans had encountered, and it was probably a bit jarring.
A lot of those fans had a very negative reactions towards "Celda", and I think Tingle, who played a big, perhaps obnoxious and forced role in Wind Waker, sort of became a mascot of what a lot of fans deemed was a direction they didn't want Zelda to go, preferring the more realistic, epic style.