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[dekusheroacademia]

Nicholas Light: using homophobia to be cancelled for clout

This is not a call out post, I don't care about that. This is a summary of events that I decided to write because I know how fandom works and behave.

I am tired of seeing people's "The MHA fandom is so toxic!" for events that never happened, and given this youtuber already revealed he is looking for followers through "being cancelled" (as I'll explain), I have no intention of letting the shitshow that happened be forgotten.

So here we go.

Small disclaimer: This is the sequence of events as I remember, with screenshots to add. Please do not harass anyone. Not even Nicholas Light, as he clearly does not want to be involved with the MHA fandom anymore. Block him only and leave him alone, I am serious. The point of this is showing what happened, not confirming his idea of how disgusting mha fans and bakudeku fans are.

Another small point: If I said anything wrong or incorrect in this post, let me know and I will fix it. While I strive to be unbiased, I am only human.

1)Initial tweet

All of this happened in the span of a few hours, the 9th of May 2024, middle of the night at central europe time. All the tweets have since be deleted as Nicholas Light erased a full month of tweets and went private to do so.

Nicholas Light is an anime youtuber with a twitter account (of about 40k followers, this is important later). He posted this tweet:

I saw it on my tl a couple of times, mainly people saying that he should not generalize and people wondering how come someone who has watched MHA for so long does not know about Bakudeku. This tweet per se is kind of bait-y, but nothing too wild.

A lot of his followers were answering to this tweet with homophobic comments like:

And Nicholas himself then wrote he was throwing up under a bakudeku safe-for-work chibi fanart gif that someone reposted:

At this point there were a few comments saying "It is not too bad, Bakudeku has grown a lot as a ship" or "I just saw someone posting Endeavor/Uraraka", and fanart of other ships with an adult and a minor. Nicholas did not reply to any of them, seemingly only focusing on the bakudeku comments.

Here are some examples I managed to recover, as you can see no answer from Nicholas, he was only interested in bakudeku:

2) The video

At this point, a twitter user replied to Nicholas' main tweet with this:

As you can see, the user is very calm and even says "come across as homophobic", so definitely more diplomatic than what I could have managed. Nicholas replied with "Stop with the your queer audience", to which the user revealed that they ARE one of his audience.

As you can see Nicholas repeats that he doesn't want that queer follower in his audience, and that "I SPEAK MY MIND". Keep this in mind, the irony of it, especially, given he has erased everything.

The queer twitter user was the only person he addressed, and immediately after them he wrote this and immediately posted a youtube video:

You can still see his youtube video up, by the way.

This youtuber saw one user replying to him and immediately posted a "I got cancelled for this" youtube video, and a rant of multiple tweets telling his audience "I AM UNAPOLOGETICALLY ME AND I'LL FOREVER SAY WHAT I WANT". He posted another tweet too but I did not screenshot it.

After depicting himself as a victim of being cancelled because one person asked him about how his tweet could be viewed some bakudeku users reacted.

The first to go was the tweet of the video:

The second was this tweet that was written in reply to his main "i don't want a queer audience" tweet:

the tweet is still here.

As you can see if you click on the tweet, the problem expressed is that he built a queer audience to earn money, but is now trying to appeal to homophobic anime audiences to be "cancelled", and earn some followers and money. How do we know this?

Because of this tweet:

This screenshot was taken that same night, so this tweet about "earning from being cancelled" was posted 6 days before he decided to actually try it.

And it is not over. The user andy (the one who revealed about Nicholas' only fans) was immediately blocked, and they were the one finding this "being cancelled= money" tweet and posting it. Imagine what happened: Nicholas immediately deleted this reply from 6 days before. Which meant that he was checking what this bakudeku user was posting to cover his tracks.

3) Lolicon is fictional, but bakudeku is a disease and the fans need therapy

Now let's go back to Nicholas' main tweet in reply to that queer user. You can see how people from his following reacted:

And this was his answer:

You can see that he immediately decides to call the user weird because the characters are "little kids", so the user needs to seek therapy for looking at fanarts of bakudeku kissing.

Except that this is when bakudeku fans and non bakudeku fans found his old tweets in defense of lolicon, fictional pedophilia and people like Mushoku:

Now, the point here is the hypocrisy and double standard.

On one side "loli and fictional children are fictional and cannot be associated with actual crimes", on the other side "gay teenagers being shipped are disgusting and comparable to real life crimes". People were quick to point this homophobic messy double standard.

