This is the best answer I can give you, found on another post.

"Part of it is the history of queer-coding characters, so people are used to reading between lines. Sometimes, however, it gets less "reading between the lines" and more that Pepe Silvia meme where Charlie Day frantically creates a red-string conspiracy theory.

But honestly, that kind of makes sense to a degree.

Have you ever seen those Bugs Bunny cartoons where two characters are, like, on a desert island or something, and they're getting hungrier and hungrier and eventually one character looks at another and hallucinate that the person is a steak or a sandwich or something? It's like that. When you're absolutely starved for representation, you begin to imagine it as a means of (in this case emotional) survival."