In the first episode of the Marvel series, Sebastian Stan’s beloved character is set up on a date with a waitress called Leah, where he points out the “weird pictures” he sees on online dating sites. “I mean, tiger photos?” he says. “Half the time, I don’t even know what I’m looking at.
It’s a lot.” Photos of tigers were extremely popular a few years back on Tinder, but were banned in 2017 due to concerns over animal cruelty, and a majority of these profiles were male accounts.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier viewers took Bucky’s remark as evidence that he identifies as bisexual, and social media erupted in welcoming the character to the LGBTQ+ community.