Nicholas Light himself started to notice that people were finding out his old stuff and he was replying to no one. He first deleted the tweet with the only fans retweet, probably making sure his current homophobic fanbase would not find that, and then replied this to one of the bakudeku fans showing his hypocritical behaviour:

This was the last tweet before he deleted everything. Calling someone an ableist slur, then saying he was watching movies with his girlfriend and then spending the next hour deleting

every

single

reply

and tweet.

And then he went private and when he came back... he had deleted every single reply and tweet of this mess, and he had deleted every tweet that people had screenshotted around, and every tweet he posted in the previous month:

He scrubbed his whole account.

We are not sure what happened to him "being unapologetically myself", apparently his strategy to make some cash from being homophobic and harassing small acounts while pretending to be cancelled did not succeed.

And the reason why I wrote this post is because there is the possibility that he might try this again in the future, maybe even with the same fanbase and strategy. So keep an eye out, do not let him fool you.

[firyfox]

Bkdk's : maybe in like 10 years they'll make up over time & slowly mend their relationship again

Hori : *makes bkdk heal their relationship within the span of one (1) year*

Bkdk's : Bk was very worried about Dk the whole battle so maybe when Bk wakes up in the hospital after the war he'll ask about Dk first

Hori : *makes Bk do exactly that , FOLLOWED by Bk frantically running to Dk after hearing that Dk hasn't woken up yet , with his wounds still fresh & his classmates having to restrain him.* *makes Bk express that he is Not okay & that dk should be the one who's awake instead of him*

Bkdk's : Bk is probably gonna be the one to find Dk & rescue him after dk runs off and Bk might yell at Dk for being a self sacrificing moron & not taking care of himself

Hori : *makes Bk show up to rescue Dk JUST as Dk is being defeated & losing hope , Bk looking calm & angelic while dk looks at him in complete awe , regaining the light in his eyes as Bk shows up , the falling rain freezing in place with Bk's arrival*

Bkdk's : Bk is probably going to verbally apologize to Dk in private eventually , perhaps in a few years or so , and he may even call Deku "Izuku" instead

Hori : *makes Bk give the most heartfelt honest apology in front of all their peers showing complete vulnerability & accountability not caring who knows of his mistakes , showing both their past selves through time growing , followed by Bk calling Dk "Izuku" , making Dk regain his his expression & feeling bc of Bk's words after being essentially numb for weeks*

Bkdk's : Bk's gonna be the one to convince Dk not to do everything on his own . When Bk makes his case , Dk is gonna fold like a lawn chair & collapse from exhaustion into Bk's arms because he will finally feel safe enough to let himself rest & show vulnerability again .. haha jk unless ...

Hori : *writes exactly that , AND makes Bk RUN to catch Dk even with his open wounds bleeding & other people around that could've caught Dk*

Bkdk's : We want bkdk to be romantically together or implied but we probably wont get that :( we hope Bkdk will at least take eachothers hands like the immense build up is promising , but who knows if that's guaranteed :(

Hori : do y'all not see the pattern here ?

[katszzzz]

“OUR story begins…” i cant do this today chat

credits to @kts.izuuvx0 on tiktok!!

[thief-of-eggs]

*points at a very straight media with literally no queer characters* Now this… this is the greatest queer love story ever told

[monstersanonymous]

shoutout to all the genius artists that are in the cringests of fandoms i love you and you keep society alive

[bicheetopuff]

If I wasn’t a bnha fan and you told me all of these people were the same person:

…I’d call you a filthy fucking liar

[chandralia]

people are rejoining the fandom, joining for the first time, or leaving out of anger… BECAUSE OF EYE CONTACT 😭

[seagreenstardust]

Sometimes it floors me how anyone could look at bkdk and not see how blatantly romantic it is at its core. Their entire backstory hinges around that one time Katsuki couldn’t take Izuku’s hand. They are so canonically obsessed with each other that they are each other’s motivation, support, validation, reason for doing just about anything. The way they look at each other is so obscene with longing and awe that it frankly belongs in a period romance. One of them literally died thinking about the other. They each need the other to survive so badly that they are willing to sacrifice themselves (Katsuki) and everyone else (Izuku) in order to make it happen.

They are canonically written to be two halves of the same heroic whole. How often is the narrative foil also the romantic partner? How often is the dual lead??? In every way they deserve to be romantic partners, they are literally written to be perfect complements of each other

[queen-helaenas-pet-spider]

MHA MANGA SPOILERS!!!!!

