Quote Originally Posted by DJMau View Post
Plus, unless I'm mistaken did yoshi explicitly state that Male Viera would be a thing or was the fanbase projecting?
Yoshi didn't explicitly state anything about Male Viera.

Which is part of what lead to the expectation.

When asked about Male Viera at EU Fan Fest instead of outright saying "We currently have no plans to implement Male Viera" Yoshi said "Wait until next Fan Fest!" - Which is his usual way of saying "Yes, but we're not revealing it yet"

They also previously released concept art of Male Viera:



To finish things off, back when Miqo'te and Roe's were challenged about being genderlocked and subsequently changed to have both genders as playable characters, it was stated that they wouldn't do gender locked races again.

With, so far, the only notable evidence against the idea of Male Viera is a single quote from Yoshida back in 2013 when he said he didn't particularly like the idea of Male Viera (Due to the fact that "Bunny males might be weird" - Not because lore, not because lack of rights to Viera. But because they might be "Weird". Which strikes me as the same homophobic stance as "We don't want to add bunny suits for males because it makes us uncomfortable to work on")

So... You might argue that this is a case of "When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me"

But at the same time, Yoshida never explicitly stated his stance and has a history of using diversionary tactics to hand wave away questions about something until the big reveal.