History almost repeating itself {but switched}:

Chapter 407-408: Kudou {2nd user of One For All} steals Yoichi Shigaraki {1st user of One For All} away from his extremely possessive older brother, All For One, who kills Yoichi 2 months later as him and Kudou are running away together.

Chapter 89: Izuku Midoriya {Yoichi 2/9th user of One For All} briefly considers stealing Katsuki Bakugou {Kudou 2/Partial 10th user of One For All} away from All For One, running away with him, and leaving everyone else {mainly the rest of the Kacchan/Bakugou Rescue Party} behind.

[guiltipanda]

Sometimes I feel like I'm being gaslit by My Hero Academia. Because, as a queer person, it seems very obvious to me that Bakugou and Deku are in love. But, I also know what this show is.

I'm seeing a lot of people in the fandom that are 100% convinced that bkdk are gonna be canon in the end. That isn't going to happen.

The main arguments I see for why people think it's gonna be canon is, well... *gestures vaguely to everything about bkdk*

Yeah, again, as a queer person, it feels obvious. But there are just...so many examples of straight men setting out to write two platonic guys who have a deep, powerful bond with one another and accidentally writing a very compelling romance they didn't know they were writing for me to find that convincing. (Holmes and Watson, Sam and Frodo....literally every shounen protagonist and rival ever)

If you're looking for it, you're gonna find it. But if it's not on your radar, not even remotely in your purview, you're not gonna see it.

Horikoshi is a middle-aged, straight (I feel I can safely assume) Japanese man who is writing a shounen manga. A very very popular, mainstream shounen manga.

Another argument I see a lot is the canon queer characters that already exist in mha. And my response is, My Hero isn't the first mainstream shounen anime to have queer characters. There was a precedent for it. Shounen that we *know* Horikoshi is a fan of had queer characters.

If bkdk became canon, it would be the very first shounen anime to have its main character be in a queer relationship. (Banana Fish, YOI, whatever else you're thinking of, are not shounen. And, I would argue, they were not as popular.) And even if that was something that had potentially crossed Horikoshi's mind as something *he could do*, (and I highly doubt it has) I don't think he'd want that kind of attention. That would be what mha would be remembered for. Being the gay anime. And I don't think that's what he wants it to be remembered as.

[stonerizu]

can someone pls validate me on this

[dekusheroacademia]

Welcome to my BKDK simulator! Bkdk fans will recognize many of the ridiculous fandom tweets peopel throw at us for the most baffling reasons.

TW homophobia and threads to Horikoshi after Bkg was revealed to be still alive. Many of the context and tweets are stored here.

[dekusleftsock]

I thought everyone was exaggerating when people kept bringing up the whole “bakugou says he’s Kacchan bc of kaminari” thing, but they actually believe that… what?

WHAT

Literally how do you guys function

AND THEY CALL ME DELULU???????

It’s such a stretch too. Like “oh yeah he said Kacchan no Bakugou in this movie” ITS NOT EVEN IN THE MANGA HELLO???

The whole reason Kaminari calls Katsuki Kacchan is because he’s making fun of him. It’s poking fun at the fact that Katsuki can’t say anything or get mad at Kaminari because then it would raise the question, “Well why can Midoriya say it?”

He literally side eyes him every time he does it but ultimately doesn’t react because he can’t. He can’t if he wants to keep up the act that he is uninterested in what Izuku represents, who he is.

SO WHY, IN THE EVER LOVING FUCK, WOULD IT BE KAMINARI?

WHO is present in this battle?

WHO is the person that made eye contact with him the second he woke up?

WHO is the one that grabbed his hand immediately upon Katsuki flinging himself towards them??

I don’t think THEY even believe it either, I think it’s just some way to cope and explain away the fact that this moment is inherently romantic.

Because I don’t think he’s making fun of the name Kacchan, I think he’s wearing it proudly. I don’t think it’s a joke at all. It’s a joke in the disbelieving way—the way you act when you’ve made an enormous accomplishment or won some prize, and you just can’t help but act absolutely insane at the fact. Because it’s funny that you’re here, in this situation. It’s hilarious in that disbelieving way.

Because he’s laughing at the truth, he’s been laughing at nothing this ENTIRE CHAPTER.

“Ouch! Haha! I’m so fast!”

“I can’t even stop! Ha! Ouch!”

Note: (I’m not using the official translations because for some reason they lack the maniacal crazed laughter and I’m confused as to why?? I even checked with pikahlua and they specified that there was laughing so…. I’m confused.)

What’s even weirder about this is the fact that afo also says (in pikahlua’s translations) “just who is this brat?!” Instead of “what is wrong with him” which implies less crazed bakugou ness imo. Confused as to why, again.

Because this can’t be happening.

Now, I know it could very well be him teasing afo and calling him dumb, saying basically “you’re too young/old to even know how to pronounce my name, use Kacchan instead like the child you are.” Especially since in the context of names like Katsuki’s, he has that tsu sound that can be hard for children to pronounce. (I’m not 100% on this but I’m pretty sure that the u sound is also meant to be silent since it’s a double consonant. So Katsuki’s name is technically pronounced “Ka-ts-ki”)

BUT IDK I THINK HES JUST FUCKED AND A LITTLE CRAZY RN!

That maniacal laughter at the fact that he’s in pain, the disbelief that he may even surpass Izuku, to me it’s holding a double meaning. The meaning that afo is dumb and needs to be treated like the child he is, and the meaning behind the fact that it’s a name Izuku owns for him. That’s his.

It can be both.

It’s not fucking Kaminari. It was never Kaminari. Even if you don’t read it as the second definition it’s still not about Kaminari.

But it’s also undeniable that it has to do with Izuku some way some how.

I also believe that the western side of the fandom is making an extra big deal out of this because, to us, we don’t really have a proper understanding of what a nickname like Kacchan means in its cultural context.

We can TRY to understand, comparing it to endings with ie or y given to children, and then sometimes going with that nickname into adulthood, but it still has its own distinct cultural context. Because a name like “Gracie” over “Grace” does to an extent sound childish, but I have a feeling that -chan has its own childish feeling. There’s a reason none of Katsuki’s other friends in middle school call him Kacchan, and there’s a reason Kaminari decides to make fun of him for the name in the first place.

I just think it’s important to use our thinking brains before we start yapping about things we don’t quite understand yet :)

Like it’s so unbelievably important to understand that horikoshi won’t tell you what’s happening in his story and why, he’ll show you instead BECAUSE HES A GOOD FUCKING WRITER

If it was about Kaminari, he would have specified, but he didn’t. He showed you that Kacchan is Izuku’s nickname for Katsuki, and he showed you that Katsuki cared more about Izuku than he let on for a long time. Just like he showed you that Izuku pushes down his emotions, showed you that Izuku struggles with projection and anger, showed you that Ochako was the one with this crush and not Izuku, and showed you that the feelings he had about Katsuki were deeper than anyone had realized.

He showed you parallels, he specified the important parallels that you absolutely had to see as a viewer (ex toga and ochako), just as he showed you the ones that were more subtle but still there (ex toga and deku). He showed you the pieces, and that doesn’t make his character’s underdeveloped or unspecified, that’s just how writing fucking works. “Good writing” DOESNT MEAN that you have to be pulled along through your baby steps with your hand held, the fact that you don’t get it is on you. Reading comprehension is a learned skill that has to be practiced over and over again, and that is not the writers job. The writer is only supposed to deliver you their story, and however you decide to misconstrue that story is, and hear me out friends, on you.

So I’m sorry if I’m tired of hearing arguments like “toga is a predator and Horikoshi wrote her to be horny”… she’s supposed to represent love. I’m sorry if the representation he made of love was uncomfortable for you, but maybe that’s the point? Because she’s an outcast? Because she’s supposed to be hard to empathize with, but that we have to empathize in the first place?

Arguments like “Katsuki was referencing a joke about Kaminari bc Kaminari said this in this movie” is just about the largest fucking reach I’ve ever seen. And I know, I know that when bkdk eventually get their implied or canonical ending that people are going to be mad. They’ll blame shippers for pressuring him, or they’ll say he’s a bad writer, or they’ll send him homophobic slurs because “how dare the character I see myself in be gay”. And I’m done with the stupidity and lack of common god damn sense.

So if you are going to be upset by the fact that you’re going to be proven wrong, then I again say, it’s on you.

[katszzzz]

bkdk makes me sick. The way deku said “all might was my hero but you were actually the one in my life” made me sob so much bro, i cant handle them

[marimeeko]

I love this chapter I love Kacchans smile, I love him saying that he's there to take on what Izuku can't handle,

But I love horikoshis portrayal of Katsuki going from this

To this

In just a few panels

Horikoshi gave him so much range lmao

[bicheetopuff]

Can y’all stop making Deku pregnant for like five minutes?